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  1. Forever_Catholic

    Can the dead be contacted according to your tradition?

    But the Dictionary of Necromancy is not the voice or authority of the Catholic Church. The first two statements above are true, but the last two are false. Jesus is God the Son, not a medium. Saints don't bless us, and normally don't help us directly, unless God specifically permits. He...
  2. Forever_Catholic

    Can the dead be contacted according to your tradition?

    The problem with it is that people still living in the body are unable to identify who a spirit is. Frequently people have been deceived when making contact with what they thought were human spirits. This has resulted in demonic infestations of houses or objects, etc.and demonic oppression of...
  3. Forever_Catholic

    Can the dead be contacted according to your tradition?

    Not really. Some English-languages bible translate that verse so as to change the meaning. In the Latin Vulgate Bible, (which by far predates any English-language bible) Ecclesiastes 9:5 translates to "For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more." Nothing more and...
  4. Forever_Catholic

    Can the dead be contacted according to your tradition?

    No, they absolutely do not. You are describing your own interpretation or misunderstanding of Catholicism. Review what the Catechism says.
  5. Forever_Catholic

    Can the dead be contacted according to your tradition?

    The body dies, but the soul does not. The "dead people" are those whose bodies are in the grave. They are all judged by Christ after physical death, and if they are saved, they go to heaven, some directly, and some by way of purgatory. The others go to hell. Every angel and every human soul...
  6. Forever_Catholic

    Can the dead be contacted according to your tradition?

    According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church , Paragraph 2116: All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to "unveil" the future. Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens...
  7. Forever_Catholic

    Is Catholicism a true religion

    Absolute truth is not accepted by all, but it's still absolute truth. For example, gravity is not a reality because everyone believes it is, and would not cease to be a reality if everyone disbelieved. If you witnessed an event, then you would know the reality of it. And if everyone you tell...
  8. Forever_Catholic

    Is Catholicism a true religion

    But how can disbelief reconcile with knowledge? Yes!
  9. Forever_Catholic

    Is Catholicism a true religion

    I'm not quite sure what you're asking, but I think it has something to do with this: I don't want to because I think it would be disrespectful. Maybe you and I aren't seeing the scope of the word "fact" in the same way. I'm thinking of it a just a true reality, whether it's known or accepted...
  10. Forever_Catholic

    Is Catholicism a true religion

    Have you ever believed, prayed, or wanted to know God? Have you ever been receptive to him?
  11. Forever_Catholic

    Is Catholicism a true religion

    I would guess that Jesus is not likely to make himself known to you because of your disbelief. But if he did, and you had a miraculous conversion experience, you would know it as an absolute reality. That is what counts -- not what a believer can prove to others, but what has been proven to...
  12. Forever_Catholic

    Is Catholicism a true religion

    I guess the answer to that question depends somewhat on what it applies to. If it applied to a criminal investigation, for example, there can only be a benefit if the associated facts are true. Then you can arrive at the greater truth. But if a fact is actually a misperception or a lie, then...
  13. Forever_Catholic

    Is Catholicism a true religion

    We know it first of all because Jesus said so in the Bread of Life Discourse (John 6) and at the Last Supper, when he said "This is my body," and "This is my blood " He did not say that the bread / wine "represents," but that it is. Within Catholicism there is further evidence, such as...
  14. Forever_Catholic

    Is Catholicism a true religion

    Not sure I understand because I don't know who X or Y is. Who pushed you out of the way of the car, and who do you believe it was? And are you saying that people can make a truth for themselves by choosing what is fact and what isn't? Well, he is a fact, and does not cease to be, even if...
  15. Forever_Catholic

    Is Catholicism a true religion

    To me, truth has to do with both morals and facts. But if something is regarded by people as being moral that is contrary to what God has said, then it is a false morality. And if things presented as facts or explained as facts are not true, then they are not facts. Whatever is moral to God...
  16. Forever_Catholic

    Is Catholicism a true religion

    If I said it as firmly as I believe it, it might have seemed too pushy for you. He is all the same God. Why would you think he is a different God each time he made contact? Because 1500 years later is when Martin Luther broke away from the Catholic Church to start his own. Mohammed doesn't...
  17. Forever_Catholic

    Is Catholicism a true religion

    In first-century Greek, "Petra" and "Petros" were synonymous. And "Petros," whether given in Greek by Jesus, or translated to Greek in Saint Matthew's gospel, it was was expressed in Aramaic (transliterated to Cephas from Kepha), in both Galatians and 1 Corinthians. For example, and that he...
  18. Forever_Catholic

    Is Catholicism a true religion

    If there can be only one ultimate truth pertaining to anything, then only one of the world's religions can have the ultimate truth. One test would be in God demonstrating and proving to the world who he is, which would bring us first to Judaism and then to Christianity, after God more fully...
  19. Forever_Catholic

    Is Catholicism a true religion

    And I say to thee: That thou art Peter (Petros-rock); and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Matthew 1618 So he outright did say that he will build his Church on Saint Peter; that is, with Peter as the visible head of the Church on earth...
  20. Forever_Catholic

    Is Catholicism a true religion

    No, the rest of Christianity delineates itself from us. It is indisputably clear, both biblically and historically, that Jesus Christ established only one Church, which is the Catholic Church. There was only this one world-wide Christian Church until around 1500 when heretics, beginning most...
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