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Hello Pegg, The Scriptures I posted regarding baptism of repentence are all water baptism from St. John the Baptist. He was ordered by God to baptize using water (John 1:33). Yes you are right that Jesus did not have any sins; yet, he allowed St. John the Baptist to baptize him. Christ's...

Exactly! Excellent post. This is exactly what we believe in as well. Good works are an "evidence of faith" but they don't give us salvation because salvation comes only from God. And yes, they are to be expected of a person with true faith. Thus, the commandment "to love God and to love...

Hello bigape, Okay, let's take a look at your responses. You say that Acts 2:39 is speaking about a promise for future generations. My brother, St. Peter clearly says, "For the promise is UNTO YOU AND TO YOUR CHILDREN. That sounds more like he was speaking to people in the present tense...

The thing is... in those days, when a person commits adultery or even fornication, it is punishable by death; so they are taking a very high risk. Incest, homosexuality, and even having sex with animals (which is all fornication) is punishable by death according to the Book of Leviticus Chapter...

Hello bigape, The Scripture I posted showed that St. Peter stated that the promise of baptism is not only for adults but also for children. Again, see my previous post. Peter explained what happens at baptism when he said, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ...

Hello bigape, First of all, I was not offended by your response. I was correcting you. I did not say, "How dare you." I said, "Excuse me...." Yes, it is true that we baptize babies, and this has nothing to do with salvation by good works. We are followers of Christ. Christ was...

Excuse me....I am a Catholic, and I assure you that we never teach "salvation by good works." Salvation is a gift from God and comes only from God. Faith and grace are also gifts from God. How do you know when a person has God's grace or has faith? In 2006, Pope John Paul II was shot by...

Hello Arunangelo, I agree with everything you wrote here. I would also like to add that perfect love and perfect faith is to become a martyr like Christ. Take for example, one of our saints, Maximilian Kolbe, who was a Polish Fransician friar who set up a monastary in Japan. Father Kolbe...

Hello Bigape, We are not called to judge anyone. Only Jesus can judge and He will judge. I don't know who your relatives are, but I do know Jesus. Jesus was merciful to the sinners that He even forgave the Roman soldiers who nailed Him to the cross. And these Roman soldiers were pagans...

Where does it say that God's love is conditional? I don't find the word "conditional love" in the Bible?

Hello Whirlwind, According to the footnotes in my bible regarding Luke Chapter 16, it says: 16, 1-8a The parable of the dishonest steward has to be understood in the light of the Palestinian custom of agents acting on behalf of their masters and the usurious practices comon to such agents...

Thank you for sharing this. I agree with it. God always chooses the lowly, the poor, the most humble, and even the worst sinner to be His chosen one to carry out His will. Israel was His chosen people because they were slaves. Slaves were the lowest of the low. They were slaves who came...

Hello Judd, To answer your first question, the answer is yes. God is All-knowing (Ps. 139:1-6). He is also everywhere (Ps. 139:7-12) He knows everything and is everywhere, and these are just one of the things that makes Him "Almighty God." To answer your second question, it is your choice...

Hello Pegg, Catholics believe that the Holy Eucharist is both a sacrament and a "sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving" as well as a "sacrifice of propitiation and petition." A sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving or a sacrifice of propitation and petition, however, does not mean that Christ...

Predestination does NOT mean that a person is destined for something and cannot get out of it. Man always had freedom of choice. God gave it to us because He loves us. If we had no choice and are forced by some external factor, that is not love. Predestination only means that God has...

Hello Pegg, Please do not take a sentence out of context without reading the entire article. Please read the entire article. Below is what your article stated towards the end if you had read the entire article, which I know is a very long one. I provided the long version from your weblink...

Hello Pegg, We have never called the Mass as sacrifice of Jesus sacrificing Himself over on the cross. We have always acknowledged that Christ sacrificed Himself only once. The Eucharist is called a "sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving" because we come together to give Him thanks and praise...

Hello Pegg, What Jesus told the crowd is consistent with what He said He will do at the last supper. In John 6:51, Jesus stated: "If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world." In here, Christ said that the bread...

Hello Peg, First of all, St. Paul never wrote the letter to the Hebrews. Secondly, Hebrews 10:28-29 is not referring to the bread and wine. It is actually referring to what happens to us if we sin willfully after we gain the Truth of the Gospel. It is referring to the sin of wilful...

Hello Jiggyfly, He gave them bread that He transformed into the flesh of His heart. That is what transubstantiation is. It is a miracle. If Christ were to cut off His arm and gave it to His disciples to eat, there is no miracle in that. The miracle is in the transubstantiation....when...