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Laying on of hands was a practice that is found throughout scripture, both in the OT and the NT to confer blessings, authority....For Catholics the laying on of hands is still practiced. So as a Bible study: What were all the reasons for the laying on of hands? Was the laying on of hands a...

How does one entered into this New Covenant relationship with God?

I have gone back and forth over the years on the assassination of JFK. But I came across a video that convinced me that Lee Harvey Oswald was not the one who assassinated Kennedy. I just happened to stumble onto this video by watching an old What's My Line video. I found out the one of the...

Why does the Catholic church put such an emphasis on Mary? We don't, but God does. We only acknowledge that. We see this emphasis in scripture: Luke 1:39-55, "In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and...

Jesus told his disciples, "When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and will declare to you the things that are to come." So how does the Holy Spirit guide the church into all the truth? Luke...

Scripture says, "Now every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up as usual for the festival. When the festival was ended and they started to return, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know...

Here is what Jesus said, "When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come." - Did Jesus tell us that all the truth is to come to us from scripture or...

DNA is called a code - the DNA code. All codes that we know of are traceable back to an intelligent source, right? Are there any codes that is not traceable back to an intelligent source? So if all codes that we know of can be traced back to an intelligent source then why do some believe that...

Most Christians churches throughout the centuries have had altars in them. We see this use of altars throughout scripture including the NT: Hebrews 13:10, "We have an altar from which those who officiate in the tent have no right to eat." We have the right to eat the Eucharist, but those who...

Why would an archbishop like Marcel Lefebvre be excommunicated from the CC essentially for maintaining the traditions that he was taught by the CC?

When did the Passover meal end? Jesus is the Passover lamb of the NC. The OC Passover lamb was part of the Passover meal and had to be sacrificed, its blood poured out, roasted over fire and eaten. So how is Jesus our Passover lamb and part of the Passover meal if he wasn't sacrificed...

During the debate, around 2:30, Steve was asked the question concerning the Canon of the NT. Steve response was that the writings of the NT are self authenticating because of there Godly attribute that is unique to those writings and not so with other ancient writings. Self authentication of...

I didn't realize that the shroud of Turin was still considered to be the burial cloth of Jesus and the sudarium to the his head cloth; it had been ruled out because of dating that was done by scientist in 1988. They had dated the shroud to around the 13th century. But this test has since been...

Truth is the issue. What is the truth? There are errors in scripture. There are times it contradicts itself. It has nothing to do with the atheists.

From the CCC: 77 "In order that the full and living Gospel might always be preserved in the Church the apostles left bishops as their successors. They gave them their own position of teaching authority."35 Indeed, "the apostolic preaching, which is expressed in a special way in the inspired...

We would expect the the church Jesus established to have order to it and to have a history from the very beginning up to the present day. The only church that has any order or history is that of the Catholic church. If we look at the almost 2,000 year history of Christianity, as Catholics we...

The nCCs keep telling us Catholics to stop listening to the church and listen to God's word, (scripture) and we need to leave the CC. The problem with that, though is if we were to leave the CC where would we go? There are 1,000's of nCCs churches out there and if we were to go to one of them...

We keep hearing that Christians are not divided over essential doctrines. What are the essential doctrines of the Christian faith? Are any in conflict with the official teachings of the Catholic faith?

From Scripture: Ephesians 3:4-6, "there is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all." From the CCC II. Inspiration and Truth of Sacred Scripture...