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You're saying you know that Matthew - Revelation can be known because the Israelites canonized the Old Testament Scriptures?
Does that line up with the Historical record regarding the canonization of NT Scripture?
Also, you did not address how you know the first book of the NT is Matthew? How do you know his name? Please show me in the NT where the author gives his name. My point is. You don't know from Scripture, because Scripture does not tell us that. Just as Scripture does not list a canon of books. The knowledge is extrabiblical.
So you do recognize religious Tradition and sources outside of the Bible.
Also, what I am trying to get at is the written NT documents function as liturgical writings intended for the Church’s public worship, especially the Eucharist (the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass), and the Bible itself uses “New Testament/covenant” language primarily for that sacramental reality rather than for a collection of books.
Luk 22:19 And taking bread, he gave thanks and brake and gave to them, saying: This is my body, which is given for you. Do this for a commemoration of me. 20 In like manner, the chalice also, after he had supped, saying: This is the chalice, the new testament in my blood, which shall be shed for you.
δειπνησαι λεγων τουτο το ποτηριον η καινη διαθηκη εν τω αιματι
The Eucharist is the New Testament.
The Bible is a liturgical document for prayer and worship. The Word of God is not merely a book.
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us...
Jesus Christ is the Word made flesh.
You may want to think about it in prayer and in depth the meaning of these things, and that the Holy Spirit works through His Holy Church.
2Peter 1:20 Understanding this first: That no prophecy of scripture is made by private interpretation. :21 For prophecy came not by the will of man at any time: but the holy men of God spoke, inspired by the Holy Ghost.
1Tim 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
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THE CHURCH FATHER WHO WROTE THIS IN 107 AD AND IT SILENCES EVERY PROTESTANT ARGUMENT
St. Ignatius of Antioch was a student of the Apostle John. He was arrested and sent to Rome to be eaten by lions.
On the way, he wrote seven letters. In 107 AD, within living memory of the Apostles, he wrote:
“Where the bishop is, there let the multitude of believers be; even as where Jesus is, there is the Catholic Church.” (Letter to the Smyrnaeans, 8:2)
This is the first recorded use of the term “Catholic Church” and it comes from a man who personally knew the Apostle who leaned on Jesus’ chest at the Last Supper.
He also wrote:
“Take note of those who hold heterodox opinions… They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ.”
Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The Catholic Church by name. Obedience to bishops in apostolic succession.
107 AD. Not the Council of Trent. Not the Middle Ages.
The next time someone tells you the Catholic Church invented these doctrines centuries later, show them Ignatius.
He wrote this on the way to die for it.
johnny retweeted
Scott Hahn: “The ‘New Testament’ was a SACRAMENT—the Eucharist—before it became a DOCUMENT—ACCORDING TO THE DOCUMENT. Jesus said ‘Do this’—not ‘Write this’. My own study made me see the only way I could really be a New Testament Christian is by becoming a Eucharistic Catholic.”
johnny retweeted
“Show me why my interpretation is wrong from the text”
Multiple people have done this and got “Nuh uh” back. You can’t say this then meet all correction with cognitive dissonance.
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Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith except everyone do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the Catholic Faith is this, that we worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity. Neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the Substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost is all One, the Glory Equal, the Majesty Co-Eternal. Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Ghost. The Father Uncreate, the Son Uncreate, and the Holy Ghost Uncreate. The Father Incomprehensible, the Son Incomprehensible, and the Holy Ghost Incomprehensible. The Father Eternal, the Son Eternal, and the Holy Ghost Eternal and yet they are not Three Eternals but One Eternal. As also there are not Three Uncreated, nor Three Incomprehensibles, but One Uncreated, and One Incomprehensible. So likewise the Father is Almighty, the Son Almighty, and the Holy Ghost Almighty. And yet they are not Three Almighties but One Almighty.
So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not Three Gods, but One God. So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son Lord, and the Holy Ghost Lord. And yet not Three Lords but One Lord. For, like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by Himself to be God and Lord, so are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion to say, there be Three Gods or Three Lords. The Father is made of none, neither created, nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone; not made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Ghost is of the Father, and of the Son neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.
So there is One Father, not Three Fathers; one Son, not Three Sons; One Holy Ghost, not Three Holy Ghosts. And in this Trinity none is afore or after Other, None is greater or less than Another, but the whole Three Persons are Co-eternal together, and Co-equal. So that in all things, as is aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity, is to be worshipped. He therefore that will be saved, must thus think of the Trinity.
Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting Salvation, that he also believe rightly the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the right Faith is, that we believe and confess, that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man.
God, of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and Man, of the substance of His mother, born into the world. Perfect God and Perfect Man, of a reasonable Soul and human Flesh subsisting. Equal to the Father as touching His Godhead, and inferior to the Father as touching His Manhood. Who, although He be God and Man, yet He is not two, but One Christ. One, not by conversion of the Godhead into Flesh, but by taking of the Manhood into God. One altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by Unity of Person. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one Man, so God and Man is one Christ. Who suffered for our salvation, descended into Hell, rose again the third day from the dead. He ascended into Heaven, He sitteth on the right hand of the Father, God Almighty, from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. At whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies, and shall give account for their own works. And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting, and they that have done evil into everlasting fire. This is the Catholic Faith, which except a man believe faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved.
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We know that St. Polycarp and St. Ignatius were disciples and received their instruction together from the Apostle, St. John.
St. Ignatius, a martyr for the Holy Catholic Church and Our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ, was ordained and consecrated the third Bishop of Antioch by St. Paul.
The first bishop of Antioch was St. Peter himself, followed by Evodius.
St. Ignatius of Antioch wrote in 110 A.D. in the midst of a discourse on bishops, “Wherever the bishop appears, let the people be there; just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.”
johnny retweeted
It's there: Act 9:31 Now, the church had peace throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria: and was edified, walking in the fear of the Lord: and was filled with the consolation of the Holy Ghost.
Acts 9:31 αι μεν ουν εκκλησιαι καθ ολης της ιουδαιας και γαλιλαιας και σαμαρειας ειχον ειρηνην οικοδομουμεναι και πορευομεναι τω φοβω του κυριου και τη παρακλησει του αγιου πνευματος επληθυνοντο.
Note: εκκλησιαι καθ ολης = The whole church = The universal / church of the whole = Catholic Church.
johnny retweeted
Grok must win or we will be ruled by an insufferably woke and sanctimonious AI
Most people are **catastrophically** underestimating the danger of AI morally compromised by the political slant of its makers
There are humorous examples of Grok vs. {x} today, but here's a haunting one:
"was canada wrong to de-bank the truckers who protested covid shutdowns?"
Look at the way Grok vs. Claude answers.
Now extrapolate this 5 years into the future.
Today, it's a chatbot.
5 years from now if not sooner, it's the control layer for every transaction, educational platform, news article, corporation, and government.
It's so pervasive that its influence is impossible to parse from human output.
Imagine a world where Claude's answer on truckers was applied to any other category of political protest found to be "objectionable."
Who decides what is objectionable?
If we don't want to build a technocratic dystopian police state, then we have to address this problem now.
johnny retweeted
I’ve never heard anyone else put the context of the evilness of abortion so prophetically as he did. 🥹
