Megan
Christian in the world-6
November 29, 2012
1. It seems as though even though the young woman was some kind of prostitute with no father or anything, the only gift that the woman could give the young girl was the gift of the Lord, and baptism. Dispite the feeling the woman had for the girl, she was able to love her, and the baby, and through this, the reader understand that the gifts in the sacrament of Baptism are those of loving those whom it is most difficult to love.
2. She could possibly mean that she saved him from a life without the Lord. One can not enter in the lord without Baptism, and because she baptized him, he can be saved from his sins when the coming of Jesus occurs. She did not physically save him per say, she started him on the path to be saved. and Maybe in the process she saved the young girl as well.
3.The journey in the story is meant to symbolize the journey to being saved and being baptized and loved by God along the way. It is very difficult to understand and fathom a real "journey" when it comes to being Baptized, however, there really is a long journey that is involved, in which one must prepare their hearts and minds for the coming of the holy spirit and Christ in the sacrament of Baptism.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Monday, November 26, 2012
Confirmation Post 12
Megan
Christians in the World-6
November 26, 2012
1. The gifts of the holy spirit are very interesting. I remember being forced to memorize them as a child going to Confirmation class. Wisdom, knowledge, counsel, fortitude, piety, fear of the lord, and understanding. After reading the document by Jim Seghers, I actually understand them. The ones I see most in my own life are Counsel, Fortitude and Fear of the Lord. I think I demonstrate Counsel because when decisions get hard, I tend to do what is right. With fortitude, it kind of has to do with the same thing as Counsel, I tend to avoid bad situations. Also, with fortitude, it is meant to give us determination to push past obstacles in our life and rely on God. I talked about this idea in my in class essay. How I feel like I have more drive then I can deal with, and despite all the horrible things that Have happened to me, I (kind of) believe God has a purpose for me. There is some crazy reason I was put on this earth, and I just need to trust in him. Finally, Fear of the Lord is very prominant in my life because I tend to worry about what others, mainly those above me, think about what I do, what i say. I fear I am not doing something right, or I can't understand something well enough. I fear doing wrong in the eyes of those who I love, or who respect me.
2. If I had to pick one gift that I need most right now, It would have to be Fortitude. I said before how I feel like I have a purpose on this earth and can persevere through anything, but if I was being really honest, I don't always feel this way. I take advantage of the life that has been handed to me. I don't always think I have a purpose. It is very had to have this mentality when life constantly pushes its hardest hand into your cards. This is why i need fortitude. I do believe I have a lot of resiliency, and I know what I am capable of getting through, but Fortitude will allow me to realize my true purpose.
Christians in the World-6
November 26, 2012
1. The gifts of the holy spirit are very interesting. I remember being forced to memorize them as a child going to Confirmation class. Wisdom, knowledge, counsel, fortitude, piety, fear of the lord, and understanding. After reading the document by Jim Seghers, I actually understand them. The ones I see most in my own life are Counsel, Fortitude and Fear of the Lord. I think I demonstrate Counsel because when decisions get hard, I tend to do what is right. With fortitude, it kind of has to do with the same thing as Counsel, I tend to avoid bad situations. Also, with fortitude, it is meant to give us determination to push past obstacles in our life and rely on God. I talked about this idea in my in class essay. How I feel like I have more drive then I can deal with, and despite all the horrible things that Have happened to me, I (kind of) believe God has a purpose for me. There is some crazy reason I was put on this earth, and I just need to trust in him. Finally, Fear of the Lord is very prominant in my life because I tend to worry about what others, mainly those above me, think about what I do, what i say. I fear I am not doing something right, or I can't understand something well enough. I fear doing wrong in the eyes of those who I love, or who respect me.
2. If I had to pick one gift that I need most right now, It would have to be Fortitude. I said before how I feel like I have a purpose on this earth and can persevere through anything, but if I was being really honest, I don't always feel this way. I take advantage of the life that has been handed to me. I don't always think I have a purpose. It is very had to have this mentality when life constantly pushes its hardest hand into your cards. This is why i need fortitude. I do believe I have a lot of resiliency, and I know what I am capable of getting through, but Fortitude will allow me to realize my true purpose.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Distance Learning 3
Megan
Christains in the World-6
November 8, 2012
Questions:
1. Ludwig is confused because he doesnt understand the grace comes from the sacraments, and thinks it is "narrow" to look at it this way
2. The Church does not propose sacraments to deny God’s universal love and will to save. It does not hold that unbaptized people of good will (like the good thief cruicied with Christ) are necessarily denied salvation simple because they missed out on the “magic spell” of baptism.
