May all be blessed to “Bet our Life and Soul on Jesus Christ!”
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Question 1: “Why do Catholics make the bet to follow Jesus?”
Answer: “Catholics know that God told His Prophet Micah where The Prophesied Messiah would be born (Mi 5:1-4): ‘Thus says The Lord: You, Bethlehem-Ephrathah too small to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for Me one who is to be ruler in Israel; Whose origin is from of old, from ancient times.’”
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Question 2: “What are the odds that a tiny village of two or three hundred people would be The Prophesied Birthplace of God’s Promised Messiah when there were half a billion people living on 25,000,000 square miles (65,000,000 sq. kilometers) of habitable land (no deserts or mountains) on earth?”
Answer: “Before cars and paved roads, there were between one and two and half million villages on earth’s habitable land, one in every 10 square miles. The odds against Jesus being born in Bethlehem might be 2,500,000 to 1. If there were only a million villages on earth, the odds against His being Born in Bethlehem are still over a million to one!”
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Question 3: “What are the ‘ancient times’ from which The Messiah Originated?”
Answer: “The ‘ancient times’ refer to the period before God said ‘Let there be light’ and ‘The Universe began expanding for the following 13 trillion light years.’
A hundred years ago, powerful telescopes let a Catholic priest, Fr. Georges LeMaitre, was blessed to see and calculate that stars and galaxies began moving outward from God’s Creation Point, trillions of lightyears ago. When the speed at which they moved outward from the beginning was made more evident by bigger telescopes.
The Three Wise Men had 2,000 years of Babylonian records about ‘star movements’. They combined written records with Micah’s Prophecy in Jewish writings that were taken to Babylon in 586 BC. For 2,000 years, the world’s ‘wisest people’ have known The Son of God, The Prophesied Messiah, would be born in Bethlehem.”
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Question 4: “Do over 300 other Prophecies make it clear that Catholics are right to ‘Bet our life and soul on Jesus?’”
Answer: “Catholics pay respectful attention to the Prophecy in Isaiah 7:14: ‘The Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a Son and will call Him Immanuel’. That name means: ‘God is with us.'”
We see another Prophecy from Zechariah 12:10 that came true: ‘And I will pour out on the House of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication.’
Catholics respect The Prophets enough to know they never contradicted God’s Truth, so we see that Jesus took Human Form by The Grace of Mary, a Virgin of The House of David, in the tiny village of Bethlehem at God’s Pre-Destined Time.”
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Question 5: “Why are Catholics Catholic?“
Answer: “Catholics know Two Things that help us make ‘The Smart Bet with our life and soul’“:
First, we know that we are surrounded by countless quadrillions of ‘things’. Each of our bodies, for instance, has 25-35 trillion cells that all work together to keep us alive.
Second: Catholics know that ‘no things’ can come from ‘no thing’.
The Catholic Conclusion helps us make ‘Life’s Smartest Bet’: “God loves us so much He took Human Form by The Grace of Mary, was born in Bethlehem, and gave His Life so that His Chosen People could be saved from sin and error well enough to obey The Church-Creating Word of Jesus to His First Catholic Pope and get these ‘keys’ for our immortal soul:
‘And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven’.
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This Christmas, may we encourage our beloved neighbors to open The Christmas Gift Jesus gave His Life to leave on earth to those blessed to ask for God’s Grace to get: “the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven”.
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “May God bless all to understand / and be as Catholic as we can!”
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