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Posted on 06/15/2009 2:07:35 PM PDT by wagglebee
Thank you for your insights about the Temple Church. You are quite knowledgeable about England, and I have benefited more than once reading your posts! I have a good friend surnamed Temple and often wondered about the origin of that name on a Celto-WASP; now I know. (My life inexplicably contains dozens of people who themselves, or a relative or significant tie, were orphaned.)
And this is what completely obliterates any so-called "Christian" pro-abortion argument. How can a fetus be anything less than a human being when the Son of God became one for our sake?
Add, if you like, Helvidius, the other humiliations of nature, the womb for nine months growing larger, the sickness, the delivery, the blood, the swaddling-clothes. Picture to yourself the infant in the enveloping membranes. Introduce into your picture the hard manger, the wailing of the infant, the circumcision on the eighth day, the time of purification, so that he may be proved to be unclean. We do not blush, we are not put to silence. The greater the humiliations He endured for me, the more I owe Him. And when you have given every detail, you will be able to produce nothing more shameful than the cross, which we confess, in which we believe, and by which we triumph over our enemies.
-St. Jerome (Against Helvidius)
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The more lenient Council of Ancyra in Turkey (A.D. 314) enacted ...
Yes excellent article except Turkey/Turks did not exist then.
Turks invaded and destroyed the Church and its people more than 1000 years later. They are still doing so...
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