tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037603787996669106.post2257772083127822259..comments2023-09-17T08:40:33.708-05:00Comments on St. Robert Bellarmine's Blog: 11:11 Seen With New EyesJohn Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00803711185913601754noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037603787996669106.post-74020359259877853722012-02-04T22:53:29.258-06:002012-02-04T22:53:29.258-06:00I sent you an email and a friend request! :)I sent you an email and a friend request! :)Charissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12878512949157425695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037603787996669106.post-60641193850343122872012-02-04T21:52:31.357-06:002012-02-04T21:52:31.357-06:00What a beautiful story.
I would absolutely love t...What a beautiful story.<br /><br />I would absolutely love to see your rosaries.<br /><br />My email is quinnjohn@centurylink.net<br /><br />Here is my FB. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002573054910&sk=friends<br /><br />I don't really use it much at all.John Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00803711185913601754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037603787996669106.post-67509988495314668432012-02-04T16:45:07.204-06:002012-02-04T16:45:07.204-06:00Oh wow!!! Yay! I'm so happy I found you lol! 2...Oh wow!!! Yay! I'm so happy I found you lol! 2007? Wow, I felt like it was longer ago than that... But that makes sense because it was summer 2007 when I returned from a long term mission trip overseas. I think I was really in arguing my faith at that time... But it was very shortly after (December, I think) that I came across another website that exposed errors about the SDA "prophet" Ellen White. That made me start questioning a lot of things and i did end up leaving the SDA faith about a year later. But then I spent many years without even considering Catholicism, looking for truth that I couldn't find anywhere. I think I was so brainwashed against Catholicism that I didn't even think about it. It wasn't until last year when I met the kindest person I have ever known (a professor who was very considerate and helpful to me when I was having a hard time in her class and in life) and she happened to be Catholic that I began to wonder about it. I thought to myself, "if she is Catholic, then there might be something to it and I want to know what she believes." So I looked into it and there was a lot that I was confused about and couldn't understand, but after finding some truths that were unable to be found in any other church, i knew that the Church must be right about the other things too and I just didn't understand it yet. So I started listening to Catholic radio all the time and reading every Catholic resource I could find to try to understand. For a while I was secretly going to Catholic church because I was afraid of what my family and friends would say. But now I am very openly Catholic and love to debate things with people and I have some people telling me that that are "getting very worried about me..." That makes me feel like a real small scale apologist lol. I also met someone on Facebook who was a former Adventist and is now Catholic and she helped me a LOT in the beginning when i had questions about the Church. <br /><br />Awww.... Thanks for all the rosaries being said for me! You know, i never knew so many people who would pray for people they don't even know until I became Catholic! It was amazing to me when I found that out. As an SDA I did not have a very devoted prayer life. I tried to, but it was hard for me because I don't always know what to say and pre-written prayers were so frowned upon for some reason. But now I love to go to the tabernacle and pray... Sometimes I still don't know what to say, but I am in his real presence and I don't think he minds silent adoration :) <br /><br />Also, guess what... I even make rosaries now! My priest who I always ask to bless them always says I do some of the best work. Not to brag, but it makes me feel good. I really like to make rosaries for people. It makes me feel like I am doing something for the Church since I can't be that involved until I am confirmed. Although I am more involved than many others in my RCIA, I think because I talk to the pastors a lot and they know I am grounded and committed to joining the Church. I am already in choir and a cantor and I also already go to confession. God has led me to a parish where I am blessed to have been able to already feel like I have become a part of and to get much more involved than i would have elsewhere... I think he knew I would need that :)<br /><br />Hey, if you have an email or a Facebook, I could show you some pictures of my rosaries!<br /><br />Oh, and the way I found you... It was very hard to find you because there are a lot of churches named John the Evangelist Catholic Church! But I somehow found another website that listed many Catholic websites along with the names of the people who ran them and yours said "John the Evangelist" next to it, so I followed that link here!Charissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12878512949157425695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037603787996669106.post-20773345155120647892012-02-04T10:37:53.633-06:002012-02-04T10:37:53.633-06:00Me again Charissa,
My wife confirmed that it was ...Me again Charissa,<br /><br />My wife confirmed that it was me. How did you find or remember this site? <br /><br />God be praised! <br /><br />I checked. I never wrote about the Seventh Day Adventists. The email you sent, I remember thinking. . . "Why is she emailing me and how would she know that I am able to answer her?"<br /><br />Maybe, I made a comment on some other blog that got your attention? ? ?<br /><br />Well, I know many rosaries were said for you. Now, we will have to resume them.<br /><br />May Our Mother richly bless and reveal the special mission she has for you.John Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00803711185913601754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037603787996669106.post-83410955270408694582012-02-04T09:59:24.419-06:002012-02-04T09:59:24.419-06:00Hello Charissa,
You really have me wondering. I ...Hello Charissa,<br /><br />You really have me wondering. I actually started this blog as John the Evangelist, then quickly changed the name after realizing it was to prideful. That name shows up for maybe one or two post back in July of 2007 when the blog was started. I didn't find a comment by you. However, I do remember writing someone about apologetics. Maybe it was you?<br /><br />God bless,<br />John Michael<br /><br />Maybe if you could remember what was debated. If you want you can call. I will leave the number up for a few days.<br />573-735-2002John Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00803711185913601754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037603787996669106.post-90765046162679904332012-02-02T12:11:51.309-06:002012-02-02T12:11:51.309-06:00Aw, man! Ok well you do have a nice blog by the wa...Aw, man! Ok well you do have a nice blog by the way :) I liked it very much. I like the Miraculous Medal too! Some people in my church think it is so funny because I am the only person they know who is not even yet confirmed in the Church but is so into apologetically lol... Truly, I LOVE the Catholic Church! It is all I think about. I am in college and if I could change my major to "Catholic Church," I would do it, hahaCharissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12878512949157425695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037603787996669106.post-59527990211647845122012-02-02T11:33:45.795-06:002012-02-02T11:33:45.795-06:00Hello Charissa,
