These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
Hey, but they're good. Just a few trips around the rosary and a few more extra years in purgatory, and they're all good.
I've actually heard Catholic joking about sinning and doing extra penance so they'll be OK. I'm sure you have too.
It's the very thing they condemn Protestants for. No wonder they project onto us that we do that and look at sin the same way as they do. It's all they know and they can't conceive of anything different, like what the regenerated spirit is all about.
I heard a rumor, for each thousand posts on these threads, that someone gets a thousand years off their purgatory sentence. Do you hear that too?
I've actually heard Catholic joking about sinning and doing extra penance so they'll be OK. I'm sure you have too
Not only have I heard it, I practiced it. I was a reprobate in my younger years when I was a catholic. I enjoyed sinning at that time. Now that I have regenerated, I can not possibly enjoy sin the way I did when I was a catholic. Of course you know some of the things I can now get away with. I do not go to mass, and I get away with it. I do not confess to a priest, and I get away with it. I do not use holy water. I do not pray the rosary. I do not pray to the holy saints. I do not make the sign of the cross. I do not accept the sacraments. I believe Mary was blessed among women, then after Jesus was born, she gave birth to a bunch of kids. All these things I get away with. Can you think of anything else that I now get away with, that I couldn't get away with before? 😄😇🆒