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To: CynicalBear

Your comment:”The Catholic Church lies.”

Again you don’t answer questions, just reply with out of context quotes.

There must be some miserable people here that are filled with hate and acrimony against the Catholic Church that was founded by Jesus.

May the Holy Spirit help you truly understand the words of God and fill you with love for your neighbor.

Forgiveness of sins from Catholic answers:
Christ told the apostles to follow his example: “As the Father has sent me, even so I send you” (John 20:21). Just as the apostles were to carry Christ’s message to the whole world, so they were to carry his forgiveness: “Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven” (Matt. 18:18).

This power was understood as coming from God: “All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation” (2 Cor. 5:18). Indeed, confirms Paul, “So we are ambassadors for Christ” (2 Cor. 5:20).

Some say that any power given to the apostles died with them. Not so. Some powers must have, such as the ability to write Scripture. But the powers necessary to maintain the Church as a living, spiritual society had to be passed down from generation to generation. If they ceased, the Church would cease, except as a quaint abstraction. Christ ordered the apostles to, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations.” It would take much time. And he promised them assistance: “Lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age” (Matt. 28:19–20).

If the disciples believed that Christ instituted the power to sacramentally forgive sins in his stead, we would expect the apostles’ successors—the bishops—and Christians of later years to act as though such power was legitimately and habitually exercised. If, on the other hand, the sacramental forgiveness of sins was what Fundamentalists term it, an “invention,” and if it was something foisted upon the young Church by ecclesiastical or political leaders, we’d expect to find records of protest. In fact, in early Christian writings we find no sign of protests concerning sacramental forgiveness of sins. Quite the contrary. We find confessing to a priest was accepted as part of the original deposit of faith handed down from the apostles.

Yes. Christ is with us in the Eucharist (Real Presence). “Lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age” (Matt. 28:19–20).


16 posted on 06/10/2015 7:56:44 AM PDT by ADSUM
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I John 5:16-18:

If anyone sees his brother committing a sin that is not a deadly sin, he will ask, and God will give him life for those whose sin is not deadly. There is sin which is deadly; I do not say one is to pray for that.

** All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin which is not deadly.**

We know that anyone born of God does not sin, but He who is born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.


17 posted on 06/10/2015 10:14:58 AM PDT by raygunfan
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To: ADSUM
>>Again you don’t answer questions, just reply with out of context quotes.<<

I answered your questions with scripture ADSUM. You asked questions I showed where from scripture those questions are answered.

>>the Catholic Church that was founded by Jesus<<

The Catholic Church was NOT founded by Jesus. There is NO WAY that Jesus or the apostles taught the inclusion of paganism like is found in Catholicism.

>>Forgiveness of sins from Catholic answers:<<

And it's total nonsense. I showed you in my last post that "all sins are forgiven". The priests or magisterium do NOT have an options on which sins are either more serious or not forgiven.

>>We find confessing to a priest was accepted as part of the original deposit of faith handed down from the apostles.<<

Please show where the apostles taught that sins needed to be confessed to them.

>>Yes. Christ is with us in the Eucharist (Real Presence).<<

Then the christ you proclaim was a sinner by eating blood and encouraging others to do so which was against the law.

18 posted on 06/10/2015 1:05:01 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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