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The doctrine of indulgences, when properly understood, is helpful and instructive. It certainly makes one more conscious of sin and its burden, and the necessity of pious acts ("work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God which worketh in you.")
Posted 12:35
and nothing yet. Wow!
Nah, paying for an indulgence is no sillier than sending money to a Jimmy Swaggert or a Revernd Ike for a 'Prayer Rug' guaranteed to do something or other.
So9
6 minutes ... a minor miracle.
I suggest to you that, barring any alternative views, this thread would lack the stimulation many, unadmittedly, enjoy.
To thine own self be true.
Brother:
I am NOT going to bash. However, I would think that after the Western Church lost a good portion of itself, due to the error of indulgences, that they would scrap the idea. Indulgences are not grounded in Scripture, or in Holy Tradition.