What is beatification and canonization and are they biblical?
Beatification (from Latin beatus, blessed) is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a dead person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede...
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What is beatification and canonization and are they biblical?
Beatification and canonization are acts of the Roman Catholic Church declaring that a deceased person led a holy life. People still living can then request...
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S. Michael Houdmann
, Got Questions Ministries
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Is penance mentioned in the Bible?
Penance is an act of devotion designed to show sorrow for or repentance of sin. The word penance is mentioned in two Bible translations, the New Living...
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Vincent Mercado
, Skeptic turned believer, Catholic, father of 3
Is penance mentioned in the Bible?
No. The word "penance" is not mentioned anywhere in the modern English translation of the Bible. However, if the definition of "penance" is the "repentance...
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S. Michael Houdmann
, Got Questions Ministries
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What is the Wisdom of Solomon?
The Wisdom of Solomon, also called the Book of Wisdom, is one of the books of the Apocrypha. The others in the group are 1 and 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith,...
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Vincent Mercado
, Skeptic turned believer, Catholic, father of 3
What is the Wisdom of Solomon?
The Wisdom of Solomon, often referred to simply as Wisdom, is one of the books of the Bible, which are considered deuterocanonical by some churches such as...
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S. Michael Houdmann
, Got Questions Ministries
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What is moral theology?
Moral theology is a term used by the Roman Catholic Church to describe the study of God from a perspective of how man must live in order to attain the...
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Vincent Mercado
, Skeptic turned believer, Catholic, father of 3
What is the Hail Mary that Catholics say so often?
The Hail Mary is a traditional Christian prayer (Catholic, Orthodox, Anglicans and Lutherans) asking for the intercession of the Virgin Mary, the mother of...
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Vincent Mercado
, Skeptic turned believer, Catholic, father of 3
Is the perpetual virginity of Mary biblical?
The doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary expresses the Virgin Mary's "real and perpetual virginity even in the act of giving birth to Jesus the Son of...
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Vincent Mercado
, Skeptic turned believer, Catholic, father of 3
What is the cause of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church?
The sex abuse scandal is really one of the dark periods, not only in Church History, but in Human history. It's a serious problem and should be addressed. It...
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Vincent Mercado
, Skeptic turned believer, Catholic, father of 3
What is the Catholic Bible?
The Council of Carthage, called the third by Denzinger, on 28 August 397 issued a canon of the Bible quoted as, "Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,...
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S. Michael Houdmann
, Got Questions Ministries
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If you are once saved are you then always saved?
Once a person is saved are they always saved? When people come to know Christ as their Savior, they are brought into a relationship with God that guarantees...
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S. Michael Houdmann
, Got Questions Ministries
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Why did God send the Israelites to Egypt for 400 years?
In Genesis 15:13, the Lord tells Abraham, "Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there,...
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S. Michael Houdmann
, Got Questions Ministries
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Is pleading the blood of Jesus biblical?
"Pleading the blood of Jesus" in prayer is a teaching that can be traced to some of the early leaders of the Word of Faith movement. When people speak of...
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S. Michael Houdmann
, Got Questions Ministries
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Is the perpetual virginity of Mary biblical?
It is the official position of the Roman Catholic Church that Jesus' mother Mary remained a virgin for her entire life. Is this concept biblical? Before we...
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S. Michael Houdmann
, Got Questions Ministries
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Is it biblical to use the phrase "ask Jesus into your heart"?
"Do you want to be saved? Then just ask Jesus to come into your heart." While this statement is not anti-biblical, neither is it expressly biblical. The...
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S. Michael Houdmann
, Got Questions Ministries
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Does the Bible teach the celibacy of priests?
This is an interesting question to answer, as the Bible does not even teach that there are to be "priests" in the New Covenant established by Christ. Please...
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Vincent Mercado
, Skeptic turned believer, Catholic, father of 3
What is the Catholic sacrament of Holy Eucharist?
The Eucharist is "the source and summit of the Christian life." The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate,...
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S. Michael Houdmann
, Got Questions Ministries
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What is the Catholic sacrament of Holy Eucharist?
For Catholics, the Holy Eucharist / Catholic Mass is considered the most important and highest form of prayer. In fact, attending Mass is an obligation,...
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S. Michael Houdmann
, Got Questions Ministries
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What did Jesus mean when He said 'I AM'?
Jesus, in response to the Pharisees' question "Who do you think you are?" said "'Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and...