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To: Natural Law; Iscool
Your brand of Christianity is full of hell, damnation, fire and brimstone. Salvation is to be pursued severely as a means to avoid punishment. Catholicism is full of love and Beatitude as Christ instructed.

That's Catholicism you're describing, you know. Like the whole Purgatory thing. And works and if you sin between the time you take communion to the time of the next confession, well, sucks to be you.

The Catholic God is one of judgment and condemnation. Jesus is even referred to being our judge in a prayer to Mary.

Catholics on this forum have stated that they will not know until they die whether they have made it or not.

Prayer to Our Lady of Perpetual Help

O Mother of Perpetual Help, thou art the dispenser of every grace that God grants us in our misery; it is for this cause that He hath made thee so powerful, so rich, so kind, that thou mightest assist us in our miseries. Thou art the advocate of the most wretched and abandoned sinners, if they but come unto thee; come once more to my assistance, for I commend myself to thee. In thy hands I place my eternal salvation; to thee I entrust my soul. Enroll me among thy most faithful servants; take me under thy protection and it is enough for me: yes, for if thou protect me, I shall fear nothing; not my sins, for thou wilt obtain for me their pardon and remission; not the evil spirits, for thou art mightier than all the powers of hell; not even Jesus, my Judge, for He is appeased by a single prayer from thee. I fear only that through my own negligence I may forget to recommend myself to thee and so I shall be lost. My dear Lady, obtain for me the forgiveness of my sins, love for Jesus, final perseverance and the grace to have recourse to thee at all times, O Mother of Perpetual Help.

Bad theology. Jesus is our Savior, not our Judge. Our sins have already been judged by his death on the cross.

2,007 posted on 09/07/2010 2:58:12 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
Jesus is our Savior, not our Judge.

So you don't accept the Nicene Creed, the Apostles' Creed or the Athanasian Creed? Just asking where you stand.

2,015 posted on 09/07/2010 3:19:16 PM PDT by maryz
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