Many non-Catholics believe that we as Catholics should not have to confess our sins to a priest, but this is not what Christ wanted. The Sacrament of Penance is good for us and Christ wouldn’t have told His Church to have the sacrament if it wasn’t pertinent for our salvation. This sacrament was instituted by Christ so that we might be granted absolution from our sins after baptism. Although we are confessing our sins to a priest, by no means does that imply that Catholics believe that priests have the power to take away sins. The priests are there so that God can intercede through the priests.
Can WAR ever be just? Can there be rules about war so that fair play is possible? Has there ever been a war with a just cause? This has been a debate for ages. It depends on who you are asking if you ask a Christian they will tell you any war is unjust because god would not want you to kill others.
LIBERTY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY BOOK REVIEW: “Here I Stand” by Roland H. Bainton A Paper Submitted to Dr. Jason Graffagnino In partial Fulfillment of the requirements for The Course CHHI 525 – “History of Christianity II” By: September 13, 2015 Table of Contents I. Introduction………………………………………… 3 II. Brief Summary……………………………………... 4 III. Critique……………………………………………… 5 IV. Conclusion…………………………………………… 8 Bibliography…………………………………………. 9 I.
He returned to the University of Toronto to finish his B.A. and graduated in 1919. After a year in Chicago at a meat packing plant he was offered a scholarship to Oxford University. At Oxford he did his M.A. When he came back to Canada in 1925 he taught history at the University of Toronto and got married to Maryon Elspeth Moody on August 22nd, 1925.
in English from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama in 1961. Afterward, he earned a B.D. from Columbia Theological Seminary in 1964, and he then went on to earn his Ph.D. in Old Testament from the Jewish Institute of Religion at Hebrew Union College in 1970. Since the completion of his formal education, Bullock has served as both a pastor and a professor. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Birmingham in 1972 and since, he has served as the part-time pastor at nine different churches in Illinois as well as the full-time pastor at First United Presbyterian Church of Trussville in Trussville, Alabama.
There are many reasons for why Christians believe in God. Firstly, some Christians believe that the Bible itself is from God, from himself and it is the revealed word of God. Christians believe that what is in the Bible must be true as it is there in the first place. Some, Christians are literalists who take what is in the Bible word for word, however, some are liberalists and understand what is in the Bible as a metaphor, however, still proves that God exists. Additionally, some Christians believe in the ontological argument by St Anselm, which suggests that God cannot not exist and so that it is logical to believe.
The Catholic Church went through a change to its very core when Martin Luther voiced what was wrong, mainly how far the church had moved from the actual words in the Bible. The Christians in the Lutheran faith believed that the decline of the church is related directly to the word of God shared through man. With this relationship, the word of God can be misconstrued to feed the egos and desires of man, rather than God’s will. Martin Luther was interested in reforming the church, and in particular, man’s belief of what is true about God’s word. During this same time, the Catholic Church was moving further from the theology of the Protestants.
The original version was written and approved by a Council of bishops and church elders at a Council in Nicea, convened by Constantine in AD 325. It was modified in 381 at the council of Constantinople which added detail about the holy spirit, Christ's incarnation and crucifixion. A final controversial clause the 'Filioque clause' was added around the 6th century and but not given formal papal approval until the 11th century. The Nicene Creed and the New Testament are interwoven. The wording and concepts in the Creed come from the new testament and when the New Christian Church looked at the
This has become a problem in the work force internationally with some people barred from jobs from not being a certain race or sex. This is not only against the Catholic teachings but it is also against the law. Unfair dismissal also falls under this matter, with no justified reasons to why one would lose their job. Pensions, insurance, compensation; all of these thing is yet another thing in which the Catholic Church believes in as these aspects of work should be carefully considered in trying to provide for ones basic needs in life. Social security and unions are backed by the Catholic Church as they are things which help make all the points made a
It could be that Catholics might disagree about the actual response depending on the importance they attribute to principles that might be in conflict. The official teaching authority of the Church has not, to the best of my knowledge, given a judgment on this issue. There are several issues involved. First of all there is the issue of justice to someone who has committed a crime, has paid the penalty, and is now re-entering the community. Justice demands that he or she be given the opportunity to re-integrate back into community and not have to continue to pay publicly for their past crime.