Yes - and I was responding to Aspen's post #1542 . . .
Yes but you were including me as a 3rd person ( so to speak ) when it was clearly me who sent it to you. I do sincerely apologize if I am doing it wrong when responding, I just can't seem to find and unanswered post of yours or indeed other peoples, which hasn't already been replied to.
I can see from your post that you say you have been doing this for 13 years, so you are most certainly committed to your beliefs, and I surely cannot fault you on your commitment, nor would I want to, but PLEASE try to understand, I am not trying to be at odds with people who call themselves Catholics, and just like you, who is fully committed to your studies and what your church has taught you, I can only be committed to the One who taught me that God AND Jesus are actually really real, which I had absolutely no clue about, at that time. So please don't try to get me to resist or worse reject HIM, what He has taught me or shown me....I am not questioning your faith in The Lord, but I cannot fathom why you don't believe all the various historical evidence against the establishment of the Catholic church, since you don't have any problems accepting words that were written down by, God only knows who, and be willing to 'fight to the death' so to speak to defend their position.
Please believe me when I tell you that if Jesus had instructed me to go to a Catholic Church ( when I inquired about going to church for Him ), I would have IMMEDIATELY gone and found one, and I would have stayed put there, come hell or high water. But alas, He did not and because of how He described His church, I did not immediately go and try to find one, I took 6 1/2 years before doing that, and it almost destroyed me, filling my head with doubts and fears and untold amounts of lies, which have all been proven to me at one stage or another by HIM....Mind you, He has no problem with the people, but as He emphatically said to me once :" I am NOT a religion but REALITY ! ", not A reality, not THE reality, just reality..........
It is my sincerest hope that somehow the Lord can bring someone like you and I into SOME agreement...Now that would be a testament to others, of the great and awesome power of our Lord.............What do you say 'Bread of Life' ? Can you and I show some maturity in Christ and at least find ONE thing where we can share common ground? Nothing would please me more, and somehow I think it would please the Master also..........What do you think ?
sincerely Pia