May Jesus let us see how many times The Book of James tells us to “Be Catholic!”
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Question 25: “Does The Book of James tell us that Christians should stop fighting with each other?”
Answer: “The First Verse of Chapter 4 asks why Christians fight with each other! ‘Where do these wars and battles between yourselves first start?’
St. James answers that with another question that has one answer: ‘Isn’t it precisely in the desires fighting inside your own selves?’”
The answer to That Question is ‘Yes!’”
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Question 26: “What causes ‘the desires fighting within our own selves’?”
Answer: “The next verses explain that ‘Godless envy’ drives us! ‘You want something and you haven’t got it; so you are prepared to kill. You have an ambition that you cannot satisfy; so you fight to get your way by force. Why you don’t have what you want is because you don’t pray for it; ‘”
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“Question 27: “Why aren’t as many prayers from Willful Protestants answered?”
Answer: “St. James is clear! ‘when you do pray and don’t get it, it is because you have not prayed properly, you have prayed for something to indulge your own desires.’”
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Question 28: “How does St. James describe those with ‘desires’ to avoid The Church Spoken Into Being by This Word of Jesus: ‘And I say unto you thou art Peter and on This Rock I build My Church. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.’?”
Answer: “James describes those Willful Protestants in Verse 4! ‘You are as unfaithful as adulterous wives.’!
Then, he asks every person on earth this question! ‘Don’t you realize that making the world your friend is making God your enemy?’
He answers That Question with This Profound Catholic Truth: ‘Anyone who chooses the world for his friend turns himself into God’s enemy.'”
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Question 29: “How does that relate to Willful Protestants who choose to avoid The Only Church Spoken Into Being by Words of Jesus?”
Answer: “St James answers with another question in Verse 5!
‘Surely you don’t think Scripture is wrong when it says: The (Holy) Spirit Which He sent to live in us wants us for Himself alone?’
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Question 30: “Is that the connection St. James makes between some Willful Protestants and ‘adulterous wives’?”
Answer: “Yes. Then, he tells us how God has blessed us Catholics: ‘But he has been even more generous to us, as Scripture says: God opposes the proud but He gives generously to the humble.’
Only the ‘humble’ are blessed with the specific ‘keys to The Kingdom of Heaven’ that Jesus left on earth to His One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.”
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Question 31: “What does St. James tell us to do when we are faced with the temptation to avoid His Church?”
Answer: “‘Give in to God, then; resist the devil, and he will run away from you.’”
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Question 32: “Where will the devil ‘run’?”
Answer: “The devil always ‘runs’ into the minds of those who will not ‘resist’ his lust for souls he can lead to disobey Any Word of Jesus Christ!”
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