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  1. Jonathan95

    Weird for a Christian girl to behave this way?

    Hi, I met a Christian girl recently at a revival conference with about 30 000 people, who I had met at conferences three times before, but we have barely spoken. I had just sat down, came straight from work, and saw her down at the floor, she came up to my chair and hugged me, telling me she...
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    Christian girl who slandered me

    Hi, I was at a Christian conference and I was playing soccer with the youth group there, and I was a goalkeeper, and from the crowd laying/sitting/standing in grass beside, further away, I heard someone say something about me (I think). Because I heard someone say "He with white pants"...
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    Why did Jesus have to come

    Hi, I have a test in my religious studies in high school, and I need to tell what Jesus mission was. Of course I know he came to bring salvation. However, how should I explain precisely why? I know he had to come partly because the old system of sacrifice and rituals were insufficient (at...
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    Was Origen always a heretic?

    Hi, was Origen always a heretic, or did he become that later (i.e. was he orthodox for a while), like Tertullian?
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    Apostle Peter and a literal Babylon?

    Hi, Some believe that Babylon in 1 Pet 5:13 literally meant Babylon (the area around Iran), and that Peter never went to Rome. While others believe it meant Rome. Since Peter was crucified, and crucifixion is a Roman execution method, then how could he have spent his time in Persia and...
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    Missionary entering the monastery of a Buddhist spiritual leader

    Hi, My aunt told me about some Christian who once went to some monastery on a mountain (I guess in Asia), and where there was a high-rank buddhist spiritual leader there. There were monks there practicing water divination in bowls when they came. When they entered, the divination of the monks...
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    Marriage question

    Hi, What if two unmarried people (whether Catholic/non-Catholic Christian/non-Christian) have sex (I agree this is sin), would they have to stay together then, considering their union (becoming one flesh - 1 Cor. 6:16) through this act? Or would they be free to separate and marry someone...
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    2 Pet. 3:8 - One day as a thousand years

    Today, as I was crying in repentance, I was reminded of the part of 2 Peter 3:8, "that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years" NKJV. I was thinking how it must hurt God the longer we are obstinate in sin, or delay with repentance or similar. He longs for us to repent when we sin. Remember...
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    Past offenses against others

    Hi, Do I have to personally make reparation for offenses committed against others prior to my baptism, if I haven't personally apologized to them, if it was so long time ago that they might not care about me apologizing now? Or if I have committed offenses against others even after my baptism...
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    "If Mary was sinless,she could have died instead of Christ"

    Hi, I've heard an argument that if Mary was sinless/immaculately conceived, then Mary could have died on the cross for our sins instead of Christ. Now, I don't believe this (sounds blasphemous by the way), but how should I answer it? I have been thinking, that since sin entered the...
  11. Jonathan95

    1 Maccabees 4:55 ??

    Hi, "All the people fell on their faces and worshiped and blessed Heaven, who had prospered them." 1 Maccabees 4:55 NRSVCE How is this to be interpreted, since to worship heaven would be idolatry. I do believe the deuterocanonical books as well though.
  12. Jonathan95

    Luke 8:21 Mary question, in need of prayer

    Hi, today I was at a Catholic mass for the first time. At the way home from that city (my dad and my aunt and her daughter went to a pentecostal church) I was talking about the Catholic faith with my aunt. She used Luke 8:21 as an argument against Mary being the mother of believers: "My...
  13. Jonathan95

    I became convinced of the Catholic Faith

    It started out small first, this summer, when I could see that the Eucharist and the sacrifice of the Mass was Biblical and what the Early Church fathers believed in, when a Catholic quoted Bible verses with brief expositions and quoted Early Church Fathers. Now, some months ago I started...
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    Acting against the truth

    "Lying is the most direct offense against the truth. To lie is to speak or act against the truth in order to lead someone into error. By injuring man's relation to truth and to his neighbor, a lie offends against the fundamental relation of man and of his word to the Lord." (CCC, 2483) Do you...
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    Sedevacantism

    Hi, I've been convinced of the Catholic Faith after having read about it for like 3 weeks. But I've been confused when I encountered Sedevacantist sites, who say that the Vatican II council is invalid or such, and that the current pope is an "anti-pope" etc. I find good arguments from both...
  16. Jonathan95

    Priests (James 5:14)

    Hi, I've been reading about Apostolic succession and such recently. But I don't understand James 5:14 "Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the priests of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord." (James 5:14 DRA) Notice the "priests"...
  17. Jonathan95

    Matthew 5:37 - 'Yes, yes' and 'No, no'

    Hi, "Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil." Matthew 5:37 ESV Does this mean that for example if someone would ask regarding a meal, "Was it tasty?" One cannot say for example "Yes, but, the taco at [insert name of other...
  18. Jonathan95

    Aquila and Priscilla? (1 Cor. 16:19)

    Hi, "The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house." (1 Corinthians 16:19) I spoke with someone who used this verse to defend his view that women can be Pastors. How can I refute his argument? I tried to Google...
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    Immaculate conception and the Assumption

    Hi, I've been wondering how the immaculate conception can be true, when quotes like these (there are more) indicate that Mary died before her assumption into heaven?: "St. Juvenal, Bishop of Jerusalem, at the Council of Chalcedon (451), made known to the Emperor Marcian and Pulcheria, who...
  20. Jonathan95

    Baptism, Eucharist questions

    Hi, I was baptized in 2011 by a Salvation Army officer. But the "office of worship" doesn't recognize the baptism of Salvation Army as valid (Soure). But since the Salvation Army headquarters state they don't have baptismal service, yet I was baptized by one who believes in the necessity of...
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