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Aug 4 08 8:51 PM
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Aug 4 08 9:17 PM
I would rather spend my time with 100 cats than with 100 humans.
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Aug 4 08 10:42 PM
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Aug 5 08 12:19 AM
Grand Poopah
Aug 5 08 5:18 PM
Now find out the difference between a teaching and discipline so you don't look ignorant the next time
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. Hosea 6:6
Aug 5 08 5:23 PM
Some people believe Scripture is a book of verses
Aug 5 08 7:25 PM
And this commandment have we from Him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. 1 John 4:21
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Aug 5 08 10:38 PM
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gerardthewatchman wrote: Well Gabrielle...ask yourself.....how great a job would you have done if you had listened to the church about all the things they changed their mind on over the centuries....the 'indulgences'...the Popes with children....the inquisition...and yes the Catholic church's HUGE role in that.... look at history and do not follow 'what seems right to a man'....for that is 'emnity to G-d'.
Aug 6 08 12:34 AM
The Church has never changed its teaching on celibate Popes with children.
Any relations outside of marriage is sinful.
I am not sure the Church ever had a teaching on inquisitions in the way you use the term!
The Church has always taught that the Church is the pillar and foundation of truth
it has been the Protestants who have changed to believe that the Bible is even though most don't realize their Bibles are incomplete and the Scriptures were defined by the Church never the Church by the Scriptures!
The Church has always taught that Jesus is God and that Jesus is present in the Eucharist and that has never changed.
He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:18
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Aug 6 08 1:14 AM
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Weanie Piglet wrote: New Age thinking is dangerous because it challenges their Authority.
Christian mysticism and New Age mysticism For Christians, the spiritual life is a relationship with God which gradually through his grace becomes deeper, and in the process also sheds light on our relationship with our fellow men and women, and with the universe. Spirituality in New Age terms means experiencing states of consciousness dominated by a sense of harmony and fusion with the Whole. So "mysticism" refers not to meeting the transcendent God in the fullness of love, but to the experience engendered by turning in on oneself, an exhilarating sense of being at one with the universe, a sense of letting one's individuality sink into the great ocean of Being.(59) This fundamental distinction is evident at all levels of comparison between Christian mysticism and New Age mysticism. The New Age way of purification is based on awareness of unease or alienation, which is to be overcome by immersion into the Whole. In order to be converted, a person needs to make use of techniques which lead to the experience of illumination. This transforms a person's consciousness and opens him or her to contact with the divinity, which is understood as the deepest essence of reality. The techniques and methods offered in this immanentist religious system, which has no concept of God as person, proceed 'from below'. Although they involve a descent into the depths of one's own heart or soul, they constitute an essentially human enterprise on the part of a person who seeks to rise towards divinity by his or her own efforts. It is often an "ascent" on the level of consciousness to what is understood to be a liberating awareness of "the god within". Not everyone has access to these techniques, whose benefits are restricted to a privileged spiritual 'aristocracy'. The essential element in Christian faith, however, is God's descent towards his creatures, particularly towards the humblest, those who are weakest and least gifted according to the values of the "world". There are spiritual techniques which it is useful to learn, but God is able to by-pass them or do without them. A Christian's "method of getting closer to God is not based on any technique in the strict sense of the word. That would contradict the spirit of childhood called for by the Gospel. The heart of genuine Christian mysticism is not technique: it is always a gift of God; and the one who benefits from it knows himself to be unworthy".(60) For Christians, conversion is turning back to the Father, through the Son, in docility to the power of the Holy Spirit. The more people progress in their relationship with God - which is always and in every way a free gift - the more acute is the need to be converted from sin, spiritual myopia and self-infatuation, all of which obstruct a trusting self-abandonment to God and openness to other men and women. All meditation techniques need to be purged of presumption and pretentiousness. Christian prayer is not an exercise in self-contemplation, stillness and self-emptying, but a dialogue of love, one which "implies an attitude of conversion, a flight from 'self' to the 'You' of God".(61) It leads to an increasingly complete surrender to God's will, whereby we are invited to a deep, genuine solidarity with our brothers and sisters.(62)
O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fire of hell,lead all souls to heaven, especially those who are in most need of Thy mercy.~ Fatima Prayer
Aug 6 08 1:18 AM
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