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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Good point, maybe he knows people won't go to heaven but gives them a shot at life anyway, seeing as he's so tolerant. I'm not a Christain, it's just what I'd say if I was one.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It seems you are asking me the meaning of life. The meaning of life is completely relative to an individual, so I could not answer you I'm afraid but I am interested in what you believe the meaning of life is? An all-knowing God already knows everything we are going to do. Romans tells us(assuming you are Christian here) that everything we do is pre-destined by God. Therefore life remains meaningless, as we have no say over it.
    i can assure you i'm not asking you the meaning of life.an all knowing god would know we aint going to make it without him in the long term maybe ...but i don't believe he is to know what decisions we will make and what roads we will travel ...having given man free will.
    please show me the bit in romans.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Socialism is about being equal to one another and not craving to be better than others. I am aware that this is an ideology and not always practical but there is nothing wrong with striving for an ideal.
    indeed it isn't practical. there will always be goods and services of differing quality ...from shoes to cars to cigars and on and on.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    turlough wrote:
    Not all Christains believe in total pre-destination. Catholics believe in free will also.
    catholics are not christians.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    catholics are not christians.

    Well they kind of are man...

    http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03712a.htm
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Well they kind of are man...

    http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03712a.htm
    check out who the first pope was. he was determined to destroy christianity and set about iit by changing christian festivals and replacing them with pagan ones ...even changing the sabbath from saturday to sunday.
    the bible gives grave warnings to men who change such things ...the popes changed everything to make sure that the festivals of the sun continued to be enacted ...fertility rites etc.
    as for popes and bishops living in palaces and swanning abpout with kings and generals ...all very anti christian.

    for the newer people here ...i best mention now that my views on religion have been aired on here many times ...most people will know that i HATE ...religion.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    check out who the first pope was. he was determined to destroy christianity and set about iit by changing christian festivals and replacing them with pagan ones ...even changing the sabbath from saturday to sunday.
    the bible gives grave warnings to men who change such things ...the popes changed everything to make sure that the festivals of the sun continued to be enacted ...fertility rites etc.
    as for popes and bishops living in palaces and swanning abpout with kings and generals ...all very anti christian.

    for the newer people here ...i best mention now that my views on religion have been aired on here many times ...most people will know that i HATE ...religion.

    Me I don't need to say what I think of it, my username state it clearly :)

    And I agree with you btw... But catholics in their miond are related to christianity, or at least that's what they try to make me believe during my 14 years of religious education... :yuck:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    indeed it isn't practical. there will always be goods and services of differing quality ...from shoes to cars to cigars and on and on.

    Perhaps, but there is litlle doubt that consumerism lessens under a socialist government, take the Atlee government for an example. Since the Thatcher/Blair era, (I thought I would miss out Major, being the nobody he was) this country has become more capitalist and therefore more consumerist. In Capitalism it is taught that we should strive to be better than everyone else, this philosophy is not apparent in socialism.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    catholics are not christians.

    They are Christians, just not good one's. Actually, let me rephrase that, the leaders aren't good Christains. Most Catholics I know are very devout and kind.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    turlough wrote:
    They are Christians, just not good one's. Actually, let me rephrase that, the leaders aren't good Christains. Most Catholics I know are very devout and kind.
    yes mate i understand that but your average catholic refuses to accept that they have been hoodwinked into a religion which is anti christian.
    you are worshipping the sun and taking part in ancient babylonian rites which are totaly against not just christs teachings but the god of the bible himself.
    idols ...praying to women ...etc etc.
    not done it myself yet but i will have google for you later ...i'll type in ...the first pope ...see what i get.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I don't think the average catholic even realises they've been hoodwinked. The first Pope was Peter was he not?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    turlough wrote:
    I don't think the average catholic even realises they've been hoodwinked. The first Pope was Peter was he not?
    another lie.
    would peter have lived in a palace and dined at the tables of kings and generals ...i think not.
    but no ...peter wasn't.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Did Jesus not say, "Peter, upon this rock I build my church" or something along those lines?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    turlough wrote:
    Did Jesus not say, "Peter, upon this rock I build my church" or something along those lines?
    i'll have a looky later ...what does that have to do with popes though ...popes who slaugheterd and tortured poeople for reading the bible ...posessing a bible?
    popes and bishops who wear on their heads the symbol of the fish god dagon?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i'll have a looky later ...what does that have to do with popes though ...popes who slaugheterd and tortured poeople for reading the bible ...posessing a bible?
    popes and bishops who wear on their heads the symbol of the fish god dagon?

    That Jesus gave permission for the first Pope to build the first Church.

    I think you'll find on all sides there have been Holy Wars for money, greed, land, power and corruption.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    turlough wrote:
    That Jesus gave permission for the first Pope to build the first Church.

    Not really, it was a metaphore, the "rock" was Peter...
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Still doesn't make it any different, he's saying that the foundations of the church is Peter.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    turlough wrote:
    Still doesn't make it any different, he's saying that the foundations of the church is Peter.

    Yes the church as a group of believer, not as a buildng...
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    turlough wrote:
    Still doesn't make it any different, he's saying that the foundations of the church is Peter.
    what does peter have to do with catholics?
    did peter go off and build huge palaces ...amass wealth and political power?
    not what jesus would have had in mind.
    jeaus didn'tASK THAT HIS FOLLOWERS WEAR FISH GOD HATS ...CHANGE THE SABBATH ...TORTURE AND KILL PEOPLEopps caps for reading the bible ...
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    what does peter have to do with catholics?
    did peter go off and build huge palaces ...amass wealth and political power?
    not what jesus would have had in mind.
    jeaus didn'tASK THAT HIS FOLLOWERS WEAR FISH GOD HATS ...CHANGE THE SABBATH ...TORTURE AND KILL PEOPLEopps caps for reading the bible ...

