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GFTESS, [quote who="GirlFriendTess" reply="54" id="3185698"]How do you get from this to … here … and here ... and here???[/quote] First, I get the unalienable (can't be given away, taken away or abridged) right to practice my religion from God. According to the Declaration of Independence this truth is self-evident. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable r

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[quote who=" Jythier " reply="78" id="3185459"]I thought only your priests had the Holy Spirit?[/quote] Why do you think that? Let's answer that by going back just a bit. We are all born children of the wrath, that is, with Original Sin on our soul and no one who has OS or mortal sin on their soul can enter heaven. Apoc . 21:27. God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and sin do not abide together.&nbs

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Lula posts: [quote who="lulapilgrim" reply="72" id="3183886"]While ordinarily the Bishop, priest or deacon would baptize, in the case of necessity, anyone, even a non-baptized person, with the required intention, can baptize using the Trinitarian formula which consists in immersing the person to be baptized in water, or pouring on his head, while pronouncing the invocation of the Most Holy Trinity: saying I baptize you in the name of the Father, of t

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[quote who="Jythier" reply="74" id="3184823"]There once was a thief hanging on a cross next to Jesus. And the thief asked Jesus to remember him... and Jesus said, "But you're not baptized... too bad..." So, in the end, your theology is directly contradicted by the Bible. [/quote] Jythier, Jythier, Jythier, <span style="font-

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Baptism on the Beach It was a sunny afternoon in San Francisco. Shirley O'Neill and Albert Kogler, 18-year-old freshmen at San Francisco State College, went for a swim off Baker's Beach, near the Golden Gate Bridge. They were treading water about 50 yds. offshore when Al Kogler cried out. "I turned around," Shirle

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[quote who="SemazRalan" reply="59" id="3180906"] RCC told me I was baptized as a non-denominational and it didn't count; others said the same thing. My mother, a confirmed/baptized RC, was told by some protestant denominations that hers didn't count. Still others said it didn't matter where we were baptized, we weren't baptized by them so we weren't in the eyes of God. How's that for the unified "body of Christ"? Thankfully, many

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[quote who="SemazRalan" reply="59" id="3180906"]Christ established the "Church", which is all who believe, profess faith and baptised in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The bible teaches the Trinitarian nature of God -Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Read http://www.ccel.org/creeds/athanasian.creed.html for definition. Bible also teaches Hypostatic Union of Christ being fully God and fully man in perfect unity. Any believe about the nature of God and Jesus Chr

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[quote]but unless he and Holder start explaining Operation Fast and Furious, I'll have to assume he is something I never expected... evil. [/quote] His Hell-bent record on pushing abortion at every turn told me he was evil long ago. [quote]That in order to create an atmosphere of anger over gun violence in Mexico, he funneled guns across the border knowing full well it would cause the deaths of hundreds of human beings. [/quote] They hoped to get guns banned

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[quote who="Jythier" reply="69" id="3183157"]So how long does he have the Holy Spirit after confession?[/quote] By virtue of their ordination, Priests always have the power to forgive sins. Our Lord said to them, "Receive ye the Holy Spirit." Whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins you retain, they are retained." The action and words indicate an actual communication of the Holy Spirit to them, by whose power they would be able to effect what He told th

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Roberts...ahhh, my gut is still wrenching! [e digicons]:sick:[/e] How does taxing us alleviate the unConstitutionality of Big Bad Daddy Government forcing us to buy insurance? I don't think the US Constitution allows Congress to tax something that's clearly unconstitutional.

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‘This is the end of America’: Bestselling author takes on the HHS mandate BY BEN JOHNSON GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, June 22, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – If he were alive today, Dietrich Bonhoeffer would tell Americans t

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[quote who="Jythier" reply="67" id="3182970"]"Receive ye the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain; they are retained." So you don't believe that you have the Holy Spirit?[/quote] Why had the Father sent Jesus? To save sinners by pardoning their sins. This verse is the moment that Our Lord conferred authority to forgive sins, this pardoning power through the institution of Penance was not a perso

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[quote who="Jythier" reply="45" id="3182913"]Moral relativism doesn't actually exist. Everybody knows what is right inherently. It's built into us because there is a creator who bestowed it upon us. That's why, when people do what's right, they never need to defend their actions through moral relativism... everyone knows it's right. When someone does something wrong, they always need to justify it... because it was wrong.

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[quote who="lulapilgrim" reply="30" id="3173267"]As I understand it, the essence of the Rapture is that sometime soon, Christ will come to earth and secretly "catch up"--rapture--all the "true believers" (who would not include the doctrinally misled Catholics of course!). The "chosen" Protestants could then escape the 7-year tribulation which will see the rise and rule of anti-christ. At the end of the 7 years, Christ will come down to earth, defeat the anti-christ, the Jews will convert, and

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[quote who="LORD-ORION" reply="40" id="3182092"]Come on sing it... you know the song... "Now the world doesn't move to the beat of just one drum... what might be right for you, might not be right for some"[/quote] Actually, I don't know the song, but the message it's indoctrinating is moral relativism, a mindset one would be smart to avoid adopting. Moral relativism doesn't recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and

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There is a battle brewing in Canada between the Church and the State over the HP vaccine... Calgary bishop raps critics for trying to force vaccinations in Catholic schools CWN - June 27, 20 Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary, Alberta, has fired back at critics who, he said, “purposely misrepresent” the policies of the diocese in their calls for Catholic schools to inoculate girls with t

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Pentagon honors what used to be a military crime Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 6/26/2012 3:15:00 PM A retired Army chaplain is very disappointed that the Pentagon has hosted its very first ever "gay pr

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[quote who="LORD-ORION" reply="40" id="3182092"]Such a bunk argument on religious liberty conflicts...[/quote] Let's start with the basics. First, by understanding that man is created by God for God from Whom his intrinsic dignity comes from as well as his freedom to practice true religion. Religious liberty conflicts arise when the State, instead of acknowledging and safeguarding those truths, attacks them. Attacking our freedom of conscience to practi

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Jythier [quote who="Jythier" reply="18" id="3172150"]The Bible is very specific in several points that make preterism not likely. Also, the things described in Revelations haven't happened yet. The way that the Bible specifically states the number of weeks that God will deal with Israel, but there's still a week left, is pretty clear as well. There's still 7 years that God is going to deal with Israel. It hasn't happened yet,</s

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Aeryck, Btw, Thank you for providing the chart. I'm in the #4 green AMILLENIALISM camp becasue St.Augustine, leading the way of the Church Fathers interpreted Scripture as teaching that the millennium of Apoc 20:1-6, began with the first coming of Christ and will end with His Second coming and tansition into eternity. I have found in years of study that this view fits the preponderance of biblical passages better than any other. Moreover, th

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