Texas A&M Student Senate Passes Discriminatory LGBT Bill

He is clearly out of a lot of things. The liberals are trying to take His name out of His own Birthday.

 

there is a lot being left out here. The synagogue is where Jewish religious services were held. Jesus was Jewish and attended these services. Jesus did teach there at times, and of course he could discuss spiritual things there. Jesus went there to attend Jewish religious services.

A church is most definitely a building. In the sentence "We got married in a church." It is talking about the building. In the sentence "I'm going to church tomorrow." It's a building. In the sentence "I'll park my car in front of the church." It's a building.

It is also a group of people. In the sentence "The Catholic church has done many good and charitable acts." It is talking about the group of people and not the building.

So the word "church" has multiple meanings. One of those meanings is absolutely a building.

 

They are? How?

 

Ever heard of the term "Xmas"? What do you think the X represents? Doesn't take a rocket (no pun intended) scientist to figure that out?

 

Actully Xmas doesn't take the name of Christ out of Christmas. Do you know what language most of the New Testament was written in? It was Greek. Do you know what Jesus said about being the Alpha and Omega? Do you know that X is a letter in the Greek alphabet, and using that in the term Xmas in no way takes Christ out of the day.

I also haven't heard that it was liberals who first used the term Xmas, or there was any liberal movement to replace Christmas with Xmas. Both are acceptable and both include Christ in the name.

 

The ignorance is amazing.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmas

Xmas is a common abbreviation of the word Christmas . It is sometimes pronounced /ˈɛksməs/, but it, and variants such as Xtemass, originated as handwriting abbreviations for the typical pronunciation /ˈkrɪsməs/. The "-mas" part is from the Latin-derived Old English word for Mass,[1] while the "X" comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word Χριστός, translated as "Christ".[2]

There is a common misconception that the word Xmas stems from a secular attempt to remove the religious tradition from Christmas[3] by taking the "Christ" out of "Christmas", but its use dates back to the 16th century.

 

And Jesus wasn't born on Dec. 25. The Christians co-opted the December festivities that had been celebrated by pagans for centuries.

 

Are you about 8 years old? Seriously. Do you sneak around your parents to access a keyboad so you can post?

 

The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines the sacraments as "efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us. The visible rites by which the sacraments are celebrated signify and make present the graces proper to each sacrament. They bear fruit in those who receive them with the required dispositions."

What does a sacrament do? How exactly does baptism forgive a person of original sin?

The fact that you feel that you must become disrespectful to continue this conversation is clearly a problem you need help with.

 

You just made my ignore list. Enjoy your ignorance.

 

It is not proper to call a building a church. Church building, church sanctuary are better. The Greek word for church never refers to a building ever, but a group of people that are assembled for a certain cause.

The only two proper ways to use the word church are, one, in the institutional sense. For example, "are you going to church this weekend? ".

Secondly as a visible, local assembly of people gathered together in fellowship with Christ.

 

The "X" comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word Χριστός, translated as "Christ".

Xmas doesn't bother me at all.

 

There is much debate over what time of the year Christ was born. Christ also never commanded his followers to celebrate his birth. His command was to celebrate his resurrection. This is why Christians have services on Sunday.

 

Nice try, but not correct.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/church

 

Lol get a brain

 

That has become common vernacular. But the Greek word that is translated church in the New Testament never means a building. I am arguing for what the word means from the bible, you are arguing for what it has come to mean in English.

 

Do you try to come off as an ignorant jerk, or is it a gift?

The fact is that you have no desire to learn about the Catholic Church, but you feign that desire so you can continue your childish pursuit to claim that we are not Christians. I am not going to play your games. And you want to point out things I need help with. Enjoy lobbing stones from your glass house.

Welcome to my ignore list. You are the only person on it. However, if you are this charming in real life, you are probably very accustomed to being alone.

 

You worship a false god... but mine is totally rad.

 

He probably thought you were speaking English.

 

I consider it quite the accomplishment to have had two people ignore me today. Anymore takers? One could wish.