Not a brand. It is on your soul, put there by the Father Son and Holy Spirit. I don’t see why you would call that disgusting.
The same thing happens at Confirmation and at a priest’s ordination — Holy Orders.
They are spiritual marks that are there forever.
And just how honest is your response to my comment that baptism is done without the conscious understanding and agreement of the baby? That you full well know and understand that the subject is the violation of free will.
Catholicism is based on nothing but an endless string of such insulting and juvenile evasions. Yeah, as if the Word of God depends upon such trickery. You don't even see that your very attitude denies the truth of your words.
You compare confirmation and ordination with a baby's baptism? Do you even realize that works both ways - that you're agreeing that even confirmation and ordination, at some level, are imposed upon their recipients, and denies them free will?
"Soul marks" doesn't sound like a brand? Yet isn't that exactly what they are? Don't they mark someones as property of the church? Do they alone guarantee salvation? Nope. Then what are these "marks" upon one's soul?
Brands. Property claims. And you put it perfectly - even if such s person leaves the church, the mark never leaves them and they can always return. How? Because they always belong. Why? Because they have the brand. And in the case of babies, they had no say whatever in the matter.
That's the truth of that teaching. Why pretend it's not?
It is on your soul, put there by the Father Son and Holy Spirit.
Blaspheme to state something utterly false and blaming it on God. All three parts of God no less!
God does not "mark" anyone just because a denomination thinks it happens.
They are spiritual marks that are there forever.
Spiritual, yes. [Worshipping the devil is spiritual. Misused there also] How cruel to mark little babies permanently for "spiritual" reasons.
God can remove them in fact they are never there. Remember, "With God all things are possible."
I'm sure he uses something like spiritual Teflon to protect precious children from this horrible mark the you wish to brand...yes BRAND...them with. For shame!
Thanks for your post Talisker, bringing out the truth.