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To: balch3
A good friend of mine is a Baptist preacher, and he's never refused to perform a funeral, no matter who the deceased was. The funeral's a ritual to comfort the living. The dead person's beyond help by that time. He tries very hard not to be hurtful, but he does use it as an opportunity to witness to those who might be unsaved.

That is not Catholic teaching what you stated. You are uninformed of what Catholic Teaching is. That is why the Catholics have the Book Malachi added to the Bible.

The Bible also states clearly that though there is no one on earth holier than John the Baptist was, the least in heaven was holier than he was on earth (Matthew 11:11).

Explain Matthew 11:11, and I will give you a pass on what you said that when you are dead, you are dead. The book of Malachi also needs to be explained, as it was the folks who put the Bible together in the first place put in the book of Malachi. Were they wrong in putting the books in the Bible back in the 4th or 5th Century?

Finally, she was a public sinner and unrepentant. He did hold a service for her, and something that might be equivalent to what Baptists have.

But it was not a re-enactment of the Lord's Supper.

For Jesus also said: "Do not give what is holy to dogs.

Finally, there are those who feel they can sin as much as they want, as long as they said the words "I have been saved".

Being saved means keeping God's commandments and showing God you love Him with your whole heart, mind and soul, and loving your neighbor as yourself.

Leading other people into sin (living with a man out of wedlock) is not an example for young children, and would lead them into sin.

Do you condemn Jesus for what He did with the moneychangers in the Temple?

Do you condemn Jesus for saying to the adulterous woman (in sharp rebuke) "Go and sin no more!

12 posted on 07/22/2005 12:45:31 AM PDT by topher (God bless our troops and protect them)
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To: kalee

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13 posted on 07/22/2005 12:52:43 AM PDT by kalee
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To: topher

I cannot make sense of your argument, but just to clarify a point: the Book of Malachi is in Protestant Bibles too. It's not part of the Deuterocanon. Perhaps you mean Maccabees? As for the previous poster not stating Catholic teaching: where did he say he was? He explained the Protestant view. Funeral services are memorials for the loved ones of the deceased, and not of any real use to the deceased him or her self.


19 posted on 07/22/2005 1:07:56 AM PDT by The Grammarian
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To: topher
That is not Catholic teaching what you stated. You are uninformed of what Catholic Teaching is. That is why the Catholics have the Book Malachi added to the Bible.

Actually, Malachi is in both the Protestant and Catholic canon. But, even if we were to pretend it was one of the deuterocanonical books, it would be more accurate to say Catholics have Malachi; Protestants just removed it from their bibles.
43 posted on 07/22/2005 4:51:37 AM PDT by Conservative til I die
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