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Posted by Nuclear Waste on January 14, 2008, 11:19 pm
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Jesus freaks suck dick and then post shit like this under
other people's names to try and get the taste out fo their
mouths.
> do miracles, not the others. For it is clear of the one
> party that
> they are opposed to the truth, but not of the others; and
> thus miracles are
> clearer.
>
> 837. That we must love one God only is a thing so evident
> that it does not
> require miracles to prove it.
>
> 838. Jesus Christ performed miracles, then the apostles, and
> the first
> saints in great number; because the prophecies not being yet
> accomplished,
> but in the process of being accomplished by them, the
> miracles alone bore
> witness to them. It was foretold that the Messiah should
> convert the
> nations. How could this prophecy be fulfilled without the
> conversion of the
> nations? And how could the nations be converted to the
> Messiah, if they did
> not see this final effect of the prophecies which prove Him?
> Therefore, till
> He had died, risen again, and converted the nations, all was
> not
> accomplished; and so miracles were needed during all this
> time. Now they are
> no longer needed against the Jews; for the accomplished
> prophecies
> constitute a lasting miracle.
>
> 839. "Though ye believe not Me, believe at least the works."
> He refers them,
> as it were, to the strongest proof.
>
> It had been told to the Jews, as well as to Christians, that
> they should not
> always believe the prophets; but yet the Pharisees and
> Scribes are greatly
> concerned about His miracles and try to show that they are
> false, or wrought
> by the devil. For they must needs be convinced, if they
> acknowledge that
> they are of God.
>
> At the present day we are not troubled to make this
> distinction. Still it is
> very easy to do: those who deny neither God nor Jesus Christ
> do no miracles
> which are not certain. Nemo facit virtutem in nomine meo, et
> cito possit de
> me male loqui.191
>
> But we have not to draw this distinction. Here is a sacred
> relic. Here is a
> thorn from the crown of the Saviour of the world, over whom
> the prince of
> this world has no power, which works miracles by the
> peculiar power of the
> blo
>
>
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> party that
> they are opposed to the truth, but not of the others; and
> thus miracles are
> clearer.
>
> 837. That we must love one God only is a thing so evident
> that it does not
> require miracles to prove it.
>
> 838. Jesus Christ performed miracles, then the apostles, and
> the first
> saints in great number; because the prophecies not being yet
> accomplished,
> but in the process of being accomplished by them, the
> miracles alone bore
> witness to them. It was foretold that the Messiah should
> convert the
> nations. How could this prophecy be fulfilled without the
> conversion of the
> nations? And how could the nations be converted to the
> Messiah, if they did
> not see this final effect of the prophecies which prove Him?
> Therefore, till
> He had died, risen again, and converted the nations, all was
> not
> accomplished; and so miracles were needed during all this
> time. Now they are
> no longer needed against the Jews; for the accomplished
> prophecies
> constitute a lasting miracle.
>
> 839. "Though ye believe not Me, believe at least the works."
> He refers them,
> as it were, to the strongest proof.
>
> It had been told to the Jews, as well as to Christians, that
> they should not
> always believe the prophets; but yet the Pharisees and
> Scribes are greatly
> concerned about His miracles and try to show that they are
> false, or wrought
> by the devil. For they must needs be convinced, if they
> acknowledge that
> they are of God.
>
> At the present day we are not troubled to make this
> distinction. Still it is
> very easy to do: those who deny neither God nor Jesus Christ
> do no miracles
> which are not certain. Nemo facit virtutem in nomine meo, et
> cito possit de
> me male loqui.191
>
> But we have not to draw this distinction. Here is a sacred
> relic. Here is a
> thorn from the crown of the Saviour of the world, over whom
> the prince of
> this world has no power, which works miracles by the
> peculiar power of the
> blo
>
>