![]() ![]() Judgment Day, Day of Reckoning, Doomsday-they’re all metaphors for the end of time when what’s known as the General Judgment will occur. Where Jesus went, body and soul, into heaven, the faithful hope one day to follow.Īrticle 7: H e will come again to judge the living and the dead. This article affirms the Second Coming of Christ at the end of the world to be its judge. Catholicism teaches that his human body will exist forever. In other words, after the saving death and Resurrection, Jesus didn’t dump his human body as if he didn’t need it anymore. ![]() The Ascension reminds the faithful that after the human and divine natures of Christ were united in the Incarnation, they could never be separated. More than a resuscitated corpse, Jesus possessed a glorified and risen body.Īrticle 6: He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. ![]() He wasn’t just clinically dead for a few minutes he was dead dead - then he rose from the dead. This passage affirms that on the third day he rose, meaning Jesus came back from the dead of his own divine power. Hell was merely a word that Jews and early Christians used to describe the place of the dead. The hell Jesus descended into wasn’t the hell of the damned, where Jews and Christians believe the devil and his demons reside. T he third day he a rose again from the dead. Anti-Semitism based on the Crucifixion of Jesus is inaccurate, unjust, and erroneous.Īrticle 5: He descended into hell. So both Jew and Gentile alike shared in the spilling of innocent blood. Certain Jewish leaders conspired against Jesus, but the actual death sentence was given by a Roman and carried out by Roman soldiers. It also reminds the faithful that one can’t blame all Jews for the death of Jesus, as some have erroneously done over the ages. ![]() Reference is made to an actual historical person, the Roman governor of Judea, appointed by Caesar, to put the life and death of Jesus within a chronological and historical context. The mention of Pontius Pilate by name wasn’t meant so much to vilify him forever in history but to place the Crucifixion within human history. He’s therefore considered both God and man by Christians-fully divine and fully human.Īrticle 4: He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. The human nature of Christ could feel pain and actually die, and he did on Good Friday. This affirms the human nature of Christ, meaning he had a real, true human mother, and also affirms his divine nature, meaning he had no human father but by the power of the Holy Spirit was conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary. The name Jesus comes from the Hebrew Jeshua, meaning “God saves.” So Catholics believe that Jesus is Savior.Īrticle 3: Who was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. So the use of Lord with Jesus is meant to profess his divinity. The word Lord implies divinity, because the Greek Kyrios and the Hebrew Adonai both mean “lord” and are ascribed only to God. This list of twelve articles mirrors the Apostles’ Creed, a prayer that sets out Catholic tenets:Īrticle 1: I believe in God, the Father A lmighty, Creator of heaven and earth. This affirms that God exists, that he’s a Triune God (one God in three persons, known as the Holy Trinity), and that he created the known universe.Īrticle 2: And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. This attests that Jesus is the Son of God and that he’s most certainly divine. If you want to know the basics of the Catholic faith, look no further than the articles of Catholic faith. ![]()
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