RELIGION....(part 2)

[bad donkey!]

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[blue_bubble25]

Bros...dili gyud magdaug basta kini nay hisgotan. Mag-depende man gud na sa a2 faith. Ang importante lang cguro is nag-subay ka sa teachings Niya.

[Cardinal Bunal]

Another thing just wanna know, do you really think we really need a mediator ba tawag nun? like you cant confess your sins without priest? or do we have to say our prayers through the saints? who made the saints? men... prone to sin, error and all. I confess my sins directly to Him.

Nope. Explekatot man gud kaayo ang catechism sa RCC...

[mannyamador]

I'm a Psychology major so I know what is the difference between the sane and the afflicted with mental derangement and what isn't

You were probably sleeping when that was taught then...

it isn't esoteric but it's a very profound inference - where if someone murders or commits an act that supposedly repays "evil for evil" he is excused iof his sin f he has done so with uncontrolled fury - that can be tantamount to insanity because he wasn't in his conscious self?

Perhaps when you ask for a doctrine (or rule) to be explained, you should state it clearly. What you stated above is not an exclusive Catholic doctrine. It is also used in criminal law in many secular democracies. it's a logical, secular principle, not a purely religious one.

What IS deranged, however, is arrogating unto oneself the authority to interpret scripture and declare it the one and only rule of faith, when in fact scripture doesn't even make that claim!

[rml11]

For me WALAY religion nga makaluwas or malangit ka, kundili ang imong relasyon sa GINOO ug ang pagtuman sa iyang mga sugo.............................

[Visual C#]

For me WALAY religion nga makaluwas or malangit ka, kundili ang imong relasyon sa GINOO ug ang pagtuman sa iyang mga sugo.............................

Sayop kana. Ang pagtuo sa Ginoo kay usa sa mga aspeto sa usa ka relihiyon. Kung mutuo ka ug Ginoo, dapat miyembro ka sa usa ka relihiyon, kana kung ang imong "Ginoo" kay mugna mugna ra nimo.

[Lawrencenc]

Religion is poison=Mao Tse Tung
Religion is an opium made by the religious people=Karl Marx

[Cardinal Bunal]

Christianity isn't a religion. It's a lifestyle.
- Rick Warren

Pure and blameless religion, therefore that God the Father accepts is this, looking out after widows and orphans in their distress and keeping oneself free from the corruption of this world
- James 1: 27

[SPRINGFIELD_XD_40]

Religion is poison=Mao Tse Tung
Religion is an opium made by the religious people=Karl Marx

Isnt it IRONIC when someone bases their ideas from people themselves who said something about religion and has something in common ? COmmunism ideals .... komonista ka LAWRENCE ?

[Cardinal Bunal]

What IS deranged, however, is arrogating unto oneself the authority to interpret scripture and declare it the one and only rule of faith, when in fact scripture doesn't even make that claim!

Well, it's a well-known fact that the RCC doesn't think as highly of scripture as other "epistles" written by the "church fathers" and other material penned by other scribes...

It's NOT even in world history that the Roman church has already existed and carried on it's division of power as early as 1st and 2nd century A.D.

One should also have some reservations in whatever claim or declaration the Roman church makes.

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When Diocletian and Maximian announced their retirement in 305, the problem posed by the Christians was unresolved and the persecution in progress. Upon coming to power Constantine unilaterally ended all persecution in his territories, even providing for restitution. His personal devotions, however, he offered first to Mars and then increasingly to Apollo, reverenced as Sol Invictus.
The next significant event in Constantine's religious development occurred in 312. Lactantius, whom Constantine appointed tutor of his son Crispus [[11]] and who therefore must have been close to the imperial family, reports that during the night before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge Constantine was commanded in a dream to place the sign of Christ on the shields of his soldiers. [[12]] Twenty-five years later Eusebius gives us a far different, more elaborate, and less convincing account in his Life of Constantine. [[13]] When Constantine and his army were on their march toward Rome - neither the time nor the location is specified - they observed in broad daylight a strange phenomenon in the sky: a cross of light and the words "by this sign you will be victor" (hoc signo victor eris or ). During the next night, so Eusebius' account continues, Christ appeared to Constantine and instructed him to place the heavenly sign on the battle standards of his army. The new battle standard became known as the labarum.

Whatever vision Constantine may have experienced, he attributed his victory to the power of "the God of the Christians" and committed himself to the Christian faith from that day on, although his understanding of the Christian faith at this time was quite superficial. It has often been supposed that Constantine's profession of Christianity was a matter of political expediency more than of religious conviction; upon closer examination this view cannot be sustained. Constantine did not receive baptism until shortly before his death (see below). It would be a mistake to interpret this as a lack of sincerity or commitment; in the fourth and fifth centuries Christians often delayed their baptisms until late in life.[[14]]


Now that's a RCFD article, and anyone can tell that - BUT it wasn't a question of his delayed Baptism... That's ignoring the issue here...if ever the article gets snipped off this post, the link is here:

http://www.roman-emperors.org/conniei.htmÂ*

And also, he was worshipping the "sun-god" initially, asking it to give him a sign... I don't think he had a sincere and whole-hearted commitment to the "Christianity" he claimed to profess. This was the start of heterodox. Also the signs and lying wonders 1Â*And for some reason, today the "sun" has always been a symbol in the miraculous manifestations of a woman claiming to be Mary. It would only be a couple of more centuries after Constantine that the Eucharist will be set-up. 2

1.) 2 Thes 2: 9 - 11
2.) Rev. 13: 13, Heb. 6: 6, Dan. 9: 27, Matt. 24: 15