I feel that I got lucky with the following Bible, The New Catholic Answer Bible (2011). It is in understandable English. It also features sections that justify the Catholic Church’s teachings by pointing to scripture. It is a “New American Bible” [NAB] translation, and personally the translation of Genesis 1:8 speaks to the quality. It states God created the dome and called it “sky”. Various other translations don’t quite nail it in my opinion. The official Catholic church translation was…
Not every religion or variation of Christianity is equal in the sight of God, who holds every truth. Generally, the closest church to your home is the right church, with the exceptions noted in the previous post. Don’t go to a church like “Jehovah’s Witnesses” and “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: The Mormons”. If you were raised Catholic or are a former or fallen away Catholic, you should return to a Catholic church and arrange a…
Data Point One points us back to the truth of Jesus, in that He is the Son of God as the Bible says He is. In the Hebrew language of Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth.”, the word for God is plural. So in the Trinitarian theology, what the fathers of the Church have established through scripture and reasoning is that the three persons of God, three in one, always existed and were present…
In previous posts it’s been explained that people have free will, and the thesis is that this planet is the only place in Creation where evil exists. This is because Earth’s purpose is for getting down to replacing fallen angels with Humans who have learned all about good and evil and rejected evil and corruption. It’s here that the problem of evil is getting solved. This should help to explain why there is so much bad in the world. Some…
In the bigger picture, evil is at war with God, and evil is at war with Humanity. Over Human history it’s been the devil’s strategy to try to get in the way of God’s plans. In the ancient history described in the Old Testament, the devil and his fallen angels had gone into nations around Israel and set up ‘false gods’ and incorrect ways of living and incorrect ways of worship. They’ve sought to introduce errors or attack the truth….