Why I believe what I do

[MaryHelp777]

There are many psychics who claim to communicate with, and describe details of the lives of, deceased people. The late great sceptic James Randi devoted decades to demonstrating how these and other ‘supernatural’ feats could be done by purely natural means, including psychological manipulation (via techniques such as ‘cold reading’). From memory he offered a substantial monetary reward for anyone who presented him with something that he couldn’t debunk. No-one has been able to claim it.

The Catholic Church has said it is either illusion, or demonic.
The demons who are called in using a Ouija board can tell a person things about past ancestors that are true. And that individual needs deliverance or a Catholic exorcism afterwards as.they become oppressed from consenting to use the occult, which is black magic and demonic. Satan will tell a few truths, just to get someone to swallow a dozen lies. If he leads them away from the true church that’s all he cares about.

 

[MaryHelp777]

The whole thrust of the Bible opposes reincarnation. It shows that man is the special creation of God, created in God’s image with both a material body and an immaterial soul and spirit. He is presented as distinct and unique from all other creatures—angels and the animal kingdom alike. The Bible teaches that at death, while man’s body is mortal, decays and returns to dust, his soul and spirit continue on either in a place of torments for those who reject Christ or in paradise (heaven) in God’s presence for those who have trusted in the Savior. Both categories of people will be resurrected, one to eternal judgment and the other to eternal life with a glorified body (John 5:25-29). The emphatic statement of the Bible, as will be pointed out below, is that “it is appointed unto men once to die and after that the judgment” (Heb. 9:27).

 

[MaryHelp777]

Jesus told us, “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it” (Matthew 7:13-14; see also Matthew 7:24-27). This doesn’t say that we get repeated chances to get this right in successive lifetimes. He is talking about entering the gate once, and traveling along the road once.

Jesus told a story about a rich man and a beggar, named Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31). Both died. The angels carried Lazarus to Abraham’s side, evidently a place of blessing. The rich man was “in hell, where he was in torment”. There is an impassible gulf between the two
When one dies one is in a permanent place.

Jesus said “A time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his [Jesus’] voice and come out - those who have done good will rise to live and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned” (John 5:28-29).

“Nor did he [Jesus Christ] enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people…” (Hebrews 9:25-28)

. There have been accounts of people who say they were in Hell for a short time and then were resuscitated (restored to life in the same body and personality). They say that the pain was far worse than anything they had ever experienced on earth, and one such man had been badly burned in a fire while on earth. a mere reading of the Scriptural passages does not begin to convey how awful the reality will be.

There have been hundreds of thousands of near death experiences of people who were clinically dead, resuscitated, and gave accounts of being in a fixed placed of Heaven or hell. Accounts by aetheists, and other beliefs.
You die and receive your reward.

 

[SilverLight]

The whole thrust of the Bible opposes reincarnation. It shows that man is the special creation of God, created in God’s image with both a material body and an immaterial soul and spirit. He is presented as distinct and unique from all other creatures—angels and the animal kingdom alike. The Bible teaches that at death, while man’s body is mortal, decays and returns to dust, his soul and spirit continue on either in a place of torments for those who reject Christ or in paradise (heaven) in God’s presence for those who have trusted in the Savior. Both categories of people will be resurrected, one to eternal judgment and the other to eternal life with a glorified body (John 5:25-29). The emphatic statement of the Bible, as will be pointed out below, is that “it is appointed unto men once to die and after that the judgment” (Heb. 9:27).

That is one religions view on it yes.

 

[openmind77]

Jesus told us, “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it” (Matthew 7:13-14; see also Matthew 7:24-27). This doesn’t say that we get repeated chances to get this right in successive lifetimes. He is talking about entering the gate once, and traveling along the road once.

Jesus told a story about a rich man and a beggar, named Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31). Both died. The angels carried Lazarus to Abraham’s side, evidently a place of blessing. The rich man was “in hell, where he was in torment”. There is an impassible gulf between the two
When one dies one is in a permanent place.

Jesus said “A time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his [Jesus’] voice and come out - those who have done good will rise to live and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned” (John 5:28-29).

“Nor did he [Jesus Christ] enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people…” (Hebrews 9:25-28)

. There have been accounts of people who say they were in Hell for a short time and then were resuscitated (restored to life in the same body and personality). They say that the pain was far worse than anything they had ever experienced on earth, and one such man had been badly burned in a fire while on earth. a mere reading of the Scriptural passages does not begin to convey how awful the reality will be.

There have been hundreds of thousands of near death experiences of people who were clinically dead, resuscitated, and gave accounts of being in a fixed placed of Heaven or hell. Accounts by aetheists, and other beliefs.
You die and receive your reward.

