Prayer Before Reading Our Blog

Come Holy SpiritCome Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love.


V. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created.


R. And You shall renew the face of the earth.


O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations, Through Christ Our Lord, Amen.


Prayer for Enlightenment

O Holy Spirit, divine Spirit of light and love, I consecrate to Thee my understanding, my heart and my will, my whole being for time and for eternity. May my understanding be always obedient to Thy heavenly inspirations and the teachings of the holy Catholic Church, of which Thou art the infallible Guide; may my heart be ever inflamed with love of God and of my neighbor; may my will be ever conformed to the divine will, and may my whole life be a faithful following of the life and virtues of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to whom with the Father and Thee be honor and glory for ever. Amen.




Friday, March 30, 2012

Pagka-Diyos ni Kristo na hindi matutulan ng INC by Bibe Cenon Jr.

A Diagram that shows Jesus' Nature


SABI po ng ISANG ALAGAD ni FELIX Y. MANALO, ang NAGTAYO ng IGLESIA NI CRISTO na NAKABASE sa DILIMAN, QUEZON CITY.


X-CATHOLIC na INC NA said:
Ito rin po ang aral na itinaguyod ng Kapatid na Erano G. Manalo.

Itinuro rin niya sa mga Iglesia Ni Cristo ang aral na mula sa Biblia na ang Ama lamang ang iisang tunay na Dios.

Si Cristo po ay tao sa likas na kalagayan,..pero hindi po kailanman itinuro ng Iglesia yong ibinibintang ng Iglesia Katolika na para sa amin daw ay 'tao lang' ang Panginoong Jesukristo.


CENON BIBE:
TAO LANG po ba sa LIKAS na KALAGAYAN?

WALA pong ARAL na GANYAN sa BIBLIYA kaya INAAMIN NA NAMAN NINYO na SALUNGAT sa BIBLIYA ang ARAL ng IGLESIANG ITINAYO ni FELIX Y. MANALO.


LUMALABAS din na MALI ang PAGKAKILALA NINYO sa PANGINOONG HESUS.

HINDI LANG SIYA TAO KUNDI DIYOS at PATUNAY DIYAN ang mga LIKAS NIYANG KATANGIAN.


1. Ang PANGINOONG HESUS ang KARUNUNGAN at KAPANGYARIHAN ng DIYOS.

1CORINTHIANS 1:23
"Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God."


KUNG TAO LANG ang PANGINOONG HESUS ay PAANO SIYA NAGING KAPANGYARIHAN at KARUNUNGAN ng DIYOS?

MAS MAKAPANGYARIHAN at MAS MARUNONG pa ba ang ISANG TAO sa DIYOS?

At BAKIT KUKUHA ang DIYOS ng KAPANGYARIHAN at KARUNUNGAN sa isang "TAO"?

Kaya po MALINAW na MALI ang ARAL na ITINUR0 ni FELIX Y. MANALO.



2. Si HESUS ang MAY AKDA o MAY LIKHA ng BUHAY.

ACTS 3:15
and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.


Ang TAO ay BINIGYAN LANG ng BUHAY ng DIYOS (GENESIS 2:7) kaya PAANO MASASABI ng SUGO ng mga INC na TAO LANG ang PANGINOONG HESUS na SIYANG LUMIKHA ng BUHAY?

MAKAPAGBIBIGAY BA ng BUHAY ang ISANG TAO?

HINDI po.



3. NALIKHA ang LAHAT ng BAGAY SA PAMAMAGITAN ng PANGINOONG HESUS.

COLOSSIANS 1:16
for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers-- all things have been created through him and for him.

PWEDE BA MALIKHA ang LAHAT ng BAGAY SA PAMAMAGITAN ng ISANG TAO?

Ang TAO ay NILIKHA ng DIYOS. KUNG TAMA ang ARAL ni FELIX Y. MANALO, PAANO NALIKHA ang TAO kung HINDI pa "NALILIKHA" ang "TAONG" si HESUS?

E AYON pa sa ARAL ng IGLESIANG ITINAYO ni FELIX Y. MANALO ay NALALANG LANG ang PANGINOONG HESUS NOONG ISILANG SIYA ng BIRHENG MARIA. (GAMIT NILA ang MALING UNAWA NILA sa GALATIANS 4:4)

KUNG NOON LANG ISINILANG ang PANGINOONG HESUS ay PAANO NALIKHA ang LAHAT ng BAGAY na NALIKHA SA PAMAMAGITAN NIYA?

HINDI po IYAN MAIPALILIWANAG ng mga ALAGAD ni FELIX Y. MANALO na HINDI NILA KINOKONTRA ang ARAL NILA.



4. WALANG BAGAY na NALIKHA kung WALA ang PANGINOONG HESUS.

JOHN 1:3
All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being.

So, PAANO po TAYO MANINIWALA sa ARAL ni FELIX Y. MANALO na NOON LANG NALALANG ang PANGINOONG HESUS noong ISILANG SIYA ng BIRHENG MARIA?

At PAANO rin MALILIKHA ang LAHAT ng BAGAY sa PAMAMAGITAN ng ISANG TAO LANG, tulad ng ARAL ng mga INC ni FELIX Y. MANALO?



Ang mga IYAN po ay PATUNAY sa PAGKA-DIYOS ng PANGINOONG HESUS, dahil ang mga IYAN ay HINDI MAAARING MAGING KATANGIAN ng isang TAO.

