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- G2Kmaster
- Mar 21 2009, 02:42 PM
Yep, I would agree with this. This is proven since Catholic homes are more decorated with Christian paintings and crucifixes and such. However, Twisting the Bible is something I as a Catholic stand by you on. Raised as a Baptist and turned Catholic 4 years ago, I noticed this therefore my opinion is alittle diffrent. This is like how the Catholics thinking that the Bible should be allegory vs. Protestent says it should be taken literaly. I say both. You can learn from it like Gojira but it actualy happened like WW2.
Nice. Never heard of that church. 7-Day Adventist. Cool.
Packmule:
Apparently, I did not care to research this topic. I personaly think that since sex is becoming so intergrated into our culture that the priests are going crazy. Thoes who do go crazy do need to be punished.
I think that is because so many things happened so long ago that some things just disappered. If you do watch science closely, you will find excavations which point out that certaint things happened. But something also to realize that part of Christianity is faith. You have faith that Elvis died on the crapper and not a goverment cover up, right? Well, have faith the events happened.
Apparently I an not qualified to awnser that. Even if I wanted to, I have not studied what the church considereds miracles or dreams or not. If it was Jesus, feel good you have met him and feel good you experianced the next best thing to Stigmata. If not, you must realy love the '65 film. But I totaly agree with what CrowMagnumMan says. I belive in litteral and alegorical meanings of the scripture, and with "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy", I would not dobt it was real. But keep in mind the possibility that it was just you.
Sayf Udeen:
Jesus racialy was Jewish, maybe black. But he can take the shape of anyone since he is Lord. But please awnser Packmule's question about your religeon.
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To your second paragraph, I have not kept up with studying about the Church in general but you are right. That is part of why Fr. Martin Luther decided to start the Protesent reform. But, may I add, durring this an exorcism was carried out and turns out that the Protesent and Catholic churches both tried to exorcise the poor girl of 17 (I think, the age may be diffrent), and the Catholic Church's exorcism worked. The exorcisms were done days apart and in public.
Hmm. That is an interesting story. I'd never heard that before. It's hard to know why some exorcisms work and some don't. The disciples tried to exorcise a demon, and apparently they failed. So Jesus had to do it. I think the idea was that they really didn't have faith in their authority, or God's authority, over the demon.
So in the case you mentioned, I would say that the Catholic exorcists must have had more faith.
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That Beast and Little Horn thing, interesting. However, I would say that some Catholics do not fallow strictly to Catholic-stle teachings only. I am a mix. But for the Church being Satan, I would find that alitlle "maybe" since Nostradamus, who is a famous prophet who predicted many things which are comming true even today, claimed that it would be the fall of the RCC that brings up the apocolapse. And I wouldn't dobt it. Muslims...
I guess it's hard to know for sure. I'm still not sure about Nostradums' credibility. But it's always a possibility.
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For staying in Hell forever, I am sure that at some point we all go to heaven. God's rage and God's mercy has to tangle up and forgive the sinners (Hitler in heaven, Hell must have done a job with him before he goes to heaven).
Well I'm not sure how Biblical that is, but I must admit, I've always liked the idea that God will save everybody in the end. The SDA interpretation is that hell is not a literal place, but an event. Their belief is that when Jesus returns, the unsaved will be destroyed by the brightness of his coming. And that then Satan will be trapped on Earth for the next 1000 years while the saved live with God in heaven. And that then the kingdom of heaven will return to Earth and set down on it. The prophecy then says that God(or Jesus?) will release Satan and raise all of the unsaved from all of history and that they will surround the city.
Then God lays out the entire plan of salvation before them. And the unsaved now understand everything. They weep and fall down on their knees, admitting that God was right all along. God gives them all a chance to join them in the city, but they all refuse. Then Satan mounts them all together, and they all prepare to attack the city. So God destroys them. Some will burn longer than others, apparently. But after this, they will all be gone forever. Then God creates the New Earth. And everybody lives happily ever after and all that.
It may not be the right interpretation. But it's what I was used to growing up. And I know there are a lot of verses that back it up. But it is just one way of interpreting it.
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No you are not condemming anyone. In my eyes, as long as you belive in Christ, get Baptized, and have a good understanding of the teaching of Christ, you go to heaven. The only real diffrence between churches is how to pray and read. Sounds little on paper, doesn't it?
That's a good way of looking at it. Although I think I disagree on the baptism being absolutely necessary part, I agree with the gist of that. If you get the basics right, like confessing that you're a sinner and accepting Jesus as your savior and all that, then by my interpretation of the Bible, it's all good. I was taught that Jesus wanted to save as many as possible, and that he'd look for ever excuse to do so.
So I think that even if I don't believe in God at the moment, if there is such a thing, then I'll probably be OK in the end. And if I'm not, well then God wasn't God.
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