Why do so many here feel qualified to comment on a document they haven't read?

Question

I am referring to this whole Pope and Limbo brouhaha. Has ANYONE here actually READ the document?

Cynical, I've love to read it, too, but according the articles, it is at http://www.originsonline.com/ , which costs $$$$. :(

Answer 1

They can hide behind their computer and pretend they know it all. If I truly don't know something and it's not an opinion question, I move on to the next one.

Answer 2

Have you read the document? The teaching that was being taught is a simple concept to understand, right? Or, maybe the concept of a unbatpized infant going to limbo for original sin is too complicated a concept for you or anyone else to understand. In any case, if the news about the document is correct then unbaptized infants now have hope for salvation apart from baptism because of their innocence of committing any willful sin.

This sounds an awful lot like Evangelical Protestant teaching concerning salvation through faith in Christ.

Do not suffer the little ones to come unto me, for the kingdom of God is made up of such as these.

I believe Jesus hits the nail on the head concerning this topic.

Meg,

I challenge you as you live your faith out in the Catholic church to mark the changes in the church's teaching over time from the beginning, the 1st Century, till now. Some of the teachings you hold as "truth" are not really truth, but are simply interpretations of what some theologians believe the Holy Scriptures imply.

I have a coworker and friend who is Catholic and stills holds to the more traditional teachings of the church with full blown Latin mass. He is disillusioned with the current direction of the Catholic church. As an outside Protestant, I can agree with him as I can see the changes too. Even though I am classified as an "other baptized person," my friend knows my character/integrity for the truth, even though we disagree sometimes what that truth actually is and even so he still considers me more Catholic than even some of his own family members who have strayed from the Cathoic faith, but yet still outwardly practice the faith.

In Christ,

Mark :o)

Answer 3

Could you give a copy of the document? I want to read it because this Vatican thing has really made me question the Pope's authority. I'm Catholic but I'm glad he revoked the limbo doctrine. I would like to read the document becasue I want to defend the church on this issue.

Answer 4

No one has, because we are read interpreted documents and books. That is why their are so many different religions because it is how it has been interpreted over the hundreds of years. It should be about what you interpret from it and live your life that way, not the way someone tries to tell you to and then passes you the offering plate.

Answer 5

My comments speak to the idea of religion in general, with this bit being just an interesting twist. The details are not important.

Answer 6

There's a bunch on here that comment on the bible and have read little if any of it.

Most of them are Christians

Answer 7

i don't think anyone has read any of their religious texts either..... when it is so easy to sit and imagine what must be written in books.... why would anyone in the right mind get up and find out what the truth is ..... :)

Answer 8

Actually, The Catholic church likes things like that.

No Catholics are allowed to do their own reading of stuff, and people who aren't Catholic have no need to read their stuff - Wow! I guess the Pope CAN change anything he wants to.

Answer 9

Nope. But I haven't said anything about it, either. =0)

Answer 10

What document?