    Nope, but for any religion, you need an arena for sharing beliefs. As for the rest, yeh that's unfortunate. So who is the first Pope then?
  • Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    Yes the church as a group of believer, not as a buildng...
    Exactally. Despite the fact it has grown into organise religion, this is what I believe Jesus was against.

    It is a shame - if he existed (and it seems from evidence he did) he was a great chap... to have his beliefs twisted into this monster.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    what does peter have to do with catholics?

    Do you mean apart from being the First Pope?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Do you mean apart from being the First Pope?
    could someone point me in the direction of where peter is nominated as first pope in the bible please?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    turlough wrote:
    As for the rest, yeh that's unfortunate. ?
    unfortunate!
    tragic would be more like it.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    could someone point me in the direction of where peter is nominated as first pope in the bible please?

    Nominations didn't happen at first, but he was the original Pope. It's because of him that the Vatican is where it is.

    Thinkabout it though, kinda hard to have voted for someone else, wouldn't you say?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    : We should consider Christ’s commission to Peter. This is often very embarrassing to Catholics, because Christ commissioned Peter to become chief minister to the CIRCUMCISED, not to uncircumcised Gentiles.

    "The gospel of the CIRCUMCISION was unto Peter; (For He that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)" (Gal. 2:7-8).

    Here we have it in the clearest of language. It was Paul, NOT Peter, who was commissioned to be the chief Apostle to the Gentiles. And who was it that wrote the Epistle to the ROMANS? It certainly WASN’T Peter! "And when James, Cephas [Peter], and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace [i.e., the gift or office] that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision" (Gal. 2:9). Paul further mentioned his special office as the Gentile Apostle in II Timothy 1:11: "Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles."

    PETER is NOWHERE called the Apostle to the Gentiles! This precludes him from going to Rome to become the head of a Gentile community.

    PROOF TWO: Paul specifically told the Gentile Romans that HE had been chosen to be their Apostle, not Peter. "I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable" (Rom. 15:16). How clear! Paul had the direct charge from Christ in this matter. He even further relates in Romans 15:18 that it was Christ who had chosen him "to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed."

    PAUL Established the Only TRUE Church at Rome during the apostolic era.

    PROOF THREE: We are told by Paul himself that it was he -- not Peter –who was going to officially found the Roman Church. "I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established" (Rom. 1:11). Amazing! The Church at Rome had not been ESTABLISHED officially even by 55 or 56 A.D. However, the Catholics would have us believe that Peter had done this some ten years before -- in the reign of Claudius. What nonsense! Of course you understand that NEITHER Peter nor Paul established the Catholic Church! But these proofs are given to illustrate that it is utterly impossible for PETER to have been in any way associated with ANY Church at Rome.

    cut and paste obviously.

    in the new testament it tells of a great apostacy that will take place in the church ...teachings in opposition to those of the apostles ...that this apostacy would come quickly and the man of sin would declare himself god like ...to be worshipped on a throne ...

    i could go on ...

    what realy gets me is that anyone who has the smallest grain of knowledge regarding chritianity cannot see that the whole catholic doctrine and practice is actualy anti christian.
    why can't you people see it?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Nominations didn't happen at first, but he was the original Pope. It's because of him that the Vatican is where it is.

    Thinkabout it though, kinda hard to have voted for someone else, wouldn't you say?
    is this christianity?

    “In Christ’s right I am a sovereign. I acknowledge no civil superior; I am the subject of no Prince, and I claim more than this – I claim to be the supreme judge on earth, the director of the consciences of men; of the peasant that tills the field and the Prince that sits on the throne; of the household that sits in the shade of privacy and the legislature that makes laws for the Kingdom. I am the last sole supreme judge on earth of what is right and wrong.” ― Henry Edward Manning, speaking for Pope Pius IX in a sermon in the pro-cathedral, St Mary Moorfields, Kensington (the church of his episcopal ordination and consecration as archbishop), reported in The Tablet (a Catholic weekly published in London), Sunday, Oct 9, 1864.

    no ...this is in fact anti christ.

    1827 Furthermore We teach and declare that the Roman Church, by the disposition of the Lord, holds the sovereignty of ordinary power over all others, and that this power of jurisdiction on the part of the Roman Pontiff, which is truly episcopal, is immediate; and with respect to this the pastors and the faithful of whatever right and dignity, both as separate individuals and all together, are bound by the duty of hierarchical subordination and true obedience, not only in things which pertain to faith and morals, but also in those which pertain to the discipline and government of the Church [which is] spread over the whole world, so that the Church of Christ, protected not only by the Roman Pontiff, but by the unity of communion as well as of the profession of the same faith is one flock under one highest shepherd. This is the doctrine of Catholic truth from which no one can deviate and keep his faith and salvation.


    [p. 164] The dogma of Papal Infallibility … involves a question of absolute power… [p. 165] It is the direct antipode of the Protestant principle of the absolute supremacy and infallibility of the Holy Scriptures. It establishes a perpetual divine oracle in the Vatican. Every Catholic may hereafter say, I believe—not because Christ, or the Bible, or the Church, but—because the infallible Pope has so declared and commanded… If the dogma is false, it involves a blasphemous assumption, and makes the nearest approach to the fulfillment of St. Paul’s prophecy of the man of sin, who ‘as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself off that he is God’ (2 Thess. ii. 4)

    i hate the pope and all he stands for!
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