I'm in a bit of a dilemma. In my Intro to Gen. Psyc. class I got into a discussion with my professor about my ethics paper and I had mentioned my returning to the Church and how that helped me sooo much with my position on ethics. Well, she liked the paper and asked to keep it, but she had made a comment during the conversation about all sins being the same to God. I can not believe what I did. I just paused and nodded my head and said that the rest would be rationalized my man. (I think I might have to go to confession about that b/c I feel soo guilty).
My only explanations for that would be that we were having a whispered discussion in front of the whole class while they were doing group work, AND I sooo did not know how to defend my position right off the top of my head. I knew there were passages in the Bible to defend the Catholic position, but I did not know which ones they are, and I was afraid she would make me defend my position. And that is hard to do in a short span of time, because to accept not only Catholic interpretations of the Bible, but the authority of the Apostolic Tradition, you have to learn about the early Church, and read a whole bunch. How do you fit that in a 10 minute conversation?
I plan to remedy the situation by making an entry in my class journal. We have to make an entry for every class about the class discussion and readings. I want to make clear what I believe and why, but I was hoping that you guys could point me in the right direction.
I have the Catechism and plan to read up on the footnote for mortal and venial sins. And I plan on looking up the Catholic Encyclopedia, etc... but you guys always give fabu answers so I thought I could hear your opinions on how to answer.
*sigh* recently I had made a promise to myself not to research the Catholic faith in order to be apologetic, I realized that I needed to approach learning about the Church to give myself a good foundation before I even thought about explaining it to others.
I think maybe God might be giving me a good kick in the rear end and saying that I need to pay more attention and not be so lax as to what I am learning and not to keep what I know to myself all the time. Maybe because there is so much to learn about Catholisicm that I would be 90 yrs old before I thougth I knew even partially enough.
My only explanations for that would be that we were having a whispered discussion in front of the whole class while they were doing group work, AND I sooo did not know how to defend my position right off the top of my head. I knew there were passages in the Bible to defend the Catholic position, but I did not know which ones they are, and I was afraid she would make me defend my position. And that is hard to do in a short span of time, because to accept not only Catholic interpretations of the Bible, but the authority of the Apostolic Tradition, you have to learn about the early Church, and read a whole bunch. How do you fit that in a 10 minute conversation?
I plan to remedy the situation by making an entry in my class journal. We have to make an entry for every class about the class discussion and readings. I want to make clear what I believe and why, but I was hoping that you guys could point me in the right direction.
I have the Catechism and plan to read up on the footnote for mortal and venial sins. And I plan on looking up the Catholic Encyclopedia, etc... but you guys always give fabu answers so I thought I could hear your opinions on how to answer.
*sigh* recently I had made a promise to myself not to research the Catholic faith in order to be apologetic, I realized that I needed to approach learning about the Church to give myself a good foundation before I even thought about explaining it to others.
I think maybe God might be giving me a good kick in the rear end and saying that I need to pay more attention and not be so lax as to what I am learning and not to keep what I know to myself all the time. Maybe because there is so much to learn about Catholisicm that I would be 90 yrs old before I thougth I knew even partially enough.
