Catholics DO have a PERSONAL relationship with Jesus. My observation is that Protestants are more vocal about it, and Catholics have this quiet intimacy.
I agree, as a catholic I go Into church and pray , I enjoy talking wit God in my heart, I once took a protestant friend to mass and she looked around and asked me why was it so quiet, I told her this is a holy place , we are getting our hearts ready to hear the words of jesus , she said well in our church we go all over laughing and chatting with friends until the preacher comes .
Yes I am a Catholic and love seeing all the truths in the scripture Matthew 16 18 John 20 19 23 John 6 51 55 I love Jesus Christ very much he is present in the Eucharist and dwells with us. I read scripture daily, pray daily, go to Mass frequently . I want to be in Jesus Church he founded.
You can't get much more personal than the encounter we have with him in the Holy Eucharist...baptism...the endwelling of the Holy Spirit...a deep respect for the commandments and confession when we break them...a fervent prayer life...reverence in his presence...worshiping him in word, song, deed...caring for the needs of others both physically and emotionally (especially the poor, the orphaned and the widowed). There are too many ways to list here...but Catholics...who are members of the universal Church...have a deeply devoted and faithful realitionship with Christ. At least most that I know who are good practicing Catholics.
The PERSONAL JESUS has fed us with the bread of life for 2000 years and has PERSONALLY visited with the saints of his church. Protestants, who claim to have a "Personal relationship: with Jesus, REJECT him in person and accept only ink on paper, (solascriptura) which is NOT PERSONAL. Reading about someone is not the same as knowing them IN PERSON and receiving them into your soul.
Most protestants swear by "scripture alone." But most protestant denominations date back to only the 14 or 1500s at most. And if Luther or Calvin or Wesley or anybody else came up with some ideas through their interpretation of the Bible, then that becomes tradition, not scripture. And when they say "faith but not works", they neglect to mention the Epistle of St. James (2:20) that says "faith without works is useless." And they rely on the writings of St. Paul who was writing on specific problems of his converts, to the exclusion, nearly, of Jesus' quotes in the four Gospels.
At no point did St. Paul ever sit down and say "I think today I'm going to write more Sacred Scripture." Not that what he says isn't important or relevant, but the worst mistake one can make would be to take his writings out of the context in which they were written. Lately, I have heard people quoting the sixth chapter of First Corinthians here, there and everywhere. Others wonder why Paul said these things while Our LORD never did. Here is the real reason. When you hear the term "Sin City," what comes to mind? Since we are in the 21st century in America, the first place that comes to mind is of course Las Vegas. But if someone said "Sin City" in the first century Middle East, the place that would instantly come to mind would be Corinth. 60 percent of the "commerce" in Corinth was prostitution and human trafficking. Well, if I were writing a letter to a group of NEW believers there, you can be sure that I would include admonishments against adultery, fornication, and sexual immorality, because these new believers are surrounded by it. Do you know this fact, or are you one of those who just takes every verse in the Bible as universal and having equal weight to everything else in the Bible? The problem comes when Christians (and many Catholics do this as well) point to this verse as some sort of "evidence" that sexual sins are in another category, and basically come up with the idea that "regular sins" are forgiven by Jesus' death on the cross, but those sex sins.....forget it, you do it, and you're doomed to hell. All because there is no other place in the Bible where a specific list of sins are an iron-clad guarantee that those who commit them will not enter heaven. That's why today's "Christian" society doesn't condemn theft, many "Christians" are okay with abortion, but being gay is 1,000 times worse than anything else one can do.
My Dear Brother and Sisters in Jesus Christ, I glorify God from your all efforts to further evangelizing people that are away from the fullness of the truth,I personally thanking all of you in the name of Jesus for a Job well done defending the faith,the Church that Jesus himself established thru the apostolic successions,let us pray for our Pope and all the priests,deacons,bishops and all the laity people and also for ourselves that we may not fall into the test,this I humbly pray to the Father thru his son Jesus Christ.Amen...more and more..relationship to Jesus please don't forget to visit him in the Blessed Sacrament talk to him with intimacy,bring your children and pass it on.I love you in Christ.Shalom!
Yes, indeed, St. Paul wrote most of the New Testament. But there is more to salvation than the numbr of his words and letters. His writings were to people he had been responsible for converting as he explained the Faith. There is a tremendous amount of value in reading and meditating on the words of St. Paul. But people who quote Paul regularly, often don't compare his writings with the teachings of Jesus in the four Gospels. Paul in Romans 3:28 says that a man is justified by faith and not by doing something the Law tells him to do. That is true. But Jesus says in Matthew 25:31-46 that, among other things, insofar as you neglected TO DO THIS to one of the least of these, you neglected to do it to Me." So there is more to salvation than "justification by faith." And, of course, James says in his epistle, 2:17 "...Faith is like that; if good works do not go with it, it is quite dead."
