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I get your point. As an aside though, according to this website, the percentage of abortions related to rape is extraordinarily small - less than 1%. Yes, that’s still too many, but right now, if we could pass a law with that exclusion, wouldn’t you take it?

HomeschoolDad said:
As the saying goes, “where does it say that in the Bible?”.
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Please prove me wrong on this - but I don’t think the word abortion - or even the concept directly - is in the Bible. (Yes, I know it talks about murder, knowing us while - and even before we’re in the womb, etc. etc.)
 
TULIPed said:
I get your point. As an aside though, according to this website, the percentage of abortions related to rape is extraordinarily small - less than 1%. Yes, that’s still too many, but right now, if we could pass a law with that exclusion, wouldn’t you take it?

abort73.com

U.S. Abortion Statistics​

Facts and figures relating to the frequency of abortion in the United States.
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Of course I would. As I said, the Church does not require us to disdain pro-life legislation that makes exceptions, if that is the best legislation we can get.

My understanding — and it may be completely (or partially) wrong — is that mainline Protestant theology says, or at least implies, “the end can justify the means in drastic circumstances”. Is this true?
TULIPed said:
As the saying goes, “where does it say that in the Bible?”.
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In retrospect, that was a failed attempt at humor on my part. We Catholics are always being challenged to prove our faith biblically, and I thought it would be ironic to turn that idea back around for a change.

Abortion is not directly mentioned in the Bible. I will concede that. It is mentioned in the Didache, which dates back to apostolic times. (Incidentally, it’s pronounced “deed-ah-kay”, something I learned only recently. The more you know…)
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No. The focus of Sunday mornings is corporate worship. We worship Jesus through praise songs, hymns, the preaching of the word, prayer, baptism, and communion. Worship is the ascribing of worthiness to someone or something. One of the greatest ways to worship Jesus is to read His word out loud and proclaim His life, death, and resurrection through communion. Our love for Jesus grows as we are fed the Word of God through great teaching on Sundays. The more we behold Him through His revealed Word, the more we look like Him.
 
HomeschoolDad said:
My understanding — and it may be completely (or partially) wrong — is that mainline Protestant theology says, or at least implies, “the end can justify the means in drastic circumstances”. Is this true?
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Not that I’m aware of. I do think we’re called to be “shrewd as snakes and innocent as doves” though.
 
TheLittleLady said:
When a Christian dies, standard Christian belief is that person stands in the presence of God. That Christian, who prayed every day for their family and friends and for the salvation of the world, why do we think they would not continue to stand before God and intercede for those they love?

St Paul said we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses, he did not say those witnesses are unaware of us who are still running the race.
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Christ Himself lets us know that the saints in Heaven are aware of the events on Earth in Luke 15:7 - “I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.”

Lutherans make the obvious distinction between do they pray for us and should we pray to them (by pray here I mean ask for intercession). Clearly they pray for us, but there is no command, example or promise that we should pray to them. Certainly we can pray to God that He hear their prayers for us.
 
Does it trouble you/present a personal challenge to your faith that, when the reformation began taking off in Europe, so many differing groups and theological positions/beliefs popped up? What I mean is, how do you feel about the subjectiveness of it all?
 
For me it doesn’t bother me at all, in fact, it shows that religion by force is not effective nor is it something Christ proposes.
 
How do you reconcile the doctrine of sola scriptura with the fact that scripture itself doesn’t teach it and that all Biblical canons, including Protestant ones, are based off of tradition.
 
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JonNC said:
should we pray to them (by pray here I mean ask for intercession). Clearly they pray for us, but there is no command, example or promise that we should pray to them.
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yes there is. We are commanded to pray for one another. When you pray to the saints you are asking for intercession. No different from asking anyone you know to pray for you. You can ask anyone to intercede for you, especially those who are now closest to God.
 
nick2 said:
Our love for Jesus grows as we are fed the Word of God through great teaching on Sundays. The more we behold Him through His revealed Word, the more we look like Him.
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we follow what scripture says and eat his body and drink his blood so that we have life in us. Also because worship (true biblical worship) requires a sacrifice.

So what do you do if two of you have a dispute over biblical interpretation? How is it resolved?

Catholics believe that the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ is present under the accidents of bread and wine once consecrated by a validly ordained priest.

Do you believe the same?
 
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JonNC:
should we pray to them (by pray here I mean ask for intercession). Clearly they pray for us, but there is no command, example or promise that we should pray to them.
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yes there is. We are commanded to pray for one another. When you pray to the saints you are asking for intercession. No different from asking anyone you know to pray for you. You can ask anyone to intercede for you, especially those who are now closest to God.
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I know the argument, and I actually believe there is merit to it. The confessions state the following:
Moreover, even supposing that the saints pray for the Church ever so much, [10]](http://www.bookofconcord.org/defense_20_saints.php#para10) yet it does not follow that they are to be invoked; although our Confession affirms only this, that Scripture does not teach the invocation of the saints, or that we are to ask the saints for aid. But since neither a command, nor a promise, nor an example can be produced from the Scriptures concerning the invocation of saints, it follows that conscience can have nothing concerning this invocation that is certain. And since prayer ought to be made from faith, how do we know that God approves this invocation? Whence do we know without the testimony of Scripture that the saints perceive the prayers of each one?
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http://www.bookofconcord.org/defense_20_saints.php
 
@nick2

After reading and studying the bible , do you find stop exercising since exercise profits little?
 
thistle said:
, I would like to know which denomination you belong to as there are more than 33,000 different ones.
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Can you give us a list of the 33,000 different Protestant denominations? I am somewhat skeptical that there are that many denominations, unless you consider each Protestant minister and each of his churches to be a separate denomination. How do you define denomination?
JonNC said:
the question is valid.
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I don’t see how the question can be “valid” unless you define the word “denomination”.
 
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gazelam said:
One of the divisions within Protestantism is that of “free will” vs “predestination”.
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It is also a question in Catholicism. God knows everything that will happen. It is all written down in stone in the mind of God and cannot be changed. Yet, humans have free will. Can a human exercise his free will to change what is written down in the mind of God as to what will happen. Or is it predestined that he will choose exactly as it was written down in the mind of God before he made his choice.
 
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