Fast Fridays: 30 Minutes for God: Difference between revisions
→Friday, Nov 22: Good News? The Destruction of the Temple & the Tribulations
| Line 62: | Line 62: | ||
There's no parable or allegory here about the Son of Man coming down on a cloud and "gather [his] elect" (sic)<ref>[https://bible.usccb.org/bible/mark/13 Mk 13:27]</ref>:<blockquote>What I say to you, I say to all: ‘Watch!’” ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/mark/13:37 Mk 13:37])</blockquote> | There's no parable or allegory here about the Son of Man coming down on a cloud and "gather [his] elect" (sic)<ref>[https://bible.usccb.org/bible/mark/13 Mk 13:27]</ref>:<blockquote>What I say to you, I say to all: ‘Watch!’” ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/mark/13:37 Mk 13:37])</blockquote> | ||
----We focused our discussion upon the limits of our understanding of the words of God and his meaning. He won't just plainly tell us -- because he wants our faith (just so that he won't say when the 2nd coming will be, as that would annul faith). We looked at the descriptions of the darkening of the sun and the moon and the stars falling from the heavens, and decided that we just don't know. We know, for example, that the stars are not stationary, so are they "falling"? But it doesn't matter so much as our faith and our preparedness for God. Great buildings fall -- the Twin Towers -- and God persists. The lesson is to focus on God and not things of this of man. | |||
A couple other points discussed in and out of the topic: | |||
* do the faithful have a higher standard of faith than non-believers? | |||
** do priests? | |||
** see [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/romans/1?20 Romans 1:20] for how Paul taught that pagans can be held to account for their non-belief, because they had enough evidence to believe in the Creator but ignored what was plain and "became fools" instead, focusing on the vain. | |||
* Scripture can seem self-contradictory: | |||
** if Cain and Seth were the first born of the original man and woman, where'd their wives come from? | |||
** how can there be signs of the second coming but no one will know when it will come? | |||
** we will discuss this soon! | |||
== Friday, Nov 15: "Get behind me, Satan!" == | == Friday, Nov 15: "Get behind me, Satan!" == | ||