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as it was,so shall it be/choking on a gnat ?

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in an instant,out of nothing,on a certain day[the last day]God will create not just a human body but thousands of human bodies without evolution - many Christians choke on a gnat called Adam - twinc

Dear Twinc, Do Catholics choke on a gnat called Purgatory? Or can YOU show us Scriptural support for such a place? I suppose YOU just think Adam was just a Myth made up to make God look silly? We have Scriptural support for Adam, but I know of none for Purgatory. Perhaps you could explain?

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in an instant,out of nothing,on a certain day[the last day]God will create not just a human body but thousands of human bodies without evolution - many Christians choke on a gnat called Adam - twinc
God already created billions of angels apart from evolution.

Neither evolution, nor abiogenesis, were needed for life to begin.
 
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Dear Twinc, Do Catholics choke on a gnat called Purgatory? Or can YOU show us Scriptural support for such a place? I suppose YOU just think Adam was just a Myth made up to make God look silly? We have Scriptural support for Adam, but I know of none for Purgatory. Perhaps you could explain?

In Love,
Aman
If I remember correctly, Purgatory is mentioned in one of the books of the Maccabees.
 
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Dear Twinc, Do Catholics choke on a gnat called Purgatory? Or can YOU show us Scriptural support for such a place? I suppose YOU just think Adam was just a Myth made up to make God look silly? We have Scriptural support for Adam, but I know of none for Purgatory. Perhaps you could explain?

In Love,
Aman

sure - as long as you don't choke on that as well - try www.scripturecatholic.com and click on to Purgatory - twinc
 
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Dear AV, If I remember correctly Catholics believe Macabees is in Scripture. Right?
Correct.

The Maccabees are considered books of the Apocrypha.

Catholics elevate them to the status of divinely inspired.

We don't.
Is it also there that they should pray to Mary?
No, since the time of the Macabees occurred in the 400-year period between the Old and New Testaments.

I'm not sure when praying to Mary got started. It's difficult to pin down.
 
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Could you rephrase the OP in understandable English?

it seems it is not the English you are having problems with, but with the topic, and understandably so since it was aimed at Christians in the main - it goes something like this - in our midst as Christians we have misguided,misled and misleading Christians as evolutionists - twinc
 
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it goes something like this - in our midst as Christians we have misguided,misled and misleading Christians as evolutionists - twinc

And yet they seem to do a much better job reaching out than you do. Is it fear or envy which causes you to show them such disdain?
 
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in an instant,out of nothing,on a certain day[the last day]God will create not just a human body but thousands of human bodies without evolution - many Christians choke on a gnat called Adam - twinc

Dear twinc, You have the basis for your opinon backwards. Here is what the verse actually says:

Matthew 23:24
Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Straining at a gnat is not the same as choking on it. Is it? :p

In Love,
Aman
 
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Basically, it is an appeal to faith.

'Don't look at what happens! Just believe in what will happen! And it will definitly happen! Any second now! Just ignore anything that contradicts it! HAVE FAITH! (And if you don't, you are misguided and not a true whatever.)'
 
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sure - as long as you don't choke on that as well - try www.scripturecatholic.com and click on to Purgatory - twinc

Umm... that website asserts that Geocentrism is true... I'm not sure that bodes well for their reliability.

(I'm pretty sure the leaders of the Catholic church would hate to be associated with that nonsense.)
 
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Dear AV, If I remember correctly Catholics believe Macabees is in Scripture. Right? Is it also there that they should pray to Mary?

In Love,
Aman

Correct.

I'm not sure when praying to Mary got started. It's difficult to pin down.

F.Y.I. Catholics ask Mary to pray for them. They do not technically pray to Mary.
 
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Dear split rock, What's the difference? Please list chapter and verse.

In Love,
Aman

You don't know the difference between asking someone to pray for you and praying to someone? I wouldn't think that difference was that hard to figure out.
 
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