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13 PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE POST-MORTEM STATE OF THE DAMMED: Good moral character (gold)is retained, imperfect moral character is burned off by God's love, not His wrath. Yes, but they are happy because they know their ultimate destination, which is heaven. Yes, for a time. People send...

Nobody is stressing repetitiveness, we are defending good repetitious prayer from people who don't know their Bible. Jesus condemned VANITY associated with repetitious prayer. not repetitious prayer in itself. Those who condemn good repetitious prayer dichotomize it with bad repetitious prayer...

You assert what you are trying to prove. There is no Catholic "doctrine or confession or belief or rule or tradition" that CONTRADICTS Scripture. In fact, Scripture has always been the PRIMARY source, but there is nothing in Scripture that says it is the ONLY source. "profitable" does not mean...

You're welcome *Willie T*. I can't make up my mind which man made tradition has proven to be the most damaging to Protestantism. LOL

55 Critiques of John Calvin: Introduction & Master List The Institutes is widely used to this day. Since it is so critical of Catholicism, it needs to be answered from a Catholic perspective. I have tried to keep polemics to a bare minimum. That was assuredly somewhat difficult, because Calvin...

"Word of God" in Rev. 20:4 doesn't say "written word of God alone". You refute yourself. None of the martyrs killed under Nero held to any Protestant distinctives. They were all Catholics, proven by undeniable physical archeological evidence where they were buried in the Roman Catacombs. You...

But you can't prove that with Scripture. Nowhere in Scripture is "Word of God" confined to the written word alone. "Word of God" appears 50 times on average in Scripture. Pick any translation you like. I haven't been able to find one usage where it means "the written word alone". Do a word...

A meaningless flaming zinger. The atrocities committed by the "reformers" tells us all we need to know. It's a pointless discussion. And what does this have to do with "There is no verse that states that all authentic beliefs and practices must be explicitly found in Scripture to be trustworthy...

That's not what I said. Using "<<" is not a license to misrepresent me. I didn't say "non-Scripture". That's your man made tradition, dismissing the validity of the spoken Word. There is no verse that states that all authentic beliefs and practices must be explicitly found in Scripture to be...

Just to remind you, here Paul uses “ergon nomou” which means the Mosaic law or Torah and refers to the teachings (legal, moral) and works (ceremonial), not “ergois agathois” which means "good works". 10,000 reminders might deprogram you into getting it right.

The Way of the Cross (Via Dolorosa) was burned in the minds and hearts of eye witnesses, it's authenticity was preserved long before it was written down, and it is impossible to have each detail written down. There is nothing in Scripture that says all the authentic beliefs and practices must be...

The ones who stubbornly stick to myths. Myths about Indulgences

If Martin Luther did not suffer from severe bipolar manic-depressant illness with frank psychosis during his periods of mania, he would never have invented a purely formal definition of 'righteousness' that was evacuated of all moral content and inspired millions of others to settle for a...

We Catholics don't make excuses for bad players, and we are entitled to defend against lies and distortions, which falls on deaf ears.

453 years later and you can't stop complaining about it. Myth 3: A person can “buy forgiveness” with indulgences. The definition of indulgences presupposes that forgiveness has already taken place: “An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has...

Dan. 2:44 – Daniel prophesies an earthly kingdom that will never be destroyed. Either this is a false prophecy, or the earthly kingdom requires succession. There are no tombs in the Book of Revelation. Nostradamus According to 69chapels. Jer. 33:17 – Jeremiah prophesies that David shall...

Your self contradiction is glaring. When ever any given church holds a fund raiser to build a wheel chair ramp, the indulgence is the joy of seeing the disabled attend church. It's a bad analogy because building a wheel chair ramp has nothing to do with the remission of consequences of sins...

I don't think the 3 days of darkness are literal days. The Church is in the latter part of the first day in the tomb.

Why is it that anti-Catholics highlight the bad traditions we must ignore, and censor the good traditions we are to follow? Jesus didn't abolish good traditions, He followed them and fulfilled them to the end of His life. Is Passover a bad tradition? Please, grow a brain cell. Jesus didn't...

Fundamentalism is right to insist on the divine inspiration of the Bible, the inerrancy of the word of God and other biblical truths included in its five fundamental points. But its way of presenting these truths is rooted in an ideology which is not biblical, whatever the proponents of this...