[SoothingDave]

Trent pronounced cursed anyone who believed that death was the final chance for a person; after which, he was either forgiven in Christ and accepted in heaven or not forgiven and condemned to hell.

You lack understanding. As usual. What you say here is not at all what the above quote from Trent says. But you won't listen.

Rome declared anathema, accursed, eternally condemned, all who believe that Christ paid the full and complete penalty for the sins of God’s people.

"Anathema" does not condemn anyone. And you know it.

And you refuse to understand thatr Purgatory does not take away from Christ, rather it IS the work of Christ on our souls. You remain ignorant by choice, and it is really sad.

It would be one thing if you just toiled quietly in your misconception, but you have to go out and display it to the world.

SD

[RnMomof7]

Cursed Dave..the 'Modern' Catholic Church lacks the backbone to kick out preverted priest or to preach to the Jews , it kisses the Koran....and now the PC "feel good" RC church has decided it is not nice to curse folks..but that is what they did Dave They were pretty mad at the reformers:>)

So it has been "softened " but is is a curse on the reformers and the former RC's .

CANON I.-If any one saith, that man may be justified before God by his own works, whether done through the teaching of human nature, or that of the law, without the grace of God through Jesus Christ; let him be anathema.

anathema
a·nath·e·ma   Pronunciation Key  (-nth-m)
n. pl. a·nath·e·mas
1. A formal ecclesiastical ban, curse, or excommunication.
2. A vehement denunciation; a curse: “the sound of a witch's anathemas in some unknown tongue” (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
. 3. One that is cursed or damned. 4. One that is greatly reviled, loathed, or shunned: “Essentialisma belief in natural, immutable sex differencesis anathema to postmodernists, for whom sexuality itself, along with gender, is a ‘social construct’” (Wendy Kaminer).

------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Late Latin anathema, doomed offering, accursed thing, from Greek, from anatithenai, anathe-, to dedicate  : ana-, ana- + tithenai, to put; see dh- in Indo-European Roots.]

anathema \A*nath"e*ma\, n.; pl. Anathemas. [L. anath?ma, fr. Gr. ? anything devoted, esp. to evil, a curse; also L. anath?ma, fr. Gr. ? a votive offering; all fr. ? to set up as a votive gift, dedicate; ? up + ? to set. See Thesis.]
1. A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed. [They] denounce anathemas against unbelievers. --Priestley.
2. An imprecation; a curse; a malediction. Finally she fled to London followed by the anathemas of both [families]. --Thackeray.
3. Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.
The Jewish nation were an anathema destined to destruction. St. Paul . .