Using Bible to understand

[Timeflies2me]

You’re confining the Son only to a human body. He died because he came into this world of human form like us. He died as a human, but his spirit lived on didn’t it?

 

[Kei]

Church councils are led by the Holy Spirit.

You are reading into things. Jesus is King, and will come back as King. He was not coming to just politically liberate the Jews from the Romans.

The Arian crisis was a bad one. Many fell to it. Surely, if it were left to the devil, the heresy would have won out.
Yet, it was nearly unanimous. Jesus is not a god, but God. Eternally begotten of the Father.

 

[Kei]

God died on the Cross.

But you should not divide the Trinity into parts. It is a false understanding.

If you’re a JW, do you realize they teach that Jesus is Michael the Archangel? Jesus is clearly God.

What mere creature can say:
I am the Way. I am the Life. No one gets to the Father except through Me.
Your sins are forgiven.
He is the Son of Man.

 

[Gertabelle]

This may seem hard to believer but some years ago I purchased a used book called "Dictionary of The Bible.
It was produced by a Jesuit priest called "John McKenzie S.J… It was published in the early 60’s and sanctioned by the church. In the section “God” he explains that if you look at the Greek language from which the NT [new testament] was mainly written in you will see that Jesus is the “son of God” not God.
He explains that in the NT the Greek word applied to God is ho-theos or “the God”, whereas Jesus in Greek is only referred to as “theos” That is why in the Bible the reference to “almighty God” is mentioned the word God is usually in capital letters. He goes on to state " John 1:1 should be rigorously be translated “the word was a divine being” One of the scriptures he refers to is: John 20:28 where Jesus refers to God as his God.

Unlike protestants, we Catholics have a universal source for defining our beliefs – The Catechism of the Catholic Church. Regardless of what this or that priest or Bishop or Catholic next door neighbor says, the teachings of the Church remain the same.

In other words, who cares what some author wrote against Catholic teaching? Their words have no more bearing on the Truth than your words or my words.

The Truth of God’s nature has been revealed and clarified through the Catholic Church, as Our Lord Himself said it would be when He said to Simon Peter:

"And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

Matthew 16:18-19

 

[Roseeurekacross]

You are missing the crucial thing about Easter Sunday.

What happened on Easter Sunday

And why did Christ, in His perfect human nature, die on the Cross

 

[Erikaspirit16]

This implies that deeds and works are not the same ???

You realize this exact question was asked in a thread a couple months ago, right?

It is redundant and repetitive. And guess what, those words mean the same thing. Just as deeds and works do.