Who do you say Christ is?

[BoyGenius]

He was talking of eternal life. God set that social justice program up and kicked the devils arse in doing so, by Jesus defeating death.

There is also the “Works of Mercy.”

If you want to sum up, who do you say Christ is?

The Church has never diminished the fact that the tangible material world ties to the supernatural order. The Works of Mercy go hand-in-hand. Feeding the hungry and First Communion; clothing the naked and baptism; Visiting the sick, dying, and in prison, and Confirmation, passing the Gospel and Tradition from generation to generation, and anointing the sick. Holy Orders and Marriage. All the Sacraments to the material works, are hand-in-hand. The Church doesn’t over-spiritualize, but then she never neglects the dimension of the Holy Spirit. The works of Salvation (i.e. healing, feeding the hungry and so forth) are all provisions of the Spirit - God’s will.

The Church has never neglected in doing so, hence the many Missions the saints, Priests, and Sister religious have done for centuries.

 

[Roseeurekacross]

The Bible is a collection of Books. Inspired by God. We read a chapter and find one message. Later we read that same chapter and also find something else. Later again, something more.
The Bible is a living book given us by our living God.

These are the hidden layers, those we see with our developing faith. And in our faith we should be constantly growing and moving closer to Holiness. A dynamic growing faith.

Read from this perspective. What is God saying to you, and what is God saying of His love.

We are not fundamentalists orphaning passage and verse , taking each word once , for one message from God.

Yes Jesus is for everyone oppressed. And in His day on earth the Gospel gives example of how Jesus addressed this.
It can be very hard to look at another time or era with fresh eyes that don’t bring the prejudices and norms of this era.

 

[BoyGenius]

We are not fundamentalists orphaning passage and verse , taking each word once , for one message from God.

I don’t think the Immaculate Conception is a Fundamentalist position. Including Sainthood. Thereby that dis-serves your proposition standing in distinction/setting apart your view not being a fundamentalist one apart from mine. The view I have has a high concentration within the Magisterium of the Church.

What is different from your view, and one’s which the Church intended is in fact a disproportionate incentive/purpose driving to the forefront that Christ was of the world. In fact, the battle of the sexes, and equality to position/power are the affairs of the world. Jesus was tested with that, when asked looking at a coin with the image of Caesar. He said to render to the Father what is the Father’s. And render to Caesar what is Caesar’s. Whether He did this to avoid getting caught in a trap. Or that there was a much more zealous spirit set about Him referring to the Theology and Salvation of souls, does not neglect what He also said: Be in the world, not of the world.

Christ determined that His Kingdom was not of this world (i.e. not the battle of the sexes, no equality of power/place/position/authority.) Remember, when the mother of James asked Jesus to place her sons at Jesus’s right and left side. Jesus replied and said it wasn’t His call, but His Father’s. Unless you drink His cup of Salvation (mercy and justice, the Salvation of souls; the Suffering and Passion.) Again, His Kingdom is not of this world.

You are trying to read the world into Scripture. In fact, that’s where your point of view and Fundamentalism agree:

*Fundamentalists: Mary slept with Joseph and had other children (i.e. the worldly necessity of men being married to women, and the necessity of fulfilling marital vows even after Jesus’s birth by the Holy Spirit.)
*Your point of view: Jesus was concerned about equal placement and stature in the world gone pagan. Equality of women and so forth.

But yet Jesus told His disciple’s (i…e His Apostle’s): let it not be among you. Wherefore people with authority/place/position hold it over others. Interestingly, He made that statement when the mother of James and her other son, was asking Jesus about power/place/prestige (i.e. authority.)

He turned it down, because it had nothing to do with His Kingdom. The mother was thinking as the world does. Just as Jesus said to Saint Peter: you think as men do.

So, with all due respect, the fundamentalist view is worldly as your own. So thus, quite the opposite from mine.