What does it mean to have a personal relationship with God?

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You started by saying that I had to abide by the convention of capitalizing “God”. Why is that? Have you read my post?
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When we want to have a personal relationship with someone, respect is a key element. Capitalising the name of God is respect. God is a name and God has a name. In Jewish tradition every letter is capitalised when referring to God as LORD when speaking this as the divine name.
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Then, if I am not sorry about a sin that the Church labels a sin, how am I able to confess such a sin validly? Say, I willing missed going to church on Sunday. This is a mortal sin. So, if I am not sorry about it I will go to hell. My girlfriend can understand me if I prefer to stay home. God seemingly cant.
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This issue is between you and your Priest. If you want a personal relationship with God, you must follow God’s rules., not your own rules.
God commands us to keep the Sabbath Day holy. This begins with the worship of God.
Your wife is not God. Whether she is happy or not that you miss mass is not correlated to what God commands about you keeping the Sabbath Day holy.
 
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paspec said:
So, all I have to do is be at god’s beck and call?
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We can choose to do our will, or do God’s will. As we progress on our spiritual journey home, we desire more and more to do God’s will and forsake our own will.
 
I do agree that respect is a key element in a relationship. I therefore opted for typing “god” not capitalized. Because I had reasons. You are free to ask what my reasons are, instead of schooling me. If not, please leave the conversation now. Thanks.
 
I have read you were raised Catholic.
 
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paspec said:
? So, I go to confession tomorrow and confess “Bless me Father for I have sinned, I have not been following the Catholic doctrine for years, in fact, I haven’t been to confession for years, and have done this and that, but I am only sorry for this 45% of it, because I don’t believe the rest is a sin”?
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Then you don’t have a properly formed conscience. That’s not unusual, given the utterly decadent culture the West has descended into, and the atrocious state of Catholic catechesis, but it’s probably your situation. Either you don’t know what the Church teaches, or you do and you reject it. Which is it in your case? I’m also curious, do you actually want to be Catholic and are having difficulties, or have you pretty much dismissed the Church at this point? And what are those 45% that you don’t believe are a sin?
 
If god makes a rule and claims to love us at the same time, he or she would say why. If he or she loves us it would not be hidden, but brought up in conversation.
 
paspec said:
You are free to ask what my reasons are, instead of schooling me. If not, please leave the conversation now. Thanks.
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Your reasons for showing God so little respect are between you and God.
I hear reasons daily, constantly, people who want to do their own thing, or want to blame God for every little thing that is wrong in their lives or the lives of others or just the world in general. Your reasons will be no different to hundreds of others I have heard.

Its God’s way or the highway. That is the way this works. God is our creator, everything belongs to Him, including us. Yes we have free will, but only because God gave us that free will.
God shows us mercy and puts us back on His highway when we repent

Frankly, I am not interested in anyone telling me why they must disrespect their creator, my creator.
Good day to you.
 
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paspec said:
? So, I go to confession tomorrow and confess “Bless me Father for I have sinned, I have not been following the Catholic doctrine for years, in fact, I haven’t been to confession for years, and have done this and that, but I am only sorry for this 45% of it, because I don’t believe the rest is a sin”?
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Ok, the context of your first couple of posts was obscure and I thought that you were having a ‘crisis of faith’ which is obviously not the case. You’ve left the faith some time ago. However, I still stand by my posts as witness of faith. I pray you find the peace you desire and the relationship you want with God.
 
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Before I go, you state you have a wife on another thread about no absolution possible, and here you state you have a girlfriend.

I am thinking you are just here to stir the pot.
 
paspec said:
My girlfriend can understand me if I prefer to stay home. God seemingly cant.
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here and
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If me and my wife ever wanted to get married in the Catholic church (of which she has expressed an interest in the past, we were married by a notary public in the first place), would I have to confess and be sorry about our marital cohabitation prior to us getting “sacramentally married”? (I am a baptized, non-practising Catholic. Agnostic, more like)
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from your other thread.
 
And you have formed consciousness and are now “in the fold of the righteous” so you can feel better than the rest? Or what? Either I am Catholic or what?

That is what Catholicism has taught me, that is what people like you have taught me: Be subscribing to an ideology so we can feel better than others…

Dunno what good can be learned from that.

45 other % include: Eating meat on Good Friday, Wanking, Taking the Eucharist after a questionable (i.e. guilt-induced confession), Pre-marital sex, Being homosexual. Questioning the faith, being atheistic/agnostic. Not going to church on Sunday. Being Lutheran…
 
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you;
 
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paspec:
My girlfriend can understand me if I prefer to stay home. God seemingly cant.
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here and
paspec said:
If me and my wife ever wanted to get married in the Catholic church (of which she has expressed an interest in the past, we were married by a notary public in the first place), would I have to confess and be sorry about our marital cohabitation prior to us getting “sacramentally married”? (I am a baptized, non-practising Catholic. Agnostic, more like)
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from your other thread.
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In a way, the heartfelt despair you feel for someone on the internet is resolved when you find out they are just a troll. But it is a sad thing about todays culture all the same.
 
Yes. My wife is if certainly nicer than god, if I am pressed to answer.
 
Well that would be advantageous if you were truthful. The priest would have something to work with. Of course if you persisted in your dissent then he could not absolve you but at least you started the journey. God Bless!
 
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