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I say it's a 13 yr. old girl with the cat. So she better not be driving. And she's sitting in the passenger seat, so the image is reversed or in the UK.

His original name was Michael (King), a more angelic name than Martin Luther's. See Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Lu ... .#Ministry

1Tim. II, 4 applies primarily to adults, because strictly speaking only adults can “come to the knowledge of the truth.” Without at all denying God's universal salvific will, I have always thought it odd that Paul put all being saved and all coming to know the truth, in that order. I think that in ...

Scripturally the strongest supports for the necessity of baptism for salvation might be Mark 16:16 (whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned) and John 3:3,5 (no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above ... no one can enter the kin...

Okay, let's go with your insane assumption that no one in the New Testament knew any language except Greek and every conversation in the New Testament was held entirely in Greek. What do you think "Blessed are you among women" meant? I think it may have meant, Out of all women, you are th...

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Mon Dec 08, 2025 10:56 pm An awfully thin thread on which to hang an argument.

And the argument that Elizabeth was calling Mary "most blessed" seems to be hanging on the expression's being an obvious Hebraism.

Well, to me it seems like a stretch -- that in writing a gospel for Greeks, the writer Luke, inspired by the Holy Spirit, to convey what the same Holy Spirit (through Elizabeth) meant, would retain phraseology from Hebrew that Greeks likely would not grasp. So your argument is that the Holy Spirir ...

Well, to me it seems like a stretch -- that in writing a gospel for Greeks, the writer Luke, inspired by the Holy Spirit, in order to convey what the same Holy Spirit (through Elizabeth) meant, would retain phraseology from Hebrew that Greeks likely would not grasp. Or is it these Bible scholars tha...

It is important to understand that Hebrew does not have superlatives, "good, better, best," etc, so when they wanted to say that someone was the best, or the greatest, or whatnot, they would say "blank is blank among the blanks". For example, they couldn't say "Tom Brady is...

The words to Mary from the Holy Spirit out of the mouth of Elizabeth during the Visitation (Luke 1:42) are "Blessed art thou among women" in the Douay-Rheims translation. Many recent English translations render this as a comparative, such as "Most blessed are you among women". Bu...

Do you think Cardinal Fernandez had no hand in it?

What if God had made Eve out of the dust of the ground instead of from Adam's rib? Would Adam not feel incomplete without her? (I have noticed that chromosomes look like a rib cage and that indeed a man's sex chromosome (Y) is like the X missing one piece.)

Both paragraph 24 in Leo's Exhortation and #2055 in the Catechism speak of the two greatest commandments as constituting a single commandment, as if Jesus joined together what the Old Testament had held apart. It is good that he did lay them next to each other, but I think he purposely distinguished...

The place we need y'all is in Bible translations. Older English used to distinguish singular (thou) from plural (you). The Douay-Rheims (and the King James) reflect that. It made statements clearer, like "Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat, but I have pr...

Doom wrote: ↑Mon Sep 15, 2025 2:35 pm As I said, I think it is clear that we have been offered forgiveness on no other terms.

On no other terms than what?
As you said where?

As often, Doom makes some excellent points.

The Devil sins against us when he leads us astray, but we are to forgive those who trespass against us; so should we forgive him? Does God? Forgiveness implies the sinner may change. Satan, the father of lies, will never change. We're juggling two teachings here: 1. It is commonly said that unforgi...

Catholic Answers: It was absolved already. If it is a venial sin, you do not need to confess it. If it was a mortal sin, it was absolved, provided you at least implicitly intended to mention it if you had remembered it. What this means is that you confessed all known sins and would have confessed w...

The Devil sins against us when he leads us astray, but we are to forgive those who trespass against us; so should we forgive him? Does God? It's true that we don't get to blame him for our own sins, but I'm thinking that he has done as much damage in God's creation as Adam and Eve. So it can be natu...

No, that isn't what he meant, and I can't believe you just tried to give a serious answer to this joke thread When is a thread a joke? When people needle each other. ( :lalala People who needle people are the luckiest people in the world.) When is a joke a thread? When the punch line is hanging by ...