Looks like nobody is ever going to convince you that there is the slightest chance that reincarnation is true. I hope for your sake that the Christ when he returns, agrees with your view. Otherwise the shock may be to difficult to bear. The Christ may be here as early as next year, so we don’t have long to find out.

 

[johnnyc176]

I respect all those beliefs (although I do not share them), but reincarnation flies in the face of Church teaching.

ICXC NIKA

Yes while dialogue is important it is imperative that we keep this warning from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in mind…

catholicworldreport.com/Blog/3466/pope_emeritus_benedict_xvi_dialogue_cannot_substitute_for_mission.aspx

The risen Lord instructed his apostles, and through them his disciples in all ages, to take his word to the ends of the earth and to make disciples of all people, ‘But does that still apply?’ many inside and outside the church ask themselves today. ‘Is mission still something for today? Would it not be more appropriate to meet in dialogue among religions and serve together the cause of world peace?’

The counter-question is: ‘Can dialogue substitute for mission?’. In fact, many today think religions should respect each other and, in their dialogue, become a common force for peace. According to this way of thinking, it is usually taken for granted that different religions are variants of one and the same reality, The question of truth, that which originally motivated Christians more than any other, is here put inside parentheses. It is assumed that the authentic truth about God is in the last analysis unreachable and that at best one can represent the ineffable with a variety of symbols. This renunciation of truth seems realistic and useful for peace among religions in the world.

It is nevertheless lethal to faith. In fact, faith loses its binding character and its seriousness, everything is reduced to interchangeable symbols, capable of referring only distantly to the inaccessible mystery of the divine,

 

[Della]

Looks like nobody is ever going to convince you that there is the slightest chance that reincarnation is true. I hope for your sake that the Christ when he returns, agrees with your view. Otherwise the shock may be to difficult to bear. The Christ may be here as early as next year, so we don’t have long to find out.

I find it ironic that you believe in Christ’s return when you don’t believe in Christianity. What would be the point of believing in Christ’s return if he isn’t who he claimed to be? Christ never described himself as anything other than the Son of God or the Son of Man (the Second Adam to use St. Paul’s term). He isn’t some ascended being nor merely a good human teacher/philosopher. He didn’t leave such options open to us. He’s either the Son of God or he’s a liar or a lunatic. If he is the Son of God we are to obey him and his Church not tack onto him beliefs foreign to what he himself believed and preached.

There is much truth in human philosophies and non-Christian religions. The Church plainly tells us that. What the Church claims for herself is that the fullness of the truth subsists in her. That means that we can be certain that what the Church teaches is true, but not all she teaches is in her alone. God has enlightened minds/inspired people throughout the world as to natural truths in order that they might seek him more fully, but the truths concerning salvation are the gifts given to the Church to share with the world because Christ’s death and resurrection redeemed/satisfied God’s justice for all human beings everywhere and in all times past, present and future.

 

[SilverLight]

I find it ironic that you believe in Christ’s return when you don’t believe in Christianity. What would be the point of believing in Christ’s return if he isn’t who he claimed to be? Christ never described himself as anything other than the Son of God or the Son of Man (the Second Adam to use St. Paul’s term). He isn’t some ascended being nor merely a good human teacher/philosopher. He didn’t leave such options open to us. He’s either the Son of God or he’s a liar or a lunatic. If he is the Son of God we are to obey him and his Church not tack onto him beliefs foreign to what he himself believed and preached.

There is much truth in human philosophies and non-Christian religions. The Church plainly tells us that. What the Church claims for herself is that the fullness of the truth subsists in her. That means that we can be certain that what the Church teaches is true, but not all she teaches is in her alone. God has enlightened minds/inspired people throughout the world as to natural truths in order that they might seek him more fully, but the truths concerning salvation are the gifts given to the Church to share with the world because Christ’s death and resurrection redeemed/satisfied God’s justice for all human beings everywhere and in all times past, present and future.

Yes but do you see how that one word ‘if’ may make people think before putting their trust into something 100%?

 

[Della]

Yes but do you see how that one word ‘if’ may make people think before putting their trust into something 100%?

People should think before putting their trust into anything, but that thinking has to be guided by what is true, not what people want to believe. How many actually seek the truth when they can make themselves comfortable and do their own thing without it? We are responsible for seeking the truth. Jesus told us that he is the truth, therefore we trust in him, in what he established, and what he wants us to do to gain God’s grace.

 

[superwimp]

Hello,
There are many versions of reincarnation. A person can still believe in much of the popular Christian stuff and believe in reincarnation. All it means is that your eternity is based on more than this one lifetime.

 

[Michael68]

I have to agree there is no mention of reincarnation in the bible. I also agree demonic forces could be behind this type of thing to take focus away from God

 

[Sy_Noe]

People should think before putting their trust into anything, but that thinking has to be guided by what is true, not what people want to believe. How many actually seek the truth when they can make themselves comfortable and do their own thing without it? We are responsible for seeking the truth. Jesus told us that he is the truth, therefore we trust in him, in what he established, and what he wants us to do to gain God’s grace.

