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481 | Follow up Peter first Pope | Bible general Archive 1 | Norrie | 13476 | ||
I know I grew up thinking the church was salvation and hoping that I'd die right after confession-venial sin meant purgatory and mortal sin meant hell. I don't know if it still is, but back then, missing mass on Sun was a mortal sin. If you didn't go at least once during the Easter season, that was grounds for excommunication. They may be more lenient now, I don't know. :) Oh, they used to have those indulgences where you can buy time off from purgatory. Certain sayings were worth 300 days off, others were worth 900, you better believe I'd say bunches of those 900 ones to build up my acct. :) I never thought much about Jesus. I knew the Bible stories about Him but he was basically the big guy upstairs who was too busy or important to worry w/us, that's why you had to go thru His mama, He'd at least listen to her. I'd heard they changed but a few years ago went to a funeral at the same church my cousin, the priest, used to pastor. I picked up a few leaflets in the back and seems they were the same old stuff. I found a novena to our lady of something there. I had that tract for a long time as evidence but it got lost thru the years. Seems like you could still do indulgences too. Some things are just sneaking back in. :) |
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482 | Follow up Peter first Pope | Bible general Archive 1 | Norrie | 13473 | ||
That's OK, Nolan, it's to be expected. :) Remember, I was raised Cath. too. I went thru a period of blind allegiance too where I'd fight anybody who said anything contrary to the Cath church, they do a good job of brainwashing. You want to know a really funny thing (more pathetic than funny really), we grew up thinking that unless you were Cath, you were going to hell. I had a friend down the street who was Latter Day Saint, she was taught the same thing and we'd argue for hrs over saying the other was going to hell and we both were-sad, huh. :( |
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483 | Does anyone really *do* this? | Luke 14:12 | Norrie | 13471 | ||
My husband that died used to do this. If we were at a rest area and there was a note saying someone was in trouble, he'd find them to help. He'd go to missions to hire people to help do things we needed done. The only problem is sometimes he'd let people stay w/us, then you had to practically throw them out to get rid of them. Almost immediately they'd start acting like privledged guests and expect you to do everything for them and become very lazy, even when it came to personal hygiene and and start expecting you to do everything for them. Seems like we got burned many times in the process. Then he'd see these people w/the will work for food signs, offer them a job and they'd act insulted, just give me some money for nothing. I think it was easier to give food to the homeless than to try to actually help them and give them what they need, not money. We'd still help who we could when necessary, but just be more "leary" of them, some are just scam artists. | ||||||
484 | Forty word limit?!?!? | Gen 5:13 | Norrie | 13395 | ||
Hi Debbie, you're right, for some reason, I was thinking that was that "at" symbol. :) | ||||||
485 | Follow up Peter first Pope | Bible general Archive 1 | Norrie | 13394 | ||
I checked all 4 gospels, seems like Mary M and other Mary were the first in Matt, Mark, Luke and John, does this mean she should have been the first pope? :) John also mentions he was w/Peter too, then there were the 2 disciples on the road to Emmaus... | ||||||
486 | Follow up Peter first Pope | Bible general Archive 1 | Norrie | 13393 | ||
I checked all 4 gospels, seems like Mary M and other Mary were the first in Matt, Mark, Luke and John, does this mean she should have been the first pope? :) John also mentions he was w/Peter too, then there were the 2 disciples on the road to Emmaus... | ||||||
487 | Forty word limit?!?!? | Gen 5:13 | Norrie | 13373 | ||
I do like the symbols suggestion. What is the name of the "and" symbol? That should def be there. | ||||||
488 | Follow up Peter first Pope | Bible general Archive 1 | Norrie | 13075 | ||
Have you considered Jesus said "tell His disciples and Peter" because Peter had just betrayed Him and Jesus wanted Peter to know he was forgiven? Same w/John 21:14-15. Jesus asked do you love Me the same number of times Peter betrayed Him-hmmmmmmm! | ||||||
489 | Evangelicals and Catholics | Rom 3:28 | Norrie | 12790 | ||
Brain, how many times are you going to post that? Enough already!!! I think all anybody is trying to say is get out of a church that corrupted and follow the Word, not these men. These men are/were/always will be corrupted and even when you're old enough to know better, if your parents are telling you something that goes against God, you can still say NO!!! Any churh that calls for blind alliegence is a cult-get out!!! |
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490 | Evangelicals and Catholics | Rom 3:28 | Norrie | 12658 | ||
