myLot / @raisingsaints / Responses

maildumpster @maildumpster (3815) • United States 18 Sep 07

I have been debating some things with a few people here lately. I am not one to give up. Right now though I have to stop. The other day I found out that my childhood neighbor and friend had given birth to her twins at 25 weeks...

cant debate right now

devestated

dont have it in me

3 responses

raisingsaints Sorry to hear about your friends and family, I will keep you in my prayers.

18 Sep 07

•

1 comment

•

1 person

maildumpster @maildumpster (3815) • United States 17 Sep 07

God forbid someone use the wrong word in a discussion!! I used the word ascended as opposed to assumed and was jumped all over for it. I used ascended because I meant raised but it wasn't the terminology they use so I was told...

incorrect term

insults for mistakes

wrong word

6 responses •

1 person

raisingsaints I didn't think I was jumping all over you, just clarifying my point. As I said I didn't mean to insult you. You did say this in that other discussion: As I said to the person before you I used the lottery as an extreme example to show how silly it is to...

18 Sep 07

•

1 comment

•

1 person

maildumpster @maildumpster (3815) • United States 17 Sep 07

God forbid someone use the wrong word in a discussion!! I used the word ascended as opposed to assumed and was jumped all over for it. I used ascended because I meant raised but it wasn't the terminology they use so I was told...

6 responses •

1 person

raisingsaints You're talking about me! I didn't mean to insult you, sorry if you took it that way. I just wanted to clarify Catholic teaching, especially when you present as truth something that isn't... I suppose this discussion wasn't insulting to the other...

18 Sep 07

•

1 comment

•

1 person

maildumpster @maildumpster (3815) • United States 12 Sep 07

I have questions for anyone who can answer them. Please answer with the scripture that supports your answer. Where does the idea that Mary ascended body and soul to heaven come from? Where does the idea of sainthood come...

7 responses •

3 people

raisingsaints Sainthood-- God promises that the Davidic kingdom will last forever 2 Samuel 7:16 "And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever." Jesus is a son of David Matthew 1:1 "The book of the...

17 Sep 07

•

2 comments

•

1 person

maildumpster @maildumpster (3815) • United States 12 Sep 07

I have questions for anyone who can answer them. Please answer with the scripture that supports your answer. Where does the idea that Mary ascended body and soul to heaven come from? Where does the idea of sainthood come...

7 responses •

3 people

raisingsaints Sorry for the multiple responses, but it would've been way too long to put in just one. What is idolatry?-- Praying to an image, not God or a saint Praying to a statue, not God or a saint Worshipping an image or statue, not God Offering sacrifices to an...

16 Sep 07

•

2 comments

•

1 person

maildumpster @maildumpster (3815) • United States 12 Sep 07

I have questions for anyone who can answer them. Please answer with the scripture that supports your answer. Where does the idea that Mary ascended body and soul to heaven come from? Where does the idea of sainthood come...

7 responses •

3 people

raisingsaints Prayers to saints -- God's family exists in Heaven and on Earth: Ephesians 3:14-15 "For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in Heaven and Earth is named." God's family is in Jesus Christ, whose...

16 Sep 07

•

2 comments

•

1 person

maildumpster @maildumpster (3815) • United States 12 Sep 07

I have questions for anyone who can answer them. Please answer with the scripture that supports your answer. Where does the idea that Mary ascended body and soul to heaven come from? Where does the idea of sainthood come...

7 responses •

3 people

raisingsaints Well, we've already discussed much of this, but since Catholic theology is one of my favorite subjects (and apparently yours too), I reiterate. Now, I have said in other discussions that you attack what you clearly do not understand...and here you provide...

16 Sep 07

•

3 comments

maildumpster @maildumpster (3815) • United States 14 Sep 07

I want to offer apologies to the Catholic population of this site. I know that some may think that I attack Catholics and that isn't true. I was born and raised Catholic. My family is Catholic. But I left the RC church after...

apologies

defending the bible

sorry catholics

3 responses

raisingsaints I don't think you're attacking Catholics personally. You're attacking something that you clearly don't understand. To say that no person is infallible means that you could be wrong, yet you state with such certainty your opinions about the Catholic Church....

14 Sep 07

•

5 comments

•

1 person

maildumpster @maildumpster (3815) • United States 14 Sep 07

I recently read in a discussion that apparently part of the reason that Catholics pray to Mary is that Jesus can't say no to her. (for those who don't know people pray to Mary who then brings your request to Jesus) Well that...

jesus cant say no to mary

praying to mary

3 responses

raisingsaints LOL, thank you for the laugh, really I'm still trying to regain my composure!:D Jesus says that whatever we ask for in prayer, we shall recieve. Why hasn't everyone won the lottery?!? We ask Mary for her intercession because it was through her...

