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To: ksen
Under what conditions? Voluntarily?

Yup.

Well. As I hinted at, frequent reception of the sacraments (really just Communion and Confession, we aren't into frequent Marriage or Baptism LOL) is food for our souls. If one chooses to distance himself from such then he is choosing to not avail himself of the gifts that God gave to help us grow spiritually. Without an intense life of prayer and discipline, and maybe even with, a person who starves his soul is in danger of losing it.

I can't imagine why someone would voluntarily do this.

SD

7,630 posted on 05/01/2002 1:34:16 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave; ksen
Without an intense life of prayer and discipline, and maybe even with, a person who starves his soul is in danger of losing it.

It is amazing, then, that all of those who are not sacramental Christians are not spiritually dead.

7,631 posted on 05/01/2002 1:36:46 PM PDT by malakhi
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To: SoothingDave;Wordsmith;angelo;IMRight
Well. As I hinted at, frequent reception of the sacraments (really just Communion and Confession, we aren't into frequent Marriage or Baptism LOL) is food for our souls. If one chooses to distance himself from such then he is choosing to not avail himself of the gifts that God gave to help us grow spiritually. Without an intense life of prayer and discipline, and maybe even with, a person who starves his soul is in danger of losing it.

You guys seem to be dancing around having to come out and say what would happen if you stopped participating in the Sacraments. Let me try. If one were to voluntarily stop participating in the Sacraments that person would end up in Hell for all of eternity.

That being said, and please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong up above, how is that not work?

-Kevin

7,649 posted on 05/01/2002 1:55:05 PM PDT by ksen
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