Jade Dragon (03-10-2018), ThatOwlWoman (03-10-2018)
Jade Dragon (03-10-2018), ThatOwlWoman (03-10-2018)
You say people who sin repeatedly are not Christians but they are. They're just Christians who strayed from the path.
How do you think it works? A person prays, he's a Christian. A person swears, he's cast out of the kingdom. A person prays for forgiveness and he's a Christian again. That's just silly.
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
Jade Dragon (03-10-2018), ThatOwlWoman (03-10-2018)
When someone is upset and/or frightened over other ppl's actions/beliefs/words, they often come to public venues like this to expose those words and try to gather other like-minded ppl so that they don't feel quite so alone.
I think that your beliefs are nonsense, but they don't threaten or scare me at all. Therefore, I have never started an Internet discussion about ppl like you. I'm sure in my spirit that my Path is okay for me. I've not felt any need to evangelize others and get them to agree with me and validate my Path. I'm sure that the vast majority of our fellow passengers have good paths as well. Even if they're Catholic, atheist, Muslim, Jew, Hindu, or any other faith or lack of faith. My only caveat on religion is this: Does it make you a better person? If so, then it's all good. If your faith compels you to attack those who don't ascribe, then maybe it's not so good.
Guno צְבִי (03-25-2018), kudzu (03-11-2018)
I still don't understand after services why the Priest gave me a prostate exam?
It's a dilemma that protestants have had to deal with when trying to separate grace from Christian living (acts, works, etc.). How do we know someone is saved/following the path to salvation when their actions are sinful? The biblical answer, which is also the Catholic answer, is that if one is living a Christian life (works, sacraments, commandments, etc.), one might be a recipient of grace.
Put another way:
Originally Posted by John 5:28-29
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
Wrong. Fundamentalists do not adhere to the teachings of the catholic church. And we had our own beliefs, from Scripture, centuries before the catholic church was a gleam in Constantine's eye. You should refrain from commenting on things that you are completely ignorant about. You'd look less a fool.
You didn't exist before Constantine, and no unorthodox Christians existed before the Catholic Church/the Ascention.
There was basically the early heresies, such as Aryanism and Montanism. There was the Great Schism in the 11th Century, the Cathars in the 14th Century, and then Protestantism in the 15th and 16th centuries (beginning with Jan Hus, and then Luther, et. al. ).
Last edited by Minister of Truth; 03-24-2018 at 08:55 PM.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
Jade Dragon (03-24-2018)
What was that, threedee? I can't hear you. You're on my ignore list. Could you speak up?
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
Still can't hear you.
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