Joan of arc is not educated and could neither read nor write. God intervened throughout her life even in her trials and tribulations. At the age of 13 she started hearing voices and a word of knowledge .she saw a light falling from sky and was very much frightened. After several such experiences she was totally convinced these voices are from God, and eventually the Archangel Michael revealed himself to her.
Later Saints Catherine and Margaret began speaking to her.When the Archangel Michael first spoke to the 13-year-old Joan, she was deeply changed by grace and she placed herself completely to God by a vow of virginity, both of body and spirit. Only God could have her body and inner spirit. The core of her virginity of spirit was an utter reliance on God, not on herself or her ability or on her own choices.
When she was 17 God gave Joan a command, a word of knowledge, to convince King Charles VII of France that God wanted Joan to free Orleans surrounded by the English invaders and then lead him to be crowned at Rheims. Joan entered his courtroom saw the crowd and walked directly to Charles without any fear and addressed him as her King under God. Clearly this responsiveness was a charismatic word of knowledge from the Holy Spirit through one of His agents. Later Joan was told by the Spirit to find and wear a sword buried in St. Catherine's Church.With this word of knowledge a buried sword was found and she wore it. She was informed ahead of time by the Spirit that she would be hurt by an arrow in the shoulder, and later by a wound in the thigh. She apprised others and in time she experienced both wounds in battle.
With conviction from the word of knowledge given by the Holy Ghost, she predicted at Poitiers in 1429 that the English would be driven from Orleans that the King would be consecrated in Rheims, that Paris would again belong to France, and that the Duke of Orleans would return from England - and it all happened. As she had predicted during her trial, Paris was recaptured in seven years and the English were driven out of France. Word of knowledge given to her became true. The Holy Spirit was providing her with these and other words of knowledge as well as with prophetic words.Joan was captured and imprisoned by the English on May 23, 1430. Her imprisonment was most erratic, for the Church had its own prison and separate prison for heretics. She was treated as heretic and even badly.
For seven months her imprisonment was the isolated and wicked environment that would deplete the energy and inner verve of any woman or man. But not Joan as she was given words of knowledge by the power of the Holy Spirit. Over 500 years later, Joan was canonized on April 6, 1919 by Pope Benedict XV. La pucelle was canonized a virgin.JOAN had that faith in HIS words, for she surrendered herself completely into GOD’S Hands, putting herself totally in HIS disposal. Like her, we should be faithful to God's call. We should understand that we cannot live a Christian life by our own generosity and power, but only by words of Divine Power provided by Holy Spirit.
St. Joan of Arc, please pray for us. Spirit of the Living God, fall fresh on us!
Showing posts with label Bible. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Genesis and The theory of evolution
John Clayton, promoter of the “Does God Exist?” program, In his book, ‘The Source’ wrote:
“Ever since the first ideas about evolution appeared around 900 B.C., men have viewed the subject as an adamantly opposed concept to the concept of a supreme being. . . If we look carefully at the issues about which we are talking, however, we can find that evolution and the Bible show amazing agreement on almost all issues and that one is not mutually exclusive of the other. . .”
The theory that all life on this planet evolved over time from atoms floating in some biotic soup is the way that God chose to do it as many “theistic evolutionists” have accepted this basic scientific framework of evolution. And they see no conflict between this and the teaching of Genesis 1. In fact, some would say that Genesis 1 supports such a view. After all, if God is a creative God, why should he not take time to do it?
Each of the Bible spokesmen treated the Genesis record of origins as literal history and actually it was written against the flawed polytheistic and pantheistic accounts of creation found in the Ancient Near East at that time. Genesis was not written as a science book to answer questions from physicists or biologists living in the 21st Century. This is vitally important to grasp hold of, for it sets the opening chapters of Genesis into their rightful context, to a time when people knew nothing about microbes or supernovas. Theologians claim it is not important what Genesis says, only what it means. They feel Genesis is meant only to teach us that God is Creator, but it is done in symbolic terms because in reality the words really mean God used evolution.
Dr Earnest Lucas - Can we believe Genesis today? : “It is argued that the more closely one looks at Genesis 1 in the light of the religious ideas with which the Hebrews had to do battle, the clearer it is that the meaning of the Genesis passage is essentially theological, not scientific. It deals with the questions which theology asks, not those which science asks. Those theological questions are just as relevant today as they were 3,000 years ago. They are more important than the scientific questions, since they go to the heart of the meaning and purpose of the universe in a way that science cannot”
Darwin himself never argued against the existence of God. From the second edition of his Origin of the Species, first published in 1859, he inserted a reference to the Creator who "originally breathed life with its several powers into a few forms or into one”
The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us how to read Genesis: “The account of the fall in Genesis 3 uses figurative language, but affirms a primeval event, a deed that took place at the beginning of the history of man.”
