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    Blessed are you when they have slandered you.

    I wonder what Christians in Palestine, Israel, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen feel like regarding the question.
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    Blessed are you when they have slandered you.

    Matthew 5:11-12 11 Blessed are you when they have slandered you, and persecuted you, and spoken all kinds of evil against you, falsely, for my sake: 12 be glad and exult, for your reward in heaven is plentiful. For so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. It's not so easy to know...
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    Eternal life

    Ask yourself what you think "eternal life means" and see if your conception matches what holy scripture says about it.
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    Changed Morality in the Catholic Church

    Some denominations supported slavery in the 19th century, some supported segregation in the 20th century, most changed their teaching as time moved on and moral sensibilities became more acute. The death penalty is a case in point. Once it was far too costly and hence unthinkable for a state to...
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    Why don't you door knock evangelise?

    In my experience friendships start somewhere and often it is at the door or over a cup of tea or on the street or cafe when chatting with somebody about the gospel. Those who are willing to chat about these things sometimes want more and the conversation started with a stranger can bloom into a...
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    The salt of the Earth.

    Yes, I think that the Lord means that Christians are the salt that flavours the offerings given to God, the offerings of praise given by his people. Pure and salty.
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    Salvation

    We say these things to our interlocutors because they are obvious in the holy scriptures yet our interlocutors resist as if agreeing with what we've said is somehow a loss for them. It is hard to understand how one can lose by affirming what the Lord Jesus Christ taught.
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    Salvation

    You got that wrong. Ephesians 2:8-10 is a biblical teaching hence it is Catholic teaching.
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    (No Debate) I did an experiment.

    Catholics have always prayed both directly to God and through the saints. It's part of a rich culture of prayer. In the Liturgy most of the prayers are direct to God. One or two mention Blessed Mary and the apostles and saints "on whose constant intercession we rely". I like the rich culture of...
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    Salvation

    Does it? I do not think that it does. Salvation is for eternity because it never ends. One is saved to be like Jesus Christ and to be in him. This is a state that lasts for eternity. Salvation is not an instant in time. It is a state in eternity. The saved, once they are saved, are eternally...
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    Catholic Only A revision of CCC m oral teaching

    I like short replies and I can think of no reply that would be shorter. I like the revised wording: 2267. Recourse to the death penalty on the part of legitimate authority, following a fair trial, was long considered an appropriate response to the gravity of certain crimes and an acceptable...
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    (No Debate) I did an experiment.

    Yes. I wonder if that applies to post fact recollections? I prayed and remembered the answers, it was not planned as a test but the memory remained and the comparison seems both reasonable and normal without tempting anybody least of all God.
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    (No Debate) I did an experiment.

    Who can answer that question without being very wise or very well informed about what God wants to do. I claim neither for myself. The requests were not for miracles nor for obvious requirements from holy scripture. They were, in my belief, consistent with righteousness but not necessary for it.
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    You made your bed now you must lie in it.

    Yes, that is true; those who reject Jesus Christ are judged already because they rejected the Son of God. That is what I said. And saint Paul's warning that When self-indulgence is at work the results are obvious: sexual vice, impurity, and sensuality, the worship of false gods and sorcery...
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    Holy holy holy ....

    Thank you both. I was going to check with a quick google translate but your answers came through before I did that. In the mass, as we say the Sanctus (Holy holy holy...) I think of those words "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord" and the Lord's promise "you will not see me again...
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    Hunger and thirst after ...

    Holy scripture warns that following one's heart may not lead to righteousness because "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9
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    Why don't you door knock evangelise?

    Yes, Lamm said so. I wonder how many get involved. In my parish not too many are involved in street evangelism and/or house to house evangelism. Getting people involved always is a challenge.
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    Apart from works of the Law!

    I see justification by faith apart from works of the law in the passage but not by faith alone.
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    Salvation

    The cross leads to the marriage feast of the lamb but the cross is not the marriage feast of the lamb and the marriage feast of the Lamb is the consummation of salvation, that is obvious isn't it?
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    You made your bed now you must lie in it.

    Jesus' death is for all humankind. Jesus' death saves only those who are in Christ. So unless universalism is true then some for whom Jesus dies are not in Christ. Or do you have a theory that is similar to Calvinism's "Limited Atonement"? Saint Paul gave them the gospel and part of the gospel...
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