How Can Catholics "Be Perfect" w/ Dr. Scott Hahn

[@Catholicity-uw2yb]

POPE BENEDICT XVI: “People should not fear God, thinking he is always ready to punish, but rather they should love him because he is always ready to forgive. God is not a relentless sovereign who condemns the guilty, but a loving father whom we must love not out of fear of punishment, but because of his goodness. The Lord is a God who is just, but always ready to reveal himself as merciful and compassionate.God loves us in a way that we might call “obstinate” and enfolds us in his inexhaustible tenderness. The anger and mercy of the Lord alternate in a dramatic sequence, but love triumphs in the end, for God is love. God’s passionate love for his people - for humanity - is at the same time a forgiving love. It is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice.”

[@vickytheodorides]

Scott Hahn is amazing at explaining the Bible 🌹

[@soroushfetkovich5084]

Lord have mercy on our beloved children born and unborn!

[@adelphosgames2996]

Each time I have don’t understand something in scripture, God always brings Dr Scott around to give me a better insight. Thank you Dr Scott Hahn👍

[@Bobby_Maggadino]

He’s the greatest missionary to the Protestants! I’m new with him and new Catholic and he is the best former prot theological turned Catholic teacher and writer I’ve found

[@ring0628-rfo]

With Dr. Hahn's book collection he knows "all". God sent him to the Catholic Church to inspire us that knowledge about God is about to be shared to the faithful. God bless him.

[@CaptGiboo]

I’m like, “Oh Scott Hahn, I wonder what he has to say. Probably something amazing.” 9 minutes later. “Yep.”

[@brendamyc3057]

Gods transformative love gives us grace and infuses virtue into our hearts along with the desire to live it. We must choose to respond in free will.

[@brucewmclaughlin9072]

Gods transformative love gives us grace and imputes virtue into our hearts , there is no infusion . God puts love in our hearts immediately .

[@rosariopelobello3216]

Pints and Aquinas and Dr. Scott …you brings us happiness and deepen our faith….thank you again for sharing with us your wisdom

[@Jay-bp1yx]

Currently reading the lamb’s supper and I. Cant. Stop.

[@soroushfetkovich5084]

Love dr Hanh!

[@marybethstawarz3705]

He, God loves us because we are His!!

[@southernlady1109]

We are supposed to strive to be perfect as God is perfect Mt 5:48

[@gingeralex4009]

I recently bought Hail Holy Queen as well as Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary after your interview with Bishop McCaig. I've finished Pitre's book and have just started Hail Holy Queen. Fantastic so far and I can't wait to make more progress

[@brucewmclaughlin9072]

Too bad you don't read your bible with as much enthusiasm as you do books by questionable teachers! God wrote the scriptures for you personally and you ignore what God says in the joy of someone else who teaches you what is not found in scripture!

[@alphacharlietango969]

Thank You!

[@cehson]

Just amazing, wow. I needed to hear this so much. Thank you dr. Hahn

[@christendom2774]

Amen

[@Joh-jf5kc]

"God is love." 1. John 4:16 Love is not only what God is like, it is who he is. Since love only exists in relationship, God must be Father and Son. God is a relationship of love. The love between Father and Son. And since God is beyond our human intellect and reason, love can be what Christian theology calls the Third Person of the Trinity. The Holy Spirit. Love is who he is. In Thomas Aquinas' words, God is 'ipsum esse per se subsistens'. Being itself subsisting. The sheer act being. Love. It is what we see in the first books of the bible to our salvation in Jesus Christ. From the God who creates, from the burning bush which was not consumed its flames. Then, "what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on their heads" at Pentecost, the Holy Spirit. Perfect love always seems to be about giving. It is unconditional. Giving unconditionally. And here is God becoming man, living the perfect (sinless) life, taking all punishment upon himself and dying the most dreadful death one can possibly imagine sothat we might be saved. What more could one give, how could one give more unconditionally? God is love.

[@patrickwimsatt7492]

I was always taught about God's justice, never his mercy. I was taught about his love but that we are judged on that response to his love. And if our response is not "good enough" we are either damned or spend a long time in purgatory. We can't just do what we want and rely soly on his mercy, but I don't really want to face his judgement either. How do we know where the line is? I look forward to The Warning.

[@patrickwimsatt7492]

@albaalba8336 so nob-catholucs don't have a chance? Not sure I agree with that. And what being in the state if grace means can be debated.

[@zsofiujfalussy9919]

​@@patrickwimsatt7492 God is Sovereign He does not need the Sacraments. We do. They are His gifts for us to pave our way. But of course He Himself is not bound by them.

