lol. Says you. RCs are so fond of patting themselves on the back for their own baseless victories. Just because I don't agree with your incorrect interpretation of a verse is not evidence I don't know that verse.
Again, your repeating a question does not mean I haven't answered it. It means I haven't answered it enough to please you.
Sorry. If I tried to please you, I'd throw away the Scriptures, as Rome has done, and I would follow the doctrines of men who make up the magisterium.
"Not gonna happen. Uh-uh. Nooo way." -- Dana Carvey as Papa Bush.
You appear comfortable in your medieval longing of the monastic life. Thank God, Christ did not teach the benefits of that lonely, empty life. He taught pity and understanding for that life. However, He did teach joy in marriage when a man takes a wife, just as Christ has taken His church as His bride.
Why then did Jesus spend 40 days and 40 nights in the desert? Why did John the Baptist wander in the wilderness and why did Moses spend 40 days and nights atop Mt. Sinai in fasting and prayer?
Do you believe every person capable of accomplishing in an equal span of time the things these men accomplished in 40 days? Perhaps there is a place for contemplative prayer and solitude in Christianity.
You brought it up.
You don’t want to continue it.
Fine by me.
Drive-by shotgun this time.
No, just discussing background and reading Mother Teresa's letters, her namesake, the other Teresas, their writings, the Carmelites, remember?
Then you slammed monasticism, as compared with preaching at one point. Seemed to me you didn't show much knowledge of monastics' contribution to the development and spread of Christianity.
So I asked... and out comes the "medieval longing" bit.
How's this fit into the conversation?