<3 God discussion

I know you guys have requested, don't know why anyone hasn't made one yet, but here you go! :)

I go to a catholic school!!!!!

I am an advid Cathloic

ROMAN!!!!! WOO!!!!

!! Its kinda hard because some people think its wrong for me to believe purgatory or praying the rosary or listening to the pope.

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yes. just stating a fact about the difficulty of being Catholic

I think its hard cause the Johova Witness's get mad at us when we put a sighn on our door "ROMAN CATHOLIC".

yes. and everyone thinks we shouldn't follow the pope

Yes, we got a new bishop in my distirct.

me to

Are you in the Fresno one?

yes. The Fresno Diocese in California.

Cool. ARMNDO ACCHOA!!!!!!

Yep. The church choir I am in sang for him a couple weeks ago

He is in all of our school petitions.

cool

Yes, it si sad our old bishop died of lung cancer, after years of smoking, weird.

ik. So, the area where we live is narrowed down now

Ummmmm......huh?????

k while we both said we live in the Frenso Diocese. which is a pretty narrow area

*shrugs* Okay.

yes. soooo.....

I got to go.

I hate how people make fun of us just because we're all religious and aren't very modernized. Just cuz we like it old don't mean we gotta be persecuted!

And all these people think we idolize because of saints. They're just like prophets! What's wrong?????

we don't idolize sanits, we pray to them and 'pray' originaly meant 'to ask' and were asking the saints to pray to us

Yes, Idolize is a strong word.

which Catholics dont do(torwards sanits at least)

That's what I was saying. I wonder what puts those thoughts into people's heads? Everyone likes peace, but I guess some people just aren't happy unless they have something to dislike..... hmmm....

I think its because every religion started from Catholicism, so they have to find some fault to prove leaving was right

Maybe.....

Also, does anyone have a problem with people not believing in purgatory

No, thank God for purgatory!!!

I'm pretty much the only Cathloic in my group of friends

Not me. I go to a catholic school.

Thats awesome! everyone (for the most part) must have close or the same beliefs

Yep, it is pretty cool, but, we have to ware hot uniforms. ;P

I don't really know what purgatory means

It means, that if you sinned a veinial sin before you died and didn't have confession, before you go to Heaven, you have to confess it to God, at least that is what I learned.

Oh. What about that whole if you are a baby but haven't been baptized you don't go to heaven you go to purgatory? Isn't it a place of nothingness forever?

No, no, no, no. Ummmm......wait....I don't know. I think because the baby....I am not sure.

I always have heard something to that effect and I know you should never not believe in something just because you don't like it but I don't see why I should believe in something that sounds so cruel. I'm a weird Catholic...

Me too.

You're a weird Catholic too? (:
Or you don't believe in anything that sees God in a cruel light?

I'm not Catholic, but I can comment on the baptism part. A lot of people either agree or disagree that baptism is needed for salvation. In the OT before baptism all that was require to be saved was believing in God. If you read in the NT especially in parts where it talks about John the Baptist that he preached the baptism of repentance. Also, in some of Jesus's teachings he tells people to believe and be baptized. He also talks about that the people with be baptized with the Holy Ghost. After Jesus was resurrected, Simon (I do believe it was him) was told by God to stay where he was because in a few days the God will baptize the world with Holy Ghost (not a direct quotation). He was summoned to someone's house (Cornelius I think) and there he talked to a group of people and told them of Jesus, His sacrifice, and His resurrection. While he spoke the people believed (which = salvation. The crowd was a mix of non believers and believers and those who had been baptized and not been baptised) and something like a sheet desended from the Heavens and everyone there recieved the Holy Ghost. Afterwards, Simon had all those who had not been baptized get baptized because he saw that God favored them also. Also, you can see that no one (well no character that I've come across) had recieved the Holy Ghost in the OT. So it my personal perfessional opinion that you are saved through belief and the you recieve the Holy Ghost (and some spiritual gifts) through baptism and that you must believe in God and repent before you get baptized.

Sorry this is a really long post!!! I didn't even add scriptures, but I'll give them to you if you want them!!

I don't think baptism guarantees you anything. You can be baptized and do horrible things and if you aren't baptized you can still be a great person. Just because you aren't baptized or if you don't believe in God doesn't mean God won't accept you into his kingdom. With a baby.. they're innocent so I was saying that I don't believe in purgatory because I feel God would accept them no matter what.

That was an awesome post btw (:

That true. It still comes down to what you choose. I think baptism makes you more susptable to God's use once we do decide to walk in His ways. I really don't know about purgatory, it's history, or what the bible says about it. I don't even know about children who die young because I haven't seen anything in the bible about that either. Honestly we don't know what happens to anybody when they die because we don't know everything they've done in their life and we don't know about their walk with God. All I can say is live in a way so that you will be able to stand face to face with God and ask Him :)

I had a forth grade teacher who used to be Baptist.

Valencia wrote: "That true. It still comes down to what you choose. I think baptism makes you more susptable to God's use once we do decide to walk in His ways. I really don't know about purgatory, it's history, or..."

Exactly (:
Baptism is a something to get closer to God with.

Lu-Lu wrote: "I had a forth grade teacher who used to be Baptist."

I had a friend who was Baptist but I don't really know what they believe in. I know they go out and preach though.