September 11, 2015:
Catholic - Lutheran – Methodist Joint Declaration on Justification
Latest update: 2006-AUG-04
Author: B.A. Robinson
COMMENT: The papacy has always used symbols to buttress their message. When they finally persuaded the Lutheran Church to rejoin them, they chose a special day of signing. The same date as when Luther nailed the 95 theses upon the door. (see final paragraph). Here follows the joint declaration between these two organizations. Cameron Bowen. |
Disagreements over the nature of Justification were "in the 16th century, a principal cause of the division of the Western Church" 1 into Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. At the time of the Reformation, both Protestants and Catholics condemned each other in the most vicious terms over their disagreements in the doctrines of justification. These conflicts were published in a number of Lutheran Confessions and other documents during the 16th century. They also appeared in the statements issued by the Roman Catholic Council of Trent. These remained valid church teachings up to the time of the Joint Declaration.
The Joint Declaration was able to resolve some differences. They agreed that the remaining differences were not sufficiently substantial for the 16th century condemnations to continue in force.
Largely as a result of the changes brought about by Vatican II, ecumenical dialog has permeated much of Christendom in recent decades. This includes various Lutheran-Roman Catholic dialog groups which have tackled the justification question since the early 1970's. The 1998 Joint Declaration was largely based on the efforts of those groups.
The declaration will be signed in Augsburg, Germany on 1999-OCT-31. 10 The date is of particular significance because it is the 482nd anniversary of the posting of Martin Luther's 95 theses - a date generally regarded as the birthday of the Protestant Reformation.
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_just.htm
Visit to Independence Mall
Catholic to the Max
- Address: 980 Lincoln Avenue Steubenville, Ohio 43952
COMMENT: The symbolism continues. Is the birthplace of America now being reborn into a new era of control? Is the home of the Declaration of Independence now to become the home of a new dependence ? |
On Saturday, September 26th at 4:45 p.m, Pope Francis will visit Independence Mall in Philadelphia.
Independence Hall is considered the heart of the Independence National Historic Park in Center City Philadelphia. The hall is famous for being the location where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were signed and adopted. For many, it is commonly known as the birthplace of America.
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http://www.popefrancisvisit.com/schedule/visit-to-independence-mall/
Liberal Academic Says America’s Founding Document Outmoded
COMMENT: This article is an absolute MUST READ. Notice the reference to King George III who was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death. He was king during the writing of the Declaration of Independence. |
Top Vatican adviser Jeffrey Sachs says that when Pope Francis visits the United States in September, he will directly challenge the “American idea” of God-given rights embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Sachs takes aim at the phrase, which comes from America’s founding document, the United States Declaration of Independence, that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
These rights sound good, Sachs writes, but they’re not enough to guarantee the outcome the global elites have devised for us. Global government, he suggests, must make us live our lives according to international standards of development.
“In the United States,” Sachs writes, “we learn that the route to happiness lies in the rights of the individual. By throwing off the yoke of King George III, by unleashing the individual pursuit of happiness, early Americans believed they would achieve that happiness. Most important, they believed that they would find happiness as individuals, each endowed by the creator with individual rights.”
The Sachs view is that global organizations such as the U.N. must dictate the course of nations and individual rights must be sacrificed for the greater good.
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http://www.aim.org/aim-column/liberal-academic-says-americas-founding-document-outmoded/
Iran's Jews: It's Our Home and We Plan To Stay
February 19, 2015 3:25 AM ET
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Iran is a country where people at rallies routinely chant "Death to Israel." It's also home to the largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside of Israel and Turkey.
Tradition says the first Jews moved here in ancient times. They were forced to move eastward from what's now Israel to the kingdom of Babylon, which was later conquered by the rulers of ancient Persia.
Today, the Jewish lawmaker Moreh Sedgh, says simply that Iranian Jews are Iranians. They stay because it's their country. And Moreh Sedgh says he supports his country's foreign policy, even when it comes to the Jewish state.
He says Judaism is not the same as Zionism, the project of building Israel.
"There is a great difference between being a Jew and being Zionist," he says.
