well i know lot of people have lot of people have many questions about the Roman Catholic church... some people who is christian, strangely, said that catholic church is not a christian?????? hahaha... commonly we said that we are either a catholic or a protestant but i do heard people asking other are u a christian or catholic????? hahahaha... here i m going to share a bit only about my church.. it is good to have something to learn, right? hahaha...
1. Catholic worship Mary???
this is the most common question people ask about catholic... they wondering why there is rosary, why there is portrait of the statue of Mary in the church, etc... well we catholic do not worship Saint Mary rather we respect her because she is the mother of our Lord Jesus. Jesus himself respect her and called him woman (it is an honour for a woman to be called woman because in Hebrew when we called some one woman she is well respected). we pray to her not worship her. i am sure that everyone know the wedding feast of cana where Jesus change the water into wine.. from this event we can clearly see that Jesus himself listen to her mother wish although he said, "My hour has not come yet." (refer John 2: 1-11). so this is why we always pray to Mother of God to help us so that our wish will be granted, not by her instead it is through her...
2. Catholic worship statue????
well i admit there is statue in catholic church but i can say that we do not worship the statue... in the ten commandment we are told to worship the one true god. so it is a very big sin if we worship the statue same as the Catholic Church we do not do statue... in the bible there is no place saying that no statue is allowed in the church or the temple of god.. go and find u will not find it.. but however you will find that god command the use of statue.. get it clear not to worship the statue but to use it.. in the bible you can see that the god ask people to make the cherubim (a golden statue). i am not lying it is proven in the bible. refer the book of Exodus 25:18-20. besides that in 1 Chr. 28:18–19 and Ezekiel 41:17–18 you can see that the use of statue. although all this is found in the Old Testament but in New Testament Jesus didn't say that the use of statue is forbidden and besides that 10 commandments also found in the Old Testament but yet we still use it... we use the statue in our church to represent Jesus or the other saints... Jesus himself is the visible god of the the invisible god.. the statue can serve as the reminder to god... it do help us in our prayer. but we do not pray to statue but we pray to god...
3. Purgatory??
Catholic believe the presence of purgatory... what is purgatory?? it is found in the bible?? purgatory is the place where soul undergo purification... we man sometime are not too bad to go hell.. for some sin we did are not too bad that we are thrown in to the hell. Remember God is a Loving and Justice God. for every sin that we did we need to repent.. so in purgatory we undergo purification before we go to heaven.. in this context we can see that purgatory is not a place where there is no salvation.. because Lord love us he did not throw us to hell because of the some sin we did. going to purgatory does not mean that we are not forgiven for the sin we did rather because our sin is forgiven then the purgatory is exists. "Nothing unclean may come into it: no one who does what is loathsome or false, but only those who are listed in the Lamb's book of life." (Rev 21:27). In book of Maccabees (2 Maccabees 12:38-46) we can see that Judas Meccabees offer an offering to God for the dead soldier(because they sin, they had an idol hide in their cloth). you might said that this custom is not found in the Law of Moses but the problem is that there is no objection too that can be found in the bible elsewhere.. the money is collected and send to Jerusalem where the high priest is there and the place the law is strictly practised. the important thing is that he is not punish for his act and he is very devoted to god. he win that war... in 1 Corinthians 3:11-15, we can see that there is a mention of the fire that burned everyone work and if the work is burned down, the one who did that work is saved but he will suffer because of the fire... this is very clear that purgatory is indirectly described... like concept of Trinity, incarnation, purgatory is not mentioned directly in the bible but if the bible is studied thoroughly we can see that see the bible did teach about the purgatory.
well talk too much already.. if there is any question just ask.. if i made a mistake please correct me.. remember that the church is the pillar of truth and Jesus is always the head of the church...
I want you to know how people ought to behave in God's household -- that is, in the Church of the living God, pillar and support of the truth. ( 1 Timothy 3:15)
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Question
Posted by Matthias Paul Low at 8:43 AM 1 comments
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Roman Catholic
Among all the church all over the church which church is that is considered to be different from most of the other christians' denomination? Which church that is considered to be old-fashined? which church is considered to be strict? Which church is seems to be a lot of law? Which church is full of ritual? hahaha.. for christian most of you may know what is the answer to those question. i hope you know the answer..
