Sir
I have decided that this will be my last post.
[Why? I have to concentrate on other areas of my life, nothing to do with this website or you personally. It is just too time consuming to respond via the web in such a manner. Not the most efficient]
Also,I do not want to enter into a long,drawn-out discussion
of the 488-year-old (1517-2005) Protestant heresy with you, since I am a late-20th-century American white college-educated tradRC Christian male who is also woefully inadequate in theology and religious history/apologetics.
Sir, I truly seek the truth. I rely very heavily on the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary to show me the
exceedingly clever subterfuges of Hell in the world, and
it is truly amazing what has been shown to me.
Look, the essential grace that the Blessed Virgin Mary will
give any truth seeker is HUMILITY ("Be it done unto me according to Thy Word")...that is the queen of the virtues and can only be attained through the devout praying of the Rosary. Our Lady is dispensatrix of all virtues - and she will lead you to the gates of Heaven through the Rosary. Our Merciful Lord Jesus Christ opened those gates for us to once again enter, and, through the Holy Rosary...we are led there through the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Sir, this is the God's Honest Truth.
As for possibly becoming a true-Christian beheaded sometime within the next 25 years (by the demon-worshipping Islamist)...pray this prayer every night before going to bed:
RESIGNATION TO THE WILL OF GOD IN DEATH
(Pope St Pius The Tenth)
Lord, My God, whatever be the kind of death which it pleases thee to reserve for me, I from this moment on receive that death with all my heart and with all my soul. I accept that death from thy hands with all its anguish, pains and sorrows.
(Alternative version)
My Most Sweet Jesus, My Merciful Lord, I accept the death that Thou hast destined for me; with all the pains that may accompany it; I unite it to Thy death, I offer it to Thee, Thou hast died for love of me, I will die for love of Thee and to please Thee.
Godspeed to you, sir.
I think you would be a great asset to FR, sorry to hear that you will not be staying.
since I am a late-20th-century American white college-educated tradRC Christian male who is also woefully inadequate in theology and religious history/apologetics.
I am a middle 20 century white High School drop out, Christian female, who is also woefully inadequate in religious history. I depend on my childhood Sunday School teachings, and reading my Bible to carry me through life.
I took a Dante test on my place in the everafter, I can be found, according to Dante, on level 5.
I accept that death from thy hands with all its anguish, pains and sorrows.
On that point, you and I differ sir. I will not go quietly into the night when the islamist come for me and mine. I'm pretty sure I will take a few of the heathens with me when I make that sudden departure. I'll leave it in God's hands if I am worthy to enter his Kingdom.
Again, I'm sorry you are not staying at FR. It's a place for many ideas and discussions amongst a variety of peoples.