So, which is the pagan religion? Methodist who are chrisitans, or Catholic who are christians? If one can not belong to two christian churches at the same time, and by doing so, one is “serving two masters” then which is the front “church” for satan?
Well the best advice I can give you is to reconcile your family. Assuming that your still together with Mom, you need to work on bringing her back to the church. Otherwise it’ll be trouble and that you already know. If you are seperated/divorced, then it becomes a lot tougher to deal with. I would say that you are correct to tell him you cannot be both Methodist and Catholic. Yes, he will have to make a decision when it comes time for his confirmation. I always kind of viewed Catholic Confirmation similar to Protestant Baptism. Both are to be freely choosen. Your in a pickle. Good Luck!
The answer to that question would obviously be any Protestant ecclesial community as their “doctrine” rejects everything that Jesus Christ established. What they don’t reject they distort. Not necessarily the fault of the followers, but the doctrine is nevertheless corrupt and not pleasing to God.So, which is the pagan religion? Methodist who are chrisitans, or Catholic who are christians? If one can not belong to two christian churches at the same time, and by doing so, one is “serving two masters” then which is the front “church” for satan?
Then you dont deserve forgiveness yourself.
Sober recommendations.
Maybe true but I’ll let God judge me for that, Lord knows it won’t be my only sin I’ll go to the grave with. Would God expect a Jewish father to forgive his son if one day he came home and told his Dad he was becoming a nazi?
So, which is the pagan religion? Methodist who are chrisitans, or Catholic who are christians? If one can not belong to two christian churches at the same time, and by doing so, one is “serving two masters” then which is the front “church” for satan?
Didn’t see any reference to pagan in the OP.Very good suggestion
Hey, your stance is much like the Jewish stance… Jews sit shiva and mourn when a child accepts another belief.
Respectfully, what do you know about what John Wesley taught? Have you read his sermons? Have you read his writings?
Respectfully, I couldn’t care less as to what he taught. I don’t have the time to study the teachings of those who mock and distort the Truth; the most harmful lie is the lie that is mixed with Truth. Catholics today say that we should learn what the other religions teach so that we can counter it appropriately…well, that’s one opinion. If you knows the Truth, study it, and keep up your spiritual life with the Lord, why waste time studying something that offends God. This is for Catholics; for those searching, obviously the rules are a little different.
That’s absolute unadulterated garbage.
No, it isn’t. The message is worse than mixed. The boy is being taught the sin of indifferentism. One faith is as good as another. Catholicism possesses the fullness of Truth. Protestantism does not.
It is garbage. He’s equating Protestant faiths with sexual abomination. When I first started posting here there as a thread which essentially asked whether you would prefere that your kid become an atheist or Protestant and there were plenty of Catholics who chose the former. Nonesense.
No it wasn’t I don’t know how you deduced that from reading that post, they didn’t say any such thing in that post.
But obviously you don’t know what he taught, so you don’t know that he mocked or distorted the truth.
But the only non-harmful way of countering such a lie is to distinguish carefully between the lie and the truth mixed with it.
It’s the only reasonable one if you want to “counter it” (and, of course, this is not the only reason Catholics might study non-Catholic writings–they might also want to learn from them). If you want to leave non-Catholics alone, then by all means don’t bother learning about us.
First of all, many of the things Protestants believe do not offend God (by Catholic standards). In the second place, no one says you should study Protestantism. But since you clearly know nothing about it, why are you posting on a thread discussing it?
It’s a very bad comparison–your Church does not as far as I know teach that a Protestant service is equivalent to homosexuality. Typically, a Methodist service will include hymns and prayers to one or more persons of the Blessed Trinity, very probably a recitation of the Apostles’ Creed, and a sermon that (like most Catholic sermons) is more likely to be bland than heretical. Once a month or so there will be communion, and only there do problems arise, it seems to me.
Or he might leave because he has been told that something he experiences to be good is evil. Telling a child that singing praise to God is bad is truly going to be confusing, especially when his mother says otherwise.
That’s fair. However, the Eucharist generally matters less to Methodists than it does to Catholics (alas), and is certainly celebrated less often. If he doesn’t go with his mother on the first Sunday of the month, he will probably never have an occasion to receive communion in the Methodist church.