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  1. JChesney

    Are Roman Catholics Christians

    This is other news. Concerning the Gospel εὐαγγέλιον derived from εὐάγγελος (good envoy and ambassador, messenger, herald). The spread of the Gospel is not broadcasting news bulletins as some reportage. For example, in Acts 8:35 Philip preached (εὐηγγελίσατο) Jesus unto eunuch. Not the news in...
  2. JChesney

    Are Roman Catholics Christians

    But this is not news in the modern sense. For not to be confused with ordinary news, greek εὐαγγέλιον can rather means "a good notification". Moreover, in the Roman Empire the first century this "news" was poorly distributed in the secular world. Look, do many of the outer contemporaries of the...
  3. JChesney

    Are Roman Catholics Christians

    Your analogy can not be correct because the Bible is not news. about the transfer of Enoch to heaven The Bible also says nothing, Genesis says that "and he [was] not; for God took him" (5:24); in Hebr 11:5 we have "Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because...
  4. JChesney

    Are Roman Catholics Christians

    In the Bible nothing is said about this. There is a church legend of the Assumption of the Virgin. Therefore, with regard to Mary, in the teaching of the Orthodox and Catholics, Mary was lifted up in the body. Here the Church legend assimilates to Mary the biblical reports concerning the bodily...
  5. JChesney

    Are Roman Catholics Christians

    I must tell you that I am not a defender or an opponent of the cult of Virgin Mary. But I can tell that in the tradition of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches, the appeal to the intercession of the saints to God is based on the idea that they are alive and can help, as are the prayers of the...
  6. JChesney

    Are Roman Catholics Christians

    And what the doctrine of the afterlife in the Bible? Based on the Bible, we can prove the views of Adventists, and Baptists and Catholics. Adventists believe that the soul die with the flesh and heaven is now empty until the second coming of Christ. Catholics, Lutherans and Baptists are believe...
  7. JChesney

    Are Roman Catholics Christians

    The ideas you have expressed about Catholics are very primitive. Perhaps this is due to the fact that your Catholic relatives know very little about the teachings of the Catholic Church! Mary, mother of Jesus, according to the teachings of Catholics, occupies a high position in heaven and, like...