Can someone correct me if I'm wrong, but because of the Eucharist we have a relationship with God? I can understand that but does that mean even in the time we are going through Catechism to attain our first communion we don't have a relationship with Christ yet? My mom is a Pentecostal and she says to have a personal relationship you need to read the bible and let its messages work things through your heart and make you a better Christian and with that you can talk and walk with (not literally) with Jesus in your heart. How are these two points different and where are their biblical roots? She also backed up her claim quoting Matthew 7:21-24 as well as Luke 13:23-28. Can someone please help me out because I'm struggling in my Catholic faith. :c
Ashley Strain I know but I'm talking about what about that in between of having your first communion and going through catechism is there any fullness of a personal relationship, without the Eucharist?
+Matthew Luevanos My first suggestion is that if you're truly struggling with your Catholic faith (your last sentence), then you should meet with your parish priest and start a dialogue. Get his help. As for your earlier question, of course anyone can have a relationship with Jesus Christ. However, the Holy Eucharist is - like all of the sacraments - a means to obtain God's divine grace. But, unlike the other sacraments, Christ is physically present in the Eucharist. You're in direct physical contact with the Lord, Jesus Christ. And so, while you can sit in your bedroom reading a bible to get close to God (which is great, by the way) ... wouldn't you also want to take an hour out of your day to go and receive Him into your body, as Christ commanded us to do? (Lk 22:19) For crying out loud, who wouldn't want to be in direct physical contact with Christ Jesus? I know I want to be. So tell your mother that she can - and should - continue praying (1 Thessalonians 5:17). But if she stops there, she's really missing out on a far greater connection to Christ - and a far greater opportunity to receive His divine grace. Pax Christi.
+Matthew Luevanos There is indeed a personal relationship without the Eucharist, but a "personal relationship" is not enough; Jesus wants to have so much more than just a personal relationship! The Church is the Bride of Christ; united fully with Him in His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity.
Catholics DO have a PERSONAL relationship with Jesus. My observation is that Protestants are more vocal about it, and Catholics have this quiet intimacy.
Tim Spangler Umm...I don't understand your questions.
Catholics have the greatest personal relationship with the LORD because the Catholic Church has the REAL PRESENCE! +
i know i have a personal relationship with Jesus! im catholic and He is always with me! peace...
I agree, as a catholic I go Into church and pray , I enjoy talking wit God in my heart, I once took a protestant friend to mass and she looked around and asked me why was it so quiet, I told her this is a holy place , we are getting our hearts ready to hear the words of jesus , she said well in our church we go all over laughing and chatting with friends until the preacher comes .
Yes I am a Catholic and love seeing all the truths in the scripture Matthew 16 18 John 20 19 23 John 6 51 55 I love Jesus Christ very much he is present in the Eucharist and dwells with us. I read scripture daily, pray daily, go to Mass frequently . I want to be in Jesus Church he founded.
You can't get much more personal than the encounter we have with him in the Holy Eucharist...baptism...the endwelling of the Holy Spirit...a deep respect for the commandments and confession when we break them...a fervent prayer life...reverence in his presence...worshiping him in word, song, deed...caring for the needs of others both physically and emotionally (especially the poor, the orphaned and the widowed). There are too many ways to list here...but Catholics...who are members of the universal Church...have a deeply devoted and faithful realitionship with Christ. At least most that I know who are good practicing Catholics.
Oh yeah the second I saw the title of the video I thought "what about the Eucharist!?!?"
Victoria Smith
It's a great point isn't it?
Can't get more personal than that!?
Tim Spangler
We'll ignore St John 6: 51-59 then eh?
Tim Spangler
Not sure what you are talking about Tim? What "eliminated" posts?
The PERSONAL JESUS has fed us with the bread of life for 2000 years and has PERSONALLY visited with the saints of his church. Protestants, who claim to have a "Personal relationship: with Jesus, REJECT him in person and accept only ink on paper, (solascriptura) which is NOT PERSONAL. Reading about someone is not the same as knowing them IN PERSON and receiving them into your soul.
Most protestants swear by "scripture alone." But most protestant denominations date back to only the 14 or 1500s at most. And if Luther or Calvin or Wesley or anybody else came up with some ideas through their interpretation of the Bible, then that becomes tradition, not scripture. And when they say "faith but not works", they neglect to mention the Epistle of St. James (2:20) that says "faith without works is useless." And they rely on the writings of St. Paul who was writing on specific problems of his converts, to the exclusion, nearly, of Jesus' quotes in the four Gospels.
At no point did St. Paul ever sit down and say "I think today I'm going to write more Sacred Scripture."
