Jesus was an Ordinary Man

Jesus was an ordinary man.

He was not perfect.

He was not perfect in a sense that he can falter. When he was born, he cannot talk, he cannot walk, he cannot count, he cannot read.

He was not perfect because he cannot speak english nor french, his mother has to feed him, he was taught how to walk, eat etc.

Jesus was an ordinary man. Everything he did can be done by anyone. He was not a superman.

Jesus is like anyone of us, except sin. Yes except sin because while we are sinners, it is possible that one can live without sinning.

Jesus was an ordinary man. He was ordinary because it is the essence of Incarnation. To be a real man, an ordinary man, not a superman, so that we can know how to live as an ordinary man or woman in conformity to what God wanted us to be.

(An ordinary Christian Blog from an ordinary man)

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Things to Remember when Reading the Gospel

Things to remember when reading the bible:

1. It was written many years after Jesus death and resurrection.
2. The authors are just an ordinary humans and some of them may not even be eye witness to the acutal event.
3. The authors are just ordinary humans subject to human limitations in terms of memory of details.
4. The authors have their own specif audience and purpose hence the four Gospels differ in some ways.

Did Jesus actually said so and so and in such manner? How can someone write an acicurate historical account when the time of writing is sifnificantly remote form the events.

Bearing the above in mind, misinterpretation will be minimize.

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Do Prayer Works

There are four types of prayer,namely adoration, contrition, thanks giving and supplication.

When we speak of prayer, generally we mean prayer of supplication. Does prayer work when we pray for something? Definitely yes but maybe not in the way you think it does.

When we pray for something we think as if God's answers prayers in the same manner when someone asks for a favor from us.



As if in a sense we are trying to convince God or to make God acts on our behalf i.e God is like playing to be someone who wanted to be given importance who would only give our needs if we ask for it. Or God is a God who does not know our needs hence we need to remind him if what are they? No, God is simply none of those.

Even before we pray God knows our needs and He is very much willing to answer them.

The main difference between a person who pray and one who does not is that the forme in the course of his praying finds the answer while the latter misses God's answer to his needs. In other words when we pray (for something) we tend to become more aware of God's way of communicating to us hence we find the answer. On the other hand if you don't pray you will never hear God's way of talking to you and consequently you miss his answers to your needs. (view source)

The Trinity

When you love someone you become one with the beloved.

Love is a binding force that makes us one.

Friends are one. They share common things, they are different individuals but they are one, they are united.

The more they love the more they become one.

True love makes us one

The love of God is a perfect love, hence the Trinity which is a community of Persons is the perfect One.

Our orientation with material things makes it hard for us to understand the doctrine of Trinity but if you experienced true love you will surelu understand.

Conceived by the Holy Spirit

. . . I believe in Jesus Christ . . . conceived by the Holy Spirit.



How did we know that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit. Yes, it is in the Bible. But will someone knew if Mary did not tell anyone. And in the first place why should Mary tell someone about this very sacred and very intimate thing.

Did Joseph knew? Of course if the story in the Bible is what exactly happened in reality then Joseph should know. Granting that he did, but will he tell anybody.

Assuming that they did tell someone, but then, who will believe them?

Would you believe anyone, no matter how credible she or he is when all of sudden she tells you that she is pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

Is there any problem if Joseph is the biological father of Jesus. Don't you think such is more compatible with the doctrine of Incarnation in which God became man just like us except sin.

If Jesus is our savior and if there is no imposible with God then Jesus can still save us even if Joseph is the biological father of Jesus.

Religion Vs Faith

Religion and Faith are two different things. In the strictest sense, religion has nothing to do with faith.

Not all baptized catholics believed in catholic faith or share the same faith.

Religion is an organization while faith is a personal relationship with God. One can be a believer even without being baptized by any religions, sects or Christian denominations.

Totalcatholic.com simply demosntrate this in its discussion forum in which catholics themselves argue on many theological issues.

The Glorified Body

The glorified body of Jesus.

Catholics believe in the resurrection of the dead. This is when our earthly body resurrect into glorified body. This is different from resucitated body, in which a dead body comes back to life, i.e. there is no significant change before it dies and after it comes back to life.

In resurrection, the physical body becomes glorified body. This body is a perfect one, it never grows old, it has no scars or any other forms of imperfection. It is also no longer governed by the principle of contradiction. In other words this body can transcend space and time.

But don't you notice that Thomas was able to put his fingers in Jesus side, hands and feet. Places in Jesus body where the spear and nails passed through? If that is so then it's not consistent with common understanding of a glorified body, ie. absense of imperfection.

Perhaps, this doubting Thomas story is just an adds on just to prove to the Jews that Jesus indeed rose from the dead.

Christian Meals

Meals are the best occasion for bonding.

When we eat together we become more one with another. Jesus invited Zacheus and Matthew to follow him., and his approach was simply, I will dine with you tonight.

The more we eat together the more Christians we become.

Head in a platter

Christian life is not an easy life. The prophets were murdered. John the baptist head ended up on a platter, and Jesus died a most gruesome and degrading death. To be crucified is comparable to lethal injection of today.

