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  1. Vicomte13

    Miracles

    I have personally experienced 3 major miracles and a series of communications with God.
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    Was I in the wrong in the way I tried to defend God?

    Yes, you are wrong. You can alienate your mother over ideas if you choose, nobody will stop you. And nobody will ever reward you for it either, not in this world or the next. You will simply cut a REAL tie with a REAL person, forever, your life's biggest fan, in favor of your own fantasy idea...
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    Kind Advice Only: What do you do when Christians will not discuss Scripture with you?

    Now Jason, THAT was an attack, by YOU, on everybody who tried to help you. You got a lot of good advice here, and much of it was friendly. Some of it wasn't. What you wrote categorically dismissed all of it as negative criticism. That is not true. You just attacked everybody - even those...
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    Kind Advice Only: What do you do when Christians will not discuss Scripture with you?

    As you wish. But your question was about what you do if somebody doesn't want to play the "quote scripture game". I said "talk about miracles" - then he will object and do what you just did: turn to Scripture - and VOILA! You have achieved your objective of getting him to argue using...
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    Kind Advice Only: What do you do when Christians will not discuss Scripture with you?

    I discuss miracles with them: they prove Jesus is divine and that he interacts with the world still. This then usually launches a fight about Mary, sainthood and trans-substantiation, because all of the demonstrable, scientifically examinable miracles since the First Century fall into those...
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    Are Bad Catholics Still Catholics? (Jimmy Akin article)

    You left. You may have been a cradle Catholic, but you decided that logical religion was your focus, not that feeling of being part of God's family. You probably never really felt that, so you left. You weren't really part of the people you left, you don't share their emotionalism, which is...
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    Are Bad Catholics Still Catholics? (Jimmy Akin article)

    Not really. Catholics do not think about God and the Church in terms of formal debate. Infallibility is something that the clergy and the intellectuals, and people outside of the Church, worry about. The lay Catholic's relationship with God is very foreign to the form of logic that you...
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    Are Bad Catholics Still Catholics? (Jimmy Akin article)

    The Bishop is to grind his teeth, state his personal disagreement, warn darkly, and then leave it to God. What more can he do, realistically? Sure, he could "draw a gun", so to speak, and blow off his own foot. Pretty sure that won't accomplish anything. The hardcore always want to take...
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    Are Bad Catholics Still Catholics? (Jimmy Akin article)

    You say. You decide. You go to communion or not. It's up to you. That's the way it really is.
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    Are Bad Catholics Still Catholics? (Jimmy Akin article)

    When I opine on things regarding the Catholic church, my fellow Catholics get angry at me and some of them come after me with as close to "book, bell and candle" as they can. Because I'm in no position to reform anything about the Church myself, and my fellow Catholics do not agree with me, for...
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    Are Bad Catholics Still Catholics? (Jimmy Akin article)

    Probably. So I won't go over there. Life's too short, y'know?
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    Are Bad Catholics Still Catholics? (Jimmy Akin article)

    Obviously. All old churches do. Have to. Exhibit A: All of the old Western Churches (Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists, Anglicans) justified killing people as "witches". None justify that anymore, or even dare to try. Some pretend that "nothing has changed", but that's just a lie.
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    Are Bad Catholics Still Catholics? (Jimmy Akin article)

    The Pope Eugene quote is unfortunate because it weakens your case. Since Vatican II, the Catholic position, as contained in the catechism, is that those who are not baptized Catholics may nevertheless be saved by God. So what Pope Eugene asserted back then is not really what the Church teaches...
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    Did God Command Genocide During the Conquest of Canaan?

    The short answer is yes, YHWH commanded the genocide of all Canaanites who remained in the land of Canaan and did not flee.
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    Shutdown Poll

    It will not pass, and really, it MUST not pass. The ability to shut the government down is literally the only power that the Legislature has to prevent the Executive from imperial rule, or the Executive has from preventing America from devolving into a straight parliamentary system contrary to...
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    Shutdown Poll

    That's right. I think you're right about the World War I trench warfare analogy. Both sides are dug in, and neither side is willing to budge an inch. In the end, one side won World War I. That will also be true in this case as well. Unfortunately, you government workers might be on the...
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    Shutdown Poll

    You could write the Republican response using your same words just by shifting the issue. American parties and their ways of thinking are two peas in a pod. From the 80,000 foot view, this is all over whether Donald will get his Wall funding. The answer is that he will, in exchange for a...
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    Shutdown Poll

    It could all crash and burn. That’s true. And if it does, the Dems will blame Trump, and Trump will blame the Dems, so well have two years of ballooning calamity before we have an election that sweeps one, or both, parties away. It’s certainly interesting to watch.
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    Shutdown Poll

    They’re half the country. There is very little communication or understanding between the two sides.
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    Shutdown Poll

    Let’s see how it plays out. Trump took credit for the shutdown before it started. He’s feeling good about it. It doesnt look like the Dems are going to back down, and Trump won’t, so we could be looking at a two year shutdown. After a certain point Trump will invoke the Reduction In Force...