Yes I've gone through it once cover to cover, and I skip around now and again.Aragon034 said:I have a question for you Jacob, have you actually read the bible? No seriously, Have you actually sat down and read it? More so, have you interpreted it? Have you deciphered what the words and passages mean to YOU? instead of what a priest tells you?
Aragon seriously, even if I was raised a catholic, in my teen years I doubted what I learned in catholic school and started attending protestant services.
I changed to public school when I got to intermediate level and started hanging around gangsters.
I wasn't very much like them but they accepted me because I used to box and they liked it when I was around when we got into gang fights.
I've learned my gang banging, stealing cars, cutting school, shootings, drug dealings, seducing girls and street smarts from them.
Anyway I started studying the occult. Got fascinated with witchcraft, vampires, secret societies.
Then with what I was studying it coincided with world events since 9/11. Politics, the war, a new world order.
I won't get into the details because there's somethings you shouldn't talk about, which already got me in huge trouble.
I'll just say that magic/witchcraft, the craft, is real, and I was scared sh!tless, because I opened my mouth about what I studied and was observing in the media and headlines, like I'm doing now. That's why I can't go into detail.
But the counter to witchcraft is church craft. And since witchcraft summons the devils and evil spirits with their rituals and the Catholic Church with its traditions and rituals summon God, the Most High Spirit and His angels. I started to pray the rosary since it's always been a spiritual weapon for centuries.
Anyway I started reading more into the history of the church and learning about Cathoclism and the real teaching.
And what I've learned is deep. There's a cultural war being fought to this day. The main players are secret societies against the Catholic Church. I'm afraid to get into the details. But the world order has been a Christian world order established by the Catholic Church since Emperor Constantine to the present day, but it's slowly being eroded by her enemies and movements such as Marxism. You can look into it yourself if you want, but for this discussion I'll leave it at that.
But my question to you is how do you know that the books in the bible are the inspired word of God? since there were thousands of books claiming do be from God.
The fact is, the Holy Spirit guided the Catholic Church to recognize and determine the canon of the New and Old Testaments in the year 382 at the council of Rome, under Pope Damasus I.
Infact the first gospels weren't even written until 90 years after Jesus ascended into heaven. So the early Christians didn't even have a Bible. They learned Jesus' teachings through traditions passed down from the Apostles.
Furthermore, the reason you accept the books you do is that they were in the Bible someone gave you when you first became a Christian. You accept them because they were handed on to you. This means you accept the canon of the New Testament that you do because of tradition, because tradition is simply what is handed on to us from those who were in the faith before us.
And as far as the Inquisition and Crusades. It was the government not the church, running amok and allowing the killings.
You have to remember that the Spanish conquistadors were the ones persecuting and killing the Mayan indians. But the Jesuit Priests and religious argued that the Mayans were also human beings like the Spanish and that they too deserved the same human rights that Christianity bestowed to the spanish.
And they fight for human rights to the present day, that's why women are liberated, you have your freedom, and they're battling for the rights of the unborn in his mothers womb.
The story with the crusades had to do with corrupt knights and soldiers that took advantage of the war situation to pillage and rape. Same with present day war and soldiers that call themselves Christians.
Again you have to understand history and be cognizant of a hidden war against the church to discredit her and portray her as the wrong doer.
And don't you ask another Christian to pray for you? The intercession of Mary and the Saints, people that have already made it to heaven and are Holy and purified are powerful when they ask our Lord for a favor.
You asked for one passage, although I can give many more. In the book of Revelation, John sees that "the twenty four elders (the leaders of the people of God in heaven) fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and with golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints." Thus the saints in heaven offer to God the prayers of the saints on earth.
and again at the wedding at Cana, Jesus' first miracle even if it wasn't His time to perform a miracle, His mom asked him to do something for the wedding party ran out of wine and He obliged His mothers request.
And chics love when you know this kinda stuff since it can take them higher to a place where there's golden streams and blind men see.
Amen.
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