So he said “why go through a priest? Why not go straight to God?” Then he said “you’re going straighter to God than you could on your own” But where in the Bible does it state that you can get to God better if it’s through a priest? We all can have full access to God. It’s about our personal relationships with Him.
What if your personal relationship with Him is lukewarm? Also why do you need the Bible to explain this? Do you think everyone has the same level of understanding of God and just have a "personal relationship with Him"?
Proverbs 9:1. Wisdom has built her house, she has set up her seven pillars.* *Questions: 1. Who is the Wisdom of God? 2. What house is referred to in Proverbs 9:1? 3. What are the seven pillars? Philippians 4:23
I had my spiritual awakening a few months ago. I'm basically doing the 7 sacraments but the 2 I'm lacking are Baptism and communion, my schedule would get in the way, I've accepted my faith but will I get turned away for showing up at a catholic church randomly?
When you say that you’re “basically doing” all the Sacraments except for Communion, do you mean that you’ve been trying to do them spiritually / mentally (i.e. making acts of Spiritual Communion)? Regardless, the vast majority of churches don’t turn people away unless they’re clearly there to cause trouble. You should really make time out of your schedule to join RCIA at your nearest Catholic church (the nearest non-heretical church, that is) and get baptized.
You are welcome at the Catholic Church. You would not be able to take The Eucharist, but you could go up for a blessing and participate in the service.
The 7 sacraments are a creation of the catholic church, and have no basis in the bible. As someone who grew up in a real church where the bible was the only reference, there are no 7 sacraments. No priest or pope is needed for a christian to interact with god. No need for indulgences, no purgatory, and it serves no purpose to baptize a baby (sin is not inherited from previous generations) . The bible clearly states about the taking of bread and wine - Jesus said 'This do in REMEMBRANCE of me' No hocus pocus spell from a priest needed for imaginary transformation. No mention of catholic priests or popes whatsoever.
I came across a video where a priest interchanged I for We in baptisms for many years, and the church declared the baptisms invalid. That started me looking at all the things about the catholic church that were different from Baptist. Had no real knowledge of ALL the stuff the catholic church has added to a simple religion of follow Jesus and the Bible. I had no idea just how arrogant and misguided the leaders of the catholic church had been over the centuries. After what I have learned, I view the protestant reformation as being the best thing that could have happened to christianity.
Do this in REMEMBRANCE of me" - what does it mean? I've noticed a couple of different Reddit friends mentioning "remembering" Christ in a recent thread about communion. I thought I'd steal a few pages from one of my own books, How Christians Worship, where I deal with the word "remember." It may be of interest to some of you. The second important biblical word is remembrance or remember. Thousands of churches around the world, which embrace the Zwinglian notion of the real absence of Christ in the bread and the wine, nevertheless have carved into their Communion tables, “Do this in remembrance of me” (quoting 1 Corinthians 11.24). If they knew what it meant, they might sandblast the words away. The Greek word is anamnesis, and it doesn’t mean what most people think it means. It doesn’t mean to fondly remember a thing or to mentally recollect a past event. In fact, actualizing that definition is an impossibility for us. If I were to ask you, “Do you remember when Christopher Columbus planted the Spanish flag on a beach in the Bahamas and claimed it for Ferdinand and Isabela?” your answer would certainly be, “No.” You may know about it, but you don’t remember it because it happened on October 12, 1492, and you weren’t there! Neither do you remember Jesus dying on the cross. You weren’t there. You may know about it, meditate on in, believe it, and understand it, but you don’t remember it. But anamnesis doesn’t mean to recollect an event. It means to “make present the past which can never remain merely past but becomes effective in the present.” The word comes over into English in the medical field: anamnestic reaction: “a renewed rapid production of an antibody on the second (or subsequent) encounter with the same antigen.” I bet that is as clear as mud! So, unless you are nurse or a doctor, let me put it in plain English. An anamnestic reaction goes something like this: you are out enjoying a picnic with your sweetheart and a nasty old red wasp stings the living daylights out of you. Bang! Ouch! Right on the ear. What you didn’t know, because you’ve never been stung by a nasty old red wasp, is that you are deathly allergic to it. You swell up, turn red, your heart beats faster and you have to go to the emergency room for a shot lest you go into anaphylactic shock. Five years later, you are out boating, enjoying a nice summer day with your sweetheart, and another nasty old red wasp sneaks up and hits you on your thigh. Only this time, something really strange happens: your ear swells up like it has just been stung too. It hasn’t of course; it was stung five years ago, but that sting from the past “happens again” and now it is like you have been stung twice. This, my friends, is an anamnestic reaction. And this is the word Jesus used when he said, “Do this in remembrance - in anamnesis - of me.” Every time we come to the Table, we experience a re-presentation of Christ and his sacrifice; we are entering into that once and for all singular offering of Christ to God which happened 2000 years ago on a hill outside Jerusalem, but which transcends time and space and is therefore eternal - we enter into the eternal moment of that singular sacrifice. Each time we celebrate the Eucharist we offer thanks to God for the reconciling death and resurrection of Jesus, and his death and resurrection become effective for us in the here and now. The benefit is not contingent on our understanding it or on our emotional condition; it just is. We don’t try to close our eyes and furrow our brows and remember something we weren’t there for, we just experience his presence - his Body, his Blood, his sacrifice, his victory - in the act of Holy Communion.
