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[quote]ha! Nope that would be sister....as in a SHE! At least that's what they tell me! [/quote] Sorry about that, sister! :)

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Thanks for your two cents. Honestly, he literally just wrote "blah blah blah" in his post. I don't want my blog cluttered up with that nonesense. I want people to be able to read the essential arguments without weeding through.....weeds. By the way, I fear no one but the Lord. And I don't mind being a pawn, if it's in the service of the Lord and His people.

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[quote who="KFC Kickin For Christ" comment="52"]I have a question for The Way and Lula.Do you two know each other? [/quote] No, I don't think we know each other. But I feel a deep connection to Lula as a sister in Christ. I feel that you, KFC, are also a brother in Christ....but I must admit...it is a much closer feeling with Lula because we are connected in the Eucharist and share the same traditions. I think that is the intention of Jesus--that we feel like we're a part of the same b

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I arrived home last night from a business trip (all my previous posts were written during this trip), and almost immediately I began consulting my small library of books on Church teaching and history. In my opinion, no source, beyond the Bible, is better than the Cathechism of the Catholic Church. It is amazing how logical and well-referenced the Catechism is. As I read through the sections on Peter, I was amazed how much the Church affirms pieces of both sides of the argument th

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[quote]Be careful, Ock, your well thought-out comment will be deleted, just as mine was. I mean, I spent hours carefully crafting a response, and it was deleted without regard. Schmucks.[/quote] Yes, I will delete comments, such as the two disruptive and offensive posts you made, that do nothing but clutter up a post. Several people have taken quite a bit of time to discuss honestly an important issue concerning faith, and your snide remarks are unappreciated. I will NOT delete comment

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[quote]No there is no evidence in scriptue of this at all.[/quote] KFC, sadly, I'm beginning to think that even if we quoted 100 instances in Scripture of Christ establishing his Church upon Peter and giving the key to Peter, you would still respond "No, there is no evidence in scripture of

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[quote]In fact, Paul condemned or rebuked Peter to his face for denying 5 major doctrines. Some pope! Gal 2:11[/quote] It is well understood that in the early Church there was controversy over whether Gentiles who accepted Christ should be required to live according to Jewish law. This was a sensitive issue. Paul, in this instance, simply "rebuked" or "checked" Peter for pulling back from the table. Just because someone is the leader doesn't mean they are always right. And when

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[quote]can you show me where Peter was the Bishop of Rome? There is no historical evidence I know of where he held that position. In fact, the Romans hung him for his faith. Peter died well before 325. In fact he died before 70 AD. [/quote] Certainly, though the Church did not yet use the word "bishop" duri

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[quote]You have misquoted this scripture as is quite common actually when it comes to Matt 18. Jesus didn't mean it the way you're explaining it here. If you look at the context (18:15-20) you'd see that he was speaking about Church discipline. He was saying if someone is not doing what is Godly then you must meet and tell him so. If they don't listen you need to take two or three witnesses with you. If he still won't listen take it to the church and if he doesn't listen to the church then he

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Well, I had nearly finished a long reply to timothy_sfker’s comment, but I lost it…that will teach me not to type long entries directly into the JU window. Let me do my best to reproduce my reply. <p class="MsoNormal" style=

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[quote]Redemption was placed entirely on our existence within the world (e.g. Luke 7:47, Matthew 6:14, Matthew 25:31-46).[/quote] Can you explain what you mean by that? I read all three of those passages, and I still don't understand what you mean. Jesus promised that we would be rewarded in heaven, not in this world. He said His Kingdom not of this world, but in heaven. He said in the Gospel of John: He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will k

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Thanks lulapilgrim for responding to responding to timothy's question. References to worshipping in community are found throughout the New Testament, beginning with Jesus' assembling of twelve apostles and continuing with the Great Comission, where Jesus sent the disciples out to establish faith communities throughout the world. Lastly, Jesus said "where two or three have come together in my name, I am there among them." (Matthew 18:20)

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[quote]The most important thing to me is my faith. But not a faith in any human institution but my faith in God according to scripture. [/quote] According to scripture, God (Jesus) did establish the church: And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. (Matthew 16:18)

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[quote]For alot of people, myself included, belonging to a church is a very minor and periphery aspect to Christianity. [/quote] If that is the case, then a lot of people have kinda missed the whole point of Christianity. Worshipping in community was very central to Jesus' teachings.

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In the fallout of Fr. Michael Pfleger’s recent "sermon" at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Senator Barack Obama resigned his membership there. This was the culmination of several months of political trauma for the Obama campaign, beginning with revelations in the national media that Obama's pastor of 20 years, Jeremiah Wright, has made many politically contentious statements. My intent

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I'm writing an exposé on homosexuality. I'm not sure what will become of it in the end, but I invite you to make comments as I go along. ---- Growing up, especially during adolescence, we all encounter a variety of influences that help to shape our values and worldviews. For me, growing up in a Roman Catholic family and attending public elementary schools in the relatively liberal town of Webster Groves, Missouri, my influences were varied and sometimes conflic

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I was letting this article rest a few days to give other people a chance to comment...but it seems the interest may have fizzled out. In any case, I want to answer the rest of the questions posed in previous comments. The last part of this sentence, why particularly those? What is your reasoning here? How would this play

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Actually, most humans find that it's easier to fuel down here on Earth. I get your point. Currently our cars, planes, rockets, and other transportation devices all get their fuel from Earth. But the primary source of this fuel (hydrocarbons) is being depleted faster than it is being replaced, and a si

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but no it will be a fueling station becouse it is easier and cheaper to get things off of the moon than off the earth Very true. Delta V is a measure used in rocket science to measure the magnitude of maneuvers made to get to different places (orbits in space). Delta V is short for "change in velocity

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populate it with prisoners - like an Alcatraz? They closed alcatraz. This is an interesting thought....but I actually think the exact opposite. We should leave all the criminals and extremely lazy people on Earth. One nice thing about Earth is it's difficult to escape from (because of its large gra

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I wonder if we will ever do anything with the moon other than visit it. I wonder, too.....but I'm pretty certain we will inhabit the Moon, at least to the level that we inhabit Antarctica permanently for scientific research. The Moon, in fact, may become more inhabited than Antarctica because there is p

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as far as this is all you have to do is have a big enough building/truck for people to work in the dust comes in one end and oxygen, water, building material goes out the other It is not so simple. First of all, we have no known lubricants that can operate at 50-90 K, so we will have to invent new on

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there is water there in the dust when you pick up a handful of moon dust you are also picking up oxygen and water it is in every handful we just have to learn how to destill it effecintally and i need to learn how to spell.your talking about standing water i am talking about water in the dirt If you

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water yes i just watched on science channel all they have to do is cook or press the dust to get water. we just don't quite have it down yet Yes, IF there is water there. The evidence for water on the Moon though is still a bit iffy. I can provide more details if anyone is interested. The bottom line i

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there is also oxigen and water on the moon we just have to learn how to get it Oxygen yes, water maybe. We need robotic missions in the next decade or two to anwer the "maybe." NASA is well on its way to completing one such mission (actually one dual mission). It's called the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbit