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Thanks. I will take your comments under advisement. I'll have to go back and find the priests who lied to me about Catholics being the only ones going to heaven. Guess they are misinformed as well. Not a good thing when the teacher is misinformed.
So CCD, confirmation classes, baptism, first communion and close to 20 years sitting through Mass on Sundays isn't enough to be an informed Catholic? Seriously? Please, tell me, what did I miss between all that??
There are protestants who think Catholics worship Satan, so there is misinformation on both sides.
Vatican II dates back to the very early 1960s. It is possible that you were dealing with fundamentalist Catholics. Unfortunately there are fundamentalists in all religions and all these folks think everyone else is going to hell.
But, there is more, Vatican II recognizes that Jews and Muslims are also in good standing with the Lord.
Thanks. I will take your comments under advisement. I'll have to go back and find the priests who lied to me about Catholics being the only ones going to heaven. Guess they are misinformed as well. Not a good thing when the teacher is misinformed.
So CCD, confirmation classes, baptism, first communion and close to 20 years sitting through Mass on Sundays isn't enough to be an informed Catholic? Seriously? Please, tell me, what did I miss between all that??
Hi Dat_loves_to_cook. I am another example of a Catholic who was baptized, went through first communion, CCD classes and confirmed and spent the first 20 years of my life attending Mass every week and yet I lacked a depth of understanding of my faith. As a result, I stopped going to church and floated around for 13 years. In the end I decided to re-vert to Catholicism. Although I enjoyed the fellowship I experienced in many other christian churches it came down to the belief in the "real presence" of Christ in the eucharist. I felt the Catholic church and other Orthodox churches got this one right and it was a deal breaker for me.
My energies are on end-times senario's,preparation as we enter the biblical signs and pangs and also bible studies twice a week. I'm reading The Harbinger (messanic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn) and Saturday or Sunday what is the Sabbath ? Anyway, I was a Catholic years ago, but went to grade school and Catholic High school (an Academy of lay teachers and christian brothers. Excuse the I's but I was alumni president and very active prior to going to Viet Nam. Catholicism is barely within the christian realm which suggests it's just a religion and one that mixes many biblical truths,does many good works not withstanding missions,education and pro -life leaders. On the flip side the faith in entrenched in paganritual,intercessory prayer to mediators,(no one goes to the Father but by me aka Jesus Yahoshua /Yeshua) Anyway, Catholicism has exhausted itself in manufacturing dieties,icons,saints (requirements),peripherally distracting nonbiblical nonsense ie,catechism,indulgences,rosary,mass, and general dogma having little to do with anything. All well intended ,adoring and loving naturally, but disconnected ,absurd,blasphemeous and an example of Constantine/Nicea victimization held in tradition for centuries without a clue of origins.
My energies are on end-times senario's,preparation as we enter the biblical signs and pangs and also bible studies twice a week. I'm reading The Harbinger (messanic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn) and Saturday or Sunday what is the Sabbath ? Anyway, I was a Catholic years ago, but went to grade school and Catholic High school (an Academy of lay teachers and christian brothers. Excuse the I's but I was alumni president and very active prior to going to Viet Nam. Catholicism is barely within the christian realm which suggests it's just a religion and one that mixes many biblical truths,does many good works not withstanding missions,education and pro -life leaders. On the flip side the faith in entrenched in paganritual,intercessory prayer to mediators,(no one goes to the Father but by me aka Jesus Yahoshua /Yeshua) Anyway, Catholicism has exhausted itself in manufacturing dieties,icons,saints (requirements),peripherally distracting nonbiblical nonsense ie,catechism,indulgences,rosary,mass, and general dogma having little to do with anything. All well intended ,adoring and loving naturally, but disconnected ,absurd,blasphemeous and an example of Constantine/Nicea victimization held in tradition for centuries without a clue of origins.
Das
Typical fundamentalist Protestant anti-catholic dogma dressed in a non threatening manner.
As I said lay uninformed Catholics sometimes become Protestants and paradoxically well trained Protestant Pastors are converting to Catholicism even if that means losing their jobs as ministers.
That is one hundred percent true. Unfortunately, there are more once Catholics there than protestants mostly because there have been way more Catholics through the centuries.
Typical fundamentalist Protestant anti-catholic dogma dressed in a non threatening manner.
As I said lay uninformed Catholics sometimes become Protestants and paradoxically well trained Protestant Pastors are converting to Catholicism even if that means losing their jobs as ministers.
Why are you so combative whenever someone posts something you don't agree with? You could stand to be a bit nicer.
Hi, I haven't been following the Catholic threads so maybe this was answered somewhere, but a person who works with me shared that she is a Catholic and referred to believers who are not Catholics as Christians. So I am wondering if Catholics seem themselves as Christians. Just asking. Thanks and God bless.
You are "wondering if Catholics seem (see?) themselves as Christians."
Is this question actually a result of logical, rational thought?
The churches I have attended have never spoken ill of the Catholic church in or out of the pulpit. The movement may have started out as anti-Catholic but not all Protestants are out to hate on Catholics. I have many family members and friends who are devoutly Catholic, we respect one another's beliefs and move forward. If we have issues we deal with it, but are not hateful about it at all. We love one another.
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Please, tell me, what did I miss between all that??
