Scott Pauline
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Ascension Thursday, The 5th Apocalyptic Day

Ascension Thursday, The 5th Apocalyptic Day

It is likely that the reason that Christ ascended into heaven on thursday, which is the fifth day apocalyptically, is that according to sacred tradition, especially Saint Augustine and then Saint Methodius of Olympus, five are the ages of the old law, and the sixth day inaugurates the church.
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666 and the Pope?! Nonsense!

666 and the Pope?! Nonsense!

Numbers in the Bible should have mystical symbolism of spiritual nature of things, not delineations of temporal data like names that add up to a certain thing, since such things do not reveal anything necessarily about the nature of the person that is being analyzed.
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A Meditation On The Papacy And The Apocalypse Letters

A Meditation On The Papacy And The Apocalypse Letters

One of the Herod kings was called Antipas. Interestingly, in the Apocalypse third letter to the churches, a mystical person named Antipas is called a faithful witness and is put to death or is martyred, quote unquote, “in those days,” as it is said. if we flip-flop bad Herod Antipas into a positive figure, then the pope is the ultimate earthly king of the Church, the supreme witness.
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Passion Friday Meditation: Pilate and Herod: Images of the Fall

Passion Friday Meditation: Pilate and Herod: Images of the Fall

Pontius Pilate is not merely considered to be some arbitrary historical figure within the Creed, but is himself seen as an image of the first great lie of the Fall itself, the lie that can be called the antithesis of the baptismal disposition. And this first great lie emanates from the two greater words that come from his mouth: what is truth? And then, a blasphemous and cowardly act of ...
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Woman caught in adultery: Transition from Old to New

Woman caught in adultery: Transition from Old to New

God had to instantiate many negative Old Testament laws that were physically not His ultimate desire but that were necessary to meet a child humanity where they were at. More specifically, just as a child must first learn through illustration before graduating to abstract written words without images
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Alien worlds? Probably Not

Alien worlds? Probably Not

If an alien world fell and was to receive an incarnation, the greater phases of spiritual activity would still be the same as our world, Catholicism, because of the nature of the Fall and of the necessity of preparation for incarnate one, or a prefiguring covenant. …
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