Recent content by TheLightWithin

Here is another clip by A.B. Higashi who always makes good points. In this clip he talks about how his religious beliefs are not in conflict with his scholarship because his scholarly knowledge informs his beliefs.

Reviving an old thread here. I think the OP asked an interesting question (20 years ago now!) and someone added something to this last year. But the question about whether the Book of Revelation or any book is inspired (or any world scripture for that matter) That's a fascinating question to me...

I follow this scholar on YouTube, he has a lot of good things to say. This short recently caught my attention. It's about Noah. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%205%3A32-10%3A1&version=NIV I think he's right. This is an interesting example of traditions involving...

This young man has a pretty good way of explaining things, at least it gives me a better idea of some things in Catholicism. I used to watch EWTN from time to time too. In this case this young priest / friar is talking about Pope Francis in both videos so they seem pertinent. It really did seem...

Would the concept of Christian or what a Christian is or is thought to be, even make sense to Jesus?

Or nature based, it seems

There was talk amongst some evangelicals for a time about creating something within their churches called a "covenant marriage" something that was beyond a civil marriage I guess. That was in response to their irritation about civil unions before same sex marriage was allowed. It really bothered...

Maybe it needs to be reworked? Would that be the work of the new Pope? It seems like calling contraception "intrinsically evil" is itself, some degree of evil.

I suppose the official one.

Emotions...

When I was in the hospital for my gall bladder a few years back, I learned there is a such thing as an "IV specialist" in this case a nurse who does almost exclusively that I guess. They had trouble with my veins due to dehydration plus they've always been small... so they called her and waited...

Well, historical evidence testifies to the existence of communities, institutions, and beliefs. It is really hard to get concrete evidence of any god, discernible to the physical senses. I'm theistic myself. Still I have to say, the reality of G-d and heavenly entities and the whole supernatural...

Wouldn't it make some sense to have some limited orders of priests who can marry? Not every order need allow it. When Married Orthodox or Anglican priests convert, if they wish to become Catholic priests, they need to join those orders, maybe? Rather than what might otherwise be a case by case...

The wholesale opposition to divorce under any circumstances seems to be based on something taken out of cultural context: The concern Jesus expressed for women abandoned by husbands without due process, without a get, without support, IF am not mistaken. Correct me if I am. Refusal to allow any...

That always seemed like such overreach and overkill What mental gymnastics did they have to do to reach such a draconian conclusion?