So What Would Jesus Do?
Check out this Editorial in the Tampa Tribune...
In a case of competing values, a Catholic school in Queens, N.Y., has opted for appearances rather than forgiveness. It has fired an unmarried prekindergarten teacher who admits she's pregnant.Am I the only one that finds this last line offensive?
She broke the rules, the school decreed, since a teacher is required "to convey the teachings of the Catholic faith by his or her words and actions." The 26-year-old woman is suing to get her job back. It's unfair that she could have avoided getting sacked by having a secret abortion. Had she been a man, her sex life would have stayed private.
Religious freedom should allow the school to enforce its standards without government interference. But it's hard to imagine that Jesus would want this woman fired. After all, his own mother once found herself pregnant and unmarried.
posted by Pat Campbell @ 9:37 AM
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13 Comments:
Right, she wasn't unmarried and pregant. She was married and pregnant with someone else's child.
That's interesting. The whole trinity idea is pagan. Paul who has heavily influenced by Greek paganism invented the trinity myth. God copulates with a human woman and begets a son, then doesn't even marry her! If you call Jesus a prophet then you must be a Muslim.
The Council of Nicea "voted" that Jesus was god and anyone who disagreed was killed. Your logic is not logic at all since it pre-supposes that everyone believes what you do. The trinity is not once mentioned in the Bible. If it were an important doctrine it would have been mentioned, explained and repeated. None of that exists. This is not belief, simply fact. Trinities exist in all pagan religions. Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, for the Hindus. The Romans, Greeks, and Aztecs also had their triunes. You associate Christianity with these beliefs, and you are right to do so because Paul added these pagan ideas to the teachings of Jesus.That is why modern Christianity is referred to as Pauline Christianity as opposed to Arian and Nosterian beliefs which were closer to the original teachings. A fact not a belief. The Emperor Constantine the "Christian" added Jesus to his collection of other gods and never really considered him to be special.
Wrong. Our Lord instructed His Apostles to "Baptize, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." There are much more examples of a trinity. For that matter, not everything that happened in the Bible is recorded. That is why Sacred Tradition is so important. To act as if a heresy is a true belief is nonsense.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15047a.htm
More on the Trinity above
If you mention 3 persons are sitting or eating together, does it mean they are forming one person. Jesus and God are one in purpose but the fact that they exist separately is proof that they are not one and the same. John 17:21........."That they (the disciples) all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they may be one in us..." If this were the case there would be a God unit of 15.
The Protestant Reformation got rid of the idea of Pope but then they accepted most of the man made doctrines lock stock and barrel. A few of the later sects like the Jehovahs Witnesses abandoned the apostesy of the trinity.
I'm impressed. I had no idea there were so many PC fans who have so much knowledge of the bible.
I originally stated and you agree, without knowing it, that Jesus and God are ONE in PURPOSE but not one and the same. The distinction is already there. The trinity as taught by the Catholic Church is that there are 3 gods in one. There is no distinction. Thay actually teach that God becomes a human being while still being God above, and for some strange reason has to feel pain, although He knows everything, in order to save the human race which he made imperfectly and cannot follow any of the Commandments. Sounds like the Hindu idea of avatars. Probably came from the Krishna story which pre dates Jesus by 3000 years.
Constantine was not head of the Eastern Church, it did not exist in his time. He was the first so-called Christian Roman Emperor. His mother went to the Holy Land and spoke to spirits who supposedly told her where the holy sites are. What kind of an archaeologist is that? Nobody knows where most of the real sites are, her revelations are speculations at most. Why don't you turn of your Christmas lights. Christmas is actually Saturnalia the Roman holiday celebrating the harvest. The early Christians did not want to give up that holiday so they transferred it to Christmas. Nobody knows when Jesus was born, although it was probably in the summer. Also Easter is the celbration for the Babylonian god Istar. The example of the Yalta summit does not even logically apply to the trinity. Yes there are 3 beings, that we can say is a fact, but one and the same interchangably is not logical, and God is most certainly the source of logic and reason.
Is Sicko arguing with one or two Muslim Apologists?
That old lame solid -liquid -gas argument actually proves that the trinity is a myth. Thanks for repeating it. We are dealing with facts, not your unprovable beliefs. Don't lay your evangelical trip here, it's old, it's boring, and it's nonsense.
Your analogy still holds no weight. There are 3 entities separate and unequal. Your analogy with water, vapor, is one of quality. Ice, water and steam are all the same quality. The Father, Son , and Holy Spirit are one of the same quality, it does not make them one and the same interchangably. The example, if you use water should be a drop of sea water compared to the ocean. The drop contains all the properties of the whole ocean but can never be the same in quantity as the ocean. Jesus cannot be the All Mighty, unlimited, only the same quality. Your oneness philosophy is similar to Hindu ideology whereby we are all God. That would be the mayavadi teachings of Sankaracarya.
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