Blood must be shed for the remission of sin - He is that fulfilment - now we are to offer ourselves as living sacrifices upon His altar - He is All That Is - His love is pure 🙏
How I pray that I'd be transported in time and be with Cleopas on the road to Emmaus...bless you Dr. Pitre and everyone subscribed to your blessed Channel.
As St. Thomas wrote, to love someone is to will the good of that person. Therefore asking me to love other people is conceptually easy given the definition provided by St. Thomas. However asking me to love God is not as conceptually easy. God is goodness itself. He fully possesses it. What does it mean for me to will the goodness of God since he already has it to perfection whereas other people don't? As an example, if I say that I will that Pope Francis becomes the Pope, what does that mean since he already possesses the goodness of being a Pope. On the other hand, if I say I will that Cardinal Burke becomes Pope, that makes more sense since Cardinal Burke currently does not possess the goodness of being a Pope.
To will the Goodness of God is to will the Goodness of yourself in a way God wants it to be and to will the Goodness of your neighbor. Jesus loves you so much 😊
St. Thérése of Lesieux spoke about us having to “borrow” love from God to perfect our love for Him in order to be able to love him as He desires. So by accepting and receiving the graces and love of God and pouring them out on others our love is perfected for God.
What if, in choosing the good of the other, you are still left with pain of the other person completely ignoring you? I don't think that pain is good (but I know that there is a good form of pain)
Could someone please post or send me a link to the icon image in this presentation? I've been trying to identify it. It looks like God the father a dove and maybe Jesus to His right and angles behind them.
That's just wrong. God can't just declare that all of humanity be saved just like that, because God will violate his own very nature of being "perfectly just". We have sinned, and we must be punished, if the judge will just declare a rapist not guilty, that's not a powerful judge, that's a morally corrupt judge. So God gave His only Son Jesus to pay for those sins. That concept of God being able to just declare someone sinless is the same concept for Allah in Islam.
This whole thing is a mastery in the books of time, I do see that son paying for others sins on the day of or before, depends on what day you stand on. Read that, for the god to judge is to choose a god. In time it might be a thing to do, But what is known today might not be what is to be known in the day. So in the days the gavel will fall but not bring justices to thy followers in a way that is unjust.
This is actually a really common misconception. God could if he so desired do whatever he willed. Your understanding of justice is from a perspective of fallen and human nature. God could in the omnipotence of his nature declare everyone just and declare that act perfectly just because he wants to. We as humans do not define nor create reality. It is God alone who defines justice, so if God were to see fit to do so he could. These arguments, like many others seem perfectly logical to us but in reality each of them seek to place God into a box that we from our own fallen human nature and understanding get to decide what God can and cannot do. God either is or is not sovereign. He is not anything in between based on human thought.
@@packfan9234 "God could if he so desired do whatever he willed" -So are you saying that God can lie? Commit adultery, etc.? How can you reconcile God not being able to lie in Hebrews 6:18? Imagine a god who can lie and cheat, that's a god I want no part of. Also, can God create a rock so heavy that He cannot lift it? "God could in the omnipotence of his nature declare everyone just and declare that act perfectly just because he wants to." -Can God declare everyone to be innocent? Then why doesn't He do that? What's up with Jesus going to the cross and all the shenanigans with salvation? Your explanation of what God can and cannot do does not have any Biblical support and possibly no logical support as well.
Hebrews took the ancient Egyptian knowledge and Thoth's sacred texts and claimed that God has chosen them to be given the holy knowledge,,, Israeli lies never end
