[terycarl]

Show me where the Scripture that you claim your church wrote and that if we read it, we’d know what Catholics believe, says that someone has to attend mass or it’s a mortal sin and they’re going to hell.

First of all one of the original commandments COMMANDS us to keep holy the sabbath. When Christ established the Catholic church He gave her the authority to establish rules in order to better be able to shepherd His flock. He said whatever you bind on Earth will be bound in Heaven. The church, in order to assure compliance with the commandment, determined that, when possible, attendance at Mass complied with that order from God.

When He established the Sacrament of the Eucharist, it was evident that to adequately give each of us this extraordinary gift, we would have to meet regularly. Now, if you reject His gift, then other than to hear some biblical passages and a meaningful sermon there is no need to attend Mass. Personally, because I believe in His second greatest gift to mankind (the first was salvation).I regularly attend Mass.....and I thank Him for His gift rather than try to think of reasons why He didn't really do it...

[Resettozero]

Show me where the Scripture that you claim your church wrote and that if we read it, we’d know what Catholics believe, says that someone has to attend mass or it’s a mortal sin and they’re going to hell.

With many words, he said he cannot.

[metmom]

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers, with the following letter: “The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings. Since we have heard that some persons have gone out from us and troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions, it has seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth. For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

Jesus came to set us free. Not put us back under the bondage of the Law.

[Elsie]

When Christ established the Catholic church He gave her the authority to establish rules in order to better be able to shepherd His flock.

And you guys have done a really good job of making them up; I must say!

[Elsie]

The church, in order to assure compliance...