My wife who was brought up in a Fundamentalist household has had amazingly similar experiences. She would question her parents about things she read in Scripture that didn’t jive with what they were teaching her. The common response was “you don’t have faith.” At one point, they even had her go through an “exorcism” that was so traumatic that it caused her to vomit at the time, and caused her to have nightmares even to this day. She was actually scared of religion when I first met her, and she was utterly amazed that Catholics she met actually thought her questions were good things, and she was even more surprised when her questions about Scripture were answered!
Actually, from a Catholic perspective I cannot receive Communion in your church because you do not have the Christ-given Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ.
Ah. This is a result of denominational thinking. The idea that this is a “club” and if you pay your dues you can come in. But your dues have been paid by the blood of Christ.
I belong to a NONdenominational church. Christ is the only authority in the church. We try as hard as we can to follow the scriptures as close as we can. We DO NOT imagine Jesus without a physical body, we do understand Grace, Baptism, and Communion. The problem with tha catholic church is that it has given to much authority to it’s leaders. If the pope wants to change something, well he cant be wrong you know. So it is changed.
I belong to a NONdenominational church. Christ is the only authority in the church. We try as hard as we can to follow the scriptures as close as we can. We DO NOT imagine Jesus without a physical body, we do understand Grace, Baptism, Communion, and that Christ payed our dues on the cross . The problem with the catholic church is that it has given too much authority to it’s leaders. If the pope wants to change something, well he cant be wrong you know. So it is changed.
Sure he did.
Will it work for getting rid of my mother in law?Sure he did.
Just kidding ,I love my mother in law. 
God Bless
Try sprinkling salt around a statue of Saint Makerrun.Will it work for getting rid of my mother in law?
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I meant the Mystical Body of Christ – not the Person of Jesus. His Church. The Body of Christ is his One, holy catholic and Apostolic Church. Nondenominational? What you mean is an isolated congregation without ties to anybody else. I am 100% certain that whatever you understand about Baptism and Communion bears little resemblance to Catholic teaching.
Really? Then how come people are always complaining that the Catholic Church NEVER changes anything? That Vatican 2 was just a smokescreen that left everything important untouched?
Gimme the guy’s phone number; I want to talk to him. This is a superstitious custom that has gained popularity among uneducated people – not just Catholics, I might add. (And it isn’t St. Thomas)
I’ll give you that one!
The word “indulgence” has got you all in a lather. Nobody will argue that the abuse of the indulgence system during the Renaissance was appalling and never should have happened. But the general concept of indulgences is a holy and wholesome thing. I’m not going to go into that here because you’re not nearly ready for it, but the prayer to Jesus associated with the happy death indulgence is beautiful: “We desire you in our hour of death to be our amour by your property and presence.” (‘Property’ in this case means personal attributes in this case)
Catholics believe the Mass is the most powerful prayer in earth or Heaven. Why would we not offer that prayer on behalf of anybody, Catholic or not?
Dave, “praying to the saints” isn’t praying to saints as if they were God. It is no different than asking our friends to pray for us. I know Protestants believe that people in heaven have no communion with us, but Catholics believe that people in heaven are more alive than we are, that their charity is perfect, and that their perfect charity reaches both toward God and toward us. Those whom we recognize officially as “saints” have shown by their lives and by the benefits they have obtained for people after their death that they are privileged brothers and sisters in the Communion of Saints. No idolatry about it at all.
Sure he did.
LOL , Guess you got me on that one.
But it is true.
first of all I a nondemominational church IS a denomination.
Nondenominational as in we don’t follow a group of churches or any religious sect, We believe the only authority in the church is the word of God. I ask my wife and she said that the statue was that of St Joseph, ask your priest about it he will likely know.
Sorry to hijack the thread, but a reply is in order.
In the early Church when there were members still alive who had heard his voice utter the Word baptism, it’s meaning was known in a way that is less common today. John the baptist had in fact revealed the nature of baptism before Jesus started his public ministry. Everyone who came to be baptised by John knew that they were recieving something unseen but real that changed them. Jesus said when asked about John,“he is a perfect pattern of righteousness.” When a human life is a pattern of perfection the Holy Spirit, who’s very person expresses union, finds a resource to unite all humanity. He also finds in it his own image again and rests there. This pattern is what we are ‘drowned’ in. The image of perfection the image of God. The water is a matter of right faith a sign. The pattern of life that the Holy Spirit unites us to is as real as real can be.
First of all, it’s Saint Anthony of Padua. Second, such practices are superstition is roundly rejected by the teaching authority of the Church. If a priest did tell anyone to do this, they are acting sinfully.
Catholics do not do any of those things.
Quite agree. The Catholic Church, however, does not teach this about statues or any other material object.
No, but apparently you have a problem with Jesus’ words: …and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it (Matt 16:18).
How many times are you anti-Catholics going to say this? Every time you mention something specific, you are presented with a plethora of Scriptural evidence and evidence from the Church Fathers. Then you turn around and make this same general statement again. You are willfully ignoring the Scriptural and historical evidence to remain safe and sound with your preconceived prejudices and assumptions.
Let me put it this way, that that’s true then its equally true that if you have to write post after post explaining what you believe on an internet forum, there is something wrong. If you have to have thousands of different denominations with more new ones showing up everyday to fit the thousands and thousands of different and contradictory interpretations of the bible, then there is something wrong.
I’ll say it again. I had no idea that the Catholic Church had started baptism by “sprinkling.”
This link explains the connection between the Jewish mikvah bath and John’s baptism:
