Subject: Disease or Bad Personal Choice?? |
Bible Note: Dear Emmaus, I did not skip over your nod to grace. But, perhaps you have forgotten that I once considered myself a Catholic, and for 8 years was instructed by the dominican order in the essentials of faith according to Rome. Grace, as taught by Rome, is subject to works. The Baltimore Cat. teaches that sanctifying grace is lost by the commission of a mortal sin. So, the grace you refer to is quite different from that which most protestants understand grace to be. How does one recover from the loss of grace? Confession (work) and performing a sincere ACT of contrition (works). This prescripion is quite different than simply going before God in prayer and confessing our sins. Rome cannot support from the Bible their, so-called "sacrament", of confession. But that which really promted my post was your advice concerning celibacy! Angelightboy does not even accept the Bible as being reliable. Evidently those things which trouble his conscience are easily dismissed by him as errors of translation. How convenient. Is it not obvious that his problem is not homosexuality per se, but unbelief! Forgive me if, in my zeal for the gospel, I came across as being unneccessarily harsh with you. The truth is that I have long felt that Rome's unscriptural celibacy requirements have caused the sorry state of affairs it now finds itself in. I thought your next recommendation to angelightboy would be for him to consider the priesthood! (ironic remark) By the way...we really experience very little snow here in Tucson :-) John John |