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I've got it. A reason for a living will. In accordance with my dying wishes as a baptized Catholic, I want to make my surviving family sit through an entire Catholic Mass funeral after decades of watching me post Jesus-rides-a-dinosaur memes on Facebook.Might be some type of service, but then I'll be quickly forgotten.
lol at "interpret." The verse specifically downplays reaping, sowing, and storing food in barns. The only way for in to not be a contradiction is to go through tortured contortions to "interpret" it some way other than a straight reading.
It's a hodge-podge of disparate documents. Of course its filled with contradictions.
I've got it. A reason for a living will. In accordance with my dying wishes as a baptized Catholic, I want to make my surviving family sit through an entire Catholic Mass funeral after decades of watching me post Jesus-rides-a-dinosaur memes on Facebook.
Right but cousins who've met me less than 10 times ever but are Facebook friends will arrive at my services assuming it'll be something like a Viking funeral with a kegger following and instead they're going to sit through a full Catholic Mass + funeral then eat spiral ham sandwiches after.I love that meme and I’m a Christian
Right but cousins who've met me less than 10 times ever but are Facebook friends will arrive at my services assuming it'll be something like a Viking funeral with a kegger following and instead they're going to sit through a full Catholic Mass + funeral then eat spiral ham sandwiches after.
The phrases, “personal relationship with God,” “relationship with God,” and “personal relationship” never appear in the Bible.@MWardT...Yes, a believer is someone who has a personal
relationship with Christ and puts their faith in him for
their eternal salvation. His death forgives our sins and
His resurrection gives us eternal life in heaven.
I only went to Catholic funerals until I was 11 or 12 when one of my uncles by marriage had a parent pass away. They weren't Catholic and I don't think they were religious at all actually. The service was a brief memorial at the funeral home, which if you're Catholic or a few other denominations is usually the "wake" or "visitation" on the eve of the actual funeral. I was confused when there was nothing to go to the next day.ive been to both Catholic funerals and Protestant funerals…..meh
The phrases, “personal relationship with God,” “relationship with God,” and “personal relationship” never appear in the Bible.
If you have to have a "personal relationship with God" to be a "believer" and have "eternal life," what does that mean to you - to have a "personal relationship with God?"
I'm just trying to figure out what achieves you eternal life, in your opinion. Does it have anything to do with how you live your life - or not since our sins are forgiven - or just whether we have a "personal relationship with God?"
Reminder: This is one definition but not the only definition.@MWardT...Yes, a believer is someone who has a personal
relationship with Christ and puts their faith in him for
their eternal salvation. His death forgives our sins and
His resurrection gives us eternal life in heaven.
FIFY...I feel that when we die we are reincarnated as a thread. The quality of the thread depends on your like ratio...
This is very Alan Watts.Remember what it was like before you were born?
Yeah, I’m guessing death is pretty similar.
Christians are the Penn State Fans of religion.There is way more good than bad in Christianity. If for no other reason, it builds community by getting involved with like minded people. This very possibly could be the most important part of religion.
The other part is a way of understanding and explaining history. There are a lot of mentions of cataclysmic events in the bible. It is very possible these are stories that had been passed down 10+ thousand years ago. Thats kind of cool.
Think of religion as an idea. The stories in the bible are a collection of previously told stories. All are different peoples interpretation of some real events and some made up events.
Today's Christian is afraid of history, they muster with the anti CRT team.There is way more good than bad in Christianity. If for no other reason, it builds community by getting involved with like minded people. This very possibly could be the most important part of religion.
The other part is a way of understanding and explaining history. There are a lot of mentions of cataclysmic events in the bible. It is very possible these are stories that had been passed down 10+ thousand years ago. Thats kind of cool.
Think of religion as an idea. The stories in the bible are a collection of previously told stories. All are different peoples interpretation of some real events and some made up events.
I've been saying this since the 1970s. Don't remember if I heard it elsewhere first, but it has long made perfect sense to me. It does not sit well with people who want to control through fear, in my experience. It is by far the most likely state of being after death.This is very Alan Watts.
Fundamentalists, yes. All Christians, no. It’s important to remember that the evangelicals don’t speak for all of us.Today's Christian is afraid of history, they muster with the anti CRT team.
Today's Christian sides with politicians over science for climate change and they're absolutely against the preventative maintenance commanded in The Bible.
Today's Christian is a freak, look towards Franklin Graham.
Which is sad and likely because too many Christians have weaponized Christianity through unnecessary religion, morality regulation and involvement in politics.I’m 98% sure the Christian faith is wrong.
Like the rest of America's right wing Christians speak out against them.Fundamentalists, yes. All Christians, no. It’s important to remember that the evangelicals don’t speak for all of us.
Progressive left wing Christian here and I speak out against them all the time.Like the rest of America's right wing Christians speak out against them.
I see people speak out against them daily. Broaden your field of vision.Like the rest of America's right wing Christians speak out against them.
As someone who has worked with the Florida Child Protection Teams for over two decades, I can attest his ‘plan & purpose’ for a lot of people sucks.It is important to see God as the Creator of the universe
and everything in it. God created human beings so that
we find our fulfillment in Him. To ignore God or think he
does not exist is foolish. As our Creator, He has a plan &
purpose in this life for each one of us.
I would be so depressed with that outlook.When you die, you die. That's it. Close the book, the story's over. So I'd rather make the story a great one instead of hoping the sequel is amazing.
the Bible does teach that some people will go to Heaven . However according to several scriptures and Jesus himself, it will be a small number.@goldmom.....Yes, our earthly body has served its purpose
when we die. We can look forward to a glorified body in
heaven. No more aches and pain, no more disease & illness,
but a resurrected body which is perfect and eternal.
Purgatory is a really big living room.My mother worked hospice since it was hospice. Too many stories. She witnessed come back back from from heaven and hell. The hell shit Is scary. She had one patient that she had just taken care of her mother too and she stood above her in bed and just said thank you at four in the morning. Thought it had to be a dream. Came to work and was told that Vivian died at around four. She said I know. Happened twice the other time the person was at the end of her bed and thanked her. I had to live with haunted woman, it was creepy. I’d love to go into the hell shit, but it happened too much. No fire, just torture. She is a strong Catholic I’m sure her job made her stronger. She has no doubt of afterlife, she’ll still question religion. She’s read every book about it, but she should write her own. I know, I know and so did she that this was bullshit. Her sister bought her a psychic reading in Waverly she reluctantly went. First person was Vivian, the woman who’s mother died and called our house every night after then died shortly after from breast cancer. Vivian as usual couldn’t shut up. They call my mother the angel of death. I don’t want to know what she knows. The hell part. There’s good stories too, but who cares about those. She ran the hospice house for over twenty years. Think of that job.