Well the answer is the Roman Catholic Church... hahaha.. I am a Roman Catholic.. wee let me introduce you my church.. Roman Catholic is the oldest church or christian denomination that is established almost 2000 years ago(not 200 years). for our church the head of the church is the Pope. and the head of the church of each diocese(in simpler word area) is the bishop. and for each church there is a parish priest. the place where there is a seat or throne(if i am not mistaken in short place where bishop sit) is the cathedral that also served as church and can be the headquarter of a particular diocese. i m not going talk too uch so that you won't get bored.
Who is the founder of the Roman Catholic Chhurch?
Altough the Roman Catholic Church is founded almost 3000 ago, the founder of the church is still alive. this is very diffrent from other founder of the older church where most of them are died long time ago( not all the church this only refer to older church that may be founded more than 100 years ago). everyone know the founder of the Roman Catholic Church and the most imortant thing is that he is worshipped not only by Roman Catholics, angels and also all the Christian. so the founder of our church is JESUS CHRIST THE SON OF THE GOD.
Who is the most well known Roman Catholics?
the biggest church in the world is the roman catholic that is almost half or more than half of the christian in the world. among all of the roman catholics who is the well known to all the christian. hahahaha.. first of all is of course Peter the appostle. he is the one who Jesus entrusted to lead his church.
Matthew 16:18-- And so I tell you, Peter: you are a rock(petrus) and on this rock foundation I will build my church, and not even death will be able to overcome it.
Matthew 16:16-20--I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; what you prohibit on earth will be prohibit in heaven and what you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven.
besides peter there are some more like the 12 appostles(refering to the 12 appostles after the selection of Matthias), Paul, Mark( the one who wrote the bible), luke(the one who wrote bible too), Timothy, Titus and many more... Can't mentioned all.. People like Leornardo da Vinci, Gallileo Galilei, Nicolas Cage, John F. Kennedy Jr. and many otehrs are Roman Catholics.
well thats all for this post next time i will tell you all more about what is the diffrence and question that is normally asked about our church... as a christian we must constantly seek the truth
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Sunday, January 25, 2009
HappY ChinesE NeW YeaR
This Year is the Ox Year so have a bravery virtue as OX and be strong like Ox, have the spirit of Ox, don't eat Beef too much, and most importantly DON'T become an OX.
SO
Give when giving ang pau give ang pao that worth an OX
恭喜发财
红包拿来
身体健康
一帆风顺
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Haizzzzzz....
haizzzz... this new year start was not so good to me... for some aspect it is good.. however for many reason it is really a bad one.. good start i wont tell what it is... i m going to let you all to be have question mark on your big head... (guess la... if guess correctly i belanja makan) the bad start is really hurt... when i came back here, i was pleased that the officer said that i can switch my room but later on they said need to write letter.. wow so sad that time.. i still can accept that.. hahaha.. then for the first time i go out with juju, we were late.... then the second time i went out, we cant go back.... it is all because of RAPID KL... i think the rapid should be withdrawn and subtitute it with SLOW.. or may be NO.. FOR BIGGGGGG CITY LIKWE SHAH ALAM THE TRANSPORTATION IS REALLY TERRIBLE... ( told you something mirian, be glad for you all live in a comfortable city) altough miri became a city just few years ago and it is small too, the bus is very consistent... unlike here the bus will let you wait for them at least 1 hour... (for most of the bus) i think it is their policy to let the customer to wait...
my result for the first sem is very poor.. so sad.. i cant imagine that i will get such a poor result.. haiz.. i think i will need to work hard... no more gaming although sometime i do play game... hahahaha... i really i hope i can secure this scholarship because it is very important for me because i am very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very poor..
