I wonder why Jesus didn’t prove to the Pharisees by doing one of His miracles. I understand that He wanted to give people the choice whether to follow Him, but, it seems as though the Pharisees sowed seeds of deep consternation and doubt among the people of Israel- although He did spread love and sparked inspiration and faith, too.
ETA: Maybe because they would have still rejected him? They were religious leaders, thus, set in their beliefs.
Luke 14:1-6: Jesus was at the home of a prominent Pharisee on the Sabbath. He cured a man of dropsy, noting that while all work is forbidden on the Sabbath, who wouldn’t lift a son or even an ox out of a cistern.
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He did. And they still hated Him.
Jesus was on good terms with several Pharisees. It appears the ones Jesus was at odds with were those connected with Annas and Caiaphas, religious leaders at the time who had ties with Roman rule.
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Sure…Probably sounds a bit childish and I’m not great at putting my thoughts to type… But it was the whole prehistoric life/evolution vs Creation. Then the story of Adam and Eve didn’t make any sense to me either, where did Cain’s wife come from? My father is Irish Catholic, my mother was Episcopal, but we were not a religious family at all. We never went church. Though my mothers cousin was Bishop in the Episcopal church…go figure. And I never made communion, confirmation either. Religion was just never a part of my life…
Catholics are fine with evolution, so that part never became an issue for me. Also, when I was a young teen I read an article in a Catholic Digest that offered this thought: To make a story about tribes more memorable, why not make each tribe a character? Adam was the first tribe which eventually grew so large it separated into two additional tribes–Cain and Abel. The murder was actually the first war, and the larger tribe, Adam, vanquished the tribe of Cain from the area. Cain’s tribe went on to build cities. The tribe of Adam grew until a new tribe, Seth, emerged.
I know some people lose their faith because they find church attendance a burden. From a fairly young age, I found church inspiring–one of the priests came to one of our religion classes and said we should find something–a line from a hymn, a reading, the homily that could be our goal for the following week.
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Unless I misunderstood what you’ve been saying. Believing Hinduism as a path to God is definitely heretical. John 14:6 and all that.
What I said is that Jesus instructed his followers to teach his Way, and that is what Catholics do. The Catholic Catechism notes that those who follow other faiths/ways are left in the hands of a merciful, loving, and powerful God. In other words, we make no judgement, but nor do we stop following Jesus command to teach the way he gave to us.
This differs from some Protestants who believe anyone who does not accept/follow Jesus are doomed to hell. Catholics hold no such belief. We trust in God.
