Hands and Feet #75 - You Complete Me!
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PS: He did a really good job 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_the_Bible
Lists the books of the old and new testament from Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox and others.
Cool, thanks.
Thanks for the interesting podcast! You talked about how, in real love, God will send you someone who is in the same place spiritually, but isn’t it possible that God may place two people together in order that one may lead the other back to the faith? I don’t mean that they will do this out of a desire to change the other person, but rather that they may be an example to the other and may help to lead them back to the Church.
There are many people who get married that are not equally spiritual or not a part of the same religion. It would be impossible to meet someone who agreed with you on every point, but you can respect each other’s different opinions. Also, can’t a couple’s differences positively influence each other? Are you saying that these relationships cannot lead to a great marriage? It just seems impossible for a couple to be similar in every aspect of personality and belief. Should not a great relationship also challenge you to question and to become something better than you are?
Jackie,
Very interesting point. I think it’s unrealistic to expect that every person will meet someone on the exact same spiritual level. I think the danger, especially for young people, is to lower your standards simply thinking that you can introduce the person to the faith and that he/she will go along with it.
A good Christian marriage needs a man and a woman who are both committed to the same basic principles of a life-giving marriage with Christ at its center. Jumping into marriage with someone who doesn’t agree with you on even the most fundamental aspects of marriage is certainly dangerous.
Once the baseline principles have been established then I agree with you that the relationship will be dynamic and allow the couple to grow in different ways.
Someone who enters into a marriage covenant with a man or woman who disagrees with the basic principles by which the marriage will operate will feel pressure to either a) change the other person or b) to abandon their own principles. This is not a healthy environment and is exactly the kind of thing St. Paul wants us to avoid when he reminded us to not be “unevenly yoked” in 1 Corinthians 7:13.
Of course God can always use this kind of uneven relationship to bring someone closer to Him, but I think there must be a fundamental standard that must be met and our young people should think about that “line in the sand” when they begin their courting experiences. Great comment and thanks for listening!
I think the word you were looking for regarding other books is pseudepigrapha. These are books not accepted as Canonical by either Protestants or Catholics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudepigrapha
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church includes some of these books in it’s Canon of Old Testament books.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abyssinian_Church#Biblical_canon
Awesome! Thanks, Fr. Seraphim.
Belated happy St. Francis day!