3. Christ and the possibility of salvation for each person is forcefully maintained by the Church against carious Christian sects who assert that Christ has only redeemed a few or that God actively desires the damnation of certain people.
4. Through relationship
5. The sacrament of Sacraments, The Incarnate son of God; gnostocism
7. God likes matter so much that he declaerd it "good", and began to manifest himself in it after creation when he declared it good.
8. It basically means that it was meant that God was going to die on the cross and save us from our sins, giving us salvation and the sacraments.
9. They are the divinity of christ
10. Sacramentally comes from the old christianity itself of the stuborn insistance that God came to save the world, and became "local" so that he could touch us and call us by name.
11. Gives us the Idea that God might touch us.
Christains in the World-6
November 8, 2012
Questions:
1. Ludwig is confused because he doesnt understand the grace comes from the sacraments, and thinks it is "narrow" to look at it this way
2. The Church does not propose sacraments to deny God’s universal love and will to save. It does not hold that unbaptized people of good will (like the good thief cruicied with Christ) are necessarily denied salvation simple because they missed out on the “magic spell” of baptism.
3. Christ and the possibility of salvation for each person is forcefully maintained by the Church against carious Christian sects who assert that Christ has only redeemed a few or that God actively desires the damnation of certain people.
4. Through relationship
5. The sacrament of Sacraments, The Incarnate son of God; gnostocism
7. God likes matter so much that he declaerd it "good", and began to manifest himself in it after creation when he declared it good.
8. It basically means that it was meant that God was going to die on the cross and save us from our sins, giving us salvation and the sacraments.
9. They are the divinity of christ
10. Sacramentally comes from the old christianity itself of the stuborn insistance that God came to save the world, and became "local" so that he could touch us and call us by name.
11. Gives us the Idea that God might touch us.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Distance Learning #2
Megan
Christians in the World-6
November 4, 2012
Introduction:
The entire article is about how humanity has lost its divine sense of humor, and how those who can see it are able to see through. The only thing the Lord took seriously was the soul. Man without a soul is a thing. He also revealed that the universe was sacramental. The author goes on to say that sacraments combine a visible and invisible element. because we are human, we see the invisible side, or the meaning behind the sacrament, not just the sound, or material. Finally there are 2 errors that blind out understanding of the natural world; to cut off entirely from Almighty God; the second is to confound it substantially with him. The first error is like saying the clock without the maker. This means Atheism cuts off creation from its creator.
The Bible is a Sacrament
The author describes the Bible kind of like a movie, and God is the Chief actor. He says that God used material things, like a golden serpent as a symbol for love and trust and other things. in Greek, Sacrament means mystery. Within in God is everything basically. The humanity of Christ is what made man holy. The sacraments were a means of symbols for man as well. Man needs to see physical material things. We as humans hold onto what that material symbolizes
What Sacraments bring to man
Sacraments bring a divine life or grace. The higher life is grace, a free gift from God. Men tend to live in three levels, The sensate, those who deny any other reality, like the tadpoles in the story, the Intellectual, meaning like the scientists and historians, who are comfortable with existence, who rest their ideas of reality from facts and evidence and reason, and the divine, or where the human heart is brightened by the truth, which reason can not know.When God made us, he put part of himself in us in creation. (Kind of like Voldemort and Harry Potter.) The proof of Christ saving power is through the sacraments, communicated through the church.
Seven Conditions of Life
There are seven conditions in the physical and natural world. (five within the person, 2 not)
1) the person has to be born in order to live;
2) a person must eat in order to live
3) A person must throw away their childish acts and become an adult
4) wounds must be bound and healed, which i think means sins
5)All diseases must be drawn out
1) One must love under the governement
2)called to "proprogate" the human species.
In order to lead a Christ-like life, there are seven conditions (sacraments): Baptism, Reconciliation, Eucharist, Confirmation, Holy Orders, Matrimony and Anointing of the Sick. A sacrament (as I learned it in 7th grade) is an outward sing of an inward grace instituted by Christ that encounter us during key points in our journey in life and give us grace. A sacrament has an outward sign; something visible like In confirmation, its the crism. However, a Sacrament must have three things: Instituted by Christ, Outward sign, Grace.
