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Posted on 03/06/2022 11:16:06 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
A man commits a serious crime, then he gets released. He has "paid his debt to society". But wait a minute, he's only ready for the half-way house. He's unlikely to get a prestigious job in his new prison suit coat, or any job at all; he has civil impediments, he can't vote or hold certain offices. His crime was serious enough that he won't be presumed to have been completely rehabilitated until he performs a notable service to society, or at least spends many years on the straight and narrow, so that his crime can be truly overlooked or forgotten.
In Catholic faith, your "debt to society" is paid by Jesus Christ on Calvary. It's called "eternal punishment", without Christ it keeps you from going to heaven. Supposing that you do take advantage of His sacrifice, you're truly sorry, have a firm purpose of amendment, if you relapse, you go again for forgiveness (to the Sacrament of Confession).
But your sin leaves a strong trace at another layer of impurity called "temporal punishment due to sin", like the civil impediments facing the half-way house prisoner. Because "nothing impure can enter heaven", there is a place or a state, a condition of purification to render you fit for heaven after Christ has finally saved you from hell. The Catholic Church calls it purgatory.
(Where is it in the bible? Where is the word Trinity in the bible? Where does it say that you only need a personal relationship with Jesus Christ? Many valid principles aren't stated explicitly in the bible, but it does say to "hold fast to the traditions you have learned, whether by word or by letter", because much of the Gospel wasn't written down, as Jesus only wrote in the sand, the majority of the Gospel was taught from word to ear to people who couldn't afford expensive books, the exceptions were what tended to get written down. But the implication that there is a purgatory, is contained in the bible--see the comments.)
The ex-con can receive a pardon or commutation of his probation from a Governor, if he performs some heroic deed, saving numerous lives, or, like Chuck Colson, performs a long-lasting, valuable community service helping numerous people who can't help themselves.
In the Catholic Church there are 2 ways for the residual, temporal effects due to sin to be expiated: suffering in this life, or after life, undergoing purifying suffering along with other people who will finally be saved, but have to suffer for long without the vision of God--that is what causes them their pain.
Their suffering isn't meritorious enough to grant their release, the saints in heaven and those on earth suffering and practicing virtue can pray for the suffering souls in purgatory. In no way is their release by slow transfer of suffering or practice of virtue, "buying heaven". It's a long, excruciating process.
How the misunderstanding arose that Catholics think they can buy their way into heaven, is involved with history more than 500 years old. For a millennium of Christendom between roughly 410 and 1410, there was a Medieval civilization with harmony between faith and government.
Many small farmers would cluster around the manor house of a military lord who would protect them, in exchange for a certain fixed obligation of labor and agricultural produce. In most cases, those "serfs" had much more leisure than factory workers of the industrial revolution; there were a large number of holy days without work, and except for planting and harvesting, there were long stretches of idle time.
Another large sector of the economy surrounded monasteries, where the monks developed most of the farming practices that stabilized the serfs and their manorial lords. The monks who worked those monastic lands were sworn to poverty, so that monasteries built up large accumulations of economic value over decades and centuries of labor.
At the beginning, when lands were being cleared and put into production there weren't prominent town fairs ruled by merchants and bankers. Money wasn't used for sustenance, not even much barter occurred, life was mostly agrarian.
Charity was woven into the economy of monasteries. It was estimated that you only need travel 12 miles in medieval England between monasteries, where you could get a meal and minimal lodging for free, based on need. And the charity was also spiritual, including the ancient Catholic principle of prayer for the dead, which is biblical. (See "prayer for the dead" in the original King James Bible in the comment.)
There were foundations and benefices for praying for the dead, that allowed a person of means to support monasteries' charitable works, and in proportional response the monks would pray for the souls of the donors.
It happened at the close of the middle ages, that militarily strong nobles cast their eyes on the labor value accumulated by the poverty-sworn monks of the monasteries, which those nobles perceived as monetary wealth, especially where gold and jewels had been donated by the devout to adorn churches.
(Protestant writer William Cobbett wrote in his 1824 "A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland", an anecdote, that an incredibly valuable, hand illustrated bible was stripped of it's bejeweled, gold cover, the much more valuable hand-illumined manuscript, thrown in the mud and trampled by horses hooves by raiders suppressing the monasteries in Henry VIII's England.)
A new religion growing up around this seizure of monastic lands and valuables, that sought to discredit the Catholic Church, spread the black legend that the "sale of indulgences" was abusive. But this was very exceptional. Today the stipend of a Mass said for the dead is $10.
I forgot to mention. Not only are they not looking for the truth, they are very hardened against the gospel. I have personally given the gospel to some of them, and they seem quite opposed to it.
And the question for evolutionists is, if we are descended from monkeys, why are there still monkeys out there? They all should have evolved into humans, but they didn’t. Maybe they will say, only one male and one female evolved into humans, to which I say, hogwash. Who made the decision, which two would evolve into humans? No sale.
Exactly right. Also, I would like to ask them why I’m so stupid if we are supposedly so evolved but that I can’t grow a second brain. If that lil frickin’ amoeba was smart enough to jiggle it’s little tail out of the pond, then shouldn’t we be smart enough to create more brain power for ourselves? Sometimes a third arm would come in handy, too.
—> If that lil frickin’ amoeba was smart enough to jiggle it’s little tail out of the pond, then shouldn’t we be smart enough to create more brain power for ourselves? Sometimes a third arm would come in handy, too.
😂😂😂😂😂
Both modern day apes and humans descended from a common ancestor and no one was needed to make a decision.
Yes it would. Just don’t mess with the 3rd eye. I think that would be cultic.
Which came first?
The penis or the vagina?
Which evolved from goo first?
Plants or animals?
How many times did LIFE have to 'evolve' from goo before it figured out, "DAMN! I'd better learn how to reproduce!"
Which evolved first?
Endoskeletons or exoskeletons?
I’m still having problems getting my FIRST one to work correctly all of the time!
“Which came first? The penis or the vagina?”
It was a tranny, of course, Elsie!
You state this so positively.
“And the question for evolutionists is, if we are descended from monkeys, why are there still monkeys out there? They all should have evolved into humans, but they didn’t. Maybe they will say, only one male and one female evolved into humans, to which I say, hogwash. Who made the decision, which two would evolve into humans? No sale.”
Um, yeah. If a male and female didn’t evolve at the exact same time then that means ... Ewww.
The offspring would have been half ‘n half man-monkey. And we should find plenty of skeletons for them, but dang if the evos don’t have a hard time finding what should be everywhere if their theory were true.
So makes TWO evolutionary jumps:
One to the human linage and one to the ape line.
Modern medicine does NOT believe in evolution.
If it did; there would be nothing known as a birth ‘defect’; merely ‘Evolution’ trying something new.
https://themindsjournal.com/the-third-eye/
Have you met my brother-in-law?
No. Don’t need to meet him to know some of what you mean, Elsie. Got my own family/creatures.
You are talking to the wrong person bro. I don’t believe in evolution in any way, shape or form. Not for a second. The only evolution I will accept, if one wants to call it that, is two dogs might produce puppies that are different colors, or slightly different shapes, but they never stop being dogs. You are entitled to your own opinion. I just don’t accept it.
I never thought of it like that, but wouldn’t that be called beastiality? How disgusting.
It’s not the second brain you need to avoid, it’s the third eye. I don’t think I understood what some meant, by saying we can reach a higher level of consciousness. I think they are referring to the third eye. It’s occultism.
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