Life is Worth Living | Episode 88 | Knowing and Loving | Fulton Sheen

Fulton John Sheen, was born May 8, 1895 in Illinois and was ordained a priest of the diocese of Peoria in Peoria, IL on September 20, 1919. In 1930, after just eleven years of priesthood, Sheen began hosting a weekly Sunday night radio broadcast called The Catholic Hour. This broadcast captured many devoted listeners, reportedly drawing an audience of four million people every week for two decades. In 1951, Sheen was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdioceses of New York, the same year he started Life is Worth Living. Life is Worth Living ran until 1957. Bishop Sheen hosted another television series, The Fulton Sheen Program, running from 1961 to 1968 that closely modeled the Life is Worth Living series.
In 1979 Fulton J. Sheen received his greatest accolade when Pope John Paul II embraced him and said, "You have written and spoken well of the Lord Jesus. You are a loyal son of the Church." With that last acknowledgement, Fulton Sheen passed into eternal life just two months later on December 9, 1979.
Bishop Fulton Sheen was scheduled for beatification (the process of becoming a saint in the Catholic Church) on December 21, 2019, at the Cathedral of St. Mary in Peoria. On December 3, 2019, the Diocese of Peoria announced that the beatification of Sheen would be delayed.

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Mr Fulton J Sheen (1895-1979 C.E.) delves into philosophy of the soul in the beginnig of this video, but is that what Jesus did when answering a question or teaching a lesson ? When tempted by Satan after 40 days of Jesus having not eaten, so that Satan told Jesus to turn some stones into loaves of bread "if you are a son of God", Jesus did not reply with a philosophical thought, but set the example for his genuine followers to do, of using the Bible as one's guide and not philosophy, telling Satan by quoting from Deuteronomy 8:3: "It is written: ‘Man must live, not on bread alone, but on every word that comes from Jehovah’s mouth.’”(Matt 4:3, 4; Note: Jehovah is God's personal name, see Isa 12:2, KJV)
Two more times when tempted by Satan Jesus quoted from the Hebrew Scriptures (commonly called "the Old Testament"), from Deuteronomy 6:16 at Matthew 4:5-7 and 10:20 at Matthew 4:8-10. When some Pharisees asked Jesus if "it was lawful for a man to divorce a wife on every sort of ground", how did Jesus respond ? By quoting from Genesis 2:24 in the Hebrew Scriptures.(Matt 19:3-6) No personal opinion, no philosophy, just what is written down in the Bible.(see John 7 and verses 17 and 18)
After his resurrection from the dead, when walking alongside two men who were traveling to the village of Emmaus while discussing what had just happened in Jerusalem in the past few days, Jesus said to them: "O senseless ones and slow of heart to believe all the things the prophets have spoken ! Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?” And starting with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them things pertaining to himself in all the Scriptures."Luke 24:13-15, 25-27)
Note: concerning the soul, it is NOT something that lives within us, that is immortal. Rather, the soul is us as a person, for it breathes (Gen 2:7), it can be destroyed (Lev 23:30; Acts 3:23), it eats (Deut 12:20), it bleeds (Jer 2:34), it dies (Isa 53:12; James 5:20).
The word "soul" in Hebrew (nephesh) literally means "breather", so that when Jehovah God breathed into Adam's nostrils the breath of life, he "became a living soul" (Gen 2:7), whereas before God did this, Adam was a dead soul.
Jesus used the word soul at Matthew 10:28, to picture a person's future life that cannot be taken away except by Jehovah God, for the present body can die, but Jehovah can resurrect a person with a new physical (or spiritual) body, so that they can live again as a "soul", or as a breather in the paradise earth that he has promised for "meek" ones to live on as their everlasting inheritance.(Ps 37:11, 29; Matt 5:5)

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*Bishop not Mister…also it’s “AD” not “CE”

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Jesus told the Pharisees that they have "seated themselves in the seat of Moses", establishing religious titles so as to be looked up to at Matthew 23:2, loving "the glory of men even more than the glory of God".(John 12:43) At Matthew 23:5-12, Jesus says:
"All the works they do, they do to be seen by men, for they broaden the scripture-containing cases that they wear as safeguards and lengthen the fringes of their garments. They like the most prominent place at evening meals and the front seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces and to be called (by the religious title of) Rabbi (or Bishop, or Reverend, or Pastor, etc) by men. But you, do NOT you be called Rabbi (meaning "teacher" as a religious title), for one is your Teacher, and all of you are brothers."
"Moreover, do NOT call anyone your father (as a religious title, such as "Father So and So", as the Pope is called "Holy Father", but which Jesus made clear that ONLY God, whose name is Jehovah (see Ex 6:3; Isa 12:2, KJV) is "the Holy Father" at John 17:11) on earth, for one is your Father, the heavenly One. Neither be called leaders, for your Leader is one, the Christ. But the greatest one among you must be your minister. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted."(see Luke 18:9-14)
Thus, nowhere in the Bible does a person find that Jehovah's prophets or the apostles are called by religious titles. Only in Christendom is this found, having created a clergy-laity arrangement, in which its religious leaders are the "man of lawlessness" at 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4, who "stands in opposition and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits down in the temple of God, publicly showing himself to be a god."
And, the abbreviation of B.C.E. or C.E. is used not just by sincere Bible students, but also by historians and scholars. According to the World History Encyclopedia, it says concerning "B.C.E.", under the topic, "The Origin & History of the BCE/CE Dating System":
"The BCE/CE dating system was first used in the 17th century and has been used since in scholarly publications read by people of all faiths and cultures in an effort to be inclusive. This system is also more accurate in that it makes no claim to date the year of Christ’s birth which no one knows."
"In recent years, a persistent criticism has been leveled against the use of the BCE/CE system (Before the Common or Current Era/Common or Current Era), rather than BC/AD (Before Christ/Anno Domini or 'Year of Our Lord'), in dating historical events."
"This designation, it is claimed, is nothing more than an attempt to "remove Christ from the calendar" in keeping with the "subversive" effects of political correctness. The use of BCE/CE, opponents claim, is offensive to Christians who recognize time as dated up to, and away from, the birth of Jesus."
"Further, it is claimed that BCE/CE makes no sense because it refers to exactly the same event as BC/AD. Those who oppose the use of the "common era" designation also seem to feel that the use of BC/AD is actually stipulated by the Bible or in some way carries biblical authority."
"There is no biblical authority for BC/AD; it was created over 500 years after the events described in the Christian New Testament (by a monk named Dionysius Exiguus in about the year 525) and was not accepted usage until after another 500 years had passed."
"The use of BCE/CE certainly has become more common in recent years but it is not a new invention of the "politically correct" nor is it even all that new; the use of "common era" in place of A.D. first appears in German in the 17th century CE and in English in the 18th. The use of this designation in dating has nothing to do with "removing Christ from the calendar" and everything to do with accuracy when dealing with historical events and including people of all faiths in discussions of history."
Dictionary dot com states: "Before the creation of BC and AD, people marked the years by who was in power. Ancient Romans named their years based off of how long a consul or emperor had ruled, while Egyptians similarly counted their years based on the years a king ruled."(see Neh 2:1; Esther 1:1; Luke 3:1, 2)
"Yet in the sixth century (at least what we’d call the sixth century today), people in power wanted a consistent way to keep track of the years so that everyone was on the same page. In particular, Christian leaders wanted a set and agreed upon date for Easter", whereby the monk named Dionysius Exiguus was given the task by Pope John I, effectively creating BC and AD.