Power and Efficiency of the Sacraments:
Sacraments get their power from the Suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus. Life is in blood and blood is in sin. Blood is the best sign of Sacrifice. The blood of Christ has infinite value because of his divinity.
The application of the Sacraments:
The sacraments are all different in how they are applied to people. Christ effects us in different ways from the time we are born and Baptized then when we are adults in Matrimony. We enter this realm of responsibility when we get married. like we aren't just responsible for ourselves anymore. The blood of Christ is powerful, like during eucharist, it is presented through the wine. Basically, the blood of Christ effects people in different ways at different times.
What is the Divine sense of Humor?
Humor is the ability to see though things. Something physical and something spiritual, a handshake lacks a spiritual aspect. Its given the adjective divine; (okay, this guy is actually kind of funny; the Jonas joke was really funny). The word temple was interesting; destroy the holy of holy; because I am the holy of holy. God saved his smile for heaven;
Christians in the World-6
November 4, 2012
Introduction:
The entire article is about how humanity has lost its divine sense of humor, and how those who can see it are able to see through. The only thing the Lord took seriously was the soul. Man without a soul is a thing. He also revealed that the universe was sacramental. The author goes on to say that sacraments combine a visible and invisible element. because we are human, we see the invisible side, or the meaning behind the sacrament, not just the sound, or material. Finally there are 2 errors that blind out understanding of the natural world; to cut off entirely from Almighty God; the second is to confound it substantially with him. The first error is like saying the clock without the maker. This means Atheism cuts off creation from its creator.
The Bible is a Sacrament
The author describes the Bible kind of like a movie, and God is the Chief actor. He says that God used material things, like a golden serpent as a symbol for love and trust and other things. in Greek, Sacrament means mystery. Within in God is everything basically. The humanity of Christ is what made man holy. The sacraments were a means of symbols for man as well. Man needs to see physical material things. We as humans hold onto what that material symbolizes
What Sacraments bring to man
Sacraments bring a divine life or grace. The higher life is grace, a free gift from God. Men tend to live in three levels, The sensate, those who deny any other reality, like the tadpoles in the story, the Intellectual, meaning like the scientists and historians, who are comfortable with existence, who rest their ideas of reality from facts and evidence and reason, and the divine, or where the human heart is brightened by the truth, which reason can not know.When God made us, he put part of himself in us in creation. (Kind of like Voldemort and Harry Potter.) The proof of Christ saving power is through the sacraments, communicated through the church.
Seven Conditions of Life
There are seven conditions in the physical and natural world. (five within the person, 2 not)
1) the person has to be born in order to live;
2) a person must eat in order to live
3) A person must throw away their childish acts and become an adult
4) wounds must be bound and healed, which i think means sins
5)All diseases must be drawn out
1) One must love under the governement
2)called to "proprogate" the human species.
In order to lead a Christ-like life, there are seven conditions (sacraments): Baptism, Reconciliation, Eucharist, Confirmation, Holy Orders, Matrimony and Anointing of the Sick. A sacrament (as I learned it in 7th grade) is an outward sing of an inward grace instituted by Christ that encounter us during key points in our journey in life and give us grace. A sacrament has an outward sign; something visible like In confirmation, its the crism. However, a Sacrament must have three things: Instituted by Christ, Outward sign, Grace.
Power and Efficiency of the Sacraments:
Sacraments get their power from the Suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus. Life is in blood and blood is in sin. Blood is the best sign of Sacrifice. The blood of Christ has infinite value because of his divinity.
The application of the Sacraments:
The sacraments are all different in how they are applied to people. Christ effects us in different ways from the time we are born and Baptized then when we are adults in Matrimony. We enter this realm of responsibility when we get married. like we aren't just responsible for ourselves anymore. The blood of Christ is powerful, like during eucharist, it is presented through the wine. Basically, the blood of Christ effects people in different ways at different times.
What is the Divine sense of Humor?
Humor is the ability to see though things. Something physical and something spiritual, a handshake lacks a spiritual aspect. Its given the adjective divine; (okay, this guy is actually kind of funny; the Jonas joke was really funny). The word temple was interesting; destroy the holy of holy; because I am the holy of holy. God saved his smile for heaven;
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