Posted on 05/14/2008 10:16:49 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg
Why do you believe that God only grants us a finite amount of love to express?
Great question.
>>I am sure there were times you might have saw the question answered when from a legit inquirer!<<
Actually, I’ve had questions answered myself. Thanks!
***Not many Catholics left!***
Just those of us sinners who believe in Christ.
Is that not what Protestants do when they accuse Catholics of worshipping Mary or treating her as God when we strongly object that we do not?
Do you remember when all good Catholic girls had a Scapular pinned to their underwear? Do you remember why? Do you remember the promises associated with the various flavors of Scapulars?
When I was a youth we were told explicitly to obey, shut up, and believe anything we tell you.
Are you surprised at the thought there may be a rather large group of Catholics out there who know nothing of "official" Catholic teaching?
>>”Proofs” are not required for posting on this forum. If they were, the atheists - who demand empirical proof that God exists - would be high-fiving each other for shutting down most all theistic posts.
Posters are free to testify as to what they believe, their experiences, doctrines, traditions, dogmas, history, etc. as long as they stay within the guidelines for the type of thread.<<
Well actually, “proofs” are not what I’m talking about. It’s the simple documenting what one says against facts. Not on emotion but rather on facts.
There is a difference between making a statement and telling someone to disprove it and making a statement, someone else showing the facts where that statement is false and still allowing the false statement to go on.
When an atheist says there is no God, prove there is, not too many people can prove what is faith. However when someone states that the Catholic Church says “such and such” then a person posts actual documents that state otherwise, that is fact.
It’s like saying soldiers are baby killers and a person picks up a picture of a dead baby. Is the person holding the picture correct? No, that baby could have died under a million circumstances. Did the soldier kill the baby? Of course not, even though the child may have died being held as a shield against the soldier’s bullets.
When facts are disregarded and emotions left to prevail, we don’t really have facts, do we?
And again, just tell me to shut up if I’m out of line.
Ooops, missed an “s” didn’t I?
>>Are you surprised at the thought there may be a rather large group of Catholics out there who know nothing of “official” Catholic teaching? <<
Honestly, not at all. The hippies of the 60’s watered down much of it. But we are improving and actually, my kids teach me.
As long as misinformation is spread, and allowed, Less will know. When you say that “some” Catholics worship Mary, I would have to say that there’s “some” in every group. But that’s not what we should do and the Vatican doesn’t condone it.
>>I think the RCC doctrines are a product of the enemy<<
There are extremists in the world that want you to be a slave, a muslim or dead. You, and your children.
There is a real enemy. Who stands against RC’s as well as all Christians. Don’t make an enemy out of the Christians. That’s not real.
The Church founded by Christ is a product of the love of God the Father, Christ the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Are they your enemy?
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Do Protestants consider Catholics to be Christians? That's not what I've observed.
“I believe what I read in the Scripture, whether I understand it or not”
“And, I ask the Holy Spirit to guide and teach me...”
It’s still your interpretation.
It’s still your conception of meaning against mine.
I read Scripture too and commentary and whole lot more. But my concept of what it means agrees with the church.
I also am guided by the Holy Spirit.
That would be a big question.
Do Protestants consider Catholics to be Christian? Please, anyone jump in.
OTOH it could be part of an orchestrated campaign to "prepare the groundwork".
It is a deja vu experience for the old timers like me who remember the preliminary "discussions" which went on for years before the Pope declared the Bodily Assumption Of Mary.
The groundwork is being laid very carefully, pushed along by our Totus Tuus Pope, John Paul II.
Be ready to jump through the hoop my child.
??? Every serious field has a specialized language. The language of the streets is highly fluid -- it changes, it varies by region, words change their meaning, words drop out, words are added. I found an old prayer book once (not a true antique, maybe about 50 years old); it included the Christmas song "Hark, What Mean Those Awful Voices" (a song I later learned as "Hark, What Mean Those Holy Voices")! I was only about 9 -- and I was shocked! ;-) But it was a perfectly proper and reverent use of "awful" at the time it was written.
Do you think theology has less reason to use specialized language than, say, sports? (Of course, sports are really important -- even the feminists don't dare go too far there!)
What hoop? There is no hoop.
God bless you.
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Now we're really talking Religion. Go Pats! :)
However, there are far more Catholics like myself that would not agree with it. Benedict doesn’t agree with it. Benedict wants a leaner more devout church. Therefore, parishes like mine, that teach the CCC and not “Sunday School Cathechism” are growing. More of us know what is right.
So no sense in bantering about it until it happens.
I'm guessing you never studied Aristotelian logic, especially as regards causality . . .
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