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Offline Aspirin Annie

Understanding Scripture
« on: April 17, 2017, 08:30:00 AM »
I usually just lurk. LOL. But I do have a question. I hope this is the right place. If not, redirect me to the correct forum.

Both of my boys are currently not going to church, but one is now asking all kinds of questions, and I am pretty savvy since I converted from Southern Baptist to Novus Ordo and then went into Tradition, but his questions are still above my pay grade.  :o


He was asking specifically last night about 1 Corinthians 14 (I believe) about women not speaking in church and about the passages concerning speaking in tongues. He was insisting all of Corinthians was anti-Catholic.  ::) 

I know I studied all of this when I became a Catholic, but I can't remember what I learned or from where it's been too long ago.

Thanks in advance if you have any suggestions. 
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Offline Stubborn

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Re: Understanding Scripture
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2017, 07:05:22 PM »
Because it has a lot of explanations, you should use the Haydock Bible.


1 Cor 14:34 Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, *as also the law saith.



Ver 34. Let women be silent, and not speak at all in public Church-meetings: and if they would ask any thing, let them ask it at home. (Witham)
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Offline Nadir

Re: Understanding Scripture
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2017, 11:26:22 PM »
And were you the only one in the family to convert? 
What affiliations have your boys? 
What about your husband?
All these things would make a big difference to the answers. 

In what way is "all of Corinthians anti-Catholic" and does he think that is a good thing or a bad thing?
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Offline songbird

Re: Understanding Scripture
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2017, 11:41:36 PM »
Will your boy/son do as you are doing, posting on this forum?  Let him join on this forum as well. 
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Offline Neil Obstat

Re: Understanding Scripture
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2017, 12:22:12 AM »
Quote from: Aspirin Annie on April 17, 2017, 08:30:00 AM
I usually just lurk. LOL. But I do have a question. I hope this is the right place. If not, redirect me to the correct forum.

Both of my boys are currently not going to church, but one is now asking all kinds of questions, and I am pretty savvy since I converted from Southern Baptist to Novus Ordo and then went into Tradition, but his questions are still above my pay grade.  :o


He was asking specifically last night about 1 Corinthians 14 (I believe) about women not speaking in church and about the passages concerning speaking in tongues. He was insisting all of Corinthians was anti-Catholic.  ::)

I know I studied all of this when I became a Catholic, but I can't remember what I learned or from where it's been too long ago.

Thanks in advance if you have any suggestions.
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One way of understanding the "speaking in tongues" references is to realize that initially, to enable the Church to grow quickly, when the Apostles gave a sermon to a crowd of people, the speaker would use one language, his own, but various people in hearing him would understand in his own language. This is not something that can be explained by natural means, for it was miraculous. And it enabled the Apostles to be very convincing since the very act of hearing them speak was a mystical experience.
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Therefore, to attempt to duplicate this today would likely be rather futile, since we cannot invoke miracles just by imitating what others have done in the past. And it has resulted in a lot of misunderstanding of what it means to "speak in tongues." Charismatics and some Protestants, for example, think that rolling around on the floor and grunting like animals constitutes this phenomenon, which is ridiculous.
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