Protestants Need to Convert (and Bad Catholics need to Revert)

http://catholicism.org ^ | November 5, 2013 | Brother Andre Marie

[impimp]

The key thing you fail to understand is the concept of the immortal soul for all people. Is an immortal soul for all part of your theology?

[Elsie]

The key thing you fail to understand is the concept of the immortal soul for all people.

Great mindreading, but the concept is well integrated into my thinking.

The question is WHERE that soul is located until the Last Judgment.

The BIBLE says that GRAVES will open and the GOOD and the BAD will rise to meet HIM in the air.

Is "Sorry folks; I know Heaven has been fun for a while, but now you HAVE to go back into your old bodies to face judgment." a part of the things you've been taught?

What is the justification for it?

[ConservingFreedom]

Protestants Need to Convert

As a Catholic, I need to pray for my Protestant brothers in Christ - and I hope they'll pray for me.

[Elsie]

That’s an acceptable request.

I think we’re each praying for the other to see the Light.

(I think we HAVE seen the light - just from different angles.)

Lord, I pray that we can come closer together on the essentials, and minimize our relying on the non-essentials.

[Elsie]

Is an immortal soul for all part of your theology?

Yup...

"...and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
John 11:26

[Elsie]

And Brother said, “What’s wrong with politics?”

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I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said, "Stop! Don't do it!"

"Why shouldn't I?" he said.

 

I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!"

He said, "Like what?"

 

I said, "Well...are you religious or atheist?"

He said, "Religious."

 

I said, "Me too! Are you Christian or Buddhist?"

He said, "Christian."

 

I said, "Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?"

He said, "Protestant."

 

I said, "Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?"

He said, "Baptist!"

 

I said,"Wow! Me too! Are you Baptist Church of GOD or Baptist Church of the Lord?"

He said, "Baptist Church of GOD!"

 

I said, "Me too! Are you Original Baptist Church of GOD, or are you Reformed Baptist Church of GOD?"

He said,"Reformed Baptist Church of GOD!"

 

I said, "Me too! Are you Reformed Baptist Church of GOD, reformation of 1879, or Reformed Baptist Church of GOD, reformation of 1915?"

He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of GOD, reformation of 1915!"

 

I said, "Die, heretic scum", and pushed him off.

-- Emo Phillips

[Elsie]

How did it get broken??

[Elsie]

Welcome aboard, CF.

Been lurking long?

[MayflowerMadam]

“Most of Catholic doctrine is false”

Yes; if any other “religion” practiced similar fol-de-rol it would be called a cult. It is a cult, morphed to accepted mainstream.

[ConservingFreedom]

Thanks! A while.

[impimp]

Catholics believe everyone receives one judgement - either particular or final. It sounds like you reject the particular and only accept the final.

[Elsie]

Then you’ve seen how we play together at times.

Sometimes it’s for fun; other times it’s for blood.

Glad to have a new person on board.

You don’t have to pick a side if you don’t want.

We ALL have some good points as well as some bad ones.

Ain’t humanity FUN!!!

[ConservingFreedom]

Then you’ve seen how we play together at times.

Sometimes it’s for fun; other times it’s for blood.

Jesus already bled for me - I don't want to shed any of my own or anyone else's. Although Heaven knows I've been guilty of using words for tearing down rather than building up ... and probably will be again before I meet my Maker.

You don’t have to pick a side if you don’t want.

I have a side, but with the grace of God I'll try (and sometimes fail through my own fault) to approach the "other" side in a gentle spirit.

[Elsie]

[af_vet_1981]

That’s Scripture. The Hail Mary is not found as is in the Bible as a prayer to be prayed to her.

When you realize that prayer in and of itself is not worship but rather a request for assistance, and when you know that Miriam is the mother of God with us, not God herself, then you see that the Scripture in question is a very respectful and appropriate form of address to her.