Posted on 10/16/2010 1:25:57 PM PDT by narses
"I believe ... in Jesus Christ ... who ... suffered under Pontius Pilot, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell; the third day He arose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead ..."
By the Redemption is meant that Jesus Christ, as the Redeemer of the whole human race, offered His sufferings and death to God as a fitting sacrifice in satisfaction for the sins of men, and regained for them the right to be children of God and heirs of heaven.
He has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have our redemption, the remission of our sins. (Colossians 1:13-14)
The chief sufferings of Christ were His bitter agony of soul, His bloody sweat, His cruel scourging, His crowning with thorns, His crucifixion, and His death on the cross.
And Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said: "Father into thy hands I commend my spirit." And saying this he gave up the ghost. (Luke 23:46)
Christ died on Good Friday.
Christ died on Golgotha, a place outside the city of Jerusalem.
And they came to a place called Golgotha, that is, the Place of the Skull. (Matthew 27:33)
From the sufferings and death of Christ we learn God's love for man and the evil of sin, for which God, who is all-just, demands such great satisfaction.
When we say that Christ descended into hell we mean that, after He died, the soul of Christ descended into a place or state of rest, called limbo, where the souls of the just were waiting for Him.
Put to death indeed in the flesh, he was brought to life in the spirit, in which also he went and preached to those spirits that were in prison. (I Peter 3:18-19)
Christ went to limbo to announce to the souls waiting there the joyful news that He had reopened heaven to mankind.
While His soul was in limbo, Christ's body was in the holy sepulchre.
And, taking him down, he wrapped him in fine linen and laid him in a sepulchre that was hewed in stone, wherein never yet any man had been laid. (Luke 23:53)
Christ rose from the dead, glorious and immortal, on Easter Sunday, the third day after His death.
And on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled back from the sepulchre. (Luke 24:1-2)
Christ rose from the dead to show that He is true God and to teach us that we, too, shall rise from the dead.
For if the dead do not rise, neither has Christ risen; and if Christ has not risen, vain is your faith, for you are still in your sins. (I Corinthians 15:16-17)
All men will rise from the dead, but only those who have been faithful to Christ will share in His glory.
Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall all indeed rise. (I Corinthians 15:51)
Christ ascended, body and soul, into heaven on Ascension Day, forty days after His Resurrection.
And it came to pass as he blessed them, that he parted from them and was carried up into heaven. (Luke 24:51)
Christ remained on earth forty days after His Resurrection to prove that He had truly risen from the dead and to complete the instruction of the apostles.
To them also he showed himself alive after his passion by many proofs during the forty days appearing to them and speaking of the kingdom of God. (Acts 1:3)
When we say that Christ sits at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty, we mean that Our Lord as God is equal to the Father, and that as man He shares above all the saints in the glory of His Father and exercises for all eternity the supreme authority of a king over all creatures.
All powers in heaven and on earth has been given to me. (Matthew 28:18)
When we say that Christ will come from thence to judge the living and the dead, we mean that on the last day Our Lord will come to pronounce a sentence of eternal reward or of eternal punishment on everyone who has ever lived in this world.
For the Son of Man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will render to everyone according to his conduct. (Matthew 16:27)
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So glad you are doing this again!
It seemed like a good idea and it is my joy.
LOL..I was told by a Catholic it was not a reliable source of doctrine and that some have said it was too “protestant”..LOL
Q. 318. What does "incarnation" mean, and what does "redemption" mean?
A. "Incarnation" means the act of clothing with flesh. Thus Our Lord clothed His divinity with a human body. "Redemption" means to buy back again.
Q. 319. Did God abandon man after he fell into sin?
A. God did not abandon man after he fell into sin, but promised him a Redeemer, who was to satisfy for man's sin and reopen to him the gates of heaven.
Q. 320. What do we mean by the "gates of heaven"?
A. By the "gates of heaven" we mean the divine power by which God keeps us out of heaven or admits us into it, at His pleasure.
http://www.baltimore-catechism.com/lesson7.htm
That sounds awful Calvinistic of them.
Waiting for a Catholic to try to explain that this also doesn't mean what it says.
I'll start the popcorn....
I like lots of Butter Please !!
It means what it says. It is designed for school children as an entry level primer into the Deposit of Faith. What troubles you about these simple truthes?
Do you believe you are saved and live eternally by anyone or anything other than the pleasure of God?
I think even a “school child” should be able to count. How do you get “three days and three nights” out of Christ dying on “Good” Friday (evening, BTW) and being already raised on early Sunday morning? Doesn’t “add” up, to me. Can you explain? Was it not meant to be precise and only ceremonial?
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