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To: Outership
It's pretty safe to say that the words coming from Padre Pio during his earthly existence were inspired by the Holy Spirit, and should be paid close attention to.
"A few weeks later, on September 20, 1918, Padre Pio was praying in the choir loft in the Church of Our Lady of Grace, when the same Being who appeared to him on August 5, appeared again. It was the wounded Christ. When the ecstasy ended, Padre Pio had received the Visible Stigmata, the five wounds of Christ, which would stay with him for his remaining 50 years" --St. Padre Pio

263 posted on 04/30/2010 6:24:17 PM PDT by mlizzy ("Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person" --Mother Teresa.)
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To: mlizzy

So was this “being” an angel of light? Who did it claim to be, pray tell


267 posted on 04/30/2010 6:31:40 PM PDT by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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To: mlizzy

How is what happened to him any different than alien abduction tales?

The Bible says that we will know those that belong to Him by their fruits.

If Pio was saying, teaching, promoting things that were against scripture then he most certainly wasn’t filled with the Holy Spirit.

Nowhere in Scripture are bleeding wounds shown as being a message from God. No message from God has ever been close to that.

As for apparitions, fallen angels can appear to men as whatever they want to appear as.

The Bible warns us not to be fooled by signs and wonders.

All that matters in determining if Pio was a Christian is to examine his fruits and compare them to Scripture. If he was following and obeying Christ as instructed in the Bible, and he was not following any doctrines of men or demons, then we will know he was God’s as well as we can.


284 posted on 04/30/2010 7:03:04 PM PDT by Outership (Looking for a line by line Book of Revelation Bible study? http://tiny.cc/rPSQc)
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To: mlizzy
"A few weeks later, on September 20, 1918, Padre Pio was praying in the choir loft in the Church of Our Lady of Grace, when the same Being who appeared to him on August 5, appeared again. It was the wounded Christ. When the ecstasy ended, Padre Pio had received the Visible Stigmata, the five wounds of Christ, which would stay with him for his remaining 50 years" --St. Padre Pio

Do you believe everything someone tells you?

2 Corinthians 11:14-15 14And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.

If it doesn't agree with Scripture, it's not of God.

292 posted on 04/30/2010 7:20:01 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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