Posted on 05/31/2013 2:44:05 PM PDT by NYer
Well, Paul was a Presbyterian, John was a Methodist, James was an Episcopalian, Andrew was a Rastafarian (Missouri Synod), John the Baptist was a Baptist, Simon the Zealot was a Zealot, Titus was a Pentecostal, Jude was a Jehovah's Witness, Timothy was a...
**Did Jesus preach imprisonment of those who didn’t believe a certain way?**
Chapter and verse please.
Or is Jesus talking about heaven vs. hell at the end of the age?
Very good, you are very close, much closer than the 200+ that I usually get from your side of the Tiber.
Right....I've listened to them both...They don't believe the bible because they constantly change the words to make it mean what it doesn't mean...I'd guess you do the same thing...
Public schools. Catholic schools that aren’t Catholic. Parents abdicating the job to someone else...
And celebrated an agape meal and Mass on Sundays.
Could you point me to the official infallible interpretations of scripture?
True. I’ve posted this true story before. When I was a Catholic taking “Lutheran lessons”, I had my Bible at work at a Catholic hospital. My Catholic co-workers asked why I was reading it! Maybe if they read it, they’d change minds.
Which was Catholic.
"Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church." Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to the Smyrnaeans, 107 AD
Again, this is contrary to what de Tocqueville writes about.
America has been substantially better off than every other developed nation in this category - even now, and has been for a very long time. This is something de Tocqueville established as a reason why Americans were special - because they eschewed contraception.
Look at the growth of wealth in the United States from 1870 to say, 1910. Compare it with the growth of wealth from 1970 to now. You say that contraception brings about wealth to the united states - why then was America growing faster than any other developed nation was was the richest at tehe same year.
Look at Sandra Fluke. Tell me that contraception doesn’t contribute to the decline of children born in wedlock, and the subsequent increase in the use of social services. It’s all right there.
Contraception use = greater socialism. Now, you’re claim is simply that Mexico was socialist before contraception use, I’m not sure how that negates my argument that contraception has transformed America into a much more socialist nation.
You’ve got to be kidding! My baby sister had just died, I had been sent away for 2 days and when I returned home there was no crib, no sign there had ever been a baby in the house. I was only 10 and no talk of heaven could make me stop crying for her. So, the dear sister looks for me, approaches me, and says she’s heard about my sister and that she thinks it is wonderful! Do you really think I cared about her reasons? I just thought she was the most cold-hearted person I had ever met. And YES, I WAS SHOCKED!!
And the early Church was founded by Jesus Christ himself on the apostles — the first Bishops!
You got it!
“Right....I’ve listened to them both...They don’t believe the bible because they constantly change the words to make it mean what it doesn’t mean...I’d guess you do the same thing...”
Before or after he became Catholic?
>> “Granted, there were no Messianic Jews...” <<
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What then do you think the disciples and apostles were?
“I am quite comfortable in saying that my experience is probably the majority experience. Its common knowledge.”
Where and when then since the other Catholics don’t seem to be corroborating your claims.
The Catholic Church was founded by Jesus Christ. Where do you get the idea that someone else founded it?
You claim you were Catholic. This is standard Catholic teaching. You should have felt affirmed, not shocked.
Two things strike me:
1, you were poorly catechised.
2, you chose not to listen to the lessons that you were taught.
I take it you do not agree with the Catholic who started this thread.
WHY ARE OUR CATHOLIC LAITY SO ILLITERATE WHEN IT COMES TO THE CATHOLIC FAITH
... and Judas was an Episcopagan...
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