I saw it too. Like Easter bunnies this is innocent stuff. No harm, no foul.
But even before the Bible was assembled by the Catholic Church in AD 382, as theologians inform us, the early disciples celebrated the Mss of the Eucharist. For in the Eucharist, Christ lives: body, blood, soul, and divinity under the appearances of bread and wine.
Without a belief in the Eucharist, the Resurrection is nothing more than a feel-good story. The kind of stuff enjoyed by feet stomping congregants of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, “Bishop” TD Jakes, Joel Osteen etc, the likes of those attending mainline Protestant denominations whose services are officiated by married gay and lesbian pastors.
Like the Catholics have Dolan, Pelosi, Biden, Francis, and that whole list of popes all Catholics are like them right?
Rev. Jeremiah Wright, “Bishop” TD Jakes, Joel Osteen etc,
How odd that those “preachers” you name have strayed from scripture nearly as much as your Catholic Church. Why try to put us in the same category as these blasphemers when Catholicism is much closer to their rejection of God’s word?
And again, where do your Catholic theologians get this stuff from???
Joh 3:15 That whosoever believeth in him and eat the Eucharist should not perish, but have eternal life.
Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him and gnaw on the bread should not perish, but have everlasting life.
I like Jesus' feel good story better than yours...
Bravo!
As for your fine quote, here:
“But even before the Bible was assembled by the Catholic Church in 362....”.
Right there. I say, right there, is why it makes the head explode to have to listen to the round up make tossed salad of the sacred scriptures, all to use against Catholics. LOL!
Do they even know who assembled the Bible? Do they even know the year? I mean, after all, it isn’t in the Bible. Could they even touch that with a ten foot pole?
Can they understand that it was the Church that gave us the Bible, NOT the other way around? THAT is basic truth, and understood in the Bible, but not in the eyes of the beholders of their own interpretation.
It must be blasphemy for protestants to hear of, and from, the Apostolic Fathers, the Early Fathers, the Didache, the Jewish roots of the Eucharist and of the Sacraments.
This chortling culminates around here in a cacophony of mostly anti-Catholic grudges garnered from the mouths of fallen or former Catholics, and other protestants armed with chapter and verse with no universal context or theology in sight.
It’s a good thing the Catholic church doesn’t have any homosexual priests living in sin leading its congregations.
Oh, wait a minute.......
Why didn't any of the NT writers...
...tell us that the early disciples celebrated the Mss of the Eucharist. ?
SURELY Doctor Luke would have mentioned it in Acts chapter 15.
I'm sure St. Paul agrees with the church he left behind...
1 Corinthians 15:12-14
12 Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; 14 and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain.
Thanks; Paul; for mentioning the Eucharist.
Thanks for the kind introduction!
(This is for you; Terycarl)
Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.
They were never born again Christians in the first place. Pretenders. People who follow them just want to feel good. I wonder if any of them have really heard the Bible taught. They are fake just like the current pope seems to be. I do not understand how anyone can follow them. Jesus is the only answer.