At DIYAN pa lang po ay MALINAW nang HINDI LANG TAO ang PANGINOONG HESUS, tulad ng ARAL ng mga ALAGAD ni FELIX Y. MANALO.

HINDI po IYAN MATUTUTULAN ng mga KAANIB ng IGLESIANG ITINAYO ni FELIX Y. MANALO.

Source: Pagka-Diyos ni Kristo na hindi matutulan ng INC

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Apologetic Minute I: Ave Maria, Gratia Plena



The Annunciation
(By Anton Raphael)



If you are interested in brushing up on your Catholic apologetics, the Lapide Commentary is a great resource, and it is online. It was penned in the early 1600s when the Protestant Revolt was raging, and it answers almost every false accusation made by the pretended "Reformers." When you run across those who assault the Blessed Mother, and claim you are an idolatrous Catholic who is going against Scripture, you will have an answer for them! Here is an excerpt covering part of Luke 1:28.

Hail, Ave. It is very probable that the angel used the ordinary salutation of the Hebrews, שלום לך, Peace be to thee. Unless the opinion of Serarius is to be preferred, that ave is the Hebrew חוה chave or have, that is, “Live;” so that there is an allusion to the name of Eve, which is in Hebrew חוה chava, that is the mother of all living (Gen. iii. 20), so that the meaning will be, Eve was not the mother of life but of death, because by sin she delivered over all her children to death, but thou, 0 Mary, art truly called Eve, because thou art the mother of life, grace, and glory. Hence in Latin ave is Eva reversed, because Mary turned the maledictions of Eve into blessings.

Highly favoured. Gratia plena, Vulgate, full of grace. Greek, κεχαζιτωμένη, which Beza translates gratis dilecta, freely loved; for he thinks that the just have no inherent and intrinsic, but only an extrinsic righteousness, which consists in this, that, although they be sinners, God of his own good will holds and reckons them as just; which is heresy.

But κεχαζιτωμένη answers to the Hebrew נחנה, filled with grace or made acceptable; for χαζιτοω, signifies I make acceptable, I render beloved or dear, I fill with grace. For God judges nothing to be acceptable except what is truly in itself acceptable; wherefore when He makes any one just and acceptable to Himself, He bestows upon him the gift of justice and inherent grace. Wherefore κεχαζιτωμένη is the same as full of grace: as it is rendered in our version and the Syrian, &c.; also by S. Ambrose and others of the Fathers. This word therefore signifies—1. That the Blessed Virgin had a gift of grace bestowed upon her by God, and that, in a full measure of excellence beyond other just and holy persons, for this epithet is applied solely to the Blessed Virgin, to the end that she might be made worthy to become in time the Mother of God. 2. That she by means of this gift of grace was wonderfully well-pleasing in the sight of God and of all His angels, and in their eyes altogether lovely and beautiful, so that Christ chose her before all others for His mother.
You will say that Christ was more full of grace than the Blessed Virgin. Others also of the saints are said to have been full of the Holy Spirit, as Stephen.

I answer that they are said to have been full of grace, but in different ways. For, as Maldonatus rightly says, a fountain is full of water, so is a river, so are streams, although there is more water and purer in a fountain than in a river, and in a river than in streams. Christ is full of grace, like a fountain where grace gushes forth and is collected as in a reservoir, and from which it flows forth to all men, as from a head to the members. The mother of Christ is full like a river very near a fountain, which although it has less water than a fountain, yet flows with a full channel. Stephen is full like a stream.

S. Augustine (Serm xviii de Sanctus) says, “Mary is filled with grace, and Eve is made clear from guilt; the curse of Eve is changed into the blessing of Mary.” Toletus (annotat. 67) shows that the Blessed Virgin was full of all grace, both in body and soul. For she was free from concupiscence (fomite concupiscentiæ), so that in her the flesh was subject to the reason and the spirit, as was the case with Adam in Paradise through original righteousness. Wherefore he adds that in her, nature conspired with grace and co-operated with it in every respect. See also what I have said concerning her in the Commentary on the Canticles, especially on those words (c. iv. 7), Thou art all fair, my love, there is no spot in thee.

S. Jerome (Serm. de Assump. B.V.) says, “It is well said that she was full of grace, because on others grace is bestowed partially (per partes), but the fulness of grace in complete treasure was infused into Mary.” And again, “The entire fulness of grace, which is in Christ, came upon Mary, although in a different way.”

Suarez shows that the grace possessed by the Blessed Virgin in the first instant of her conception was greater than the grace which the highest angel possesses, who by one or two acts has perfected all his merits, and therefore she merited more than thousands of men merit through their whole life. Wherefore the Blessed Virgin in this first instant loved and praised God with such earnestness of intention that she exceeded the love, and consequently also the merit, of the highest angel. But in the second instant of her co-operation and love, by means of the increase of grace which in the first instant she had merited and had in reality received, she doubled the degrees of love and consequently also of merit; and in the third instant, by doubling the same she quadrupled both merit and grace; and so in every instant, by doubling continually the grace she had received, until her death in the seventy-second year of her age, she had increased the degrees of grace and merit to such an extent that she altogether excelled in them all men and angels taken together. Wherefore she by herself alone is more acceptable to God than all the rest; and God loves the Blessed Virgin alone more than the whole Church, that is, more than all men and angels taken together.

Source:Apologetic Minute I: Ave Maria, Gratia Plena