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To: bronx2

I follow Christ not some magesterium. Following Christ is Christianity. Following a church is Churchianity.


2,594 posted on 09/10/2011 4:08:09 PM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: CynicalBear
It appears you follow and worship your own individual prideful interpretations. That is called idolatry akin to the "Non Serviam of Satan and not the Bride of Christ which He bequeathed to His followers.
2,597 posted on 09/10/2011 4:55:01 PM PDT by bronx2 (while Jesus is the Alpha /Omega He has given us rituals which you reject to obtain the graces as to)
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To: CynicalBear

“I follow Christ not some magesterium. Following Christ is Christianity. Following a church is Churchianity.”

Following a lot of what Quix teaches lately?

Come on, you’re better than that. I am a Catholic, Christ is the center of my faith.

Christ is the reason I am a Catholic.

Visit my home page. Find out why I believe what I believe and why I know the Catholic Church is the First Church of Christ.

From my home page:

I converted to Catholicism at Easter Vigil 2008. I thought I was a Christian. After all I had called myself a Presbyterian all my life. But, I had never been baptized and I didn’t realize at the time that baptism was so important.

I never said the Sinner’s Prayer. It never seemed real to me. It always seemed a manipulative thing. The altar call. Couldn’t do it.

After many years I started going to church. I just wanted to worship God. That’s all. Should have been so simple. But every place I went seemed so person oriented. Not God oriented.

Someone I had been doing business with told me about RCIA. Now I didn’t know at the time but he truly lives his faith. I went to see him one day but he wasn’t at work. When I asked about him I was told he was in the hospital. I didn’t even know he was sick! That’s when I found out that he had donated one of his kidneys to someone he doesn’t even know. Just a fellow Catholic at another parish. I have since met the person he donated his kidney to. He told me that he was given 15 more years of life because a man I knew truly believed and gave of himself.

It took me a year to actually start going to RCIA. You see, I knew the rule. I knew that if I became Catholic I would have to go to Mass every single Sunday and I just wasn’t sure that I wanted to give God one whole hour a week. I am amazed that I am still here to tell you this.

During RCIA, I went to Mass. And I knew. This is true worship. I kept going to Mass, every SINGLE Sunday.

I now am co-owner of a Catholic bookstore and go to daily Mass. God is so much more than we think. I thank God every single day that He made me Catholic.


2,599 posted on 09/10/2011 5:03:05 PM PDT by Not gonna take it anymore
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To: CynicalBear

Don’t you ever wonder if some people talked in real life the same way they write, that their noses would be so high up in the air that they would trip over their own feet? Or if it rained, they would drown? I do. ;o)


2,691 posted on 09/10/2011 8:50:55 PM PDT by boatbums ( God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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