“Ever since the first ideas about evolution appeared around 900 B.C., men have viewed the subject as an adamantly opposed concept to the concept of a supreme being. . . If we look carefully at the issues about which we are talking, however, we can find that evolution and the Bible show amazing agreement on almost all issues and that one is not mutually exclusive of the other. . .”
The theory that all life on this planet evolved over time from atoms floating in some biotic soup is the way that God chose to do it as many “theistic evolutionists” have accepted this basic scientific framework of evolution. And they see no conflict between this and the teaching of Genesis 1. In fact, some would say that Genesis 1 supports such a view. After all, if God is a creative God, why should he not take time to do it?
Each of the Bible spokesmen treated the Genesis record of origins as literal history and actually it was written against the flawed polytheistic and pantheistic accounts of creation found in the Ancient Near East at that time. Genesis was not written as a science book to answer questions from physicists or biologists living in the 21st Century. This is vitally important to grasp hold of, for it sets the opening chapters of Genesis into their rightful context, to a time when people knew nothing about microbes or supernovas. Theologians claim it is not important what Genesis says, only what it means. They feel Genesis is meant only to teach us that God is Creator, but it is done in symbolic terms because in reality the words really mean God used evolution.
Dr Earnest Lucas - Can we believe Genesis today? : “It is argued that the more closely one looks at Genesis 1 in the light of the religious ideas with which the Hebrews had to do battle, the clearer it is that the meaning of the Genesis passage is essentially theological, not scientific. It deals with the questions which theology asks, not those which science asks. Those theological questions are just as relevant today as they were 3,000 years ago. They are more important than the scientific questions, since they go to the heart of the meaning and purpose of the universe in a way that science cannot”
Darwin himself never argued against the existence of God. From the second edition of his Origin of the Species, first published in 1859, he inserted a reference to the Creator who "originally breathed life with its several powers into a few forms or into one”
The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us how to read Genesis: “The account of the fall in Genesis 3 uses figurative language, but affirms a primeval event, a deed that took place at the beginning of the history of man.”
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Bible Diet
GENESIS 1:29 "Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon
The face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree
Yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."
According to Genesis 1:29, this is the actual diet given to man.
The following explanation of Genesis 1:29 is given according to foods as we know them today:
EVERY HERB BEARING SEED... (a seed plant which does not develop woody persistent tissue)
GRAINS - wheat, corn, barley, rice. FRUITS - citrus fruits, sweet fruits
SEEDS - sunflower, sesame, pumpkin seeds
LEGUMES - soybeans, lentils, peas, peanuts
JUICY FOODS CONTAINING SEED - squash, green beans, pumpkins,
Cucumbers, tomatoes, melons, etc.
After Adam sinned and was driven out of the Garden of Eden, and no longer had access to the wonderful tree of life. He had to gain his livelihood by tilling the earth, and the "herb of the field" (originally food for the animals) was added to his diet. (GENESIS 3:17-19).Those are
HERBS (vegetables):
Leaf: beet greens, cabbage, collard, etc
Flower: broccoli, cauliflower.
Root: carrots, beets, potatoes, turnips, etc.
After that God gave man permission to eat animal flesh. Yet God gave instruction that the blood must be drained from the carcass before eating it (GENESIS 9:3) followed by LEVITICUS 11:1-30.
GENESIS 9:3 “. . . but you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.”
LEVITICUS 7:23-24 "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 'Speak to the children of Israel, saying: You shall not eat any fat, of ox or sheep or goat.
The face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree
Yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."
According to Genesis 1:29, this is the actual diet given to man.
The following explanation of Genesis 1:29 is given according to foods as we know them today:
EVERY HERB BEARING SEED... (a seed plant which does not develop woody persistent tissue)
GRAINS - wheat, corn, barley, rice. FRUITS - citrus fruits, sweet fruits
SEEDS - sunflower, sesame, pumpkin seeds
LEGUMES - soybeans, lentils, peas, peanuts
JUICY FOODS CONTAINING SEED - squash, green beans, pumpkins,
Cucumbers, tomatoes, melons, etc.
After Adam sinned and was driven out of the Garden of Eden, and no longer had access to the wonderful tree of life. He had to gain his livelihood by tilling the earth, and the "herb of the field" (originally food for the animals) was added to his diet. (GENESIS 3:17-19).Those are
HERBS (vegetables):
Leaf: beet greens, cabbage, collard, etc
Flower: broccoli, cauliflower.
Root: carrots, beets, potatoes, turnips, etc.
After that God gave man permission to eat animal flesh. Yet God gave instruction that the blood must be drained from the carcass before eating it (GENESIS 9:3) followed by LEVITICUS 11:1-30.
GENESIS 9:3 “. . . but you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.”
LEVITICUS 7:23-24 "And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 'Speak to the children of Israel, saying: You shall not eat any fat, of ox or sheep or goat.
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