Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Because he can not lie. He can’t betray himself nor the 1st or 3rd person in the Trinity. As He said; I am the Way the Truth and the Life…”
My question to many religious is, why would you profess Christianity yet distort His teachings? Homosexual acts are and will always be an abomination before God. Repent and stop trying to twist God’s words in order to accommodate behavior that is fitting only for inhabitants of hell.
Mill stones are unrelenting in their ability to drown the person who fashioned it during the course of their lives. Custom made. Love is Love has nothing to do with Love.
My second question to many religious is;
Why do you NOT believe Jesus?
Very well said, Philip.
Let me add.
Charles Darwin and Einstein believed that the universe is infinite and human beings came to be from the universe. Darwin does not say from whence came the universe and from Whom came the metaphysical realm, the angels and man’s soul or from Whom derives man’s conscience. Man’s soul is the essence of mankind endowed with free will and knowledge.
As an atheist Charles Darwin missed the infinity of The Infinite Supreme Sovereign Being from Whom comes sovereign personhood and the sovereignty of his monarchy. There can only be one Supreme Sovereign Being as two would preempt one another.
Man’s conscience was held to be superior to natural law by Thomas jefferson. A good conscience is in tune with natural law and in harmony with the universe.
No offense Don, but that’s a circular argument.
Evil is in world. That’s not the way things should be…God is all Good; only Jesus as man & God could reconcile the man to God.
Only for those who need proof that Christ is God. I take Him at His word. Proofs for the divinity of Christ have always left me cold. Christ was either who He said that He was or He was not. I come, absolutely and irrevocably, down on the affirmative side of the question.
:laughs: Good answer, Donald.
A circular argument is a fallacy in formal logic, which is only relevant if you are inside of that format. The question was not, “form a logical argument to support that Jesus is the Christ.” It was a question– why?
If the question was “Why do you believe Jesus when He says He’s God?”, then it would be a circular argument
“Faith and Reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of Truth.” JPII (Both are needed to soar.)
Jesus said he was God. In no uncertain terms. Without doubt or confusion. When asking his Apostle “Who do you say I am?” Jesus response was “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me”.
He then continued to “prove” this through the miracles He performed. He then was sentenced to death for the very reason that He was saying He was God.
So if Jesus said He was God, and He is infact not God (but rather a prophet, or a good man, or a historical figure), then Jesus is nothing but a liar and a fraud. And so is all of Christianity. The is no in between about this. It’s all or nothing.
Philip Nachazel:
Love is Love has nothing to do with Love.
There is another saying about love: “All’s fair in love and war.” This is a more accurate description about what is going on with the alternative sexuality proponents. It’s all man centered.
CS Lewis, Mere Christianity
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
LQC – yes exactly! He did not leave it up to us. He told us who He was. The problem is when people talk about religion and the “great religions”, they reduce Christianity and Jesus to the level of Islam or Judaism or Buddhism or Hinduism. They group Jesus in with Mohammad, Bhudda and Shiva. They even equate Jesus to Moses and Abraham. All these figures (real or imaginary) cannot be called worthy to even tie Jesus’ sandals, let alone sit anywhere near Jesus in terms of relevance. It feels odd having to justify that the Son of the God, God made Man is the centre of mankind. Where has this understanding been so lost. And I wonder why God has even allowed it to get this so far gone that we have priests asking “Why do you believe in Jesus”. The answer should be for all- because we must!
@ Greg.
It’s all man centered.
Amen to that. They know not God .. hence they know not Love. The war being waged by the Godless can not have true love in the debate.
It interferes with sin that is being accepted as a “love” and since they know not love it’s an attack on their lives. It took the lives of six people at Covenant school earlier in the year. Transgenderism is the opposite of love.
It says, There is NO God but me. I am God!
Those 9 year olds got a dose of a false God.
May they rest in peace.
I believe in Jesus because of the testimony of His disciples, my personal faith experiences, and the consistency between His teachings and my observations of human nature (particularly mine).
Why do I believe Jesus? There is a unique relationship between believing in Jesus and believing Jesus. He is God’s spoken Word. To accept Jesus is to accept His message.
There are two very similar ideas, faith and faithfulness. We’re called to both. I tend to think of faith as belief, and faithfulness as belief in time. I think the meaning of “faith without works is dead faith” lies in there somewhere. I can say I believe in Jesus, and believe Jesus, but that’s only the first step.
Either Jesus Christ was Son of God and a coequal member of the Trinity as He said He was (“Before Abraham was, I AM.” John 8:58), or He was the greatest fraudster of all time.
But if He was the greatest fraudster of all time, faking miracles and wonders, knowingly deceiving all His followers even to a “faked” resurrection, how did He transmit a teaching that is so consistently, loving, transcendent, kind, forgiving, and truly divine? Could He have been a fraud in one relatively small area of His life, namely about His origin and therefore His teaching authority—-and yet the rest of everything He did was truly divine and holy, and a complete guide for living a Godlike happy life?
That is the question the honest skeptic has to answer.