INDEX Payong Kapatid

List of Articles under the Category 

PAYONG KAPATID

Dapat Tayong Lubos na Makiisa sa Pamamahala ng Iglesia

Kung Pinag-uukulan Natin ng Panahon ang Para sa Buhay na Ito, Lalong Dapat Nating Pag-ukulan ng Panahon ang para sa Ikapagtatamo Natin ng Kaligtasan

Hindi Natin Dapat Ipagtaka Ang Mabibigat Na Pagsubok Subalit Ang Dapat Nating Malaman Ay Kung Paano Natin Ito Mapagtatagumpayan
 


Dapat Pahalagahan At Igalang Ang Institusyon Ng Kasal O Pag-aasawa


Kung Paano Natin Dapat Harapin Ang Panibagong  Taong Darating


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INDEX Answering Christ-is-God Theology

Lists of Articles About the Trinity:

•  Because We Believe That There Is Only One True God
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•  Trinity: Does IT Make Sense?
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•  Trinity: Still Does Not Make Sense
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•  Trinity: A Different Gospel

Lists of Articles Answering 

Christ-is-God Theology:

• KAWIKAAN 30:4 

• I JUAN 5:20
• COLOSAS 2:9
• HEBREO 1:10
• ROMA 9:5
• JUAN 20:28
• II PEDRO 1:1

INDEX About The Bible

List of Articles about the Bible:

•  THE UNIQUENESS OF THE BIBLE

• THE PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE BIBLE

• THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY THE WORD BIBLE

• THE BIBLE IS GOD'S WORD

• HOW WE GOT THE BIBLE

• THE CANON OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

• ABOUT APOCRYPHA: ARE THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS CANONICAL?

INDEX Answering Catholic Defenders

Lists of Articles about Answering Catholic Defenders:

(1) ANSWERING CATHOLIC DEFENDERS PART 1. "The Ways Catholic Defenders are Using to Deceive the People: Public Beware"

    ANSWERING CATHOLIC DEFENDERS, Part 1 (The Ways Caholic Defenders are Using to Deceive the People: Public Beware)

(2) A CHALLENGE TO CATHOLIC DEFENDERS. "A Call to Catholic Defender 2000"

   A Challenge to Catholic Defenders: A Call to Catholic Defender 2000

(3) A CHALLENGE TO CATHOLIC DEFENDERS PART 2. "Still on Catholic Defenders: Ninerbiyos na si Catholic Defender 2000"

 Still on Catholic Defenders: Nininerbiyos na si Catholic Defender 2000

(4) ANSWERING CATHOLIC DEFENDERS PART 2. "The Ways Catholic Defenders Defend Their Church: Through Making Lies"

     ANSWERING CATHOLIC DEFENDERS, part 2 (The Ways Caholic Defenders Defend Their Church: Through Making Lies)

(5) HOW RIDICULOUS THE CATHOLIC DEFENDERS

     HOW RIDICULOUS THE CATHOLIC DEFENDERS

Reliability of the Old Testament Text

THE RELIABILITY OF THE

OLD TESTAMENT

TEXT

WHEN we talk about credibility and reliability of the Old Testament text, what we are establishing here is the textual accuracy and the historical reliability of the Scriptures. Textual accuracy of the Old Testament text has shown in at least in four major ways:

(1)   The accuracy of the textual transmission (the accuracy of the copying process down through history).

(2)   Bibliographical evidences.

(3)   Internal evidences.

(4)   External evidences.

Historical reliability is being an accurate source for the historical events it reports. The Bible has been shown to be historically reliable and credible in at least two major ways:

(1)      Through historical and even geographical accuracy of biblical accounts (the confirmation of the Bible by hard evidences uncovered through archeology.

(2)      Through documentary evidences uncovered through archeology.

Are the Old Testament documents reliable? 

KAWIKAAN 8:22-30

Ang Panginoong Jesucristo ba ang tinutukoy sa Kawikaan 8:22-30?

UPANG patunayan na diumano’y itinuturo ng Biblia na si Cristo ay existido na noon pang una, bago pa nilalang ang sanlibutan, lahat ng sa tingin nila ay maaari nilang gamiting talata ay ginagamit nila upang gamiting katunayan nito bagamat wala naman doon sinasabi na si Cristo ay Diyos o si Cristo ang tinutukoy doon. Sa pamamagitan lang ng kanilang pagkaunawa o interpretasyon ay doon ay sa gayon lang nila napalalabas na si Cristo ang tinutukoy sa talatang iyon. Subalit, sa maraming pagkakataon ay napapahiya sila sa pagsasabing si Cristo raw ang tinutukoy sa mga talatang kanilang ginagamit. Ang isang halimbawa nito ay ang Kawikaan 8:22-30. Ganito ang sinasabi sa talata:

