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...Bible does not differentiate between these or any other sins. The price of any of these sins is death, and everyone stands guilty before God, myself included. But because of God's grace in sacrificing His only son, Jesus Christ, we can be given eternal life despite our faults. In order to receive God's grace, a person must confess and repent of the sin in his or her life, and trust in the saving power and immense love of Jesus Christ. 1 John 1:8-9 states, "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves...
...there are substantial differences in the types of Christianity that are professed and practiced by the various groups, and even various individuals in these groups, we do not feel that means that the groups are torn in regards to Jesus Week. We may, and do, hold different views of Christ, of the Bible, of the Church, of evangelization, and of many issues in Christian theology, but we are united in Jesus Week and in informing the Harvard campus about Christianity and its diversity here, as well as building Christian unity...
...heart of my Jubilee Pilgrimage," and now having walked slowly, on aching, 79-year-old legs, down the narrow steps from the basilica above, he found his way to his knees and prayed over the silver star in the pavement that many believe marks the very spot where Jesus Christ was born. Then--again as planned--he moved on, knelt and prayed in the adjoining Grotto of the Wise Men, where the child Jesus lay in the manger. Then the Pope stood and asked for a chair. This part was clearly not scripted. A couple of Franciscan priests scurried upstairs...
...involved in a far more worldly enterprise. Papal biographer Tad Szulc has said that the Pope's 91st international trip had three aims: personal spiritual enrichment; reconciliation among all three Abrahamaic faiths (Judaism, Christianity and Islam); and peacemaking, the duty of anyone who would call himself the vicar of Christ...
...then, in a rapid acceleration that mirrors the explosion of events in the Gospels, the Pope over seven days visited Bethlehem; surveyed not one but two spots where Jesus may have been baptized; offered Mass from the site of Christ's Sermon on the Mount; climbed the steps to the upper room where tradition places the Last Supper; prayed at Gethsemane, where Jesus was betrayed; and, just before flying back to Rome, celebrated Mass again at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the site at which Catholics and the Eastern churches believe Jesus was buried and resurrected. (Protestants believe Jesus...