14 Sep 07

•

7 comments

•

1 person

susieq223 @susieq223 (3742) • United States 10 Sep 07

I got to spend a couple of days in the beautiful city of St. Augustine, Florida this past weekend. There is a huge area that is a Catholic graveyard from the 15th to 18th century. In the 1960's on the 400th anniversary of the...

3 responses •

1 person

raisingsaints The Easter Triduum Masses always get me. Also, random acts of kindness, and the tenderness of a child.

10 Sep 07

•

1 comment

•

1 person

mermaid911 @mermaid911 (798) • Philippines 4 Sep 07

There has been a lot of controversy why Catholics believe in statues and keeping them in their churches. Aside from that they also pray to these statues and walk with them in processions. Why do they do these?

statues

9 responses •

6 people

raisingsaints Catholics have statues (or pictures, paintings, etc.) to remind us of our brothers and sisters in Christ who are living in the glory of God in Heaven. Most of the statues in Catholic churches are of the Holy Family and the Apostles. Other Christians would...

6 Sep 07

•

2 comments

littlefranciscan @littlefranciscan (18327) • United States 3 Sep 07

For all the sicks ones dearest Lord I make this humble prayer Hold out to them Your Healing Love and let them know You care. For those whose lives are soon to end, give them O Lord Your Grace; And help them carry out Your...

3 responses •

1 person

raisingsaints Thank you for this beautiful prayer. It couldn't come at a better time for me. I have a son with special needs who just had unexpected surgery. Thanks to prayers like these, it doesn't seem to phase him.

4 Sep 07

ajarca @ajarca (57) • Philippines 28 Aug 07

Why can't a Catholic priest marry?

priest

2 responses

raisingsaints It's not necessarily that a Catholic priest can't marry, but that they choose not to through a vow of celibacy. When a man chooses the Roman Catholic priesthood, he is choosing a celibate life as well. It his sacrifice. They are called to consecrate...

3 Sep 07

laurika @laurika (4532) • United States 27 Aug 07

Dou you shop on the internet?What do you buy the most? I have never buy anythin on the internet, because I like to go to the stores and see how thing look in real. But now I am thinking to buy few things on the internet.What is...

1

4 responses

raisingsaints I consider shopping one of my hobbies. It is also a talent, I'm good at finding meaningful gifts for people. I love to walk through stores, especially at Christmas time, and just look around. This is more difficult with babies though, so I started doing more...

27 Aug 07

•

2 comments

marshall_blake2000 @marshall_blake2000 (304) • United States 21 Aug 07

Is been a christian a lonely life to live? It seems like when I became a christain all my old friends seems to just go away. And I love to have people around me. But know it seems I am all alone. There is not any thing about me...

believe

15 responses •

6 people

raisingsaints In last Sunday's Gospel reading, Jesus says: "Do you think I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division; for henceforth in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three; they will be divided, father...

24 Aug 07

•

1 person

sharone74 @sharone74 (4837) • United States 22 Aug 07

If all the seperate sects and churches all proclaim that their way is the ONLY WAY, and "the one true path to salvation" and that all other religions are led by false prophets, are they not engaged in religious bigotry. It's kinda...

god

religion

4 responses

raisingsaints Isn't what you describe the primary message of Jesus? Jesus says: I am the Way, the Truth, and the Light. No one shall come to the Father except through me. If you want to enter life, obey my teachings. If you love me, you will obey my...

24 Aug 07

Chiang_Mai_boy @Chiang_Mai_boy (3882) • Thailand 23 Aug 07

I have a student who is doing a project for a comparative religion class and she came to me for some help. She is doing a paper on Christianity and needs some information on the Trinity. I have spent several hours trying to find a...

6 responses •

3 people

raisingsaints Here are examples of the three persons in the Trinity working together as one God. Matthew 28:19, where Jesus instructs the Apostles to "go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the...

23 Aug 07

semjosefrancisco @semjosefrancisco (4) • Philippines 21 Aug 07

Do you believe that outside the Church there is no salvation?

church

3 responses •

1 person

raisingsaints There is no salvation outside the Church(Body of Christ). Jesus is the head of the Church. Since salvation comes through Jesus, we must become part of His Body to be saved.

22 Aug 07

raisingsaints's Responses