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Selene What I mean is, it isn't the chruch that attempts to bar a person rom the sacrament, it is the consience of the person concerened Anotehr question If someone is barred from the sacrament because of say cohabitting and fornication, can they still go to confession?

What I aid about being stuck int he middle ages. I didn't mean that Catholics in general are, what I mean't is that many Catholics today are progressive and can think for themselves. There are exentuating circmumstances in which a Proestant can recieve the Catholic communion, for example when...

I know what the catechism say's but it is only in theory. I know Catholics who are regular communicants and havn't been to confession in years and one of them I know is a divorcee and is having sex outside marriage and yet is still recieving holy communion. I used to know a Catholic who did...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCCpxM1uMoI Here's anotehr one from the same guy.

he was using the RCC as an example, I know that the orthodox churches recieve communion in the RCC, according to the Catechism, but many Orthodox churches are not keen on recieving communion inthe catholic church. Officially us Anglicans only ahve two sacraments but that isn't so in every...

I'm talking about recieving the eucharist and who should recieve it in a specific church. Should it be open to everyone or just members of the denomination?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgmIcm-o2oY I'm interested to see what people think about closed communion. Is it right or wrong or is it neither? Should it be challenged? My opinion is that I can udnerstand both sides of the argument as to wether communion should be open or closed and I'm...

It was inspired but not dictated. it didn't float down from ehaven. It was written by men and from a human eprspective of God, but the Holy Spirit guided those who wrote the texts that were to be selected to become official canonical material and also guided the selection itself. Also, I...

Actually they come from teh Septugent which was a Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures and since most of the early Christians spoke Greek it was a lot mroe practical to use this translation since Greek was more widespread than hebrew. The church carried on using them and the reformers...

where did the video come from/ She's not a member of Westbro baptist is she?

The woman in the video doesn't realise that there are Christians in japan. Natural disasters like floods, earthquakes and tsunamis are all just the result of the fallen world we live in.

I wouldn't put these earthquakes donw to any kind of divine intervention since Japan is in one of the worlds worst earthquake zones. It isn't a Christian country I know but remember the good Samaritan, we shoudl pray for thsoe affected by these earthquakes. Yes, we should pray that athiests...

When Paul wrote his epistles he never expected them to be canonical. Scripture is God inspired bu not God written or dictated. It didn't jsut float down from Heaven. The church chose the 73 canonical books out of huge lists and many that made it in were disputed including revelations. Take a...

Selene! It sin't going to re-unite with Rome, that's not forseeable just yet but Pope Benedict is making it easier for Anglicans to come accross to Rome when they are dissafected. I just hope he's not trying to poach our members, which is unfortunatly what it looks like. If a proper union was...

I was reading Mark the other day and thought of howJesus is introduced in ch 1 verses 1-13 before he begins his ministry in that the reader is made aware of exactly who Jesus is but yet Jesus' full identity isn't revealed to the other desicples right away and isntead Jesus reveals himself to the...

it would ahve to be a broard church like the Anglican Communion and there would ahve to be a lot of autonomy for individual dioceses's. That woudl allow veneration of Saints, relics and Sacred Icons (More Orthodox than RC) to be optional and up to the individual diocese, congregation and even...

I thought the Mormons had God, Jesus and Joseph Smith as their Trinity. Has anyone ver read up on qwhat Mormons believe about the afterlife. It's very bizarre.

Jesus descended to wherever the dead went back then. The RCC has a doctrine called the "harrying of Hell," in which Jesus takes all the Old testament prophets and believers out of Hell and up to Heaven. The thing is that the Greek word is Hades and this is a bit tricky sicne Hades was also the...

Can Mormons techncially be called Christisns? Afterall they actually stipulate that Joseph Smith has done more for humanity than jesus. Don't get me wrong I have nothing but respect for Mormons but I find that belief does'nt sit well with me. I don't personally have a problem with anyone...

Taken wrongly a medicine can be a poison but taken responsibly it is for the benefit ot they person concerned. As long as it is taken on doctor's orders and not misused/abused then surely there cannot be a problem. Also, just wondering? I've heard that Jahova's Witnesses can't have blood...