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    Did the Catholic Church change the sabbath day from Saturday to Sunday?

    Yes, that is correct. The Lord Jesus Christ announced the changes in a sermon delivered on a mount. He proclaimed a new law. Matthew chapters five through seven provide the core material. The loss of specifically Jewish observances is explicit in the sermon on the mount.
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    Did the Catholic Church change the sabbath day from Saturday to Sunday?

    It has changed insofar as observance is concerned. Christians do not observe a sabbath day from sunset Friday until sunset Saturday with the exception of some aberrant groups that have adopted a seventh day hermeneutic. Many of the groups that have adopted that hermeneutic are also...
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    Misery and mercy

    You cannot rescue a drowning child from the waters if there is no child and no waters. It is not sin specifically that is needed for mercy but a creature in need of it. If there are no creatures then no mercy can be shown to them. As it happens creatures need mercy from God because of sins, not...
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    Forgiven ...

    Yes, you are a creature and you grew up and matured and will eventually grow old and die but none of this is true of the eternal God. It's bad logic to argue by analogy from the creature to the creator. Argument from creator to creature has more validity but even then it is limited insofar as...
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    Birth control

    I don't think it is used now. You are operating on 50 year old ideas.
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    two Sabbaths that week..

    It's very simple. Graphically it looks like this. |<---Friday--->|<---Saturday--->|<---Sunday--->| |<------>|<------>|<------>|
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    Birth control

    You write these things with tricky words that serve only to obscure matters. Anybody reading the CCC material in my previous post will see how deceptive your characterisation of the matter is. It borders on blatant misrepresentation, I hope it is not deliberate misrepresentation. Here's the...
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    two Sabbaths that week..

    That's because "this" is not true. None of the gospels gives one a Wednesday crucifixion with a Sunday resurrection. It takes a lot of inventive interpretation to get that as well as some considerable arithmetical manipulations.
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    Did the Catholic Church change the sabbath day from Saturday to Sunday?

    It is God who made the change through his church.
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    Forgiven ...

    True. Yet plans must be realised and time within creation is the place where the realisation occurs.
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    Infant Baptism

    I think that saint Paul may have baptised saint Timothy when he was an infant since he reminded saint Timothy of his grandmother's faith and his childhood upbringing in the faith.2 Timothy 3:14-17 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you...
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    Infant Baptism

    That's probably true. Baptism however is not a lave for ritual purity. Off hand, do you know of any Jewish washings that were applied to infants?
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    two Sabbaths that week..

    There was one not two.
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    The Easter triduum ... Good Friday and what it means

    The Church has always maintained that the Lord was crucified on Friday and rose from the dead on Sunday. In Palestine at the time of Christ Friday was called "the day of preparation" because on it, before sunset, the faithful of Judaism were required to make preparations for Sabbath. It was the...
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    two Sabbaths that week..

    Is this a variant on the Wednesday crucifixion theory? I've seen this particular dead horse flogged before. Do we need to flog it again in here? :faint: :smashfreakb::smashfreakb::smashfreakb::smashfreakb::smashfreakb::smashfreakb::smashfreakb:
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    Forgiven ...

    Is forgiveness an eternal attribute of God? Or is forgiveness one of the faces that love shows when a sinner repents? Do you think that love is the same thing as forgiveness?
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    Misery and mercy

    Doest thou have holy scripture for that claim? It sounds nicely pious except for implying that mercy is needed where no sin exists and thus accuses the sinless of some fault requiring mercy. Further, before creation there was no creature to show mercy to. In that state to whom would God be merciful?
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    Misery and mercy

    Not to sinners nor among sinners but in the Blessed Trinity there is no sin and hence no face of mercy shown because there is nothing for which mercy is needed. To fallen creation Love is shown in Mercy.
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    Infant Baptism

    Our Lord tied the forgiveness of sins to faith and Baptism: “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. He who believes and is baptised will be saved.” (Mark 16:15-16) Baptism is the first and chief sacrament of forgiveness of sins because it unites us with Christ, who...
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    Infant Baptism

    Were you buried in baptism? Maybe you were submerged in water but surely you were not buried under the Earth. Your post makes claims about the meaning of the word buried that are not correct and that are not the intended teaching of the passages you allude to and quote from. Baptism is in/with...
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