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west west bad big bad very bad stalin good lenin good ignore starvation ignore deaths ignore everything just read state and revolution bro
Material Wealth is meaningless, but Job literally went to Heaven afterwards. The times before Christ were harsh, you had to pay for EVERY SINGLE sin.
No, Jesus died for our sins, so we could live a life free of sin. We no longer have to pay for every single sin as it has already been paid.
Sometimes, God will speak to you through his Voice, sometimes through other things. It depends on Him.
Do not let Judas guide you away from Satan. Pope Leo has released multiple statements on this.
and satan is responsible for the false visions and voices in the heads of people, or it could just be schizophrenia
and we literally do not know most things like we DONT KNOW we cannot know everything
and hell is not eternal fire and burning, but literally just the abyss, where you dont exist, youre dead, because you cant have eternal torture without eternal life first, and you cant have eternal life without Christ, where you wont go to the abyss.
And I unfortunately had little to no spiritual guidance from my parents as a child, so yes, I researched the Christian faith, I was protestant for a while before discovering Catholicism and its teachings, then I chose.
I know of multiple people who are Christians not because of their place, or parents but because of their Faith.
False faiths are engineered by Satan, islam was created because of an “angel” appearing. That probably wasnt an angel
There doesn’t seem to be consensus on that within Catholicism, some Popes have said that it’s definitely a place of eternal punishment, others have said it’s more like you describe.
I guess it’s also up in the air what happens to unbaptized babies for Catholics. In that case the church seems to be going for a sorta quantum theory thing where the baby’s soul is hopefully saved, but officially probably not (maybe to discourage the infanticide conundrum). They pretty much let you pick and choose what you want it to be, since they probably don’t want to tell mothers who lost their baby during birth that it’s going to hell.
Interesting. Considering that every other denomination and faith is indeed engineered by Satan, how did you go about confirming that Catholicism was the only true one? Did you examine Zoroastrianism, the proto-christianity, as well as non-abarahamic religions, before deciding? What made Catholicism the clear winner?
Unfortunately, this aspect is what makes cults and religions such a good comparison to ML, as both have that auto-correcting feature to automatically make the adherent dismiss any information that conflicts with their beliefs as false. In the case of ML, it is claimed to be CIA propaganda or false history. For religions, it is taught that the literal most evil spirit is behind virtually all contrary information.
That mechanism is extremely valuable to a priesthood/leader to retain their flock/followers, as it makes it almost impossible for someone outside of that belief system to show them information that would reveal it to be false.
In a world where there theoretically was one true religion, that same mechanism would also act to keep people in a false religion, as they would have to assume that any other religion is in fact the devil tempting them, even if that person tempting them was from the objectively true religion.
How did you determine that?
Yes. I did. I did a LOT of research, and I have experienced a lot of miracles in my life due to Catholicism.
And its not “all contrary information” it is false faiths. Doubts are good, they help you dive deeper into faith.
What sort of research did you do? What made Catholicism stand out from every other religion?
just looking at the inner values and beliefs of them I guess.
Catholicism stood out because God is all loving, and forgiving, and due to multiple miracles in my life and actual scientific evidence of miracles and proof
Do you have any specific examples of values and beliefs that you liked better than any of the other religions or christian denominations?
My protestant church said that too, and emphasized Jesus’s forgiveness.
Could you share those? I’ve never seen any scientific evidence of miracles despite looking for it.
Ah… I’m sorry, but neither of those events would stand as proof in a scientific context.
In the first case, medical oddities occur quite frequently, and it’s not unlikely that patient had an unusual form of cancer that was particularly receptive to the more primitive treatment at the time. I would not classify an unusual experience as a miracle, personally. I have seen many similar stories and claims from the alternative cancer cure community, all of which I have found to be grifting, yet to those less skeptical, seem quite convincing.
The second case is extremely dubious, as it is purely hearsay that the flesh suddenly appeared, and it would be quite easy to simply place the supposed flesh photographed and claim it morphed there naturally. Church officials are not immune to lying, corruption, or deceit as history shows, so without an unrelated 3rd party having been present and verifying in real-time, to me it seems clear that it’s a stunt, as the evidence is about as convincing or trustworthy as the Loch Ness monster photograph.
the matter was tested, and it was heart tissue that had the WBCs alive, they usually die 2 hours after being removed from the body.
I really did not go into Protestantism as it removed 6 books from the Bible and branced off from thr one true Church
I see. How how did you determine that the Protestant’s reasons for removing those books was illegitimate (as far as I can tell, they claim that the 6 additional books were not included in the original Hebrew canon, essentially saying that the catholic additions were not inspired works, and that they are closer to a more pure, unadulterated Bible), also how did Eastern Orthodoxy fare in the overall assessment?
Did it concern you at all that Catholicism once burned people at the stake for translating the Bible into English (which in practice would lessen the power the priesthood had in disseminating the Bible)?
Lastly, I’m quite curious how you then determined that an Abrahamic religion (Catholicism) was the only true religion, what set it apart from Taoism, Buddhism, Sikhism, etc, as the only source of spiritual truth for you?
removing ANY books from the Bible is illegitimate as stated so by Revelation. The original Bible was Catholic.
Eastern Orthodoxy is way more complicated, I can say it was for theological reasons I did not go into it.
The catholic emperor did that, not the Church and the Church does indeed have some bits of dark history.
As I said, scientific proof instead of vibes, and God being all loving. Buddhism preaches works instead of faith, but we still have original sin.
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