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Point of correction, it “seems” so but it is not so. If only some of us will stop reading the Bible just to criticize but rather, to understand then you would not have baseless assertions as this come up. Certain statements in the Bible are assumed to be contradictory such as is narrated in Matthew […]

A very false notion it is. It has been written nowhere and said nowhere that it is only priests and religious that can teach about the Scriptures and take Scripture classes. As Christians, the Great Commission is the instruction of Jesus Christ to His disciples to preach and spread the Gospel to all the nations

Well, no one will whip you for reading a Protestant translated Bible but there are certain things you should look out for before depending on just any kind of translation for guidance. For example, some translations leave out the 7 Deuterocanonical books. That means anyone who will be making use of such translation will be

Introduction One of the myths that often circulates about the history of Christianity, and Catholicism in particular, is that laypeople were discouraged or outright prevented from reading the Bible before modern times. To understand the real story, we need to delve into the historical context, the teachings of the Church, and the facts about how

One of the greatest ways to express our worship to God is by our acts of love towards Him hence, in our great reverence for God, we seek to build for Him the finest of temples. Such act can be seen in 2 Samuel 7: 1-12 when King David feels the great urge to build

A guarantee? Maybe, maybe not. But firstly, we must understand that Christianity is not a mere name or simply a list of acts to be carried out after which you go relax. It goes way beyond that. Christianity is a way of life. It encompasses every area of your life at all times and in

Excommunication is a punishment that is handed out by the Church when one of its members who breaks some really important rule is cut off from the Church. Now, we must understand that it is a punishment that is applied when a person must have broken a great rule of the Church; some of which

Deciding who goes to Hell or not is in God’s power alone, not ours or the Church’s.  Yes, some who leave the Church will be damned and some will not, but no one can tell who will and why exactly. Leaving the Church will no doubt be a huge undoing on the part of a

We hear some people say that the Old testament contains a lot of contradicting statements such that the contents of the Bible should be questioned. We must first understand that the Bible is a group of books written by different authors from different places at entirely different times. Some, decades apart; Others, centuries apart. There

As Catholics living in a multi-religious society, we often find ourselves challenged to defend the Blessed Mother’s role in Catholicism, especially from a biblical perspective. In so doing, it is easy to overlook the many parallels between the Blessed Mother and Eve. Yet these parallels exist, and many saints and theologians have appealed to them