Anyway, you just asked for my reaction to the phenomenon of denomination and I gave my silly opinion as best as I can.
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I agree with this. I have no problem with what is in th bible. The Kingdom of God is for everyone. It is an incredible gift!!! It is the making of man whole. It is the making of man into his true self. When one enters the Kingdom of God Jesus become the King of one’s life. The servant of Jesus then sees Jesus in all people he or she meets. The servant of Jesus serves Jesus in everyone he or she meets. It is a mystical union of life.
Isn’t that nice
So sin does not exist, heaven does but not hell:shrug: You must not have the King james or any Catholic Bible. What ever your reading is pretty much a fairy tale. Read 1 Jn. 1:8-10, 1 Jn.5: 16-18 John 20: 22-23 and how about Mt. 19:16 
You missunderstand me. Sin does exist and so does heaven and hell. When I mean the Kingdom of God is for everyone I mean it is available to whomever wants to serve Jesus. As Jesus says, “Whoever wants to drink, let him drink!”Isn’t that nice
Are you old enough to remember when phone books chained in a phone boothThey are far more free to learn in the Catholic Church, where there is no confusion of doctrine, and the teachings are plainly taught.
The Bible was not “locked away” - it was chained to a podium next to a large window, so that anyone who wanted to could read it, just like an encyclopedia at the library, because in those days, they didn’t have the printing press and Bibles were really expensive.
Up until the days of the Internet, they used to chain up the encyclopedia, because they could only afford to buy one, and people couldn’t afford to buy their own - so by chaining it up, the library made it accessible to everyone, with nobody being allowed to take it home only for themselves. Today, now that we have the Internet, it’s no longer necessary to have encyclopedias at the library - everyone can look up whatever they want. Up until the time of the printing press, Churches would have Bibles chained up that everyone could read, in exactly the same way and for the same reason.
Many people also could not read in those days, so in addition to having a Bible available in the Church that everyone could use (and no one could steal) they heard the Bible read out at Mass and in the Divine Office, and they meditated on the stories of Christ’s Incarnation in their prayers of the Rosary. They also participated in various pageants (our modern Christmas pageant is a remnant of those days - Bible stories told through stylized acting and set lines that everyone - even the smallest children - knew off by heart, and through the art and architecture in the Church itself.
In fact, I would bet that the Bible was less of a mystery to your average illiterate medieval Catholic peasant, than it is to many learned Protestant scholars of the modern era.
No, I don’t. My authority isn’t the CCC. My authority is a Person - Christ - who makes His will known to the Pope, who then delegates authority to the Bishops (including mine) who in turn delegates certain authority to the priests (including the one I go to Confession with) - so, when I go to Confession with a problem, I hear the teaching given by my priest. Or, I go to Mass, and I hear the teaching given in the homily.
Yes.
Do you see Jesus in all you meet?No, I don’t. My authority isn’t the CCC. My authority is a Person - Christ - who makes His will known to the Pope, who then delegates authority to the Bishops (including mine) who in turn delegates certain authority to the priests (including the one I go to Confession with) - so, when I go to Confession with a problem, I hear the teaching given by my priest. Or, I go to Mass, and I hear the teaching given in the homily.
I don’t even need to know that the CCC exists,let alone read it or interpret it.
All I have to do is make use of the Sacraments of the Church, and I’m within earshot of the correct interpretation of the teachings of Christ - and if I’m paying attention, Christ is speaking to me in a clear and unmistakable voice. If there’s something I don’t understand, I’m able to ask for and receive clarification.
Every human being is a living icon of God, and in that sense, every person I meet is, in a sense, Jesus.
I feel lots of things in my heart, including God. I discern which voice is God’s by comparing the message I’m hearing to that which is given by the Church. When I find a match, I know it’s God. If I find a contradiction, I know that it’s either myself, or the Devil.
I am not talking of doctrine here. Jesus is in every person on the earth. Do you see Him there?Every human being is a living icon of God, and in that sense, every person I meet is, in a sense, Jesus.
However, not everyone I meet has a correct understanding of Christian doctrine. So, I listen to those who have been carefully trained in these things, and who have received the graces to transmit them, by means of the Apostolic Succession.
So you cannot tell the voice of God in your heart without hearing what a minister tells you?I feel lots of things in my heart, including God. I discern which voice is God’s by comparing the message I’m hearing to that which is given by the Church. When I find a match, I know it’s God. If I find a contradiction, I know that it’s either myself, or the Devil.
It’s always good to be sure of these things.
Thats not entirely true. There is only one Holy Roman Catholic Apostolic Church. All the other ones, not for filling the requirement of believing in the Papacy’s leadership of the church, are not Catholics, but a protestant denomination themselves.
Yes, in the sense of not listening to them for Doctrine, but caring for them as Mary cared for Jesus. But if some drunkard in the street comes rolling up to me, sees my crucifix, and says, “I am Jesus, give me money!” he will go away empty-handed - I will pray for him, of course, and I will treat him politely, but it will be a very polite, “No, I don’t have any money for you today.”
I mean everyone not just the homeless. Everyone.
Priest. Not a minister. (A minister is as likely as not to be a heretic.)
Of course!! But that has nothing to do with what you were asking. You want to know if, if my body wants sex, is that a message from God to go for a roll in the hay with the next good-looking man? No - not because of what my heart is telling me (because every instinct in my body is saying “Go for it!”) - but because of what God teaches us in the Church.
Oh my goodness!!! I am not taking about sexual arousal. Why do you keep changing the subject?Priest. Not a minister. (A minister is as likely as not to be a heretic.)
Of course!! But that has nothing to do with what you were asking. You want to know if, if my body wants sex, is that a message from God to go for a roll in the hay with the next good-looking man? No - not because of what my heart is telling me (because every instinct in my body is saying “Go for it!”) - but because of what God teaches us in the Church.
Yes, that is true, but you have to consider… so… Adam and Eve sinned, they CLOSED the gates of heaven, because of their SIN. Thousands of years later, the messiah came, Jesus, and died to OPEN the gates of heaven. So if all you have to do is believe in God to get to heaven, why would the gates of Heaven CLOSE after * sin came into the world, and open once he [Jesus] made the Bloody Sacrifice to save us from sin? Does this make sense to anyone but me? Why is sin not (according to non-catholics) such an important hinderance if it is VERY clear in the scripture that it is?*
I COMPLETELY agree with jmcrae!!
I’m glad you pointed that out!