i have to explain this quote by Pope John Paul II for my Bible studies course, any helpful thoughts on it?
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I assume the sacred sacrifice is Jesus since He shed his blood and died for "this earth".  I know that was obvious but I don't really how to decipher the rest of it, sorry.
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I'm not the greatest expert on the bible, but I try so here goes\nJesus spent most of his time with the poor and oppressed. He belived they needed more help than anyone else. He wasn't afraid to touch, or heal, or stay in a poor person's house. He believe that all of us need to go to places that may make us uncomfotable and try to help others. There is a quote which I'm trying to think of off the top of my head...\nIt isn't the healthy which need help, but the sick.  In other words we in our own lives try to help those who may not seem like the type of people you want to be around. The poor, homeless, and nonbelievers were the type HE had most contact with, therefore we should do the same.
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The quotation you site IS shocking for those who have been duped by the conventional church all this time.  To anyone objective, it is exactly what would be expected.  Christians have brought more violence and bigotry to the earth than any other group.  There is NO HIDDEN MEANING to the passage.  It's very simple.  By starting Christianity, Christ brought a "sword to the world." End of statement.
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It seems to me that what is being stated here is that only God (represented here by "Christ"?) matters and all else - all worldly pleasures, are worthless as dung.  All the temporary things will pass away, and to cling to them is to cling to what will be destroyed.  Only cling to God and the things of God, who is eternal.
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Why not include the rest of the passage, rather than simply trying to create issues?\n\nBesides, John Paull II is dead now, and not exactly in a position to clarify his remarks for you.
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I don`t agree with John McArthur`s teaching but I also try not to call someone a heretic especially a sincere human being who is interested in God. Every study helps us to understand better the will of God. Maybe this quoting will help> "The law was never given as a means of salvation but it will always be the standard of Christian living" - Ellen White.\nIt is hard to understand were God works and were we have to do something...We confess our sins, God forgives us, we try not to sin but we are weak, God strengthens us....Maybe you should study more..because the problem is more complex.
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The article is interesting, but it seems to have some flaws. It was too long and involved to read carefully, but I skimmed the points it was trying to make. One that jumped out at me was worshipping on Sunday. The article says we do that because the Pope said to. The fact is that the earliest church worshipped on Sunday. Paul says the day doesn't matter, as long as we worship.\n\nAnother problem is that the Bible tells us that once the antichrist comes to power, we only have 7 years left before the end. The catholic church has been around for far longer than 7 years!\n\nThere are more, but I'm a very slow typer, so I'll let it go at two.\n\nI have a big problem with some of the catholic beliefs, but I really don't think this article should be taken seriusly. When I have more time, I am going to look at it more closely, though.
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Wow thanks for the link, I actually think they are making a really good point!\n\nI guess when the Roman Catholic church stops making up their own rules, then it will stop.  The Bible is the one and only truth.  it is the infallible word of God, can't be changed, can't be destroyed!\n\nGod Loves YOU\nHeather :)
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I am not sure about his goal. I don't like what Pope is doing, especially there way of living. When millions of people are not able to get a piece of bread, Pope and his crew are residing in luxurious palace and I wonder because they are doing it in the name of Jesus Christ.
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What that person said is not true.  The only Vatican decisions one might be able to say are made by the holy spirit are those of the pope when he is speaking ex cathedra - that is, infallibly, on the authority of the promise made to St. Peter.
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One of my favorite verses, and actually one of the two verses that I try to live my life by.  The other being "seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all things will then be given to you".\n\nThe verse "he that seeks to keep his life shall lose it, but he that loses his life for my sake, shall find it" means to me....that the more I give up my "rights" in life, the less I go after what I think I want for myself, the more I give up pursuing the things of the "world" and the more I give up my life for Jesus to do with as He pleases...the more "myself" I truly become.\n\nI never have felt more at peace, more my true self, then when I have given up my own will and choices and asked Jesus to guide my every step, thought, word.  Funny, isn't it?  You think by serving yourself you'd get what you want in life.  I've found by serving Him first (which means, putting others first), that's when I've found true happiness and fulfillment.
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The phrase is actually: "Ejus in obitu nostro prasentia muniamur." and means:\n"May we be strengthened in his presence at the hour of our death"\n\nThis is a medal of St Benedict, more information at the site below.\nHTH\nPaul.
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That was society at the time. I'm an atheist (just for your info) and I think the Bible has a lot of good advice in it (don't kill etc), but you have to take it as something that was written a very long time ago. Your quotes are cultural, and of the time, more than religious, word-of-God and so on. That doesn't mean they're right though.
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Are you speaking of Jesus Christ? I don't remember anywhere in the New Testament where He made a statement that was similar to that one... where did you see that?
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As human beings, we all ask the question: Who am I? Who am I meant to become? What is my value or destiny as a human being? Who will become for me the model of my humanity? Pope John Paul II tells us that ultimately Jesus Christ is the answer to these questions. Christ is the living blueprint and pattern for our humanity. Jesus Christ reveals our meaning to us.\n\nThus Pope John Paul II, quoting Vatican II in his Redeemer of the Human Race, writes: "Christ...fully reveals man to himself and brings to light his most high calling." "In Christ and through Christ," the pope adds, all are enabled to come to "full awareness of their dignity...and of the meaning of their existence."\n\nYou need to decide now to live for God rather than for yourself. You spend your life on Earth preparing yourself (as best you can) for death. I don't see death as a scary, negative experience, but birth into a bliss filled eternal life with God. I believe that this is something you have to consciously choose or not during your life on earth.
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This quotation did not come from a bible verse.  Here is the citation and source: http://www.bartleby.com/73/1084.html\n\nAUTHOR:Joseph Gurney Cannon (1836–1926)\nQUOTATION:You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, and you can’t change human nature from intelligent self-interest into pure idealism—not in this life; and if you could, what would be left for paradise?\nATTRIBUTION:Representative JOSEPH G. CANNON, maxim quoted in a tribute to Cannon on his retirement, The Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, March 4, 1923.—Congressional Record, March 4, 1923, vol. 64, p. 5714.\n\n  “Uncle Joe” Cannon, who was Speaker of the House 1903–1911, served in the House for 46 years.
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In the Bible it says "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another:  and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching."  \n\nsorry, I misquoted the first time