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Recent content by R150

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    Unitarianism or Trinitarianism - which is Biblical?

    Why is Christ called Lord in the New Testament if he isn't anything more than a mere man???
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    Pope Francis offers Reduced Time in Purgatory

    Grace is a gift from God. But even your school of Christian thought teaches the Sacraments are for receiving grace and growing in faith.
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    Outer Darkness (LDS Version)

    The LDS teach very few people will go there. So what's the point of so much discussion in the NT about a lake of fire, never quenching the flames, and gnashing of teeth if so very few go there..?
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    Pope Francis offers Reduced Time in Purgatory

    Saved by Faith through Grace. We are saved only by grace and it is a gift from God and NOTHING we can earn. However, we must LIVE out Faith by doing Good Works. Good Works do NOT earn us salvation though. It would be like telling your spouse you love them and then not doing anything to show your...
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    Pope Francis offers Reduced Time in Purgatory

    Many many people may thing otherwise but Holy Mother Church teaches we are saved by GRACE. If you didn't know that and thought we didn't teach that, what else is there that needs to be clarified?
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    Pope Francis offers Reduced Time in Purgatory

    The Sacrament of Reconciliation forgives all sin, confessed and forgotten and removes eternal punishment. Penance removes temporal punishment. How much temporal punishment is not for certain. All or some. Therefore, as the Church of Christ has the power to bind and loose things on earth as it...
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    Celestial Marriage is a Commandment

    Many, many of their beliefs and practices are to be found NOWHERE in the Bible.
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    Pope Francis offers Reduced Time in Purgatory

    And on the Luther thing, back then people in the Church were selling indulgences. However, THAT IS NOT CHURCH DOCTRINE ON INDULGENCES. And it NEVER was. Yes, the Pope may have authorized it but the Pope is only infallible on issues of Faith and morals. So he wasn't acting infallibly. Over the...
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    Celestial Marriage is a Commandment

    LDS believe He hadn't revealed those things yet.
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    What is the state of the dead?

    Here is a good answer on another forum Hell and God's Omnipresence - Catholic Answers Forums "Hell is the place and state of seperation from God. But this dosen't mean God is seperated entirely. The state of hell is an eternal state which the soul already enjoys when it is in mortal sin. Now...
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    Is hell just spiritual suffering, or will it be physically painful as well?

    "The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer the punishments of hell, ‘eternal fire.’ The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God, in...
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    Pope Francis offers Reduced Time in Purgatory

    So, since people who attend receive an indulgence, its like attending on T.V.
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    What is the state of the dead?

    I found my answer "The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer the punishments of hell, ‘eternal fire.’ The chief punishment of hell is eternal...
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    Blessings and Punishments

    Ok sorry. However, would you agree that God's only Begotten Son was a blessing to the world? Obviously, we did not obey nor deserve such a great blessing..?