Yes, He did. And He is. Lets look at how many times Jesus claimed to be God - a 🧵✝️
John 8,58 “Jesus answered them: ‘I solemnly declare it: before Abraham came to be, I AM.”
This was the name God gave himself when he first communicated with Moses, Exodus 3,14:
> "God replied, ‘I am who am.""; Then he added, ‘This is what you shall tell the Israelites: I AM sent me to you."
John 10,30: ”The Father and I are one.”
John 14,8-11: “’Philip,’ Jesus replied, ‘after I have been with you all this time, you still do not know me?Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?… Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe because of the works I do."
Matt. 11,27: “Everything has been given over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son but the Father, and no one knows the Father but the Son – and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.”
Matthew 9,5-7: “Which is less trouble to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven’ or ‘Stand up and walk?’ To help you realize that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” – he then said to the paralyzed man – ‘Stand up! Roll up your mat and go home.’ The man stood up and went toward his home.”
John 10,37-38: “If I do not perform my Father’s works, put no faith in me. But if I do perform them, even though you put no faith in me, put faith in these works, so as to realize what it means that the Father is in me and I in him.”
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848 years ago, on November 25, 1177, one of the most unlikely victories in Christian history took place.
A sick king and a few Crusader knights faced, and defeated, Saladin's giant army - Outnumbered 20 to 1
The Battle of Montgisard - a🧵✝️
The great protagonist of this battle is Baldwin IV, the "Leper King."
Diagnosed still in his youth, he already suffered from the numbness of his hands and legs, but his strength of spirit was indomitable.
No disease took from him the duty to protect Jerusalem.
With what many believed to be the end of campaign season, many of Baldwin’s barons had already ridden north.
But when word reached Jerusalem of Saladin’s approach, Baldwin, the young leper King, did not hesitate.
War was once again upon them and they were to fight, or die.
Saladin launched a new offensive against the Kingdom of Jerusalem with about 26,000 men, relying on surprise and the apparent weakness of the Crusader forces.
Christians are supposed to be pacifists? Just say you know nothing about Christianity
The saints and doctors of the Church taught that war is sometimes not only permitted, but a duty
Let’s talk about Just and Holy War - a🧵✝️
Let’s begin with a myth: “Christianity means absolute pacifism. War is always evil.”
This is FALSE.
From the early Church Fathers to the great Doctors like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, the Church has always taught that some wars are just, even holy.
War is an evil, but sometimes necessary to restore just peace and avoid greater evils.
The Church does not glorify violence.
But she teaches that peace is the fruit of justice, not cowardice - Is 32,17
If tyrants threaten the innocent. If evil crushes the weak.
Then Christian men may, and sometimes must, take up arms in defense of the good.
The tilma of Guadalupe still hasn’t decayed after 500 years.
Its colors can’t be reproduced.
And in her eye? A reflection of witnesses, 1/100th of a millimeter.
This is the image that shouldn’t exist , but it does - a 🧵✝️
The year was 1531. A poor indigenous man named Juan Diego sees a woman “brighter than the sun” on a hill near Mexico City.
She speaks to him in his native tongue.
She says: "Am I not your mother?"
What happened next changed the Americas forever.
To prove the apparition was real, Our Lady tells Juan Diego to gather roses in December.
He finds them blooming out of season.
He carries them in his tilma, a rough cactus-fiber cloak. When he opens it before the bishop, the roses fall and an image appears.
You’ve probably prayed novenas before.
But have you ever heard of a 12-year novena that if prayed daily Jesus will defend you at judgment?
Plus no purgatory, protection for 4 generations, and even foreknowledge of death?
The 12-Year Prayer of St. Bridget of Sweden – a 🧵
From Eden to Calvary, salvation has always been written in Blood.
When Adam and Eve fell, God clothed them with garments of animal skin, the first blood sacrifice to cover sin. (Gen 3:21)
But these sacrifices only pointed forward.
The Israelites shed the blood of lambs, goats, and bulls.
Yet none of these could heal the wound of sin.
It took the Blameless Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, whose Precious Blood was poured out at Calvary, once for all, for our redemption.