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To: Yorlik803

-—It doesnt really matter what faith as long as you accept Christ.-—

I don’t mean to he argumentative, but that’s an important error.

Jesus is Truth Itself, so to be seekers of God we must be seekers of Truth. The closer we are to truth in our moral and intellectual lives, the closer we are to God.

What God wants from us on earth is our best effort at attaining truth, however much we fail. We must also exhort and reprove others, but always in charity. Easier said than done, I know.


18 posted on 04/13/2012 6:58:31 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas; Yorlik803

>>We must also exhort and reprove others, but always in charity.<<

I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m not going to let my human frailty get in the way of leading by example. No one said that we should be hiding the truth and not instructing others, but my religion is my religion. Someone telling another person HOW to worship God is not part of it.

The near occasion of sin should be the concentration. We are supposed to teach about that. Not whether we say a rosary, meet in a storefront or read Harry Potter. That is simply human ego talking.


24 posted on 04/13/2012 7:18:13 AM PDT by netmilsmom (I am Breitbart)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

On this we must agree to disagree.
Does Christ care about how we believe in Him? Does he care wether we add a few extra lines to the Lord prayer or if we attend Mass or services?
The Lord gave us a clear text on how to live. It is up to each and everyone on how we read and interpret his words.
But I am not a scholar of such things.


33 posted on 04/13/2012 8:17:53 AM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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