"To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? It is like an orchid seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the known seeds on earth; but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes a small flower and that's the end of the parable with no message. The end."
Can't believe Jesus used the example of a mustard seed to his 1st century Judean audience and not an equatorial flower that no one listening would even know about. Saying the Shahada right now it's over.
I've been so poor that I couldn't afford diapers for my kid because my boss was a month late on paying me. I've been so poor that I've had to live in moldy apartments, rotting trailers, and even in the back seat of my car.
Never did drugs.
Never stole from anybody.
Never destroyed other people's property.
Never randomly assaulted anybody.
Never raped, tormented, or murdered anybody.
Bad people do bad things because they can.
@ZeldaZealot He keeps using the poppy seed as an example as well but not only do they roughly share similar size that being one millimeter but also the mustard seed is the only one that grows to tree size , showing the point of the words of christ faith as a grain of mustard seed.
How a religion reasons is a huge theological confession in and of itself.
Christian reasoning from its foundations is meticulous, internally consistent, and built on shared text.
When the writer of Hebrews wants to argue for the divinity and priestly rank of Christ to wavering Jewish believers, he does not merely assert. He builds. He says: Remember Melchizedek? No genealogy, no traceable ancestry. Yet Abraham paid him tithes.
In Hebrew culture, the lesser pays the greater. You have already agreed, without knowing you agreed, that there was a figure who outranked your patriarch.
Then he drops Psalm 110: "The Lord has sworn... you are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek." If Melchizedek is greater than Abraham, and the Messiah belongs to Melchizedek’s rank, the Messiah does not share a category with the prophets. He sits above the one your fathers bowed to. That is an argument with no exit. You have to dismantle the text or accept the conclusion.
Now contrast that with this example or series of examples you Muslims always point to. Anytime you want to justify bowing five times a day facing a specific geographic location, you drag in Biblical prophets completely at random.
You see Jesus, in a moment of agonizing trepidation in Matthew 26, fall on his face to pray, and you instantly leap to: “Therefore he prayed like a Muslim.”
Do you think through the logic of this? In 2 Samuel, King David "danced before the Lord with all his might." By your exact methodology, should we start a new religion centered around dancing hysterically before God?
God is a Father. Sometimes his children approach him with dancing; sometimes, scared and broken, we lie flat; sometimes we sit. There is no chain of textual consequence in your argument.
There is only a posture and a verdict. It looks like logic until you actually look inside it.
But since you opened the New Testament, for Jesus let us actually look at how Jesus handles prayer. He completely shifts the frame from the external to the internal. He tells his disciples: Go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father who is unseen. He tells the Samaritan woman that a time is coming when worship will not be tied to a mountain or to Jerusalem, because “God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”
He does not mention any geographic requirement or rigid ritual performance. It is an intimate, genuine encounter with a personal God.
And if you want to use Jesus's prayers to define him, you cannot stop at the garden. Look at John 17:5. Jesus prays: "Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began."
Find me the prophet who prayed that.
Abraham never did. Moses never did. No mere prophet in history ever walked into prayer and claimed pre-creational, shared glory with the Almighty.
The posture of submission in Matthew 26 doesn't undermine Christian theology; it requires it. It proves the Incarnation, the eternal Son genuinely entering human dependence and feeling the weight of human fear. You stopped reading at the physical posture, missed the entire theological foundation, and as usual you think this is a good refutation.
De las cosas más bestias que he visto en televisión
Ponen a un pobre chaval con down (al que su madre llamó Roscón por venir con sorpresa) a hacer el indio en medio del plató como si estuvieran en el zoo viendo el espectáculo de delfines, y para rematar, su madre se cansa de que lo humillen (eso solo puede hacerlo ella) y empieza a llamarlo como si fuese un perro. 💀💀💀
No, ser homosexual no es pecado. Una cosa es la tendencia homosexual y otra cosa es el acto. El pecado es tener sexo fuera del matrimonio (acto). La tendencia es la orientación sexual. Yo soy heterosexual, me gustan las mujeres, pero vivo en castidad. Si tuviese sexo con una mujer fuera del matrimonio, ahí es donde pecaría. De la misma manera, un homosexual que no tiene sexo con ningún hombre, que no tiene novios, ni amigovios, ni nada de eso y que vive en castidad NO PECA.
El homosexual que SI PECA es aquel que tiene sexo homosexual o tiene cualquier tipo de relación homosexual. Pero no peca el homosexual que vive en castidad y que no actúa según su tendencia. El pecado está en tener sexo fuera del matrimonio por la Iglesia, y el matrimonio es SOLAMENTE entre hombre y mujer.
Para que se informe: lea los números 2357, 2358 y 2359 del catecismo de la Iglesia Católica. Aquí le facilito el link: https://t.co/wsNw0lQZLr
Y podré ser un bruto, pero si a usted lo tiene que instruir un bruto sobre lo que cree la Iglesia...saque sus propias conclusiones. Evidentemente a usted no se le cae una idea ni un argumento ni por más que lo sacudan. Lo bueno es que con defensores como usted, no hacen falta enemigos. Fuerza huguito. Cuando quieras, te presento a Bárbara Celarent.