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Without reading the article I know that answer to that question, but you would not accept my answer in any case, so I'll leave it alone.

All of us are blind without the eyesalve: "I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see." Rev 3:18

Jesus is the truth, but we do not completely understand him as we do not completely understand God... How do we get there? We love the truth by faith, not by complete knowledge. Believers in Jesus should be growing and as they are, they are approaching all truth. Here is the Way that God has...

"Where there is no vision, the people perish: ..." Prov 29:18

Democracy itself would or could be good only if all of those espousing it and who were allowed to vote the final decisions were like Jesus. The writers of the U.S Constitution purposely did not make the nation a pure democracy because somebody recognized the danger of a people who could call all...

Only be careful not to derail the thread or...? Oh it's your thread... :)

I really do wish it were as simple as that. I have no solutions to offer. My wife has stopped attending because she cannot bite her tongue as I do and is afraid of than saying something that would not edify anyone and might hurt someone who is innocent. It is left in God's capable hands... but...

For me it was only indirectly my pastor. He is being used. Someone is taking advantage of his frailty and his dementia. He has NO natural family. He is 90 plus and doesn't realize what has happened or it would not have happened. I stay and put up with things because I made a promise which I...

Oh yes. We have to have the trust of a young child that the child had in people before people started molding him into their own image. Being as a young child is not being logical and it is not having common sense.

Hmmm? What is magic?

What I believe regarding children is that they receive whatever their parents receive if they die before they understand what they are doing and making their own decisions. This was so for the OT and I believe it is so for the NT. If only one parent is living for the God the child is with that...

I suppose so. I graduated from high school in 1961. It was from that time that I never again was an actively involved Catholic although I bore the label for several more years. I will be 75 this coming December. Is that old? LOL Of course it is not fair and I try not to make such comparisons...

:):(:D:oops:o_O So then what else can we do...?

Why not 12 different fruits from one Tree? "In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." Rev 22:2

Yes, "is there any fruit"? And what fruit are we to see? Who can see the fruit, the good fruit, without "eyes to see". So then to recognize it we must see and perhaps smell. Ah but then should we not also be able to taste it? If we were to pick up a really rotten apple in absolute darkness and...

What too many people do who do believe in some measure is read and study the scriptures looking for support for what they already believe instead of seeking whatever truth God would like to show them... even if it happens to against what they already hold sacred. People don't want to change...

Consider also this tale of Simon with regard to this OSAS for he was named a baptized believer, but then it was determined later that he needed to repent: "Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which...

Strange that you should mention this. Where I have attended for years, we have always tried to be open allowing even one-time visitors to stand and speak without any previous permissions. We still do it for most everyone else, but now the powers have decided to put a muzzle on me. Someone said...

People like to be promised the benefits of God without having to give up anything they don't want to give up. Some people immersed in the OSAS doctrine who I know or have known really work hard to serve God and do things right, but some others have sat back as if in their "easy chairs" to enjoy...

I cannot speak with authority on the CC's official position on such things, but I can speak concerning my own experience. I grew up as a Catholic in a different time all before Vatican II occurred and before all of its decisions or rulings or changes were implemented. Seemingly some of those...