[Salvation]

Nothing new here — if you read up on the saints, many of them practiced forms of self-mortification in reparation for the sins of others.

[T Minus Four]

Thought I’d get this posted before the RC’s causused this one too. I think this is sick.

[evets]

Hasn't the pope suffered enough'?

[Campion]

24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. 25 And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. 26 Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. 27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified. -- 1 Cor 9:24-27

The word translated "discipline" is hupopiadzo, "1) to beat black and blue, to smite so as to cause bruises and livid spots 1a) like a boxer one buffets his body, handle it roughly, discipline by hardships 2) metaph. 2a) to give one intolerable annoyance 2a1) beat one out, wear one out 2b) by entreaties 3) that part of the face that is under the eyes"

[theanonymouslurker]

1 Corinthians 9:27

[humblegunner]

Emo kids cut themselves and it’s called a mental disorder.

[thethirddegree]

I used to flagelate until my mother told me I would go blind.

[ArrogantBustard]

Will all of the infallible interpreters of scripture and infallible teachers of doctrine here present on this thread please identify themselves?

[DesertRhino]

Where the heck did this practice begin? Christ never so much as hinted that people should whip themselves in his name. This is right up there with juggling copperheads.

Somewhere,, Christ is shaking his head in amazement at the nutty things we do in his name.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Lay off the poor late Pope!

If you guys wanna make Christians look like kooks, you’ve still got Pat Robertson hangin’ around...

[ichabod1]

Did he wear a hair shirt?