Yes but to reach a point of thinking they know what is true, one must still believe a lot.

 

[Della]

Yes but to reach a point of thinking they know what is true, one must still believe a lot.

Everyone already believes a lot by the time s/he is old enough to seek the truth. The question is if they want truth or they merely want what makes them feel good as they are. The truth challenges us and tells us the reality of our fallen nature. Any attempt to whitewash that reality does no one any good no matter what he was brought up to believe.

 

[MaryHelp777]

I find it ironic that you believe in Christ’s return when you don’t believe in Christianity. What would be the point of believing in Christ’s return if he isn’t who he claimed to be? Christ never described himself as anything other than the Son of God or the Son of Man (the Second Adam to use St. Paul’s term). He isn’t some ascended being nor merely a good human teacher/philosopher. He didn’t leave such options open to us. He’s either the Son of God or he’s a liar or a lunatic. If he is the Son of God we are to obey him and his Church not tack onto him beliefs foreign to what he himself believed and preached.

There is much truth in human philosophies and non-Christian religions. The Church plainly tells us that. What the Church claims for herself is that the fullness of the truth subsists in her. That means that we can be certain that what the Church teaches is true, but not all she teaches is in her alone. God has enlightened minds/inspired people throughout the world as to natural truths in order that they might seek him more fully, but the truths concerning salvation are the gifts given to the Church to share with the world because Christ’s death and resurrection redeemed/satisfied God’s justice for all human beings everywhere and in all times past, present and future.

Exactly.

What.Did Jesus call the other religions in the New Testament?

“unbelievers”
Pagans"
“Heathens”
“Lost sheep”
“The world”

What did He say about Himself and His teachings?
“I am the Holy One come.down from Heaven. His only Son. I and the Father.are one. I am the Truth. All who hear the Truth listen to My voice. If you love me you would do as I tell you.”

 

[SilverLight]

Everyone already believes a lot by the time s/he is old enough to seek the truth. The question is if they want truth or they merely want what makes them feel good as they are. The truth challenges us and tells us the reality of our fallen nature. Any attempt to whitewash that reality does no one any good no matter what he was brought up to believe.

Though what is the point of living if we do not have something that makes us happy in life?
Why would you also take something away from someone if it is not harming them mentally or physically? What is the truth for one person is not the same for everyone and not everyone gets to that truth in the same way even if it is the same. We all walk a different path in life.

 

[SilverLight]

Exactly.

What.Did Jesus call the other religions in the New Testament?

“unbelievers”
Pagans"
“Heathens”
“Lost sheep”
“The world”

What did He say about Himself and His teachings?
“I am the Holy One come.down from Heaven. His only Son. I and the Father.are one. I am the Truth. All who hear the Truth listen to My voice. If you love me you would do as I tell you.”

Perhaps the other religions call Christianity along the same. I’m not trying to put the religion down I’m just showing the other side of a view someone or a religion may have.

 

[Della]

Though what is the point of living if we do not have something that makes us happy in life?

How can knowing and living God’s eternal truth in any way take anyone’s “happiness” away from them? How in the world did you ever come to the conclusion that true happiness is even possible without having enough of the truth to be able to draw on God’s grace? You need to read the Catechism along with Ghandi, my friend.

Why would you also take something away from someone if it is not harming them mentally or physically? What is the truth for one person is not the same for everyone and not everyone gets to that truth in the same way even if it is the same. We all walk a different path in life.

Truth is truth is truth. There’s aren’t truths for some people and other truths for other people. All peoples have bits and pieces of eternal truth because all have the natural law in their hearts, put there by God because all humans are created in the image of God. But the whole truth is in Christ and in him only–the whole truth, not merely parts of the truth. To have Christ is to have the truth undiluted and sure.

 

[SilverLight]

How can knowing and living God’s eternal truth in any way take anyone’s “happiness” away from them? How in the world did you ever come to the conclusion that true happiness is even possible without having enough of the truth to be able to draw on God’s grace? You need to read the Catechism along with Ghandi, my friend.

Truth is truth is truth. There’s aren’t truths for some people and other truths for other people. All peoples have bits and pieces of eternal truth because all have the natural law in their hearts, put there by God because all humans are created in the image of God. But the whole truth is in Christ and in him only–the whole truth, not merely parts of the truth. To have Christ is to have the truth undiluted and sure.

Because when I am doing things like crafts, helping people and animals I am also happy and at peace. Do you even know my relationship with God? No you do not as you do not know who I am or what I am even like in person. I try to be a nice peaceful person who is open to making new friends.
You need to have an open mind and heart friend.

 

[MaryHelp777]

Because when I am doing things like crafts, helping people and animals I am also happy and at peace. Do you even know my relationship with God? No you do not as you do not know who I am or what I am even like in person. I try to be a nice peaceful person who is open to making new friends.
You need to have an open mind and heart friend.

Jesus said, “Even the sinners do good to the sinners,”
“What reward is there for you in that?”

He was trying to say; being a nice person is not good enough, there is more we have to do. The sinners already do that. Christians are called to even more than being nice.

Jesus told the rich man, “Keep the Commandments”
One of these is, “Thought shalt not have strange God’s before me.” If you are following other religions freely, deliberately and in full knowledge, that is a mortal sin, according to Jesus, who said He is The Truth, The Son of God, One with the Father.

Doing and believing whatever makes you happy isn’t going to get you into Heaven.

When Jesus told the crowds that He would be present in the Eucharist so they could eat His body and drink His blood, it says, “The crowds found this a difficult teaching, and many left.”
Whaf chapter, paragraph and Verse is that in the Gospel of John? 6:6:6. Which is Satan’s number, “The number of the Beast is 666” in Revelation “And he will deceive a great portion of mankind, and they will have his name written on their foreheads, the mark of the beast which is 666.”

Disobedience to Jesus teachings, where does this come from? From satan. Jesus calls him “a liar and a murderer even from the beginning.”

Concerning being happy by choosing and believing whatever makes you happy;

Jesus said; “And they were eating and drinking and laughing and dancing right up until the coming of the Ark,”
Also: “That is how it will be in the End Of Days, people will be laughing and eating and drinking and dancing right up until they are covered in a consuming fire.”

Jesus told the Apostles, looking at someone and thinking impure thoughts deliberately was a mortal sin and was breaking the commandment not to commit adultery. He told them, to hate ones brother was breaking the commandment not to kill.

The Apostles found Jesus truth and teaching a challenge, they even said to Him, “Who can be saved then?”

Jesus truth and teachings are a challenge because they challenge us to say no to the easy path that “wide Road that leads to Hell, wide and easy is it’s way, and there are many who find it.”

Whereas of Heaven Jesus says; “Narrow and DIFFICULT is the way, and there are few who find it.”

Doing and believing whatever makes you happy isn’t going to get you into Heaven.

Jesus said: “One cannot serve two masters.”
He said, “Any Spirit that does not profess Jesus as Lord is the spirit of anti-Christ”
Is Jesus the infallible Son of God for you who left us His infallible instructions in the New Testament and Roman Catholic Church He founded, or are you unknowingly following temptations in the mind from an anti-christ Spirit who is tempting you to "put strange God’s before " Jesus, who said He was “I Am”, the Son of God, “The Truth,”

“one cannot SERVE two masters.”

It’s about serving Jesus, who said about actions for Him that “If you loved Me you would do as I say.” keeping His commands through the New Testament and catholic church which He gave us to guide us infallibly.

Jesus even says at certain judgements of sinners, they will call Him “Lord Lord” and He will say, “You wicked and FAITH-LESS servant, I tell you solemnly, I never knew you”.

Faith less, because “If you believed Me you would believe My words” Jesus says somewhere else.

Jesus the Son of God, the Truth has given you personally His words and instructions in the New Testament and Roman Catholic Church He founded and guides infallibly,
About this, Jesus was either a liar, a madman, or 100% infallible and right.

You cannot partially believe in Jesus words and believe He was partially correct and partially incorrect, that turns Jesus the Son of God into a liar.

Which is it, is He the Truth, the Son of God, the end of all Public Revelation from God totally until the End Times,

Or is He a madman?

Because the Son of God, who says “I am Truth”, never said "I am partial truth and partially wrong "

 

[SilverLight]

Just because a person might be happy and at peace doesn’t mean they are on the right path,
“They were eating and drinking and laughing and dancing up until the coming of the Ark.”

“Wide and easy is the way that leads to Eternal Perdition and there are many who find it.”

Jesus just said, the road to Hell is a happy, easy one, with all rules thrown out the window,

Jesus said “Pick up your Cross and follow Me.”

A priest at mass once said, “If life is too easy, satan is leaving you alone because you are not a threat to him”, When we keep God’s commands in the New Testament and Roman Catholic Church, Satan ups the angst against a person, because they could be saved and also damage Satan’s kingdom

I have had a cross tied to my back since I was little. Life has been very rocky for me and I’m lucky to be alive. I feel challenged a little everyday. I have to find things and not just my religion to make me happy because one of the things I happen to have been carrying all my life is anxiety and a little depression. If I let those two things win then I have given into the darkness.
Please think about the struggles people may have before thinking they do not struggle.