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To: Campion
Or is that just a position held by "unholy spirits"?

Regarding unholy spirits, only you would know if and when the Holy Spirit is speaking through you. His Voice is loving and kind. I am a human being and often speak from my human side (which is unholy, of course)...and often find myself apogizing for being a jerk.

I don't accuse you.

That said, there is sometimes an anger and chauvinism expressed on threads like this that is unseemly and unbecoming of children of God.

If I am not mistaken, He has called us to love each other.

7 posted on 11/30/2005 6:41:45 AM PST by Dark Skies ("The sleeper must awaken!")
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To: Dark Skies
Regarding unholy spirits, only you would know if and when the Holy Spirit is speaking through you. His Voice is loving and kind.

Well ... not always. :-) I recall Our Lord calling the Pharisees "whited sepulchres" and telling them they were "true children of their father, the Devil".

Sometimes the truth does not sound "loving and kind" ... but which is more loving, to tell the harsh truth, or to sugar-coat it?

If I am not mistaken, He has called us to love each other.

The fathers record that St. John the Apostle, when he was a very old man and had to be carried to church because he couldn't walk, preached just one message: "Little children, love one another. It is the Lord's command, and if you do it, that is enough."

But, by the same token, telling falsehoods about one other is not an act of love, and righteous anger when falsehoods are being repeated is not necessarily the wrong reaction.

8 posted on 11/30/2005 6:46:27 AM PST by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
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To: Dark Skies
Regarding unholy spirits, only you would know if and when the Holy Spirit is speaking through you. His Voice is loving and kind.

How does one know if the Spirit is speaking to them when it disagrees with another person who makes the same claim? Thus, the problem of Protestantism. This is the danger of listening to one's own "conscience", attempting to judge what the Spirit is saying - sometimes against the Church itself. A Body in dissension will fall, says Christ.

Regards

11 posted on 11/30/2005 8:06:05 AM PST by jo kus
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