To: kosta50
Then no rituals,
Rituals? That's Catholic lingo.
not even waving of the hands, is necessary, no works, not even going to church
Necessary? They are expressing, on their own, what is within their hearts.
Protestants make fun of Catholics/Orthodox and their "empty rituals", while
I've never seen Protestants making fun of them standing, sitting, kneeling ON COMMAND. It's pitiful. Don't take correction for condemnation. But that's the last thing Catholics want or can handle - correction. Besides, the RCC is a dead church - the mass is a ritual - so down pat you know exactly what will be said/done, the congregants response, etc. All ritual.
while they themselves wave aimlessly in the air as if saying "I am here!" to an omnipresent omniscient God.
Aimlessly? They ALREADY know God is within them. You are coming from the RCC beliefs. You will never understand how/why Christians worship as they do since they KNOW God through fellowship.
6,444 posted on
01/02/2011 12:44:06 PM PST by
xone
To: presently no screen name
Besides, the RCC is a dead church LOL!
They ALREADY know God is within them.
So, who are they waving at? I just had another "Proddy" (as he calls himself) tell me they are reaching out to get "as close as possible" to God. Sometimes I think the Protestants really have no clue what they are talking about, or maybe they talk form both sides of the mouth.
You are coming from the RCC beliefs
Too much mind reading. I have never been a Roman Catholic.
You will never understand how/why Christians worship as they do since they KNOW God through fellowship.
Fellowship? They are fellows with their maker? The pot is a "buddy" (fellow) with the potter; the chair with the carpenter; the uncreated with the created? More doubletlak...but it sounds good.
6,445 posted on
01/02/2011 12:45:56 PM PST by
kosta50
(God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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6,469 posted on
01/02/2011 3:16:32 PM PST by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: presently no screen name; kosta50
Rituals? That's Catholic lingo Actually, it is not. While we do a lot of what appears to outsiders as rituals, they are not that, and we don't call them that.
6,766 posted on
01/06/2011 8:04:56 PM PST by
annalex
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