Touche’
Posted on 05/15/2014 8:58:50 PM PDT by Salvation
Anecdotal evidence.
If you’re expecting former Catholics to be unpleasant, then no matter what they do, their actions will be interpreted that way.
No such thing as Catholic guilt.
I found Christ. There’s no guilt involved in leaving a religious system that puts people in bondage and doesn’t hold that Scripture is sufficient to teach us what we need to know to grow in Christ.
Your mangling of scripture is one of a kind. You can bet there’s Catholic doubt, and it describes no one better than it describes you. Not a post is made by you about Catholicism that is not you belittling others about Catholicism and how “wrong it is”. It is a full time job for you to justify leaving the Church. Why not let others get on with their faith that they love, instead of butting in tell them how “wrong” it is 24/7. Why do you have to justify leaving the Catholic Church so long after you left it? Makes no sense.
Did I say I was “expecting” it? I did not say that.
I wrote what we experience.
As for “anecdotal evidence”, I have noticed that you frequently make use of it.
And our group does not seek to “interpret” the hearts and minds others. We can only receive what they wish to communicate to us.
Your sister in Christ,
ROE
correction
“...hearts and minds of others”
That's been done.
Jesus was asked a DIRECT question; and He gave a DIRECT answer:
Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
John 6:29
30 So they asked him, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? 31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’[a]”
32 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34 “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.”
35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
And, for those who can't seem to understand plain language; it was repeated here: 1 John 3:21-23 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.
Is this the bunch of guys who vote for a new pope?
You REALLY want to go here?
Golly!
Where on Earth did he EVER get a crazy idea like that???
Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.
No
I could vector off into a whole different religious direction by using a WHITE salamander!
Our FR folks say, "I pity you and am praying for you."
Yes - both.
Just like me at any given moment.
Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.
Look! PLURAL!!
Do YOU know your 'name'?
And, evidently, invisible: unless you'd like to give sonme evidence for the jury to chew upon.
Who does...
Conclave
A papal conclave is a meeting of the College of Cardinals convened to elect a new Bishop of Rome, also known as the Pope.
“It is a full time job for you to justify leaving the Church. Why not let others get on with their faith that they love, instead of butting in tell them how “wrong” it is 24/7. “
Oh, the amazing IRONY of you posting this!!!
How rich. I imagine Pentecostals and Baptists having a rent-free party in your mind 24/7 based on your posts here!! Exactly what you project onto metmom, you do on the Religion Forum in your own posts!
What a fun way to end the evening with your post!!!
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