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Should I continue to be a RC

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  • #32
    santana75
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    tara2k wrote: »

    Interesting stuff. Do you believe that the Roman Catholic Church is the one true church? Can you expand on the bit in bold, please? I'm ex-LDS. I left the church, officially, a few years ago, and I am going to be cast into outer darkness when I die, in the minds of many.

    Yeah this is what bothers me about the church (as in the organisation that is the Church, not the body of Christ as Paul called it). This has been going on since the beginning, one faction attacking the other both claiming to represent the true church. All it shows is the sinful nature of fallen man is alive and well within the church just as much as its alive and well in the world. A personal relationship with God through his word is the most important part of anyone's journey. The church cam be taken away and corrupted, but Gods word is incorruptible.


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
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    tara2k wrote: »


    Interesting stuff. Do you believe that the Roman Catholic Church is the one true church? Can you expand on the bit in bold, please? I'm ex-LDS. I left the church, officially, a few years ago, and I am going to be cast into outer darkness when I die, in the minds of many.
    Well yes, it is the 'one true church', founded by Christ, with an unbroken line of apostolic succession.

    That is not to say that if you are not a Catholic you are going to hell or something like that, no one knows. My point is that without the graces from the Eucharist, and confession in particular (to name only two), it is a bit of an uphill battle from the get-go. It's not impossible by any means of course, sort of like if I don't prepare optimally with the right gear etc. to scale a mountain I will not necessarily do badly, I've just made it harder for myself.


  • #34
    looksee
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    Of course, on the other hand, if you are not a Catholic you are not all that likely to believe you will go to hell.


  • #35
    [Deleted User]
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    looksee wrote: »
    Of course, on the other hand, if you are not a Catholic you are not all that likely to believe you will go to hell.
    Who knows, some people get a fierce dose of the scruples and think themselves damned. If you are a Catholic a good confession can cure this, can be more difficult for others. You could think all the Catholics will go to hell, or perhaps everyone else not affiliated with your own particular christian religious denomination is damned. Some of the protestant denominations (of course there is a huge variance) tend to be far more hell, fire and brimstone than Catholics.

    Catholic teaching is fairly nuanced on this, personally I would like to think that the majority of people, be they Catholic or otherwise, might stumble over the line into purgatory and hell just has the truly culpable, terrible people. But ultimately we don't know who is in hell, and we can only be sure that a certain number (i.e. the documented Saints, there are surely loads who lived quiet saintly lives) are in heaven.


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