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To: ladyinred
Fifty years ago, there was a joke going around, the punchline of which was that there was a high wall around a part of heaven. When the newly entered person asks an angel why there was a walled off section in heaven, he is told :." SO THAT THE CATHOLICS DON'T SEE HOW MANY PROTESTANTS ARE HERE." :-)
306 posted on 09/14/2006 6:50:59 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons
One section? The whole thing is walled off.

"And he took me up in spirit to a great and high mountain: and he shewed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, 11 Having the glory of God, and the light thereof was like to a precious stone, as to the jasper stone, even as crystal. 12 And it had a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and in the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. 13 On the east, three gates: and on the north, three gates: and on the south, three gates: and on the west, three gates. 14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them, the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb ... And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. 27 There shall not enter into it any thing defiled, or that worketh abomination or maketh a lie, but they that are written in the book of life of the Lamb."

A garden enclosed, and fountain sealed per Canticle of Canticles (Song of Solomon); the Catholic Church.

308 posted on 09/14/2006 7:01:35 PM PDT by reductio
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To: nopardons

LOL! I know there are some Catholics here who don't feel this way, but until I started visiting this area of FR I stupidly had no idea any of them did! I don't like that kind of thinking in Protestants who feel they are the only ones either. Nice to see you over here!


316 posted on 09/14/2006 10:18:40 PM PDT by ladyinred
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