Three Days of Darkness?

[Deo_Volente]

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And how did blood on a doorpost save the first born Hebrews in Egypt?

The blood on the doorpost was a sign of faith not a magical talisman. And to my knowledge, God did not stipulate that he was going to reward acts of charity (opening the door to distressed neighbors) with death (oh that’s not a neighbor, that’s a demon that God set loose on me for opening my door to what I thought was a distressed neighbor) because he decided to play a little trick on people.

You don’t have to accept them but the church has declared them WORTHY of belief and those who have brought us these prophecies have been officially declared as saints.

Nothing I have seen in this thread has indicated that the Church or the Magesterium (which is a redundancy to mention) has explicitly declared these prophecies worthy of belief.

What does that tell you? Were these prophecies from God or from the evil one? If from the evil one, then wouldn’t that mean that the church errored in making them saints? And if from God, then why not believe them?

Someone else here mentioned John of the Cross and his distrust of private visions. Good advice from this great saint. But I would add to that, with reference to this comment above, that not everything a saint writes means that it’s free of error–the Eastern church sees Augustine as a saint, but they caution that he should be read with a grain of salt. Being error-free is not a requirement for sainthood.

Again: the Three Days of Darkness appears to be inimical to the gospel.

Also–Thank you, AlexV and bear 06.

Under the Mercy,
Mark

Deo Gratias!

 

[Potato1]

Do you people actually follow a thread?

Now we’re repeating ourselves.

Old Testament passages CANNOT be properly interpreted EXCEPT in light of the New Testament.

But here we go again: rehashing the same thing. We’ve covered all this ground already, and the selective quoters from the Old Testament have been corrected in their errors.

Has catechesis really collapsed so much, that the sensus fidelium has been lost and replaced by garden variety National Enquirer/Weekly World News eschatology?

You are not one to talk about repeating yourself as that is all you have done this whole thread. Ok lets skip the Old Testament for a sec. “not everyoneone who says to me Lord Lord will be saved” Not even GOD ALMIGHTY will open doors to some. so to say that it is not Godly to do likewise is false. And yes we must look at OT in light of the NT but that doesnt disprove the previous passage. Again your lack of sources is noticable. Again you have referenced enquirer an wwn next you will talk about a horror movie. What Catetechesis are we missing here?

 

[thechrismyster]

This gets more comical all the minute. You’re actually serious about coming here for advice on whether or not you should be planning to cover that window.

whats scary is that the average CA board user has a 50% chance of dying of heart disease. guaranteed.

but they’ll fret over covering windows before they’ll put down the french fries.

i can’t promise 3 days of darkness, but i can promise you that half of you will die of heart disease.

a much more immediate threat.

 

[bear06]

What Catetechesis are we missing here?

Apparently the one from the Catholic Catechism.

DOES ANYONE HERE REALIZE THAT IT’S AGAINST CATHOLIC TEACHING TO PRIVATELY INTERPRET SCRIPTURE?

The Church has never said that the Three Days of Darkness refers to the Second Coming. The Three Days of Darkness “prophecy” speaks of an “aftermath” that doesn’t resemble the Catholic teaching (which I provided) on the Second Coming. Time and time again, I see people quoting Scripture to support their position in favor of theTDoD. You don’t have the authority to do so. I fail to see why this point can’t be grasped. Can anyone enlighten me?

I realize that Alex is caustic (nobody has to tell me) and it really keeps people from hearing what he has to say. He did make some good points way back in the beginning of the thread if you can look past his caustic nature.

 

[bear06]

whats scary is that the average CA board user has a 50% chance of dying of heart disease. guaranteed.

but they’ll fret over covering windows before they’ll put down the french fries.

i can’t promise 3 days of darkness, but i can promise you that half of you will die of heart disease.

a much more immediate threat.

 

[Potato1]

Apparently the one from the Catholic Catechism.

DOES ANYONE HERE REALIZE THAT IT’S AGAINST CATHOLIC TEACHING TO PRIVATELY INTERPRET SCRIPTURE?

The Church has never said that the Three Days of Darkness refers to the Second Coming. The Three Days of Darkness “prophecy” speaks of an “aftermath” that doesn’t resemble the Catholic teaching (which I provided) on the Second Coming. Time and time again, I see people quoting Scripture to support their position in favor of theTDoD. You don’t have the authority to do so. I fail to see why this point can’t be grasped. Can anyone enlighten me?

I realize that Alex is caustic (nobody has to tell me) and it really keeps people from hearing what he has to say. He did make some good points way back in the beginning of the thread if you can look past his caustic nature.

I never did interperet scripture… This is so frustrating… still no cites, this is about a private revelation, if you read my previous posts NOWHERE did I equate this with the second coming. In FACT I stated I wonder how long we would have to wait after the TDoD until it would be the kingdom of God. My point has always been that I would rather die in a state of grace doing what I believe is the will of God by trying to help people in this supposed three days than live through a horrific experience for seemingly no purpous. I don’t really believe this as well but people have the right to and it very well may be true. I also think you are missunderstanding the directictive not to interperet scripure, I belive it is not to contradict teaching.
Please cite for me this teaching on scripture, not that I doubt you but rather so I can educate myself.
I believe it is a disservice to throw around “church teaching” in a uncited out of context and ignorant way.

 

[Jean_Anthony]

This thread is producing a lot of heat–please try to produce more light and less heat, everyone. Thank you.

 

[AlexV]

Calling my references to Church teaching as “ignorant”, all the while defending the notions of a prophecy the Church has never decreed worthy of belief, is interesting.

We’re not writing term papers here that require footnotes.

Any perusal of the Roman Catechism will reveal that we do not privately interpret Scripture.

And another tenet of Catholicism is that God will never abandon ANYONE who seeks Him in sincerity and truth. The “Lord, Lord” quote above is a clear reference in context to those who are insincere.

NOWHERE does Catholic teaching allow us to imagine that God ever rejects the sincere of heart.

 

[bear06]

I never did interperet scripture… This is so frustrating… still no cites, this is about a private revelation, if you read my previous posts NOWHERE did I equate this with the second coming. In FACT I stated I wonder how long we would have to wait after the TDoD until it would be the kingdom of God. My point has always been that I would rather die in a state of grace doing what I believe is the will of God by trying to help people in this supposed three days than live through a horrific experience for seemingly no purpous. I don’t really believe this as well but people have the right to and it very well may be true. I also think you are missunderstanding the directictive not to interperet scripure, I belive it is not to contradict teaching.
Please cite for me this teaching on scripture, not that I doubt you but rather so I can educate myself.
I believe it is a disservice to throw around “church teaching” in a uncited out of context and ignorant way.

Let me just be clear on this. Do you think that it’s OK to apply scripture to something to which the Church has not applied it?

And thanks for calling me ignorant. It would seem that caustic runs on both sides of the fence.

 

[Jean_Anthony]

This thread is now closed. Thank you to all who participated.