January 25, 2019
Good People Who Died before Jesus
I was taught that prior to Christ’s dying and rising, people (in the Old Testament) could not enter heaven and see God. What about Abraham, Moses, Elijah, and the many holy women in the Old Testament?
You have identified a theological dilemma: how to speak about people who lived before Jesus as being saved without slighting the unique role of his passion, death, and resurrection. The concept of limbo was developed to cover this group of people, plus babies who die before Baptism and ultimately good adults who were never baptized.
Why Does the Church Use Wine?
A number of my Protestant friends who have studied Greek use grape juice at their communion service. Why does the Catholic Church use wine? The Catholic and Orthodox Churches use wine because the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke indicate ...
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Staying in God’s Grace
I am gay. What can I do to stay in God's grace and live a full, happy life as a gay man? There is only one type of salvation: generously cooperating according to the circumstances of a person's life with ...
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