@@johng.7560 Well, for starters, saying "following Jesus and the Bible" is tantamount to heresy. You're putting the Bible on the same plane as Jesus. You might want to be careful about that. Is the Bible the inspired word of God? Sure. But the book is not God. Second, if you think Christianity is simple then you are sorely mistaken, my friend. Christianity is hard ... both hard to live and hard to grasp intellectually/theologically. Simply "being a good person" doesn't cut the mustard. Third, the written and oral tradition of the Church is unchanged from the time of the apostles. To be sure, we have struggled to gain a deeper, richer understanding of the gifts that God has so generously given us (e.g., the Eucharist, confession, baptism, holy orders, etc.). But the essential facts remain as they have always been. While you may be looking at the details of Catholicism, I'm not sure you're "getting" what is so clearly the historical, traditional understanding of the early Church.
You pass the blessing off my friend that's what Jesus did he blessed the meal and passed the blessing. I agree with you on the pope and priest stuff but usually they're just the statesmen of the communion spreading gods love and wisdom devoted to gods wisdom and spreading it. we pass it to others in our lives. Jesus said this bread is of my body. He was saying he worked for his bread and he's passing the blessing he gave us bread and wine of body and spirit so you do the same before you eat.
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Dr Klein does a great job explaining the sacraments.
Yeah he really did..
I seek for friendship with you, which was why i wrote you. I think it's appropriate to begin by knowing each other.
So he said “why go through a priest? Why not go straight to God?” Then he said “you’re going straighter to God than you could on your own”
But where in the Bible does it state that you can get to God better if it’s through a priest? We all can have full access to God. It’s about our personal relationships with Him.
What if your personal relationship with Him is lukewarm? Also why do you need the Bible to explain this? Do you think everyone has the same level of understanding of God and just have a "personal relationship with Him"?
Why can’t you get a direct answer these days
Proverbs 9:1.
Wisdom has built her house,
she has set up her seven pillars.*
*Questions:
1. Who is the Wisdom of God?
2. What house is referred to in Proverbs 9:1?
3. What are the seven pillars?
Philippians 4:23
Anyone else here because of a test?
I had my spiritual awakening a few months ago. I'm basically doing the 7 sacraments but the 2 I'm lacking are Baptism and communion, my schedule would get in the way, I've accepted my faith but will I get turned away for showing up at a catholic church randomly?
When you say that you’re “basically doing” all the Sacraments except for Communion, do you mean that you’ve been trying to do them spiritually / mentally (i.e. making acts of Spiritual Communion)?
Regardless, the vast majority of churches don’t turn people away unless they’re clearly there to cause trouble. You should really make time out of your schedule to join RCIA at your nearest Catholic church (the nearest non-heretical church, that is) and get baptized.
I don't believe so. I believe you will be welcomed by the Catholic Church
You are welcome at the Catholic Church. You would not be able to take The Eucharist, but you could go up for a blessing and participate in the service.
of course not!
@@kmcgee1651 that's what im doing now!
Kamu berbicara terus, lebih dari itu tidak ada, lalu selanjutnya apa??
that sucked..i still dont know the 7 sacraments.....
The 7 sacraments are a creation of the catholic church, and have no basis in the bible. As someone who grew up in a real church where the bible was the only reference, there are no 7 sacraments. No priest or pope is needed for a christian to interact with god. No need for indulgences, no purgatory, and it serves no purpose to baptize a baby (sin is not inherited from previous generations) . The bible clearly states about the taking of bread and wine - Jesus said 'This do in REMEMBRANCE of me' No hocus pocus spell from a priest needed for imaginary transformation. No mention of catholic priests or popes whatsoever.
If you're so certain, why watch Catholic videos then? Why waste your time? What brought you to this video?