Chinese new year is coming... hahaaha... so i will go back tomorrow.. if anyone want to sponsor my taxi fare to LCCT i will ask you to come to my house and ask my mum to give u a bigger ang pau.. hahahaha... i know my best friends waiting for me to come back( monkey and Guan).. hope to see them soon because i had not meet them for long time( if i meet them recently you think i wan to see them meh) hahahaha.. kidding nia... hope to see you all soon ALL my friends.... hahahaha.. when i come to your home remember give me good food to eat and BIGGGGG ang pau too...
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Friday, January 2, 2009
2008
Hahahaha... 2008 just passed.. well this 2008 is very meaningful for me as many important events occur this year... hahaha... that really a turning point in my life.. i will try to tell the story chronologically..
1. well this i celebrated my 18th years new year at kem khidmat negara sungai rait... hahaha... well talk a bit about this camp.. well i don't really wanted to go there.. it is like wasting my time there.. but well i did gained some benefits there too.. hahaha... i get to know many friends and to know the feeling to be away from home for more than 2 weeks (although every week i went home too)
2. after national service we had our spm result out.. well quite disappointed because i got B3 in est... i was so scared that time i afraid i cant get good scholarship.. although our badge had the most students who get straight A in pmr, in spm it is very few of us who get straight A or straight A1...
3. this year after one year baptism class which i attended although i went to national service.. on 22nd of march finally i was baptize Father Gabriel ST. Joseph Cathedral.. it was so so nervous that time i pronounced my name wrongly..
4. after spm result was out the time for applying for scholarship came.. we applied everything we saw in the internet.. then went to interview.. the most enjoyable one i think is the trip to Kuching for petronas interview.. hahaha.. then waited for the result to out.. i got 2 scholarship and i chose JPA because i wanted to be doctor( sometime do think why i didn't go for petronas scholarship)
5. shah alam the place that i would further my study.. going to west malaysia first time... hahaha.. well shah alam i don't want describe too much.. hahaha.. just in INTEC all the students are very smart( smarter than me).. during raya break we went to genting.. hahaha.. very nice trip.. hope to go there play again
6. now go to the year end.. i went back for nearly 2 months break.. do nothing.. then christmas celebrations... during that period i joined the christmas parade at miri for, carolling, critmas concert and go to eat of course... hahaha... first time went to carolling... hahaha... i think my singing is not that bad... then new year came and i went back to SHAH ALAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2008 is really a lucky year fof me... my family and i gained so much in 2008 and hope in 2009 is a better year for us and also to everyone... i wolud like to apologised to whoever that i hurt and forgive me if i did something wrong... hahaha.. god bless us all..
sorry i cant upload the pic.... i will try to upload soon......
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
First tag....
Well this is my first tag i done..... requested by tan wei wei so jus spend time do it... he wanna look my face then i her to see lo.... hahaha
1. Take a recent picture of yourself or take a picture of yourself right now.
2. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair... just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with NO editing.
4. Post these instruction with your picture.
5. Tag 5 people to do this.
This tag is different from what you've seen before...
Hahahahaha...... Here is the taggy thing.... I tag:
EVERYONE WHO LOOK AT THIS HANDSOME GUY.....
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
Sorry
Greetings guys.. sorry din update le... very busy and most important i mvery lay too..... hahaha.. keep on playing game till very lazy to update...
well the time to go back to shah alam very near now... feel afraid because end semester test result will be out soon... but will see sibu friends soon(did u all miss me ar????) hahaha... goimg to place that don't have any sign of pork and dog....
hahaha.. well this few weeks i do nothing actually.. didn't spend my time well... really going to die.. well hope i will get hardworking this few days... hahaha..
this holiday is very different because most of the 5A buddies not here like monkey, guan, tan wei wei, blur girl, sing yew and many (actually not many la however still thre is a feeling most of them not here). hope will see them soon.... miss all of you guys.. did u all miss me.. many people said that i m fairer compare to last time... it is true i am not lying...
well this holioday quite sweet because i got someone i love so much to accompany me... love her so much... we still have long journey to go.... a long way before we hahahaha....
hahaha.. okay i will try to think what to post next time.... bye... miss u all friends.. all friends... to be fair miss me too.. thank you for my love one too....
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