Is it that God himself came down to earth as Jesus in Human flesh or Jesus is another being entirely and Is it that God manifested in 3 form or they are 3 different God in 1.
It seems mercy and justice are contradictory. How will God manifest both, or is one preferred over the other?
I firmly believe that the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady, but I wonder did she ever commit a sin, venial sin included. I know some Greek Fathers said Our Lady sinned during finding Jesus in the temple and during the Passion of Jesus. What is the opinion of Church?
I keep hearing Catholics say “to offer up your suffering”, or “uniting your suffering with Jesus on the cross”. Would you talk about what that means, and why you would do that? How can I learn more about it?
In the case of pregnancy resulted from rape, didn’t God grant each of us a free will? Rape is not the free will of the girl yet she is restrained by the church to keep the child. Shouldn’t a child be born of love?
Why is the Church promoting our faithful to do novena with fixed prayers and such prayers usually fall into fixed number of days, such as 3, 8, 9, 33? Which novenas would you recommend?
敬爱的程神父,主佑。有兩個問題請教你。第一個是主耶穌常提及相信父及子得永生,我所理解的永生是人死後,有天會藉主再次召喚而復活,以後永遠與主一起,再不會遇上死亡。為何永生那麼重要?因可以永遠與主在一起?我仍在世上,每天也與主在一起。永生是另一種方法延續生命? 第二個問題請教神父:信經說耶穌基督再來臨世上,死者與生者一同審判。古今至現在,已有許多好人聖人過了身,他們應該現在在天堂享福,應該不會仍等待基督再次來臨的審判才決定去向?如果他們已在天堂,基督再來世上的大審判,在天堂的都要再審判,對嗎? 至於天主教有的煉獄,未必是說一個地方?人在世時,種種自身或週遭的環境因素等都可以是猶如置身煉獄?如果人在世有罪,是否在煉獄修練後,洗脫罪過,那便有機會升天堂? 請神父指引及賜教。祝主恩滿溢。
How should we respond to arguments against the existence of God? The most common arguments I heard of are: 1) God knew everything we would do when He made us so there is no true free will. 2) There are many good people suffering and many unanswered prayers.
During a difficult delivery, the Doctor gives the Mother and Father the choice: “I can save either the mother’s life or the child’s life. Which do you want me to save first?” The church tells us that we should save the baby’s life, but many would not agree. What are your thoughts?
請問神父,地球本來是上帝賜給人類的樂園,只是被人類背叛以及破壞了,將來審判結束,還是要交給日漸恢復完美的人類去治理,只有上帝揀選的人才有資格上天堂,與耶穌一起統治千年後,最後還給上帝至高統治權,而有資格留在地上的人類即享有永生與完美的身心,且不再有惡人與駭人的生物了。這樣的理解對嗎?
My catholic teaching told me that once we commit a mortal sin, we lose all the grace of God and we are not in communion with the Church or God. I fervently believe so. However, for a sinner to repent, despite the need of our free will to repent, we still need the grace of God in order to be aware of our darkness and evil and thus to seek the forgiveness of God. In a nutshell, a mortal sinner cannot repent without the grace of God while a mortal sinner is not in a state of Grace. Kind of a paradox?
Does the phrase “goodness is diffusive of itself” contradict to the free will of God? I think because God is goodness, and by the theory that “goodness by nature is diffusive of itself”, God MUST diffuse Himself by creating a universe, hence, creation of the universe is a necessary phenomenon instead of a free choice.