“Inari ako ng Panginoon sa pasimula ng kaniyang lakad, Bago pinasimulan ang kaniyang mga gawa ng una. Ako'y nalagay mula noong araw mula ng walang pasimula, Bago nalikha ang lupa. Ako'y nailabas ng wala pang mga kalaliman; Nang wala pang mga bukal na sagana ng tubig. Bago ang mga bundok ay nalagay, Bago ang mga burol ay ako'y nailabas: Samantalang hindi pa niya nililikha ang lupa, ni ang mga parang man, Ni ang pasimula man ng alabok ng sanglibutan. Nang kaniyang itatag ang langit nandoon ako: Nang siya'y maglagay ng balantok sa balat ng kalaliman: Nang kaniyang pagtibayin ang langit sa itaas: Nang maging matibay ang mga bukal ng kalaliman: Nang bigyan niya ang dagat ng kaniyang hangganan Upang huwag salangsangin ng tubig ang kaniyang utos: Nang kaniyang iayos ang mga patibayan ng lupa: Nasa siping nga niya ako na gaya ng matalinong manggagawa: At ako ang kaniyang ligaya sa araw-araw, Na nagagalak na lagi sa harap niya.” (Kawikaan 8:22-30)

Ipinakahulugan ng mga naniniwalang si Cristo ay Diyos na ang Panginoong Jesus daw ang tinutukoy dito sa talatang sinipi. Siya daw ang tinutukoy na “Inari ako ng Panginoon sa pasimula ng kaniyang lakad, Bago pinasimulan ang kaniyang mga gawa ng una. Ako'y nalagay mula noong araw mula ng walang pasimula, Bago nalikha ang lupa.”

Si Cristo ba ang tinutukoy dito sa Kawikaan 8:22-30?

Payong Kapatid: Makiisa at Pasakop sa Pamamahala ng Iglesia

Dapat tayong lubos na makiisa sa pamamahala ng iglesia

Kapatid na Eduardo V. Manalo

Nagpupuri tayo sa Diyos sa pagkakaloob Niya ng sunod-sunod na pagtatagumpay sa kasalukuyang Pamamahala ng Iglesia. Damang-dama natin ang lubos na pagmamalasakit at pag-ibig na iniuukol ng Pamamahala para sa lahat ng mga kapatid. Sinisinop niya ang lahat ng mga hinirang na inilagay ng Diyos sa kaniyang pangangalaga. Araw at gabi ay gumagawa at nagpapagal ang Pamamahala para sa kapakanan ng Iglesia. Ang pagtatalaga ng Pamamahala sa taong 2013 bilang “Taon ng Puspusang Pagpapatibay sa Iglesia”  ay lalong naghahayag ng malinis at marubdob na layunin ng Pamamahala na madala ang bayan ng Diyos sa kaligtasan.

Ano naman ang pananagutan nating mga kaanib sa Iglesia Ni Cristo patungkol sa Pamamahala na inilagay ng Diyos sa Iglesia ayon sa pagtuturo ng Banal na Kasulatan?

Canon of the New Testament

THE CANON OF THE NEW TESTAMENT

Although in the first decades of the Church, after the ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ, Christians relied on the gospel that being preached by the apostles, and on the Old Testament, but afterwards, the apostles and the disciples wrote the account of the life of the Lord Jesus Christ (called the Gospel), and epistles or letters.

There are authors who claim that before the writing of the books or letters that would become the New Testament, early Christians relied on “oral tradition” about Jesus’ words and deeds, and on the Old Testament.

“At first, Christians did not have any of the books contained in our New Testament. They depended therefore on the Old Testament, on oral tradition about Jesus’ words and deed, and on messages from God spoken by Christian prophets.”¹

“Oral traditions” implies that the account of the life of the Lord Jesus Christ has passed on from generation to generation before committed in writings. We know that tradition” means “a long-established custom or belief, often that has been handed down from generation to generation.”

However, this was not the real case. The writer of Matthew and John were apostles, the eye-witnesses themselves, and the writer of Mark and Luke were disciples under the supervision of the apostles (contemporary of the apostles). Thus, it is wrong to say that the “Gospels” are “oral traditions” put in writing if those who wrote it were eye-witnesses themselves.

Actually, the apostles warn us about those not been written:

“Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up on behalf of one against the other.” (I Cor. 4:6, NKJV)

Thus, in the second-century onwards, the teachings of the apostles, and the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ were already committed in writings. All were written in the first century AD. The Book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament was written about 90-100 AD.

PAYONG KAPATID: Ang Dapat Lalong Pag-ukulan ng Panahon

Kung pinag-uukulan natin ng panahon ang para sa buhay na ito, lalong dapat nating pag-ukulan ng panahon ang para sa ikapagtatamo natin ng kaligtasan

Mayroong ang pinagbubuhusan lamang ng pansin ang pag-aaral sapagkat naniniwala siyang ito ang ikatutupad ng kaniyang mga pangarap. Mayroon naman na ang pinagtutuunan ng pansin ay ang paghahanapbuhay sapagkat naniniwala siyang dito nakasalalay ang kaniyang buhay at ng kaniyang pamilya. Hindi masama na pagtuunan ng pansin ang pag-aaral at ang paghahanapbuhay. Ang masama ay kung puro lamang sa buhay na ito ang bibigyang-pansin.

