Originally Posted by JSTUART
Originally Posted by nighthawk
efw, Good morning. It's hard to put it into a short message but a Catholic priest is ordained, authorized, to act in the stead of God as were the apostles. Can only God perform miracles? Yes. Did the apostles perform miracles? Yes, after the Pentecost. They were ordained or given the authority through the Holy Spirit.

Careful tying too tightly to the Old Testament. Old covenant / new covenant.


And you don't see the problem with that statement.

Really?

Guess I could have added they at in His name, not on their own, but that seems pretty obvious to me.
So you think the apostles were a bunch of posers?


The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh

Which explains a lot.