I'm a Catholic. You have questions. Let's get started.
Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: November 16, 2024, 12:35 pm
Thread Rating:
|
Ask a Catholic
|
Bad Wolf
Compulsive procrastinator  Religious Views: Agnostic atheist, anti-theist, whovian, misanthrope?
Do you believe in the biblical world wide flood?
'The more I learn about people the more I like my dog'- Mark Twain
'You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.' - Dr House “Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom "If my good friend Doctor Gasparri speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched.....You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit." - Pope Francis on freedom of speech 
What steps have you personally taken to express your outrage (if in fact you are outraged) by the ongoing criminal conspiracy to shield child molesters by leaders of your church? And why would you want to be associated with such an institution?
 RE: Ask a Catholic
May 15, 2015 at 5:17 pm
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2015 at 5:38 pm by robvalue.)
If Yahweh was a human, and that human did everything Yahweh did in the bible (the human has some magic where needed), would you call that human evil?
Feel free to send me a private message.
Please visit my website here! It's got lots of information about atheism/theism and support for new atheists. Index of useful threads and discussions Index of my best videos Quickstart guide to the forum 
Does the light REALLY go off when you close the refrigerator door?
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein  RE: Ask a Catholic
May 15, 2015 at 5:37 pm
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2015 at 5:38 pm by Alex K.)
Why would anyone want to be catholic?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
Why does doctrine change if the pope is a direct infallible line to god?
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson  (May 15, 2015 at 5:14 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote: Do you believe in the biblical world wide flood? Personally? I think it is possible but improbable that water covered the entire world. More likely, water covered a really large area...the "known world", so to speak...and the author extrapolated from that. It's my understanding that many cultures around the world have a "flood story" in their history, so perhaps there was some event that was common to all of these various groups of history. Speaking of Noah, the Catechism of the Catholic Church states: Quote:56 After the unity of the human race was shattered by sin God at once sought to save humanity part by part. The covenant with Noah after the flood gives expression to the principle of the divine economy toward the "nations", in other words, towards men grouped "in their lands, each with [its] own language, by their families, in their nations".9 More importantly, the Catholic Church sees in the flood story a pre-figurement of Christian baptism. From the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Quote:701 The dove. At the end of the flood, whose symbolism refers to Baptism, a dove released by Noah returns with a fresh olive-tree branch in its beak as a sign that the earth was again habitable.58 When Christ comes up from the water of his baptism, the Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, comes down upon him and remains with him.59 The Spirit comes down and remains in the purified hearts of the baptized. In certain churches, the Eucharist is reserved in a metal receptacle in the form of a dove (columbarium) suspended above the altar. Christian iconography traditionally uses a dove to suggest the Spirit. Hope this helps. 
IIRC, the KJV NT refers to married bishops, if the catholic bible is similarly encumbered, why aren't there married bishops ?
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
Early church "fathers" would dispute your opinion.
But then, we know the RCC changes whenever the wind blows. http://creation.com/church-fathers-flood Quote: Tertullian (c. 160–225), the prolific Carthaginian apologist, spoke of fossils in the mountains testifying to a time when the globe had been covered by water. ‘There was a time when her whole orb, withal, underwent mutation, overrun by all waters. To this day marine conchs and tritons’ horns sojourn as foreigners on the mountains, eager to prove to Plato that even the heights have undulated.’5 |
|
« Next Oldest | Next Newest »
|
Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)
