Scott, you terrify me. I once thought you were an orthodox Catholic. Apparently, that is not the case.
I always knew you were liberal, but crass liberality to this extreme of self righteous arrogance is unbelievable. No matter what your motives in posting this nonsensesometimes egregiously...
I must say this thread will be an exercise in futility... it is such a broad topic that with a few people posting everthing will start getting lost.
I think an important thing to remember though, is that the burden of proof for the "great apostasy" is on the LDS church. Not only that but some...
First, it is NOT just a euphemism for divorce, and second, you are correct, tons of "Catholics" these days DON'T understand what they are getting into. A lot of it has to do with how uneducated and unprincipled many of them are. This has come about due to massive loss of touch with morals and...
Says who? The Bible never says one 24 hour period.
either way, people who look for errors in the Bible will find them. You always get what you want. Remidns me of a quote "The man who believes he can and the man who believes he can't are both right". Well the man who looks for truth and the...
I think only in the most extreme cases would I hit my child. And even then I would probably regret it later. We won't make the world less violent by hitting kids.
Well obviously, if you don't believe in life after death or anything of the sort, there is NO point to religion. That's like asking what is the point of prayer when one does not believe in God. Obviously, there is none.
Well this is interesting... The Orthodox Church broke away because of the excommunication of the Patriarch of Constantinople? Exactly what authority did the Orthodox Church have to deny an exommunication, and if you think the problem lies with the lack of authortiy of Rome to assert that...
For all those Orthodox on the site: What is the position of the Orthodox Church on WHY they split from Rome? When do you say it happened, why do you say it happened, over what, etc.
I think this would be an interesting thing to debate.
Paul never says anything of the sort, although he does say we cannot be saved by works of the law. This is put into context though by James assertion that we are not saved by Faith alone. Paul does teach that works cannot save us--they can't--but then again neither can. We need God's grace...
I don't think reunion is something that can happen easily. It has been almost a millenium, afterall. But when people refuse to admit something simple (like the fact that Pope Honorious never promulgated heresy and was indeed condemned only for not RESPONDING strongly enough to a heresy), it does...
I can't believe almsot %50 said no... what the heck do you guys want to do? Havbe your kids hate you so they do nothing but reject all the IMPORTANT stuff you are trying to tell them?
I see this so often with super-conservative Christians. They nitpick on the little thigns so much that the...