2007-09-27 20:12:24 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Catholic priests aren't much help in keeping the Church on message, it seems:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/27/nuns.excommunicated.ap/index.html
Boniface: Too long. Looks cut and pasted.
2007-09-27 20:19:20 · answer #1 · answered by Voyager 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is the very opposite... they trust the priest and fail to read the Bible. And if they do read the Bible, it is not with enough diligence to come to a sound understand of it... and if they do come to a sound understanding of it, they fail to question their priests about the stark contradictions between what the Bible says verses the beliefs of that church.
Jer. 17: 5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. 7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
2007-09-27 20:27:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A question: what's the meaning of : Jesus said: " you a Peter and upon this stone (petra) I will build my Church and the door of Hell never......."
Until we do no understand the historical meaning of these words, we will never come to any ...... conclusion......
2016-12-29 10:53:50 · answer #3 · answered by Rolando D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was priest/monks that started Protestanism. So the answer is "NO".
Do you let the preists tell you what to believe? That is not what Jesus taught.
2007-09-27 20:25:21 · answer #4 · answered by bahbdorje 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
True spirituality is all about unity and brotherly love and not about dividing ourselves against each other.Soon we are about to see the unity of all of the worlds religions to form a one world spirituality based on love for ones brothers and sisters.
2007-09-27 20:22:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
no. how do you think the priest can be better than the bible. it is God should help us understand his word not men.
2007-09-27 20:29:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are 30,000 Protestant denominations right now and about 300 are added every year.
Jesus Christ established ONE Church.
"... I will build My church..." (Mt 16:18) (Not Churches)
Jesus prayed that His followers would be ONE.
"that they may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us..." (John 17:21)
St. Paul emphasizes that all followers of Jesus Christ should be ONE.
"Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgement." (1 Cor 1:10)
"Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." (Eph 4:3-6)
Please pray that all followers of Jesus Christ be ONE. That was His Prayer to the Father.
The history of the Catholic Church shows how heroic people are in their love of God and their saintliness. It also shows how weak people are in their love of self and their sinfulness. Towering above all the saints, divisions and weaknesses are God's love, God's mercy and God's forgiveness.
As we stand on the threshold of the third millennium we are challenged by Jesus' call down through the centuries. Love one another. Forgive one another. Be merciful to one another.
As Catholics, we must acknowledge our sins, and how we have failed God, injured ourselves, our brothers and sisters in Christ and non-Christians and ask their forgiveness. We must also forgive those who have sinned against us.
We must seek unity based on Divine Mercy, Divine Love, and Divine Forgiveness, and Revealed Truth
Edit: I just got a thumbs down. I wonder why.
2007-09-27 20:27:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
the bible says jesus is the way,the truth and the life and no
man comes to the father exept through him
2007-09-27 20:20:10 · answer #8 · answered by SOMEONE 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Um. No.
2007-09-27 20:15:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