A true Christian will not be affected by these tragic outcomes. A true Christian knows by heart that behind this earthly humiliations and sufferings is a million times of happiness and glory.

Faith will conquer death.

what is a sin?

Sin should be understood in the context of relationship. The reason being is that God is triune.
A community of persons. Persons whose relationship makes them one.

A sin therefore is anything that makes us separates or break up.

Try to analyze a simple action. You will always find that the bottom line of which is a broken relationship.

Gossip, extra marital affair, telling a lie, and many more. They one thing in common. They ruin relatioships they make persons break apart.

Thanks Judas?

If Jesus needed to die on the cross in order to save us, the we must be thankful to Judas.

If Jesus needed to die on the cross in order to save us, then God's power is limited.

The Shortcoming of the Council of Trent Teaching on Hell

The main theme in council of Trent teaching on hell is fear. It serves as a threat to everyone that anyone who does evil is doomed to eternal damnation.

Such teaching is the common idea of many about hell. This teaching may be effective some hundred of years ago but not anymore today.

The simple reason is that God is love and fear and threats are incompatible with God.

Though shalt not fear hell

Take this as the 11th commandement, Though shalt not fear hell.

God's actions are all motivated by love. Hence the only reason why God created hell is because God is love, i.e. God loves so much thouse souls in hell and through his infinite Goodness and Wisdom God knows best that for some souls, Hell is better than heaven.

People whose good acts are purely motivated by fear of hell are those with very shallow faith. Their motivation is fear not love.

A true Christian is willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause. He is willing to live in hell for eternity so that those who are in hell can be admitted to heaven. (But eventually he would soon realis that hell is actually better than heaven for these people.)

God is Love and for this reason he created hell to cater for the needs of those who are goint to hell.

Heaven is for the spiritually mature and anyone who did not reach such level of maturity will never be happy in hell.

If for some reasons you ended up in hell, there's nothing to worry, you are there because relative to your circumstnces hell is better in heaven.

Do good things because of love not because you fear hell.

Growing Old

Growing old is a friendly reminder that we are not meant for this world forever.

If we don't grow old we would look good always, healthy and strong all the time, and we may be deceived by all the gliiters glamours of this world.

But life is not about drinking and partying, buying and possessing.

There are other more important things.

We will only know when we pass over to another world.

Death is Sweet

Death is sweet. Many people had experience clinical death and when they came back to life they shared common experience, i.e. they never felt being loved and cared for as that when they died.

We don't like to die because it is innate in us to cling to life, in other words this so called survival instinct. Without this many will never care dying, hence the purpose of life whatever it is will be defeated.

But the turth is, death is sweet.

Exosfear Dancer

When praying you should not do it by your lips alone, nor by your mind alone. Your entire body should give worship and glory to God.

Singing and dancing, mind, body and soul, the entire you should pray to God.

Silence is important but self expression is equally important. Dancing as a form of prayer is ideal.

God Is Watching Us from a distance

God is watching us from a distance

In good times and bad times, God is watching us from a distance.

When you are happy and when you are sad God is watching you from a distance.

In sickness and in health God is watching us from a distance.

When Nadal won the Wimbledon title and when the Celtics took the NBA championship God is watching from a distance.

When the twin towers were bombed when Tsumani took place when The Princess of the Star sank God is watching from a distance.

Everything that we need is here all the answers to your prayers had been given to you in advance.

In al tragedies and great calamities, God stays at a distance. No big deal. It's only us who take too much. In the next life, we will surely understand, they are nothing but cliches.

God doesn't have to pamper us, He know we are able enough so He simply watch from a distance.

Judge Not

Judge not and you will not be judged.

The mere fact that we are here implies that we are one of the best souls among others. Life on earth is very fragile, vulnerable, full of dangers and one thing for sure, if you are not tough you don't deserve to be here.

We are all in the process of progressing for the better. Some of are are far more advance whilst other are logging behind, but nonetheless each one needs to be respected.

We should help our brothers who are spiritually weak, us who are strong. Time will come when they become more stronger than us.

Each one should help anyone whenever opportunity comes. This is the best way forward.

life

We love life, no matter what. Whatever the purpose of it something is certain, by nature we cling to life.

It is innate to anyone to fear death. Without this fear we will perish. Noone will strive to live.

Death is nothing to fear, this is our ticket to eternal life, but we need to live our life to fulfill a purpose which we only know by instinct. Though we don't understand it in essence but each one feel it. We want to live, we fear death.

There is a reason for life, life is the reason.

Death Penalty or Reward

Is death penalty really a penalty, or is it more of a reward?

God is love and it is just proper for Him to keep the sould of a person who has been victimised by man's brutality, i.e. death penalty.

Killing a person is just like punishing the turtle by throwing it into a river. Death is a sort of homecoming. When we kill someone, we simply shorten his life adventure on earth and bring him home earlier than schedule.

The real penalty is when you are condemned to LIVE FOREVER, literally, i.e. living for million of years, 24 hours a day. Can you imagine yourself living that long and do you think would you like it. Living forever here on earth, in a world of sins and imperfections is indeed a brutal punishment.