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Aug 22, 2014 · The Church teaches that we are saved by God's Grace (Rm 3:24), and the response to that gift is faith, working thru love (1 Thes 1:3), since faith without the fruit of works is DEAD (James 2:26). We are called to be the sheep (doing God's works) not self-rightous goats (Mt 25:31+).
- 1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 117 helpful votes. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
- John 6:50-71 ESV / 80 helpful votes. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:15 ESV / 60 helpful votes. So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.
- Exodus 20:4 ESV / 60 helpful votes. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
People ask if everything Catholics believe is found in the Bible. The answer? Both “yes” and “no.” The Church “does not derive her certainty about all revealed truths from the Holy Scriptures alone” (Catechism of the Catholic Church [CCC] no. 82 Dei Verbum 9). Jesus is the ultimate Source of everything Catholics believe, for he ...
the Church is catholic in a double sense: First, the Church is catholic because Christ is present in her. "Where there is Christ Jesus, there is the Catholic Church."
136 The Church is, in a phrase used by the Fathers, the place "where the Spirit flourishes." 137 750 To believe that the Church is "holy" and "catholic," and that she is "one" and "apostolic" (as the Nicene Creed adds), is inseparable from belief in God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Oct 12, 2023 · The Catholic Bible is based on the Latin Vulgate, which Jerome compiled in the late 300s. Jerome was among the few people who could read both Greek and Hebrew. He translated several books from the original language.
Aug 8, 2019 · No one English term captures that dual sense of this ancient Greek term quite as well as "catholic." So when the creed states, "I believe in the holy catholic church," it refers to the wholeness of the whole church in all times and places rather than to any specific branch of Christianity.