I am sorry, but it is not me. Wh...Hello Charissa,<br /><br />I am sorry, but it is not me. What a beautiful story you have. Welcome home!<br /><br />God bless,<br />John MichaelJohn Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00803711185913601754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037603787996669106.post-13027684136642819682012-02-01T01:09:16.352-06:002012-02-01T01:09:16.352-06:00Oops, I forgot to check the box to email follow up...Oops, I forgot to check the box to email follow up comments :) Just making another post so I can do it!Charissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12878512949157425695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037603787996669106.post-78427265830241832372012-02-01T01:08:06.801-06:002012-02-01T01:08:06.801-06:00Hello! I am wondering... Did you, some time ago, h...Hello! I am wondering... Did you, some time ago, have a blog that was under the name of "John the Evangelist?" I feel like it had a yellow background, but could be wrong on that... It was so long ago. Anyway, I remember I was a pretty young kid and was attempting a debate via email with somebody who called themselves John the evangelist. You are the only one I can find who calls themselves that so far... The person I was talking to had posted something about Seventh-day Adventists, I think, because that is what I was debating with them. We talked back and forth for quite a while. Anyway... I was raised Seventh-day Adventist and, at the time, was trying to get the person to see that they were teaching what I believed at the time was error. Anyway... I just wanted to find this person again because I am now 25 years old and have been studying Catholicism for some time and I am coming into the Church this year at the Easter vigil. I thought it would be awesome to track that person down and let him know that I didn't turn out so bad :) So I was just wondering if you were him...<br /><br />Blessings!Charissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12878512949157425695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037603787996669106.post-60332770561689002312011-11-13T21:26:52.383-06:002011-11-13T21:26:52.383-06:00Micheal, here is a citation from wiki:
History
[ed...Micheal, here is a citation from wiki:<br />History<br />[edit] Chapters<br /><br />The original manuscripts did not contain the chapter and verse divisions in the numbered form familiar to modern readers. Some portions of the original Hebrew texts were logically divided into parts following the Hebrew alphabet;[citation needed] for instance, the earliest known copies of the Book of Isaiah use Hebrew letters for paragraph divisions. (This was different from the acrostic structure of certain texts following the Hebrew alphabet, such as Psalm 119 and most of the Book of Lamentations.) There are other divisions from various sources which are different from what we use today.<br /><br />The Hebrew Bible began to be put into sections before the Babylonian Captivity (586 BC)[citation needed] with the five books of Moses being put into a 154-section reading program to be used in a three-year cycle. Later (before 536 BC[citation needed]) the Law was put into 54 sections and 669 sub-divisions for reading.<br /><br />By the time of the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, the New Testament had been divided into paragraphs, although the divisions were different from the modern Bible.[citation needed]<br /><br />Archbishop Stephen Langton and Cardinal Hugo de Sancto Caro developed different schemas for systematic division of the Bible in the early 13th century. It is the system of Archbishop Langton on which the modern chapter divisions are based.[1][2]<br />[edit] Verses<br /><br />For at least a thousand years the Tanakh has contained an extensive system of multiple levels of section, paragraph, and phrasal divisions that were indicated in Masoretic vocalization and cantillation markings.[citation needed] One of the most frequent of these was a special type of punctuation, the sof passuq, symbol for a full stop or sentence break, resembling the colon (:) of English and Latin orthography. With the advent of the printing press and the translation of the Bible into English, Old Testament versifications were made that correspond predominantly with the existing Hebrew full stops, with a few isolated exceptions. A product of meticulous labour and unwearying attention, the Old Testament verse divisions stand today in essentially the same places as they have been passed down since antiquity. Most attribute these to Rabbi Isaac Nathan ben Kalonymus's work for the first Hebrew Bible concordance around 1440.[2]<br /><br />The first person to divide New Testament chapters into verses was Italian Dominican biblical scholar Santi Pagnini (1470–1541), but his system was never widely adopted.[3] Robert Estienne created an alternate numbering in his 1551 edition of the Greek New Testament [4] which was also used in his 1553 publication of the Bible in French. Estienne's system of division was widely adopted, and it is this system which is found in almost all modern bibles.<br /><br />The first English New Testament to use the verse divisions was a 1557 translation by William Whittingham (c. 1524-1579). The first Bible in English to use both chapters and verses was the Geneva Bible published shortly afterwards in 1560. These verse divisions soon gained acceptance as a standard way to notate verses, and have since been used in nearly all English Bibles and the vast majority of those in other languages.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapters_and_verses_of_the_BibleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037603787996669106.post-61547545379416459942011-11-13T13:44:23.121-06:002011-11-13T13:44:23.121-06:00Wasn't it St. Jerome who put the chapter and v...Wasn't it St. Jerome who put the chapter and verse numbers to the Holy Scripture? I don't think there is anything canonical about how the numbers fell; I think its just a human way of catagorizing the Word of God. <br /><br />Playing with how the numbers happen to fall and attributing any substantial meaning to how they fall would not be a proper exegesis of the Word.Michael Turner, Front Royal, VAnoreply@blogger.com