Comments on: Penn State's Catholic Problem

By: msjallen

msjallen — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:17:55 +0000

buster, read my comment again very carefully after your confess your sins to God the Father — not the pope or priest or any other person and just maybe you will understand what the Word of God teaches. However, you must be a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ first.
Gal 2:16 nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified.
John 11:25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,

By: msjallen

msjallen — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:09:42 +0000

One is to confess their sins to God the Father before taking Communion — that is the only way one can be worthy to take it. Taking Communion has NOTHING to do with our salvation — the Lord Jesus Christ paid for our salvation on the cross and He said "It is FINISHED" — there is nothing we can do except to believe by faith that He saves us; not we ourselves. Taking communion is in rememberance of what He did for us on the cross. It is the only ritual that is mandated for believers to participate but ritual without reality is meaningless.
Eph 2:8-9 For you have been saved by GRACE in the past with the result that you continue to be saved forever through faith; and this salvation is not from yourselves, it is a gift of God; not by works, that no one may boast.

By: myth buster

myth buster — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 07:03:18 +0000

How then, are they who eat and drink unworthily guilty of sinning against the Body and Blood of the Lord? (1 Corinthians 11:27-29)

By: myth buster

myth buster — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 07:01:12 +0000

Remember that Judas was an Apostle, too.

By: myth buster

myth buster — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 06:59:53 +0000

Paterno may well have given up on life, but it was cancer that killed him, not his own hand. At most, he stopped fighting and let the cancer claim him.

By: myth buster

myth buster — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 06:57:03 +0000

Who is forced? Did they not take their vows of their own free will?

By: myth buster

myth buster — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 06:56:39 +0000

And no early Christian would accept that, nor can your teaching be squared with the condemnation for sinning against the Body and Blood of the Lord if you take Communion unworthily.

By: myth buster

myth buster — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 06:54:45 +0000

Timothy was the bishop of Ephesus. Who is your bishop? And don't tell me your pastor's name, because a pastor is not a bishop. Timothy wouldn't be ordaining presbyters if he was able to serve every Christian in Ephesus himself.

By: myth buster

myth buster — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 06:48:02 +0000

One thing you have to understand about the Catholic Church is that the seal of confession is sacrosanct. Information obtained in the confessional cannot be used to the detriment of the penitent for any reason, not even to save a life. So, if a priest confessed to his bishop or to another priest that he had raped a child, the priest or bishop would not be able to turn him in to the authorities, under pain of automatic excommunication.