Is Warner Brothers proclaiming a false Christ? And why? I went to see the movie Man of Steel. It’s fine enough as a movie in that superhero genre. But the main distraction for me was the heavy-handed, in-your-face Bible story, Jesus story. We realise that the original superman comic books were the creation of two
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There is a tradition of “receiving the creed”. This is the fifth post in a series on the Creed. The first is Apostles’ Creed. The second is I believe in God. The third is a source of the Apostles’ Creed. The fourth is I believe in the Father. Those involved in a catechumenal process as
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Pope Francis keeps being in the news. If it is not for an exorcism, it is for declaring that “Good Deeds, Not Belief In Christ, are Required For Salvation”. Actually, Pope Francis never said that – but why let the facts get in the way of a good story controversy. What about: “Pope Francis Says
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The Apostles’ Creed has 12 article – essentially 12 lines in it. There’s a lovely story: the 12 apostles are sitting around after Jesus has gone back to heaven after Jesus’ death and resurrection, and they are about to go and share and spread the good news. But of course there’s no gospels, no new
British philosopher and writer Alan Watts (1915-1973) asks the seemingly simple question of what you would do if money were no object. If you say that money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time: You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that
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Fifty years ago over two thousand bishops, experts, and ecumenical observers were at the start of the Second Vatican Council. They would meet during periods over four years, and produce remarkable decisions that have changed Christian history. They produced transforming documents such as Lumen Gentium (on ecclesiology), Sacrosanctum Concilium (on liturgy), and Dei Verbum (on
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The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) defined God as “eternal and immeasurable, almighty, unchangeable, incomprehensible and ineffable“. [Reinforced by the First Vatican Council] in·ef·fa·ble [in-ef-uh-buhl] adjective 1. incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible. 2. not to be spoken because of its sacredness; unutterable. in·com·pre·hen·si·ble [in-kom-pri-hen-suh-buhl] adjective 1. impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
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The Ant and the Ferrari by Dr Kerry Spackman In this book Spackman divides every statement into three separate categories: true, false, neither true nor false. He says, “there are no other possibilities” (page 21). “They don’t overlap” and “they are completely distinct” (page 51). On the basis of this categorisation the only option that
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