RE: The Paradox of Power....
October 4, 2015 at 9:10 am
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2015 at 9:51 am by Elpidio Chuy.)
(October 4, 2015 at 8:59 am)emjay Wrote:In heaven nobody's poor,but there are ranks.(October 2, 2015 at 10:50 am)Elpidio Chuy Wrote: Just leave them ronedee these fool's don't want to listen.Talking to them is like talking to a brick wall.They never learn.They just love to thrive in there sin's.I would actually define them apthiestic since they don't care about God on whether he exist's or he doesn't but never mind they'll learn in Hell.
Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.Proverbs 23:9
A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.Proverbs 18:2
my bold
More like being talked to by a brick wall.
Why do you think your approach is ever going to win converts? If god pays by commission, you're going to be a poor man in heaven.
but it is not exactly the kind of 'rank' we see on earth.
Now in Christ,we believer's are all equal in worth and dignity, but we aren't all equal in how we chose to exercise that on earth.
We know that the Twelve Apostles, for example, will be 'set up' as part of the heavenly rule in the New Jerusalem. But will they be 'lording it over us', or will they be exerting themselves to the utmost to SERVE us? I think the latter.
Mary's being Queen doesn't mean she is going to be sitting on a throne eating cherry bonbons and expecting us all to come up and curtsey to her every minute. .it means that as Queen she is going to be serving us, just as Christ, the "Master", made Himself a servant to the least ones.
So the 'higher' a person is (by virtue of his/her striving in life to be like Christ), the more that person in heaven will be attending to God and to others. We won't be noticing their rank by our being 'inferior' to them, but instead we will rejoice with them as they and we serve God to our fullness, forever.
According to the Sacred Council of Trent (1545-63) Session VI Canon 32 (D 842), a just person earns an increase of heavenly glory through good works.
Quote:842 Can. 32. If anyone shall say that the good works of the man justified are in such a way the gifts of God that they are not also the good merits of him who is justified, or that the one justified by the good works, which are done by him through the grace of God and the merit of Jesus Christ (whose living member he is), does not truly merit increase of grace, eternal life, and the attainment of that eternal life (if he should die in grace), and also an increase of glory: let him be anathema [cf. n. 803and 809].
Likewise Church Father Tertullian of Carthage (c. 160 - c. 225) draws a reference (Scorpiace, Chapter 6) to the many mansions in Christ mentions St. John 14:2, and the varying glory of the Sun, the Moon and the stars St. Paul speaks about in 1. Cor. 15:41.
Quote:Or how will there be many mansions in our Father's house, if not to accord with a diversity of deserts? How will one star also differ from another star in glory, unless in virtue of disparity in their rays?
(October 4, 2015 at 9:01 am)Crossless1 Wrote: Is there some reason this turd hasn't been flushed?
And why should I get
I just need announce.That I will going on holiday to Dubai for 4 week's,so you won't see me,I will be going tomorrow morning.So I will see you later.