The beads on the Rosary help to focus the prayer and meditations. Carrying it offers the opportunity to say these prayers without counting in your...
Some current scholarship suggests that Luke/Acts is actually an editing of Marcion to make it more orthodox and to reclaim Paul as someone who...
Yes, but it is the faith an devotion which carries the power, not the item itself. Wearing a rosary doesn't do any good unless it is prayed.
Even Catholics say that using a blessed object, or a relic, or whatever as a charm is superstition. From a more traditional point of view, that...
My guess is peers, or media. Even on here, you cannot deny that CAtholics seem to be characterized as a brainwashing cult that hates any sort of...
I had a theology of teaching class at University with said principal. He didn't use names but used it as an example of how us teachers do need to...
I do not know the exact situation, but I do believe the principal or chaplain ended up speaking with the student. It is not about forgiveness in...
Or maybe.....you just should not have random sex?:rolleyes: You know, that goes along with the whole, no sex until marriage thing. It wasn't that...
At least the Catholic schools around here, people may think they'd be ostracized for having a child, but the reality is that (especially...
Greatest program on television after Glenn Beck.
Why would we? CCC 1864 "Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be...
It is not that it is not repentable, but that we must formally repent through Confession.
Sola Scriptura is the belief that Scripture alone is the source of all doctrine. Sola Fide is the belief that it is our faith, and only our faith,...
Well, judging by your previous posts (this is a total assumption, so correct me if I am wrong), but are you a Sola Scriptura/Sola Fide Protestant?...
Well then, what does Jesus set out as requirement s for "preparing our souls"? Also, why must we reach for his second coming, does only God meet...
Yeah, I probably should have narrowed the group down to specific Anabaptist offshoots, like conservative Evangelical groups, conservative Baptist...
Verses people use to describe the Rapture describe meeting Jesus in the clouds. I am assuming this is Earth, which would then mean Jesus has a...
That true Christians get raptured prior to a 7 year tribulation, then Christ comes again (the "rapture" was a coming, no?) again. This is the...
Well the fact that pre-tribulational (dispensational) premillennialism is wrong is a great big hole in his theology. The Rapture as viewed by...
Luke 18:1-8 Jesus also compares God to an unjust not God-fearing judge, which is funny. The widow bothers the judge so much he finally relents....
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