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>>19578236
You poor, poor autistic. Come back to the light, the father forgives.

How silly do you have to be to think that Jesus was talking about an Arabic man 700 years later when He said:
>"And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”(Luke 24:49)
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>And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me;for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
>So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”(Act 1:4-8)

If this is not evidence that perennialism is a brain-rotting false ideology which makes even high-IQ embrace obvious falsehood, I do not know what is.

>>19168784
>no, slaughtering them was not the best option. Babies and infants who have not even learned how to speak (and even those who have) can be raised and brought up by others, so that they adapt to their new culture and don't follow the ways of their parents.
You are missing a key part of the conquest of Canaan narrative. All throughout the Torah (and Joshua) is the repeated mention that many of the peoples were genetically corrupted in that they were related to the Rephaim/Anakim, who are implied to be related in some way to the Nephilim. Think of Noah - in a description of his righteousness, it is said that he was "perfect in his generations", which is most likely a reference to genetic purity from Adam, intended to contrast him with the offspring of the "sons of God who married the daughters of men", who had tainted/demonic genetics. Within the extended story, therefore, of the Canaan conquest, we see that these genetically tainted/demonic peoples inhabit the land until their sins and perversions (like human and child sacrifice) reach critical mass: "Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves. Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.". The conquest of Canaan, and the surgical method whereby certain peoples were utterly eradicated, was intended to both punish them for their sin (in the case of the adults), and remove the corruption of the demonic bloodlines from existence in the world (in the case of the youths - who, if they did nothing wrong, will have been among the righteous souls who would not have gone into punishment in the afterlife). Many peoples in Canaan were not destroyed, and indeed, the Israelites lived among these people for quite some time - although some people were utterly destroyed.

Thus, I can see why it seems barbaric when viewed from lens without understanding the meta-narrative of the Bible, but in the context of the demonic-gene plague among the Canaanites, it makes perfect sense that the tainted DNA in the bloodlines of the Canaanites would be wiped out, especially considering any righteous and upright individuals would later go to heaven.

In the Gospel of Matthew 16:18, Jesus says: "And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
Therefore, Jesus Christ entrusted the direction of the Church to St. Peter - and the direct apostolic leadership of St. Peter led to the creation of the Catholic Church - therefore making it the true Apostolic Church of Christ.
Keep in mind, the first usage of the the term "Catholic Church" (meaning "Universal Church") was by St. Ignatius of Antioch (a disciple of St. John the Apostle, who of course recognized the authority of St. Peter as the earthly leader of the Church), in the year 110AD - proving that the Apostles & their disciples (the Apostolic Fathers) considered themselves as members of the original, universal, and apostolic church of St. Peter.
And therefore, the church created by Jesus Christ, and led on Earth by St. Peter (the Catholic Church) was blessed by Christ, in that "the gates of hell shall not prevail against it"

The Catholic Church created the Bible as we know it today, and through the councils of the Early Apostolic Age, under St. Peter and the other disciples of Christ (eg. St. James the Just, St. Paul, St. John the Apostle, St. Mark the Evangelist, etc.) the Church Fathers determined which texts are canon.
Therefore, it is illogical to deny the authority of the Catholic Church, while quoting from the Bible that it created (the New Testament, Gospels, Pauline Epistles, etc.) with the guidance of Jesus' original disciples.

The Catholic Church has had to deal with corruption and human error since its very early history, but as we logically determined, Jesus was not wrong when he said "the gates of hell shall not prevail against it"
However, this does not mean that agents of Satan may not attempt to enter and compromise/divide the church - only that they will never succeed in destroying it
We can see an example of this attempted compromisation as early as between 70-140AD, which was documented in the First Epistle of Clement - members of the early Catholic Church in Corinth attempted to remove the Apostolically appointed bishops, for no moral reason:
(The letter was occasioned by a dispute in Corinth, which had led to the removal from office of several presbyters.
Since none of the presbyters were charged with moral offences, 1 Clement charges that their removal was high-handed and unjustifiable.
1 Clement offers valuable evidence about the state of the ministry in the early church. He calls on the Corinthians to repent and to reinstate the leaders that they had deposed.
He explains that the Apostles had appointed ”bishops and deacons”, that they had given instructions on how to perpetuate the ministry, and that Christians were to obey their superiors.
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>>18547607
>You call "him" The Word?
"The Word" of God is Jesus Christ. See John chapter 1. The "word of God" is a phrase used to refer to the scriptures.
>Should i stop eating good food because good taste is by definition hedonistic?
No, but if good food is impeding your progress towards unity with God (eg. going to a restaurant when you are sad instead of meditating or praying), then you should reassess your relationship with that good (food) and re-order it in a proper manner.
>Should i cut off my penis since i have no use for it anyways
Obviously not, you need it to urinate and ejaculate (in wet dreams, in this case), and it is not good to harm yourself.
>(remember, sex=BAD!)
Sex is not bad, sex is a good which can be sought out in a disordered manner, just like all goods in this world.
>because i sometimes cum in my sleep due to wet dreams and it feels really good
That is not a sin, as it was involuntary.

Please see these videos, fren:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0DCNxtvWNw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ5P0k6Pwb4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opFDXRIiu_Q

>So the Holy Spirit works like some kind of intuition, an internal guidance? Or what.
It is basically a feeling like a burning fire within your soul that gives you courage and strength, and can also communicate to you the words of God directly. Read the Acts of the Apostles for more information. It is distinctly different from the intuition, which everybody has. The goal of the Christian life is acquisition of the Holy Spirit.

>>18547636
>it's precisely this specificity, the apparent mundanity of the human condition God chose to acquire by incarnating, that constitutes beauty
Exactly, brother. See Hebrews 2:5-18, Philippians 2 5:11, 1 Corinthians 1:18-31.

>>18547671
>I have no ideology:
Non-denominational Protestant, got it. Please repent so that you don't die without ever having partaken in a true Eucharist instituted by a successor of the apostles, brother.

>>18345399
Nobody worships history. We just believe the teachings of the Holy Martyrs and Saints who were disciples of the apostles, are more valuable than some coomer from the 16th century who forsook his vows, and was so controlled by his desires that he adopted Muhammad-tier double predestination to cope.