I came across a video where a priest interchanged I for We in baptisms for many years, and the church declared the baptisms invalid. That started me looking at all the things about the catholic church that were different from Baptist. Had no real knowledge of ALL the stuff the catholic church has added to a simple religion of follow Jesus and the Bible. I had no idea just how arrogant and misguided the leaders of the catholic church had been over the centuries. After what I have learned, I view the protestant reformation as being the best thing that could have happened to christianity.
Do this in REMEMBRANCE of me" - what does it mean?
I've noticed a couple of different Reddit friends mentioning "remembering" Christ in a recent thread about communion. I thought I'd steal a few pages from one of my own books, How Christians Worship, where I deal with the word "remember." It may be of interest to some of you.
The second important biblical word is remembrance or remember. Thousands of churches around the world, which embrace the Zwinglian notion of the real absence of Christ in the bread and the wine, nevertheless have carved into their Communion tables, “Do this in remembrance of me” (quoting 1 Corinthians 11.24). If they knew what it meant, they might sandblast the words away.
The Greek word is anamnesis, and it doesn’t mean what most people think it means. It doesn’t mean to fondly remember a thing or to mentally recollect a past event. In fact, actualizing that definition is an impossibility for us. If I were to ask you, “Do you remember when Christopher Columbus planted the Spanish flag on a beach in the Bahamas and claimed it for Ferdinand and Isabela?” your answer would certainly be, “No.” You may know about it, but you don’t remember it because it happened on October 12, 1492, and you weren’t there! Neither do you remember Jesus dying on the cross. You weren’t there. You may know about it, meditate on in, believe it, and understand it, but you don’t remember it.
But anamnesis doesn’t mean to recollect an event. It means to “make present the past which can never remain merely past but becomes effective in the present.” The word comes over into English in the medical field: anamnestic reaction: “a renewed rapid production of an antibody on the second (or subsequent) encounter with the same antigen.” I bet that is as clear as mud! So, unless you are nurse or a doctor, let me put it in plain English. An anamnestic reaction goes something like this: you are out enjoying a picnic with your sweetheart and a nasty old red wasp stings the living daylights out of you. Bang! Ouch! Right on the ear. What you didn’t know, because you’ve never been stung by a nasty old red wasp, is that you are deathly allergic to it. You swell up, turn red, your heart beats faster and you have to go to the emergency room for a shot lest you go into anaphylactic shock. Five years later, you are out boating, enjoying a nice summer day with your sweetheart, and another nasty old red wasp sneaks up and hits you on your thigh. Only this time, something really strange happens: your ear swells up like it has just been stung too. It hasn’t of course; it was stung five years ago, but that sting from the past “happens again” and now it is like you have been stung twice. This, my friends, is an anamnestic reaction.
And this is the word Jesus used when he said, “Do this in remembrance - in anamnesis - of me.”
Every time we come to the Table, we experience a re-presentation of Christ and his sacrifice; we are entering into that once and for all singular offering of Christ to God which happened 2000 years ago on a hill outside Jerusalem, but which transcends time and space and is therefore eternal - we enter into the eternal moment of that singular sacrifice. Each time we celebrate the Eucharist we offer thanks to God for the reconciling death and resurrection of Jesus, and his death and resurrection become effective for us in the here and now. The benefit is not contingent on our understanding it or on our emotional condition; it just is. We don’t try to close our eyes and furrow our brows and remember something we weren’t there for, we just experience his presence - his Body, his Blood, his sacrifice, his victory - in the act of Holy Communion.
@@johng.7560 Well, for starters, saying "following Jesus and the Bible" is tantamount to heresy. You're putting the Bible on the same plane as Jesus. You might want to be careful about that. Is the Bible the inspired word of God? Sure. But the book is not God.
Second, if you think Christianity is simple then you are sorely mistaken, my friend. Christianity is hard ... both hard to live and hard to grasp intellectually/theologically. Simply "being a good person" doesn't cut the mustard.
Third, the written and oral tradition of the Church is unchanged from the time of the apostles. To be sure, we have struggled to gain a deeper, richer understanding of the gifts that God has so generously given us (e.g., the Eucharist, confession, baptism, holy orders, etc.). But the essential facts remain as they have always been. While you may be looking at the details of Catholicism, I'm not sure you're "getting" what is so clearly the historical, traditional understanding of the early Church.
You pass the blessing off my friend that's what Jesus did he blessed the meal and passed the blessing. I agree with you on the pope and priest stuff but usually they're just the statesmen of the communion spreading gods love and wisdom devoted to gods wisdom and spreading it. we pass it to others in our lives. Jesus said this bread is of my body. He was saying he worked for his bread and he's passing the blessing he gave us bread and wine of body and spirit so you do the same before you eat.