Posted on 04/27/2017 7:34:49 AM PDT by Salvation
Monsignor Pope Ping!
I like to think of Christ’s presence during this time as I did when I was learning it.. while I was taking piano lessons as a kid.
I had a great piano teacher, but at some point (after a few years) I had to leave and move on. I went on to perfect the things I had learned and experiment with different styles and recognize challenges with the eye of an experienced and wiser player.
My instructor didn’t disappear. 2 or 3 times I would meet with him again and compare notes, play some piano and say thanks.
Monsignor Pope for Pope!
Christ didn’t feel that I should know his whereabouts at all times. I’m OK with that.
I hope I remember to ask him.
Jesus said He would always be with us, even to the end of the age, so the corollary is that He will never leave us without a true Pope.
Now that the Jesuits have installed the Black Pope as the White Pope, thus calling evil good and good evil, Jesus has given us Charles Pope to help us hold fast to what we were taught when we first believed.
I just finished writing a novel in which a man has a lengthy conversation with a ghost, who fills him in, to the best of her knowledge, on some of the workings of the other world. But when he tries to pump her for specific knowledge pertaining to some minor religious quibble she tells him, laughingly, “I’m not a theologian, I’m a ghost.”
Secondly, Jesus had a ministry to those in prison, as is noted in 1 Peter 3:19, He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison, almost certainly during the time before he was fully ascended to the Father.
He was busy where He could do the most Good.
To be honest..I don’t care why. And frankly, it is not within the scope of a believer to question his motives. As the incarnation of God the Father, isn’t that within his prerogative and not subject to questioning?
Jesus gave them all they needed to trust and have faith to believe just like he does us.
**And frankly, it is not within the scope of a believer to question his motives**
In saying this are you purposely dissing St. Thomas Aquinas?
He’s in heaven!
My immediate retort would be:
"Then please confer with some of your fellow ghosts with a degree and Theology and then get back to me on this! What you dismissively refer to as a 'quibble' is namely very important to me!"
Regards,
My immediate retort would be:
"Then please confer with some of your fellow ghosts with a degree in Theology and then get back to me on this! What you dismissively refer to as a 'quibble' is namely very important to me!"
Regards,
Only God knows. We are not blessed with the capacity. Everything we think is conjecture, not fact. Ever heard the phrase, the Lord works in strange ways?
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Only God knows. We are not blessed with the capacity. Everything we think is conjecture, not fact. Ever heard the phrase, the Lord works in strange ways?
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I could have gotten her to ask Jesus, but I don't think he was a theologian either.
Heavens, no! We want unambiguous answers, with absolutely no wiggle room!
Instruct her (the ghost) to confer with the spirits of several reputable deceased theologians, from all across the religious spectrum.
Regards,
AS a believer, it is not for me to question why Jesus did anything he did. As the incarnation of the Father, his purposes were divine, and and not open for me to question.
They just are, and must be taken as a matter of faith.
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