Cut your time in purgatory by following pope on Twitter

C/Net ^ | 16 July 2013

[I want the USA back]

Totally ridiculous.

[Colonel_Flagg]

I’ll just read Hebrews 10:10 and know I’ll take the direct route to heaven, thanks. But glad to see the Pope on Twitter.

[cuban leaf]

Rape being a mortal sin, your little thought experiment here won’t merit you anything but Hell.

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What if I ask for forgiveness after the fact?

[cuban leaf]

Don’t know that an indulgence is not a permission to commit sin, nor a pardon of future sin.

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I confess that I’m not sure the word indulgence is the word I’m looking for. The practice may have been called something else. It was real, however, long ago in the catholic church.

[al_c]

What about those of us that are not Twits?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Bilge.

[Tao Yin]

If you're Christian, you might believe the keys to salvation are faith and good works.

My problem starts with this first sentence. We are saved by grace, through faith, for works. Works are NOT a key to salvation. Works are the fruits of salvation. Our works do not earn us salvation.

[Claud]

What if I ask for forgiveness after the fact?

You have a Bible, you tell me. Did the Son of Man have the power on earth to forgive sins? Did the Son of Man grant the power to his Apostles to forgive or to retain sins?

[Gamecock]

I guess we’ll just burn.

[cuban leaf]

Well, we are clearly on the same page there. :-)

[Campion]

I believe the church used to sell pre-emptive indulgences.

Wrong. Never happened.

[Claud]

However, my Bible doesn’t say anything about “indulgences”.

Answer me this. Has Christ made satisfactory atonement for every single sin ever committed, past, present, and future?

[WinOne4TheGipper]

[Gamecock]

Yes.

[Claud]

Is Christ’s atonement an infinite, inexhaustible treasury of grace upon which the faithful can draw with absolutely no limit?

[D-fendr]

I think it results in a more accurate an comprehensive understanding to not try to separate the two, faith and works. When we do we get into an either/or that doesn’t exist in reality.

[cuban leaf]

Wrong. Never happened.

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Looks like opinions vary.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120921180933AAegzkz
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_the_Roman_Catholic_Church_sell_indulgences

[Wuli]

“You can now reduce the time your everlasting soul has to spend in purgatory by following tweets from Pope Francis and Catholic World Youth Day, an event held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that the pontiff will attend later this month.”

This sort of Roman/Pagan nonsense is why I am a Christian, not a Catholic.

G-d’s Grace is not something any priest can give you.

[Tao Yin]

Faith is something we are given. Works is something we do. Of course they are separate.

[D-fendr]

Does one exist without the other?