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So then I would guess that we are not even communicating.

Actually Stranger I agreed with much of what you wrote here. I quoted only the part which raised a question in me. You speak of a "poor relationship" and that is what struck a wrong note with me. To me any relationship with God which results in us being with Him when our time here as carnal men...

Just remember my friend that not everyone is where we are. God is looking at the hearts of people. I believe that He looked at mine favorably when I was an active devout Catholic. He had another plan for me so I am not there any more, but I cannot speak for everyone else, can I? Give God the glory!

People like to be guaranteed the "good" things and would rather that when received they can never be lost. It's like dreaming that you were born to parents who were super rich and never in your carnal life would you have to have financial worries. That is a day dream and will not become reality...

Are we really able to discern the real world created by God without being given the "eyes to see", which is of the Holy Ghost? Were we not all completely blind spiritually until and if we received a vision from Him? The carnal man of flesh believes according to what his five senses perceive...

If we are always choosing as Jesus did then the question is answered, is it not? "...nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt." Matt 26:39 Does He not want us always to be led by the Holy Spirit? If we have received the Holy Spirit into our hearts and we are not quenching that Holy...

What is this "real world" of which you speak? For me the real world is where we are when we are really "In His name" and He is really in our midst: "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." Matt 18:20 What man calls the world is really a very...

We of course must know and obey His voice. So then the question to ask may be whether we are His sheep or not. "To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them...

You do what you are taught and what you are used to... I was a good Catholic and no one could have converted at that time to anything else. When someone wanted to change the rules, the older people especially, but even many younger people as I was in those times, would not have tolerated it...

Hey I am an old Catholic. I have never been an anti-Catholic even though my beliefs and practices have moved a great distance from where I was. My first real friends were my fellow altar boys. I went to the site and browsed the changes with interest where they touched on things of which I was...

How many times were prophets in the OT sent out by God and they already knew that most or even all of the people he would talk to would not receive the message and change as they should? Sometimes we simply have to do it because it is what God requires of us.

Indeed all of the masses were said in Latin when I was there. As an altar boy I learned all of the responses to the priest in Latin. I remember when communion was always being taken while kneeling. Another thing about communion which has changed is that under the older rules only the priest...

Oh, I had another 14 bad years from high school graduation to joining the UPC. Those 14 should be added to my 10 years backslid. Someone told me later that is it impossible for a person to back slide for that long, but I did and still do strongly disagree with them. Does God love me more? Well...

I have gone backward now much to my regret, but not to the very worst place. The very worst place would I believe to be in the blaspheming the Holy Ghost from which there would be no return. I thought for a bit that I'd hit it, but that in itself is a long personal testimony. @"ByGrace" may have...

If that is the way God saw fit to give put out His information. Who but God increases any of us? Can we study the Bible and thereby receive all of His truth? I think not, not unless it is God's will for us to do so.

Sorry my response does not fit into your guidelines.

As @GodsGrace said the links would not easily show the differences because major changes were established with Vatican II. Supposedly prior to Vatican II Pope Pius XII [Pope until his death in 1958] supported Bible reading by everyone in the RCC, but I never heard about that while I was active...

And without the Spirit, the carcass remains dead!

If a doctrinal belief has been wrong for 40 years [Notice please that I am not saying that yours was or is] could it not be because the Holy Ghost was quenched by such a person for 40 years and finally the truth of the matter is being brought in through a tiny opening the person has now allowed...

Very simply, I believe that children or others who never reach the point where they are accountable before natural death go the way of their parents. This is one reason why parents should be very careful how they bring up their children. The shadow of this is seen thoughout the OT and as it was...