Again, we know God is absolutely omniscient–so he can’t literally forget. The Bible often uses human imagery to help our feeble minds understand God. What is meant that we are reconciled to him again–the relationship destroyed by our sins is healed. By again, that doesn’t negate the rest of Scripture.
Sacrilege and simony are particular sins. But all particular sins are either venial or mortal.
No it’s not. Look, I already provided you Scripture in my previous post from one of the Epistles of John saying there were different gradations. Likewise, the whole law in the OT shows us that some sins are punished greater than others or require a greater sacrifice to atone for than others. This means that sins are not equal in the magnitude of injustice inherent in them.
Yes, of course God is hurt with every sin we commit. Think of it as you would your own child. When he sasses you, you are deeply hurt that he would do that, but are you going to throw him out for it? No, you punish him and than you forgive him. Now God, is way better of a parent than you or I could ever dream of.
The CCC is like the cliff notes to the bible. It helps one understand it. When you have ten people in a room trying to wing it you get ten different interpretations of the bible. If someone wrote a book you loved wouldn’t you want to go to him if you had some questions about that book? It is the same with bible the CC put the bible together so they should know better than anyone else how to understand it.
Correct in a way. You should not relay on your own interpretation, Christ set the church up for that.
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Again, God isn’t “hurt” literally–he’s incorruptible. But, yes, His perfect justice is offended. But sins offend it to a different degree. For example, crashing a plane into the twin towers full of people is a greater injustice than, say, telling an immodest joke. Both are sins, but there is a difference in gravity. We know this intuitively too–because God has placed his law in all our hearts–but as I pointed out before, even the Scriptures differentiate between sins.
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Not everything is contained in the Bible
Just a question to ponder. At what point did the Bible, as a complete entity, both Old and New Testament, finally become canonized and printed in a single language that everyone could read? The answer is that the Councils of Carthage and Hippo, Catholic Church councils in the very late 300s, came up with the defined canon. Even then, until St. Jerome came up with a single unified translation in Latin (the vernacular of the time) later in the 400s, you had to be able to read Hebrew for the Old Testament AND Greek for the New Testament. Until that time, although there was agreement over certain books of the Bible, like the four Gospels and the Letters of Paul, there was considerable debate over other books that could have been included. The Didache, Epistle of Barnabas, and Shepherd of Hermas almost made it in as inspired text, and Revelation was almost thrown out. For a shorter time, there was also discussion over the Gospel of Thomas, which was eventually rejected for its Gnostic views. Until this time, there was no universally agreed upon Bible. So… how did Christianity function? It had to function on Tradition. For almost 20% of Christianity’s history, there WAS no Bible! When it was ultimately compiled, who decided what was put in? The Catholic Church. A main difference between most Protestants and Catholics is that Protestants put their faith in the Bible alone. Catholics recognize that it is only one part of Tradition. For Protestants, if it’s not in the Bible, you don’t do it. For Catholics, you can do it, as long as it’s not specifically forbidden by the Bible. (Well, ok, that’s a generalization, but I’m speaking broadly here.) There’s a significant difference.
I am sorry you feel this way. I do think that at least in this thread all have been very kind in your questions.st lucy, I appreciate all you are writing. I am just in search of answers and I feel as if I am being blasted here. That is not why I posted. I am merely looking for answers. It seems that when I ask a question, I am getting blasts from everyone!
All I want is some help with questions that I have. Can that be possible?
I know what you mean I too am a teacher. HS mom anyway.I am sincere about everything that I write. I am not here to start problems, etc. Also, please know that I am a former teacher and get crazy when I see misspelled words, etc.
Rolltide, I will have to read your response again later. It is getting late and my old eyes are not working as they should. Same thing with everyone else here…
All I want to do is to learn. To learn more about the Bible and what God wants of us.
Peace to everyone – I am having surgery in the morning, will respond again when I am able.
Most HUGE aloha (love) to you, beautiful one. Full on praying for 'ya for the best possible results of the surgery.I am sincere about everything that I write. I am not here to start problems, etc. Also, please know that I am a former teacher and get crazy when I see misspelled words, etc.
Rolltide, I will have to read your response again later. It is getting late and my old eyes are not working as they should. Same thing with everyone else here…
All I want to do is to learn. To learn more about the Bible and what God wants of us.
Peace to everyone – I am having surgery in the morning, will respond again when I am able.
i ia oe. Aloha nui.