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What?? you must have been bored thinking this u 😛 just kidding
What if there was no God? how lost would you be?
 
SteveVH said:
Indeed!
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Rest in peace. The God who could transform even stones to children of Abraham (Matthew 3, 9) would have been able to be incarnated in someone else’s womb. The interesting question is, what would have been the fate of Mary, had she said No?
 
The obvious, What does this thread have to do with non-catholic religions?😃
But, I wonder: What if Judas had not betrayed Christ?
 
Jimmy_B said:
I don’t understand… please continue…
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I did a really long reply and it didn’t post so it be shorter. I found out that am Aspergers, on the autism spectrum if don’t know what aspergers is. Im yeh, 44 and all this time just dubbed as shy, half deaf and a bit slow etc and there are real reasons for it. My anger was started by a death of someone in the congregation and I couldn’t fathom out why I was so angry becasue it not like I spoke to her or anything. Then it moved onto Aspergers I guess. I have my difficulties and for me it about communicating especially feelings. I sound very normal but there are gaps or something. Through my priest being able to offer me email access, ie I can tell him anything, via email (I dry up, verbally) I was able to share enough with the mental health team for them to work out it not a mental health issue at all and I was relieved that I can now account for that missing piece in me that I knew was missing but last week it been anger. I wanted God to see how angry I was and in all my adult life of going to church I have never missed an Ash Wednesday (anglican). So I figured God will really hear/see my action that way. Plus making it known to the priest and doubly so because he has only been here just over a year or so and the weather was bad on wednesday but that wouldn’t have been my reason. He has helped me enornmously. He don’t reply back but I am fine with that because I can ring if something specific and he patient on the phone. We get straight to our clergy. No parish secretaries for us 👍 Though we might get wives (and children or teens) in some vicarages. But I do throughly let of steam via email which has helped me with finding out about aspergers.
I think I am through the anger stage which reminds me of another thread I started and sometime will sit and reply to each one. I don’t talk to God as never have been able to. That don’t make any real sense to me and feels fake. But this priest shown me how to pray just by being with God which is perfect for me as no words and not much guilt about no words. A previous priest started it for me but I was unable to get beyond but this priest guided me there. Thankfully.
Hope you understand all that - well you did ask me to continue. I am feeling happier this week and another incident in the week caused me destructive thinking. A joke which I was begging for but well. and I got through communion with nervousness today because I had disclosed it all to the priest and that is the only time I have worried if I told him too much. But got through it and was an achievement in a way. You did ask.
 
I don’t have autism, but sometimes I do have trouble articulating exactly what I mean. It can be frustrating when people don’t understand. You are not alone.
 
Polycarp1 said:
What is the most important goal in our lives? If its not getting into heaven then we have our priorities wrong!
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That is a good, question, but the idea of a heaven, does not appeal.

I was raised a Catholic, but the idea of an eternal heaven praising god fills me with dread
 
aprilfloyd said:
That is a good, question, but the idea of a heaven, does not appeal.
Well actually for me, I do not worry about getting to heaven though I guess being Anglican may make that difference as to why I don’t worry. But for me it not my entire goal in life in that life is the goal in life rather than Heaven though it does depend on whether you view heaven as a state of being, dead or alive and as alive the Heaven is good state of being to be in. But it isn’t my goal in life because without wanting to sound proud or anything I am fairly certain I am going to be in Heaven when I die because I think hell is empty because we only have hell on earth as a state of being and a form of control to get us to do for others etc.
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englishredrose said:
aprilfloyd;10374304:
That is a good, question, but the idea of a heaven, does not appeal.
Well actually for me, I do not worry about getting to heaven though I guess being Anglican may make that difference as to why I don’t worry. But for me it not my entire goal in life in that life is the goal in life rather than Heaven though it does depend on whether you view heaven as a state of being, dead or alive and as alive the Heaven is good state of being to be in. But it isn’t my goal in life because without wanting to sound proud or anything I am fairly certain I am going to be in Heaven when I die because I think hell is empty because we only have hell on earth as a state of being and a form of control to get us to do for others etc.
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I’m not Anglican but this doesn’t sound like an Anglican belief to me…
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