[@josephbrandenburg4373]

@@patrickwimsatt7492 I'll answer your question from the perspective of a non-Catholic: we're assured of our salvation when we trust in the promises of God that never fail. That extends to everyone who believes in Jesus. I'll leave it to you to decide what qualifies, since I don't want to write a hundred paragraph theological treatise today.

[@peterlindal3352]

Hello Patrick, thanks for sharing honestly! Though I am not a Catholic, I think the stories that are told in the gospels tell us that God's love remains irrespective of my errors and wrongdoing. The story of the prodigal son shows us the radical love of the father that persists even though the son's response to the fathers love was utterly selfish, shortterm and to his own benefit. God does not operate on our terms, but loves for eternity. Perhaps judgement can be looked at through this angle, a purifying fire that allows me to see things for the way they are, to love people for the persons they are, a bathing of God's abundant love over my cold bones. Judgement is not punishment for the sake of punishing, scripture tells me God makes plans not to abandon us and that in the fire one is not alone. I hope something in this long and wordy reply made sense, and i hope that you will find rest in Gods love, may God bless you Patrick!

[@patrickwimsatt7492]

@@peterlindal3352 Thank you very much. Yes, it makes sense.

[@jacksoncastelino04]

Ave Christus Rex. Ave Maria.

[@shhh3185]

LOL, if only. I think no matter how much in grace we should be if we pass, we'll be tinged to purify in purgatory and we will want to be there.

[@brucewmclaughlin9072]

purification happens as you live and it is by Christ that you are purified in this life . There is no need for purgatory as Christ is the one who has washed you clean .

[@aand7043]

Probably pray for the USA

[@PavelSotirovic1]

This is a bit of an unrelated question but, is there any Early Church evidence that people kept Sunday.

[@elderterry956]

I am not sure what you mean by "people kept Sunday" I am assuming you mean keeping Sunday as the day of worship. If my assumption is correct then you could check out St Justin Martyr he is pretty early around AD145. His dialogue with Trypho mentions Christians gathering on the first day of the week, they called it the day of the Lord. You can also check the Didache, it mentions the same.

[@WhyCatholicdotCom]

“But every Lord’s day . . . gather yourselves together and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure. But let no one that is at variance with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be profaned” (Didache 14 [A.D. 70]).

[@pureblood968]

Let’s talk about the poison forced on us and our families loosing their life unexpectedly.. Everything else is just noise

[@glennherron9499]

How can Catholics be perfect? Maybe actually read their Bibles?

[@brucewmclaughlin9072]

Too bad you don't read your bible with as much enthusiasm as you do books by questionable teachers! God wrote the scriptures for you personally and you ignore what God says in the joy of someone else who teaches you what is not found in scripture!

[@SonicSnakeRecords]

Sola Scriptura Is Not Taught in the Bible Catholics agree with Protestants that Scripture is a “standard of truth”-even the preeminent one-but not in a sense that rules out the binding authority of authentic apostolic Tradition and the Church. The Bible doesn’t teach that. Catholics agree that Scripture is materially sufficient. In other words, on this view, every true doctrine can be found in the Bible, if only implicitly and indirectly by deduction. But no biblical passage teaches that Scripture is the formal authority or rule of faith in isolation from the Church and Tradition. Sola scriptura can’t even be deduced from implicit passages.

[@SonicSnakeRecords]

The “Word of God” Refers to Oral Teaching Also “Word” in Holy Scripture often refers to a proclaimed, oral teaching of prophets or apostles. What the prophets spoke was the word of God regardless of whether or not their utterances were recorded later as written Scripture. So for example, we read in Jeremiah: “For twenty-three years . . . the word of the Lord has come to me and I have spoken to you again and again . . . ‘But you did not listen to me,’ declares the Lord. . . . Therefore the Lord Almighty says this: ‘Because you have not listened to my words. . . .’” (Jer. 25:3, 7-8 [NIV]). This was the word of God even though some of it was not recorded in writing. It had equal authority as writing or proclamation-never-reduced-to-writing. This was true also of apostolic preaching. When the phrases “word of God” or “word of the Lord” appear in Acts and the epistles, they almost always refer to oral preaching, not to Scripture. For example: “When you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God” (1 Thess. 2:13). If we compare this passage with another, written to the same church, Paul appears to regard oral teaching and the word of God as synonymous: “Keep away from any brother who is living in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us” (2 Thess. 3:6).

[@SonicSnakeRecords]

Protestants often quote the verses in the Bible where corrupt traditions of men are condemned (e.g., Matt. 15:2-6; Mark 7:8-13; Col. 2:8). Of course, Catholics agree with this. But it’s not the whole truth. True, apostolic Tradition also is endorsed positively. This Tradition is in total harmony with and consistent with Scripture.