Well, somehow I lost a post, so I'll just put highlights. Check out definition of papal ingfallibility: Main Entry: papal infallibility Function: noun Date: 1831 : the Roman Catholic doctrine that the pope cannot err when speaking ex cathedra in defining a doctrine of Christian faith or morals Accd to this, there should be no errors in doctrine to correct, that is what I was taught too. Like I said, I don't know what they are teaching now but I know what I was taught before Vatican II and watched the changes made afterwards. Infallibility is not the same as trust, submission or humility, it is separate unto itself. |
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491 | I liked most of what... | Bible general Archive 1 | Norrie | 12547 | ||
I usually use the NKJ, have a parallel bible that has 4 translations in it, an amplified, Message, my daughter has the NIV for school. Mama had the Living Bible, I guess I'll see if I can find "The New Living Tranlation". Does it read more like a novel? I can read novels easier because you can skip on them. :) I remember I found one in a motel not long after I got saved that must have been very paraphrased because it was easy to read, almost like a novel. Wish I still had that. Then you read all these arguments on this translation vs that translation and just get confused and disgusted. |
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492 | Evangelicals and Catholics | Rom 3:28 | Norrie | 12544 | ||
That is called submission, not infallibility. I don't know what Cath. teach now. I had my main religion training before Vat. II, I went to Cath school and religion was a class every day. The nuns explained infallibility as whenever the pope gets up to make a decision from the Chair of Peter, that is when he is infallible. He may be planning on saying something completely different as a man, but when he gets on that chair, the Holy Spirit speaks thru him and whatever he says then is infallible. Of course when they canonize someone, that is when they are infallible. Then later they decided St. Christopher didn't even exist so how can they be infallible??? That's when I started questioning. |
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493 | Evangelicals and Catholics | Rom 3:28 | Norrie | 12432 | ||
I hate to tell you this, but my husband is not infallible and I doubt any husband here will say he is either. :) | ||||||
494 | I liked most of what... | Bible general Archive 1 | Norrie | 12431 | ||
My pastor is going thru a different psalm every Sunday this summer. I have to admit, I've been following along, taking notes, but many times think good thing he explained that because I never would have gotten it. It makes sense when he says it but it makes no sense when I read it. Even the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want, I always wondered "why don't you want Him?" until I heard it explained I have no wants because he fulfills them. I guess that old English went right over my head and I can quote that but never understood that one part. Then I always wondered why it seems to be talking about Him, then to Him, why switch back and forth like that? Usually in Sunday School, we go thru a book of the Bible, we're doing Amos and Hosea this quarter. I'll tell you what, if there wasn't study guides and going over it every week, I would be completely lost. :) |
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495 | I liked most of what... | Bible general Archive 1 | Norrie | 12423 | ||
OK, I'll try it again. I've tried before but just didn't seem to get much out of it but maybe I gave up too easy. Thanks! |
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496 | I liked most of what... | Bible general Archive 1 | Norrie | 12399 | ||
I found a good church and I've quit listening to TV evangelists so I've got a good start anyway. :) The only thing I need to work on is the regular Bible study, for some reason, I have a hard time doing that. I think it's because I'm more a skimmer reader, always have been and things like the Bible or text books are something you have to look at every word and for some reason, I can't do that, I lose my concentration by the time I get to the end of a sentence, forgot what was in the first part. I do a lot better listening to tapes than reading if it's important. In school, I wrote down everything but I couldn't get it reading. Even here, I skip a lot. The texts that have short sentences w/spacing inbetween paragraphs I can read but the ones where it's one huge paragraph, forget it! I just get bits and pieces, if anything. Anyway, I can follow a sermon good, I just have a hard time reading on my own. :( Then a sermon, you usually get a lot of background you don't get just reading too, I like that. :) Even if someone is telling you what's going on about what you're reading, you still can form your own opinions on whether what they say is right. |
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497 | I liked most of what... | Bible general Archive 1 | Norrie | 12375 | ||
I guess I don't know what's of God and what isn't either and don't feel qualified to make those decisions either. I know Jessie Duplantis claims he went to heaven, that he got transported and had a Word from the Lord, He wrote that book and has the video, "Close Encounters of a God Kind". Mama says she doesn't believe that junk. I say I don't know. I have the book, it certainly sounds believeable and if God choose to to that for Jessie, who am I to complain? I'm not saying it's true or not, but it's possible because w/God all things are possible and He is not limited to what we can say, think or feel. God can do anything, but at the same time, Satan does counterfiet God's things too so...I guess you have to take each experience on their own individual merit. :) | ||||||
