here's an image i did for SAFE (border added recently) and maybe didn't post until Journal Too (Chapter 14):  the verse starts "Shall I not visit for these things?" saith the LORD:

   

 

       here is a slightly edited e-mail i sent to a Katholic priest (i guess it's the priest i criticize more than the church); he did not reply, perhaps because i asked two questions in an e-mail with "Bible question" as the subject:

Joel Parker
Thu 10/17/2019 9:51 AM
To:  *******@gmail.com
Fr. ****,
   while i'm thinking about it, we haven't had sound with mass online for 3 Sundays now; Kathleen called ***** and we told Fr. ***** too.
   my question:  if I were at your Bible study and said "my contention is that when Jeremiah three different times has the Lord saying 'on a nation such as this shall I not take vengeance? (NABRE)' he was not just pronouncing judgment on Israel in his day and prophesying about Jesus' day, but also was prophesying about our day and time and nation (with a lot of other Old Testament prophecies too)", what would your teaching, the teaching of the Catholic church, be?
   thank you for your time and attention.
joel
ps  today's first reading contained "Now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law,
though testified to by the law and the prophets, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ
for all who believe."  my question:  is this belief on the believe/disbelieve continuum and Jesus will just draw a line between the sheep and the goats come Judgement Day, or is there a litmus test, and what is it?

     (in e-mails to elder sibling and his spouse i said something like "perhaps the litmus test would be one like Jesus advocated in Matthew 21:22 ['If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.' (NIV)"]  Neither of them replied either.)

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