even if all you say is true,
you still have one achilles heel.
level of knowledge.
This one achilles heel is only limited since human beings have finite minds. We don’t have infinite minds to comprehend the supernatural reality of God.
do all catholics have the same
exact level of knowldedge.
i believe many if not most still
see christianity as fire and brimstone.
a theologian might see something
entirely different in a passage/sermon/etc.
That depends on the amount of education or instruction of the faith they have received. If they are properly taught the correct teachings of the Catholic Church, that is all the essentials, they have the basic knowledge of God based on what we have been taught. This person may have an high school degree, Assiociate Degree, or Bachelor Degree, or Masters, and Doctorate in major fields of education from science, economy, etc.
However, they are limited in those field. Someone who has a doctorate decree of Theology, Moral Theology, Philosphy etc, would have better understanding of the Catholic faith. However, since their minds are still limited, there is no certainty they have a better understanding of God.
when catholics (whichever catholic you are)
close their eyes, do they all see the same god?
i bet if you told them to draw a picture of it,
they would all draw something different.
Depending on what culture they grow up in and the amount of religious education they have it may differ. All Catholics or Christians believed God is a Triune God. One God, Three Divine Persons.
Drawing a picture differs a lot. For example, Catholic West image of God differs from those in the Catholic East.
Let me illustrate. Let me quote Wikipedia Inc.
The Christian East, for its part, correlates ecclesiology and Trinitarian doctrine, and seeks to understand the doctrine of the Trinity via the experience of the Church, which it understands to be “an ikon of the Trinity” and therefore, when St. Paul writes concerning Christians that all are “members one of another,” Eastern Christians in turn understand this as also applying to the Divine Persons.
The Western (Roman Catholic) tradition is more prone to make positive statements concerning the relationship of persons in the Trinity. It should be noted that explanations of the Trinity are not the same thing as the doctrine itself; nevertheless the Augustinian West is inclined to think in philosophical terms concerning the rationality of God’s being, and is prone on this basis to be more open than the East to seek philosophical formulations which make the doctrine more intelligible
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Here is an image of Western Catholicism view of the Trinity:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Giovanni_Battista_Tiepolo_016.jpg
Here is the view of Eastern Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Andrej_Rubl%C3%ABv_001.jpg
The image differs in some context but the element remains the same.
and you know as well as i, as far as obedience
goes, not all catholics follow every single rule
exactly and the same.
Obedience to the Church is obedience to God. Catholics who are not obedient to the Church find themselves with God’s precepts. They put their own selfish needs above God. I think that is were “Caferia Catholics” risk the destiny of their soul. A risk I think is very bad gamble, especially if it deals with the salvation of your soul.
Thanks for the quote too. Its definitely a good one. Especially online, its important to remember to practice charity. I know its something I struggle with.
… then Jesus swooped in and rescued me, using His good Catholics as His hands and mouthpiece for doing so…