Posted on 01/01/2012 3:02:56 PM PST by rzman21
I seriously doubt it or he wouldn't have suggested it.
I wonder what the chapter and verse are for that test?
Or where in the CCC that can be found?
I can see it now. We're at the Pearly Gates and Peter greets us and says, "Before I let you in, you first you have to pass a test to see if you qualify. You have to give me the names of other Christians for all of church history. Only then can I tell if you're a *real* Christian.*
It reminds me of the joke about the game show for a million dollar prize. The contestant is asked what year the Titanic sunk, how many people were aboard, and the last question was, *Name them*.
Sigh.....
Just another reason to not have looked back after leaving the Catholic church.
Living in what I would call an Ethiopian/Eritrean neighborhood, I’m surrounded by Amharic script. I love Ethiopian food.
There’s even an Ethiopian shopping center not far from me.
I attended an Ethiopian liturgy once or twice. I felt like I stuck out like a sore thumb as the only Caucasian and the only person who didn’t know Amharic or Ge’ez.
It’s such a tragedy how shipwrecked they are....and they cannot see the condition of their ship. Like those on the Titanic believed the ship would never sink and they died with it when it sunk.
BTW We have lots of blizzard type snow falling here at the moment. Fifteen minutes into a store for a short run and nothing was there but sunshine....came out into a blizzard and snow covered ground!
I didn’t apologize.
That’s your own personal interpretation of what I said.
Isn't it rather hypocritical when posts like this one went uncommented or otherwise for years... or this one -- where were the comments about "Not something any ..would want any part of.", huh? the silence was deafening...
“They can’t even, or don’t seem to have ever TRIED “ —> here again is the blanket statement of “they” directed at 1L1f1B
Perhaps in your rush to be offended you didn't notice the above.
Which is why personal interpretation leads to so many errors -- like the wide disparity of beliefs that can be Oneness Pentecostal to Messianic whatever to Church of Christ to BO's pilateskirck
“The organization corrupted by immorality and infiltrated by pedophiles?”
Name a Church that has NOT been a target? Of course, when the few here who belong to their own private church where they define perfection, they get a pass. Except of course that is NOT what God sent His Son to establish.
Yes, they don’t bother if one’s “posse” is not the target right, but if one’s posse IS, then “oh, I am so disappointed...” — that is hypocritical, right?
You are not reading what I am posting Cronos.
"The laughing gifs,the one trick pony,even the cereal box don't really bother me,infantile as they are"
Is that clear enough?
What I do see are many tentacles attached to the heart and mind of the membership which has little to do with Christ Jesus and mostly about practices and rituals which give them a sense of belonging. For some not doing these, which are habits and oftentimes requirements, would be more than difficult to let loose of. Like taking a pacifier from a toddler so he can grow and develop into the adult he is destined to become. Instead their security rests in what they do and how much they adhere to these practices and false teachings.
I have thought if the priesthood was abolished, which it was thru Christ, and Mary/Saint worship as well, which Jesus never established....and the Eucharist as they practice it in it's diabolical form.....then and only then could the light of Christ's truths be clearly seen....for these are the crutches which they depend and rely on to “feel” religious...and superior over true Christianity as Jesus taught us.
I don't speak of this for all but for most within their church...So many I've spoken with all say the same thing once they have left. They were never saved thru Christ...rather they practiced Catholicism like one would practice the tenants of any organization.
Oh, so then you do believe that I should free myself from the shackles of Catholicism.
At least I stand behind what I believe.
Sounds like you’re getting lake effect snow.
It behaves like that. Clear one minute, the next the band moves in and it’s an Arctic wasteland.
It's not that the catholic church was “specifically” targeted...it's that the catholic church refused to oppose those committing these criminal acts... nor rid itself of this filth. Therefore since homosexuals knew they would be protected within the church and had ample opportunity to children and others like themselves...the catholic church became a magnet for these criminals.... further assisting, enabling and abetting these sins to remain and flourish within it's walls and under it's leadership complying with....thus themselves then being as guilty as those who committed these crimes against it's membership....children and innocents...and they continue to do so today.
...but the catholic church enabled these criminals and encouraged their continued sins against their own membership even after they recognized those guilty...and further continues til today protecting those guilty of these sins. It's not that the catholic church was “specifically” targeted...it's that the catholic church refused to oppose those committing these criminal acts... nor rid itself of this filth.Of course this is one string of falsehood strung together. The Church has ALWAYS condemned the evil acts involved and has taken giant steps to address this issue - far more effectively than, say your local government schools and much more than almost any of the proddy (dis)organizations.
Sure. That’s why it’s been going on for well over 1,000 years.
And that’s why it took all that negative publicity by the secular media when people refused to be pushed around any more by the church and finally started to speak out against it, before the *church* made a show of doing something about it.
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