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  1. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    By knowingly and consciously denouncing the faith, you have separated yourself from the Body of Christ anyway, so it really doesn't matter if you're on a parish register. A poof is a homosexual. If you're actively seeking to retreat from the visible institution which has, historically...
  2. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    Correct. We simply cannot understand sacred scripture fully in its English translations. Greek is far more intricate. Doesn't the Greek word for 'love' have four different meanings, or something like that? Anyway. Sola Scriptura is self-defeating. Sola Scriptura applied in the English context...
  3. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    You need to petition your bishop through your parish priest. I'd recommend against being a poof, though.
  4. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    No, not quite. Matthew 23:9, translated to English, most appropriately reads: And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven. There are three paternal ranks: Biological, Spiritual, and Heavenly. We address clerics, who function in persona Christi, as our leaders...
  5. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    Baptism brings us into the Body of Christ, His Church (1 Corinthians 12:13). We are baptised in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, on Jesus' authority, to be brought into Jesus' Body. Again, you are in opposition to the Fathers of the Early Church - why should anyone believe...
  6. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    'In the name of' refers to authority. Just as we pray 'in Jesus' name', so do we baptise in His name, with the Trinitarian formula. Christ commanded us, very clearly, to baptise in this way. You are in opposition to the Early Church - how can you be so prideful as to think that your personal...
  7. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    Matthew 28:19 -- Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The Catholic Church, in the tradition of the Apostles, and in accordance with the Gospel, baptises in this manner ('In the name of the Father, the Son, and...
  8. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    What on earth are you talking about?
  9. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    I'm getting quite fed up of seeing this absolutely mediocre objection to Apostolic teaching. The verse relevant to the notion of repentance in conjunction with baptism (in reference to which you've said "the Bible says one must repent and be baptised") is Acts 2:38, wherein Saint Peter tells...
  10. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    Correct, but in fact, any person can administer the sacrament of baptism - non-believers included. Even then, God is not limited in the distribution of His own sacraments - including that of baptism. The Church recognises that those who are not members of the Church in a visible sense, but who...
  11. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    The Church gave you the Bible. You recognise the Bible as divinely inspired in terms of both content and assembly (I presume - otherwise, why not refer to those Books deemed fallible, and which stand in opposition to those deemed infallible?). Yet, you do not recognise the authority of the...
  12. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    Then your position is paradoxical, and in need of revision.
  13. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    It doesn't state that the Trinity is a thing either. The Bible is a Church document. If you accept its authority, you accept the authority of the Apostolic Church.
  14. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    If your infant baptism was valid (presumably it was), then you cannot possibly be baptised again. Your consent was offered by your parents on your behalf. If you have doubts as to the validity of your baptism (dodgy church, if it was performed by a now-laicised priest, nobody else has any memory...
  15. Stalwart

    The Gospel of Thomas and Philip

    Based selectively on evidence long rejected as deficient. I'm inclined to agree, personally, but it's really quite irrelevant.
  16. Stalwart

    The Gospel of Thomas and Philip

    The last sentence of the OP seems to me to be a declaration that on account of this new 'evidence', the whole basis of Christian tradition is falsified. 'historical view'? I don't get it.
  17. Stalwart

    The Gospel of Thomas and Philip

    You reject the affirmations of the Annunciation and the Resurrection in the other Books because one other - one rejected as invalid by the successors of the Apostles - says otherwise? Plain idiocy.
  18. Stalwart

    New user

    Welcome. Glad to have another Catholic on board - especially a revert.
  19. Stalwart

    Is God depending on our trust?

    Maintaining faith in the face of hardship; carrying one's cross. Sort of, but typically not in the way people hope (or expect). To 'trust in God' is to have faith enough to overcome troubles and to still love Him. Those who trust the most are the ones who lead the hardest lives, because they...
  20. Stalwart

    Unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the son of man, you have no life in you

    This (the notion of the transubstantive Eucharist constituting a breach of God's Law) is a common and mediocre objection which is refuted here, in full: Is Jesus' command to drink his blood a violation of God's law? | Catholic Answers Our Lord told His apostles, and us, through their...
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