RE: I am a Catholic, ask me a question!
August 4, 2009 at 11:06 am
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2009 at 11:11 am by chatpilot.)
There is no need to pray to the saints for intercession,that is what Christ came for.In fact, his whole mission was to restore sinful mankind back into the graces of God the father.
Hebrews 9:11-15
11.But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12.Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
13.For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
14.How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15.And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
There is no need for so called purification after death and no need for this transitory state called purgatory.According to the scriptures Christ did all of that with his death on the cross.Another thing is that if God the father,Christ the son,and the Holy spirit were all God then who was Christ praying to,himself?This makes your biblical God kind of schizophrenic dont you think?I've always thought that the only way to make sense of the whole thing was to accept a trinity of three distinct beings and consider them one only in the sense of plan and purpose each one having his own part to play in the overall scheme of things.
Hebrews 9:11-15
11.But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12.Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
13.For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
14.How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15.And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
There is no need for so called purification after death and no need for this transitory state called purgatory.According to the scriptures Christ did all of that with his death on the cross.Another thing is that if God the father,Christ the son,and the Holy spirit were all God then who was Christ praying to,himself?This makes your biblical God kind of schizophrenic dont you think?I've always thought that the only way to make sense of the whole thing was to accept a trinity of three distinct beings and consider them one only in the sense of plan and purpose each one having his own part to play in the overall scheme of things.
There is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition
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