My Book of Faith: 17 The Holy Church and the Holy Sacraments

God's Introduction
Forword
SECTION I: Background
1. Meet The Author
2. How God Communicated with Me
SECTION II: The Story of Creation
1. The Origin and Nature of God
2. In The Beginning
  - The Creation of the World
  - The Life God Created
3. Life in Heaven
SECTION III: Our Separation from God
SECTION IV: Understanding Salvation
1. The Purpose, Life and Death of Jesus Christ
2. The Mystery that is Mary, Mother of God
  - Queen of Heaven and the Universe
3. The Path of Salvation
4. The Road Less Travelled
5. The Promises of Salvation
SECTION V: Building Your Relationship With God

Section 5 Building Your Relationship With God - 17 The Holy Church And The Holy Sacraments

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Question: Why are people in general accepting this?

God’s answer:

Separation of church and state
In commoners’ language, this got translated to: “No more religion. Leave God out of this. Keep your faith to yourself.”

Much ado about nothing
It’s ridiculous. I AM always subject to debate.

Meaning: “The separation of church and state is a concept defining the distance in the relationship between organized religion and the nation state. It may refer to creating a secular state, with or without explicit reference to such separation, or to changing an existing relationship of church involvement in a state (disestablishment).

Scholars have distinguished between what can be called "friendly" and "hostile" separations of church and state. The friendly type limits the interference of the church in matters of the state but also limits the interference of the state in church matters. The hostile variety, by contrast, seeks to confine religion purely to the home or church and limits religious education, religious rites of passage and public displays of faith.”¹⁸

God’s definition:
Translated to means “come to mean”
Commoner means “your average person, not of the ruling class.”

¹⁸ Wikipedia, "Separation Of Church And State" (2016) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state> accessed 20 February 2016.

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Question: Why should we rebel?

God’s answer:

Godless society
You owe it to your children.

Question: How should Christians rebel?

God’s answer:

Let me count the ways.
There are many ways to skin a cat.
If there’s a will, there’s a way.

“Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake: Be glad and rejoice, for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.”

Reference: There are many ways to skin a cat is from the expression “There’s more than one way to skin a cat”, meaning, one can approach things in various ways to accomplish something.

“Blessed are you... is from Matthew 5:11-12. It is part of the Jesus’ Sermon of the Mount, The Eight Beatitudes.

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