498 | I liked most of what... | Bible general Archive 1 | Norrie | 12358 | ||
I also remember the first time I went to church and they were doing tongues. I wasn't saved yet and Mama had turned into a Charismatic Catholic. So she talked me into going to church but it wasn't her church, it was my mil's church and they were having a charismatic svc there. So after offeratory, everyone started babbling, I thought about that witchdoctor song, that oooh, eee, ooh ahh ahh, ting tang walla walla bing bang. It was like at this certain point, they all started at the same time, like ready, set, GO!!! I saw my mil there, she didn't see me, but she was looking like what's going on here??? She hightailed it out of there before I could reach her. :) Also they had a prayer request time and if my mom had said she wanted to pray for her two heathen daughters, I would have walked for sure. :) Then my uncle that married my aunt that I went to those svcs with, (she met him at one) he's one of these that when he's at a svc, he raises his hands and shakes them, like he has palsy or something. But he doesn't talk in tongues, but he claims to prophesy, tells all these stories about what wonderful things the Lord had him say to people where he'd have to get his phone no. changed because of people calling wanting prophecies. Yet they don't belong to a regular church where you go every week, tithing is def. out of the question (I think that's why he won't find a regular church) and he does act pretty worldly (materialistic) usually, makes you wonder what he's really about. Oh, and every time you go to a svc that there's a prayer line, he's in it. Mama says he's embarassing, doesn't want anybody to know she knows him. :) This is a guy that ran his credit card bills up because he figured the Lord was coming back and so he wouldn't have to pay them, he'd be raptured long before then-guess what!!! Bankruptcy! I know I've had a wierd spiritual upbringing and have a lot to learn. I was raised Cath, went thru my heathen period, then was saved but traveled and never found a church home, listened to Copeland, went to a few Believer's Conventions, experienced some real miracles too, but still didn't know how to live right. I thank God that now I'm settled in a good church and learning correctly now but I can't say all I learned before was in vain either. :) I just remember that expression about I ain't where I need to be but thank God I ain't where I used to be!!! |
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499 | I liked most of what... | Bible general Archive 1 | Norrie | 12310 | ||
I have been reading all these responses so far and still don't know the answer yet. :) I just thought I might as well put in my 2 cents worth. I remember when my nephew Michael was about 8 or so, I went to mass w/them on Easter. The priest had that water shaker thingie and was sprinkling holy water and he sprinkled in our direction and Michael kinda pulled his fist back like don't you spray me! The first time I ever experienced people being slain in the spirit, I guess that's what it was anyway, I was at a non-denom mtg w/my aunt and the preacher would touch someone and they'd fall on the floor, my first reaction was like Michael-don't do that to me!!! There were people talking in tongues and preachers knocking people down, I didn't know what to think. I guess I still don't. I talked to some friends back then and they were saying that the devil is the author of confusion and all that babbling and knocking people over will scare people off, it almost did me, but I kept going back w/my aunt whenever I was in town. I started figuring maybe it's something I don't understand but if it's from God, maybe I should get in on it. I used to follow Copeland's teaching too. He did that tongue talking and I went to a Believer's Convention and got in a healing line and when Gloria just touched me (this was in thr cookie-cutter type fashion as mentioned earlier), I went down even tho I tried not to, but I didn't know what to do when I was there, should I stay there or get up or what? I also have been prayed over by many people, many times, about receiving tongues because if it was from God, even if I didn't understand it or know what it was for, I wanted it just because it was from God but never have I talked in tongues and supposedly I've been prayed over by the best. So, I guess I still have no idea about this, whether it's from God, Satan, or what. All I know is what has or has not happened to me. :) Then I've also read about how many of the people that promote this like Benny Hinn for example are of the wrong spirit so... |
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500 | Who was the Proverbs 31 wife? | Prov 31:10 | Norrie | 12257 | ||
I don't know, there's prob. not enough info in the Bible to name any particular woman, I think it's just saying how you should be. :) | ||||||
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