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2023-07-21T02:41:00-05:00

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The Christian Faith Is A Faith In Love

Last updated on: July 21, 2023 at 2:41 am By Henry Karlson

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Many people misconstrue the Christian faith and its teaching of salvation because they understand it only with a legalistic mindset. They conceive of sin as they do crimes, that is, sin is only some violation of a law which God put in place. How those laws are established is not clear, especially as it seems each law is promulgated for different reasons. What is clear is that we do not need to know God’s reasons: the law, once it is... Read more

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2023-07-19T02:46:18-05:00

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Migrants, Refugees, And Religious Liberty

Last updated on: July 19, 2023 at 2:46 am By Henry Karlson

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Those who often speak upon religious liberty and human dignity often do the exact opposite of what they say. This is especially true within politics. Politicians like to portray themselves as defending freedom, and with it, religious liberty and human dignity, so that they can suggest that their critics and political opponents do not. They might give a limited nod to each, hoping that doing a little will prove they stand by their words, but when their ideologies run contrary... Read more

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2023-07-18T02:42:02-05:00

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Apparitions, Locutions And Spiritual Deception

Last updated on: July 18, 2023 at 2:42 am By Henry Karlson

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Prelest, that is, spiritual deception, readily tricks people who hold so much pride that they believe no one or nothing can ever deceive them. They think so highly of themselves, they will never question themselves, their experiences and their interpretation of those experiences, especially if those experiences can serve to reinforce the notion that they are somehow great and should be listened to by others. Prelest relies upon someone to not be willing to consider the possibility that they can... Read more

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Sayings of the Desert Fathers

2023-07-16T02:45:47-05:00

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Development Of Doctrine And Praxis At The First Six Ecumenical Councils

Last updated on: July 16, 2023 at 2:45 am By Henry Karlson

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The first six ecumenical councils, from Nicea to III Constantinople, show Christians slowly developing a way for them to best express the basic elements of their faith. It was not an easy process. There were many who took elements of revelation and over-extended them in a way to ignore or reject other elements of revelation, leading to some sort of heresy. There were terms established by the councils, like homousios, which became normative, while there were other expressions of Christian... Read more

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Fathers of the First Six Ecumenical Councils

2023-07-14T02:46:50-05:00

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The Key To Understanding The Atonement

Last updated on: July 14, 2023 at 2:46 am By Henry Karlson

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One of the most difficult elements of Christianity for us to understand, thanks to the way we have been led to think and consider ourselves as mere individuals in modern times, is the way Jesus, the incarnate God-man, is said to have made atonement for our sins. That is, we have a problem understanding his substitutionary atonement for us. It is not possible in a short space to properly respond to all the concerns people can and do bring up.... Read more

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Relationships and Religion

2023-07-12T04:09:17-05:00

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ESG And The Republican Turn Against Business Interests

Last updated on: July 12, 2023 at 4:09 am By Henry Karlson

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As the world burns with the highest average temperatures ever recorded, Republicans continue to play interference in regards to what is needed to deal with climate change. Everyone should be working together to deal with the rising temperatures as everyone will find themselves adversely affected by climate change. We are responsible for what is happening to the earth. Morally, no sound argument can be made to justify ignoring our duty to protect the earth and all the life which lives... Read more

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Business, Finance and Religion

2023-07-11T02:42:34-05:00

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Nostra Aetate And Tradition: Restoring What Was Lost Over Time

Last updated on: July 11, 2023 at 2:42 am By Henry Karlson

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Nostra Aetate is a very important document from Vatican II. This is not because it creates a new theological position on non-Christian religions, but rather, because it revitalizes and confirms an element of Christian tradition which had been neglected and lost in modern times (especially after the Reformation). While Christians obviously do not agree with non-Christians in regard to all their beliefs and practices, Christianity has long accepted that the work of God in and with the rest of the... Read more

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History and Religion

2023-07-09T02:43:23-05:00

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Love What Is Good

Last updated on: July 9, 2023 at 2:43 am By Henry Karlson

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Love is at the heart of the Christian message. God loves humanity, indeed, God loves the world and all creation, even after it has been defiled by sin. Sin should not to be viewed as a real, ontological substance. Rather, it the effect which comes about due to a choice, an act of will, and it is established when someone chooses a particular good for themselves at the expense of the greater good, leading to the corruption or destruction of... Read more

General Christian

2023-07-06T05:26:06-05:00

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Divine Law, Justice And Grace

Last updated on: July 6, 2023 at 5:26 am By Henry Karlson

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James warns us not to take the divine “law” in any of its variations in a legalistic manner. He wanted us to realize it was established for us and our own good, not us, as he made clear in relation to the Sabbath (cf. Mk. 2:27). When we misunderstand the law and try to embrace it in the most legalistic fashion, establishing rules upon rules which all are expected to follow, any violation of it, however minor an infraction, is... Read more

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Politics and Religion

2023-07-05T04:07:26-05:00

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Pope Francis Speaks Of The Transforming Power Of The Eucharist

Last updated on: July 5, 2023 at 4:07 am By Henry Karlson

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In his video message, which includes his prayer intention for July (2023), Pope Francis tells us: “If you are the same at the end of Mass as you were at the beginning, something is wrong.” [1] He reminds us that when we partake of communion, the transformation which began with the bread and wine should continue in and with us. To properly receive the eucharist, to worthily receive it, as it were, we should be ready for that transformation, so... Read more

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