[maryz]

I think a major problem (some) Protestants have in understanding Catholic doctrine is that they think eternity is no more than time -- only longer. In effect, this means they picture God as being within time (not able to act within time, which of course He can do and does). This means that time is pictured as greater than God, and not a creature of God, which -- in Catholic thought -- it is.

Even some of the Protestants who give lip service to eternity as outside of time don't seem to grasp the implications -- they know the words, but not the tune, so to speak. This limited understanding makes it impossible for them to grasp what we believe about the Mass.

[metmom]

No. We understand that eternity is outside time.

Jesus wasn’t sacrificed there. He was sacrificed on this planet on our three dimensional time restricted planet.

You keep being told that many of us were raised Catholic. W E do know what Catholicism teaches and what we believed as Catholics and what our family and friends believed as Catholics.

This business of *You don’t believe are we do because you don’t understand* is without merit. We don’t believe as you do because we DO understand. We understand what is written in the Bible.

It does not support most of Catholic doctrine.