@Deleted User you didnt tell me, i found it through FB

<@&629847056436953118> we can if y'all want, i was just running through Tales from the Borderlands and I legit just finished it now so... it's up to y'all really

Im heading to bed so its a no from me sry

@Wrath not really up for it chief

It is getting kinda late on my end

Aight, no RCIA this week

Good thing too, I'm tired as shit lmao

Thats what you get for staying up late

I WOKE UP EARLY

I can do RCIA if you just explain it to me instead of reading from a manual

After a 24 hr Bender of Peasant simulator 2018

Not allowed to do that buddy

I'm a woman remember

Read the fucking book

>Tfw I missed class

<:stalin:557584393741271050>

Nigger, class never happened

so when are we planning for tomorrow

pls let it be before 10pm EST lel

Kings

When we doin it

Right now let's go bright and early

I thought we were doing the 7pm EST plan

<@&629847056436953118> 7pm EST good for everyone?

yus sensei

👍

Working till tomorrow basically but have fun lol

Today or tomorrow?

@TexMan today

Ok

that's 9;00am here, so probably won't make it

<@&629847056436953118> alright, so who is showing up

@Wrath i won't show up, plz don't hate me

cant. Have fun tho

Is it literally gonna be me with two people

One of whom is already confirmed

Because it seems like I should just give y'all some fucking homework

If it's just gonna be two people I may as well not stay up. Medication makes me super tired and all that shit

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THE THIRD ARTICLE

"Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary."
The Christian must not only believe in the Son of God, as we have seen, but also in His Incarnation.
St. John, after having written of things subtle and difficult to understand,[1] points out the
Incarnation to us when he says: "And the Word was made flesh."[2] Now, in order that we may
understand something of this, I give two illustrations at the outset.

It is clear that there is nothing more like the Word of God than the word which is conceived in our
mind but not spoken. Now, no one knows this interior word in our mind except the one who conives
it, and then it is known to others only when it is pronounced.[3] So also as long as the Word of God
was in the heart of the Father, it was not known except by the Father Himself; but when the Word
assumed flesh--as a word becomes audible--then was It first made manifest and known.
"Afterwards He was seen upon earth and conversed with men."[4] Another example is that,
although the spoken word is known through hearing, yet it is neither seen nor touched, unless it is
written on paper. So also the Word of God was made both visible and tangible when He became
flesh. And as the paper upon which the word of a king is written is called the word of the king, so
also Man to whom the Word of God is conjoined in one "hypostasis"[5] is called the Son of God.
"Take thee a great book and write in it with a man's pen."[6] Therefore, the holy Apostles affirmed:
"Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary."

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ERRORS RELATING TO THE THIRD ARTICLE

On this point there arose many errors; and the holy Fathers at the Council of Nicea added in that
other Creed a number of things which suppress all these errors.
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Origen said that Christ was born and came into the world to save even the devils, and, therefore, at
the end of the world all the demons will be saved. But this is contrary to the Holy Scripture: Depart
from Me, you cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels."[7]
Consequently, to remove this error they added in the Creed: "Who for us men (not for the devils)
and for our salvation, came down from heaven." In this the love of God for us is made more
apparent.

Photinus would have Christ born of the Blessed Virgin, but added that He was a mere man who by
a good life in doing the will of God merited to become the son of God even as other holy men. This,
too, is denied by this saying of John: "I came down from heaven, not to do My own will but the will
of Him that sent Me." 8 Now if Christ were not in heaven, He would not have descended from
heaven, and were He a mere man, He would not have been in heaven. Hence, it is said in the Nicene
Creed: "He came down from heaven."

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Manichaeus, however, said that Christ was always the Son of God and He descended from heaven,
but He was not actually but only in appearance clothed in true flesh. But this is false, because it is
not worthy of the Teacher of Truth to have anything to do with what is false, and just as He showed
His physical Body, so it was really His: "Handle, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as
you see Me to have."[9] To remove this error, therefore, they added: "And He was incarnate."

Ebion, who was a Jew, said that Christ was born of the Blessed Virgin in the ordinary human
way.[10] But this is false, for the Angel said of Mary: "That which is conceived in her is of the
Holy Ghost."[11] And the holy Fathers to destroy this error, added: "By the Holy Ghost."

Valentinus believed that Christ was conceived by the Holy Ghost, but would have the Holy Spirit
deposit a heavenly body in the Blessed Virgin, so that she contributed nothing to Christ's birth
except to furnish a place for Him. Thus, he said, this Body appeared by means of the Blessed
Virgin, as though she were a channel. This is a great error, for the Angel said: "And therefore also
the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God."[12] And the Apostle adds:
"But when the fullness of time was come, God sent His Son, made of a woman."[13] Hence the
Creed says: "Born of the Virgin Mary."