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I am praying for you.  Don't be ashamed, because God is happy just to have you there with Him.  :clap:

Well, to be fair, isn't that all you have as well, i.e., an opinion on what Scripture says?

The Hebrew idiom used in the passages about Jacob and Esau actually should translate to "loves less." I'm not quite sure how the passages in Romans ever became about individual salvation, when so far as I can tell, it was written in response to the mistaken Jewish beliefs...

The issue is not nearly so simple as you make it appear. The interpretation you advance is hardly a slam-dunk, and even Reformed writers have acknowledged that. I don't say that there you don't have a legitimate argument, but to assume that the matter is resolved simply by context is...

Perhaps in the way of explanation, Catholics have a more complicated understanding of "having" the Holy Spirit, not just you have it or you don't. So you have the Holy Spirit acts in one way before you are baprtised, in a different way after you are baptised, in a different way when you are...

Well, if it's a *group* hug, I guess it's not *too* unmanly. Just kidding. Glad to know you, Bruno. :hug:

lambslove: I concur with you that this is not a place for Catholic and Protestant debate, and because of that, I will not commence a debate on church history.  However, I will point out that I made no reference to Catholicism in my previous post.  Andrew was an Apostle who had a...

In response to the suggestion that Peter was the only other person whose crucifixion is described by tradition, I submit the following: http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/c/caravagg/09/54andrew.html

Yeah, such infamous non-Catholics as Luther and Calvin!  LOL  :D Edit -- Oops, made a mistake.  Ever-Virgin is de fide doctrine; my RCIA instructor was wrong.

Evee: Here's a quick list, but if you want to discuss it more, we probably should move it to a new thread. http://world.std.com/~cwong/doc/chtsht.html#topic3

s0uljah, it sounds like you are focusing on life as a courtroom rather than as an experience. If life were just a matter of appearing in court before God, then yes, the end state is all that matters. I prefer to think of it as a real spiritual life. Living outside the Church is like living on...

quagga: Oh, absolutely, I didn't think that you were disparaging at all.  I was really just elaborating on the same theme, kind of explaining what you said.  Your last post really hit it well.

Hey, lay off my man St. Thomas. :) My experience has been that he's almost invariably right, when you finally figure out what it is that he's saying. Not good for those young in the faith, though, because it is *really* hard to figure out what he's saying most times. I got my crash course...

I will try to avoid speaking too hastily, because this is clearly a very serious matter for you.  The deacon in my RCIA training once said, "I don't have to go to confession; I *get* to go to confession."  The idea is that God hasn't blocked any of the old ways of communicating with...

I am sorry to hear that.  Perhaps I can explain in a way that reconciles this concept with what you believe previously.  You mentioned that you believe for Scriptural reasons that the bread and wine become the real Body and Blood of the Savior in the Eucharist.  Certainly, a...

It's definitely not the fullness of God; nothing can hold that! :) As I understand it, the fullness of faith refers to the life of believers, and the depth of experience we can have in this life. We are pilgrims on this world, but we are not as far from God as it seems. In the experience...

Catholics love to examine things.  Read some Aquinas sometime.  :) You are not expressing whatever the underlying belief is, which I think would be fine (although I am no veteran of the forum).  What you are expressing is an opinion about someone else's beliefs.  Simply...

The theory that strikes me as most plausible is that Matthew was written originally in Hebrew.  Mark followed as the first Greek Gospel for those who did not read Hebrew (with Matthew as a source), and Luke was a more comprehensive historical survey, also written in Greek.  Matthew was...

I pray that God brings you and your new foster child peace and happiness.  Thank you for being Christ's arms in embracing this child.  :)

Struggling, but never dying.  As with Christ, ours is a story of adversity prevailing, but only so that we can be reborn stronger. That is Catholicism for me: the true and real union of this frail and fallible humanity with God Himself.  Not a symbolic unity, but as real as the...