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No. But just because a priest has his doubts, it isn't a license to condemn him and many others.So, are you saying that taking a stand on violence and bloodshed as a follower of Christ is absurd? Absurd to whom?
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No. But just because a priest has his doubts, it isn't a license to condemn him and many others.So, are you saying that taking a stand on violence and bloodshed as a follower of Christ is absurd? Absurd to whom?
you have presented all manner of impressive mental gymnastics in order to protect your box.
I, however, have presented my point.
Your ignoring the point in order to protect your box is your problem, not mine.
And what happens when the church itself hears the word of God and not only ignores it, but tells its members to break the laws of God to accommodate the unchristian commands of men? This was not a few isolated priests on one side of a conflict...it was the same church itself supporting the killing of their own brothers on both sides of a war.What Christ actually taught concerning what you are trying to say here, at best, is that such scandals do come into the world. Christ said, "It must needs be that scandals come into the world, but woe to him by whom that scandal cometh." Whether it was one party or another will be made manifest for prophecy also has it, "The wicked shall prove wicked" and "The wise shall shine like the stars of heaven". We, and here again, at best, can only hear the Word of God and keep it.
You mean the one who said "thou shalt not kill"?Any decision and/or choices that come our way we then know that they have come from the One Who sent Jesus, the Word, into the world.
I don't recall scoffing at Bible prophesy...what I scoff at is those who were instructed to be "no part of this world", claiming that their breaking of God's law is a fulfillment of prophesy.Christ said there would be signs in the heavens and the earth, yet you scoff that one is occurring in your midst.
Please tell me what you believe "the gates of hell" to mean?Christ said that the gates of hell would not prevail against His Church. You say otherwise.
There is no more unified brotherhood on earth than Jehovah's Witnesses. We have confidence that the next burglar to break into our houses is not going to be a JW. That the one dropping bombs on our brothers in another nation won't be either....can you guarantee that they won't be Catholic?Your problem is one of unity. You don't recognize One God, One Faith, One Religion, nor One Church. You then use the term 'churches' and proceed to throw out the baby with the bath water.
Christ said it is the sick who need a physician, not the well.Would Christ want the sacraments given to murderers?
Denying a heaven sent chastisement is how you arrive at your whining questions of disbelief.Human wars are seldom fought for the common good of anyone.
Again, Your ignoring the point in order to protect your box is your problem, not mine.You've presented baseless assertions, and insults. No method, no logic, no proof.
Jesus attests otherwise : the 'Golden Rule' = the two greatest commandments :You don't have to like him...
But I know what she wrote. Anyone who will not accept that God is the cause of all things and efforts to put forth something to the contrary is in service to the devil who revels in envy.You do not know JayJayDee personally. How can you make this claim that there is no goodness within her?
This has been your premise all along. But you have given no proof of your mythological basis that the Church has actually done this save for some Catholic bashing websites. You have tried to establish that silence means direct command at an interpretation of your own choosing. Such fantasies might be aroused in your imagination from the graphic artwork of Watchtower or the like, but there is a real world and a real Church. Christ breathes His Own Life into His Church, and It is without blemish. Consider that for a moment before you put another nickel in the hate machine.And what happens when the church itself hears the word of God and not only ignores it, but tells its members to break the laws of God to accommodate the unchristian commands of men?
But I know what she wrote. Anyone who will not accept that God is the cause of all things and efforts to put forth something to the contrary is in service to the devil who revels in envy.
I have two uncles who went to such places in an effort to stop him, both Catholics.How many Catholics were in the death camps for refusing to heil Hitler?
Probably? Definitely not.There were thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses, many of whom were probably tortured and executed by members of your church.
Once again, the word prophesy is the verb form, prophecy is the noun form. Now, in English, would you care to rephrase your 'question' in the form of a question?I don't recall scoffing at Bible prophesy...
The question would be better asked, what did Christ mean?Please tell me what you believe "the gates of hell" to mean?
When we say in the Creed that God the Father is the Maker of all things, visible and invisible, it means JUST that.Are you saying that God created all the violence and misery and suffering in the world?
When we say in the Creed that God the Father is the Maker of all things, visible and invisible, it means JUST that.