Ano angkasamaan kapag puro lamang sa buhay na ito ang binibigyang-pansin?

Kawikaan 30:4

 

PINATUTUNAYAN NGA BA SA KAWIKAAN 30:4 NA SI CRISTO AY EXISTIDO NA SA PASIMULA PA?

Kailangang patunayan ng mga nagtuturong si Cristo ay Diyos na ang Panginoong Jesus ay may pre-existencia o existido na (may kalagayan na) bago pa ipanganak ni Maria, bago pa nilalalang ang sanlibutan, sapagkat paano nga naman magiging tunay na Diyos ang Panginoong Jesucristo kung ang Kaniyang existencia ay nagsimula lamang ng ipanganak ni Maria. Ang isa sa mga talata na ginagamit ng mga nagtuturong si Cristo ay Diyos upang ipakitang si Cristo ay may pre-existencia ay ang Kawikaan 30:4. Ganito ang nilalaman ng talata:

“Sino ang sumumpa sa langit, at bumaba?  Sino ang pumisan ng hangin sa kaniyang mga dakot? Sinong nagtali ng tubig sa kaniyang kasuutan? Sinong nagtatag ng lahat ng mga wakas ng lupa? Ano ang kaniyang pangalan, at ano ang pangalan ng kaniyang anak kung iyong nalalaman?”

Sa talatang ito ay may binabanggit daw na “anak” na bago pa pinasimulan ang paglalang ay sumampa sa langit at bumaba. Ayon sa mga naniniwalang si Cristo ay Diyos, ang tinutukoy daw dito na “Anak” ay si Cristo. Samakatiwid, kasama na raw si Cristo ng Ama bago pa pasimulan ang paglalang.

Si Cristo nga ba ang tinutukoy na “anak” sa Kawikaan 30:4 at nagpapatunay nga ba ito na si Cristo ay existido na noon pang una?

How Ridiculous the Catholic Defenders

Catholic Defenders’ Standard for Being the True Church is Truly Ridiculous

Catholic Defenders cannot really prove from the Bible that the Roman Catholic Church is the true Church that’s why they inventing their own “standards” as a desperate move to prove that they are the true Church.

They tried to prove that from the Bible that they are the true Church, however, they failed. Remember how Catholic Defender 2000 quotes Romans 1:7-8 on the heading of his blog (In Defense of the Catholic Church) and inserted the Greek words “Kata Holos” in a parenthesis to show to his readers that the word “Catholic” is in the Bible? But, looking at the Greek text of the Romans 1:7-8 proves that the words “Kata Holos” is not in the verse. This is one of numerous ways how they are deceiving people to make them believe that the Roman Catholic Church is the true Church taught by the Bible.

These people know that the true Church taught by the Bible is not them. It is true that the Bible mentions marks of the true Church, but these “marks” set by the Bible cannot be found in the Roman catholic Church.

For example, the most fundamental of the marks of the true Church taught by the Bible is that the true Church is called in the name of Christ, the name given by God:

“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."

“Then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. Acts 4:12,10 NIV

How can they be the true Church taught by the Bible if the name “Roman Catholic Church” is not in the Bible? How can they be the true Church written in the Bible if their Church is not in the Bible or unbiblical and the teachings of their church are unbliblical? The nmost fundamental mark of the true Church cannot truly be found in the Roman catholic Church.

Thus, as a desperate move to prove that they are the true church taught by the Bible, they invented their own “standards.” Tthis is what the Bible says about this:

“I can assure you that they are deeply devoted to God; but their devotion is not based on true knowledge. They have not known the way in which God puts people right with himself, and instead, they have tried to set up their own way; and so they did not submit themselves to God's way of putting people right.” (Romans 10:2-3 TEV)

Because they not known the way in which God puts people right with Himself, the Bible said, “they have tried to set their own way; and so they did not submit themselves to God’s way…”

Because the Catholic Defenders failed to prove from the Bible that the Roman Catholic Church is the true church, they resort to inventing their own “standards” just to make the people believe that they are the true Church. However, these “standards” of being the true church THat CATHOLIC DEFENDERS invented are truly RIDICULOUS. See for yourself!

About Apocrypha

ARE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS CANONICAL?

THE Old Testament canon is consists of 39 books only. These 39 books are those recognized as “canonical” or those books which are regarded as divinely inspired. However, there were great numbers of Jewish literature that composed and circulated during the intertestamental period (the period between the Old testament and the New Testament which is about 400 years) and up to the first century A.D.

These extra-canonical books or Jewish literatures are known as “Apocrypha.” The Roman Catholic Church inculded these to their Old Testament and declared them as canonical and equal of the 39  books of the Old testament. This is the reason why the Old Testament of the Roman Catholic Church is consists of 46 books.

What is the meaning of the term “Apocrypha”? Why these extra-canonical books are called Apocrypha? Is the Roman Catholic Church right to include these books to the Old Testament canon?