Not that what he says isn't important or relevant, but the worst mistake one can make would be to take his writings out of the context in which they were written. Lately, I have heard people quoting the sixth chapter of First Corinthians here, there and everywhere. Others wonder why Paul said these things while Our LORD never did. Here is the real reason. When you hear the term "Sin City," what comes to mind? Since we are in the 21st century in America, the first place that comes to mind is of course Las Vegas. But if someone said "Sin City" in the first century Middle East, the place that would instantly come to mind would be Corinth. 60 percent of the "commerce" in Corinth was prostitution and human trafficking. Well, if I were writing a letter to a group of NEW believers there, you can be sure that I would include admonishments against adultery, fornication, and sexual immorality, because these new believers are surrounded by it. Do you know this fact, or are you one of those who just takes every verse in the Bible as universal and having equal weight to everything else in the Bible?
The problem comes when Christians (and many Catholics do this as well) point to this verse as some sort of "evidence" that sexual sins are in another category, and basically come up with the idea that "regular sins" are forgiven by Jesus' death on the cross, but those sex sins.....forget it, you do it, and you're doomed to hell. All because there is no other place in the Bible where a specific list of sins are an iron-clad guarantee that those who commit them will not enter heaven. That's why today's "Christian" society doesn't condemn theft, many "Christians" are okay with abortion, but being gay is 1,000 times worse than anything else one can do.
Ray Marshall not to mention the the bible says Sola scriptura is unbiblical
My Dear Brother and Sisters in Jesus Christ, I glorify God from your all efforts to further evangelizing people that are away from the fullness of the truth,I personally thanking all of you in the name of Jesus for a Job well done defending the faith,the Church that Jesus himself established thru the apostolic successions,let us pray for our Pope and all the priests,deacons,bishops and all the laity people and also for ourselves that we may not fall into the test,this I humbly pray to the Father thru his son Jesus Christ.Amen...more and more..relationship to Jesus please don't forget to visit him in the Blessed Sacrament talk to him with intimacy,bring your children and pass it on.I love you in Christ.Shalom!
Yes, indeed, St. Paul wrote most of the New Testament. But there is more to salvation than the numbr of his words and letters. His writings were to people he had been responsible for converting as he explained the Faith. There is a tremendous amount of value in reading and meditating on the words of St. Paul. But people who quote Paul regularly, often don't compare his writings with the teachings of Jesus in the four Gospels.
Paul in Romans 3:28 says that a man is justified by faith and not by doing something the Law tells him to do. That is true. But Jesus says in Matthew 25:31-46 that, among other things, insofar as you neglected TO DO THIS to one of the least of these, you neglected to do it to Me." So there is more to salvation than "justification by faith."
And, of course, James says in his epistle, 2:17 "...Faith is like that; if good works do not go with it, it is quite dead."
Can someone correct me if I'm wrong, but because of the Eucharist we have a relationship with God? I can understand that but does that mean even in the time we are going through Catechism to attain our first communion we don't have a relationship with Christ yet? My mom is a Pentecostal and she says to have a personal relationship you need to read the bible and let its messages work things through your heart and make you a better Christian and with that you can talk and walk with (not literally) with Jesus in your heart. How are these two points different and where are their biblical roots? She also backed up her claim quoting Matthew 7:21-24 as well as Luke 13:23-28. Can someone please help me out because I'm struggling in my Catholic faith. :c
protestants can also have a relationship with Jesus, it is much easier when you have the Eucharist
Ashley Strain I know but I'm talking about what about that in between of having your first communion and going through catechism is there any fullness of a personal relationship, without the Eucharist?
+Matthew Luevanos My first suggestion is that if you're truly struggling with your Catholic faith (your last sentence), then you should meet with your parish priest and start a dialogue. Get his help. As for your earlier question, of course anyone can have a relationship with Jesus Christ. However, the Holy Eucharist is - like all of the sacraments - a means to obtain God's divine grace. But, unlike the other sacraments, Christ is physically present in the Eucharist. You're in direct physical contact with the Lord, Jesus Christ. And so, while you can sit in your bedroom reading a bible to get close to God (which is great, by the way) ... wouldn't you also want to take an hour out of your day to go and receive Him into your body, as Christ commanded us to do? (Lk 22:19) For crying out loud, who wouldn't want to be in direct physical contact with Christ Jesus? I know I want to be. So tell your mother that she can - and should - continue praying (1 Thessalonians 5:17). But if she stops there, she's really missing out on a far greater connection to Christ - and a far greater opportunity to receive His divine grace. Pax Christi.
+Matthew Luevanos There is indeed a personal relationship without the Eucharist, but a "personal relationship" is not enough; Jesus wants to have so much more than just a personal relationship! The Church is the Bride of Christ; united fully with Him in His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity.
Only if Mary gives them permission.