Lance Eccles wrote:
If the debate is endless, it seems the disagreement is not settled.

Lance Eccles wrote:
Somebody call my name?
Actually, at one stage there were even three rivals claiming to be pope. But in fact, there has only ever been one true pope at any one time.

also.....why were new popes carried around for the rest of the team to have a sneaky peek under his garb to make sure he's "qualified" ie-actually not a woman?
One example is the so-called chair exam, part of the medieval papal consecration ceremony for almost six hundred years. Each newly elected Pope after Joan sat on the sella stercoraria (literally, "dung seat"), pierced in the middle like a toilet, where his genitals were examined to give proof of his manhood. Afterward the examiner solemnly informed the gathered people, "Mas nobis nominus est" -- "Our nominee is a man." Only then was the Pope handed the keys of St. Peter. This ceremony continued until the sixteenth century.

http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/popejoan.htm

means they have less time to annoy everyone else

hey Lance....tell me this.Cast your mind way back to the time when there were 2 people calling themselves "pope" at the same time

which one was "infallible",and which was the actual head of your "church"?

phoenixbrew wrote:
What about the gay children?

sodomites?

see Dave Hunt...."A Woman Rides the Beast"

crazy doublespeak

how about this for a fine upstanding example of a mass dispenser?

the most notorious dirtbag one of all in Ireland....

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/
sunday-life/let-us-prey-13993520.html

why did Jesus have to die in the first place,if Roman priests have to keep crucifying him every day?

you can't add one thing to what has been done for you....not one thing.

Unrepentant sexual deviant priests sacrificing Jesus!!

do alarm bells not ring with you people,or are you just to stubborn to think for yourselves????

past-your sell-by-date, more like

when Jesus on the cross said "it is finished",it is also translated as "the debt is satisfied"

Lance Eccles wrote:
Yes, such works, small as they are, do count.
But you'll find a list of examples in Matt. 25:35–40 – feeding the hungry, giving shelter to the homeless, clothing the naked, visiting the imprisoned.
... as long as you do these thing for the glory of God, of course.

Christians are not saved BY DOING good works

it's really quite simple

Lyn,when you said "If all sin were not forgiven on the cross, Christ would have to come back repeatedly to pay for those you claim He doesn't forgive."you hit the nail on the head

Lance Eccles wrote:
I really hope that he will recognize that all its teachings, including those on purgatory, are true... in fact, that the teachings of the Catholic Church are Truth itself.

John Yurich USA wrote:
I do my preaching against the unscriptural Catholic doctrines and unscriptural parts to the Mass on discussion forums. Just because I receive Holy Communion in the RCC does not mean that I approve of the doctrine of transubstantiation. I do not state Amen when I am handed the bread and wine and thus I am not giving approval of the doctrine of transubstantiation. When I receive the bread and wine during Mass I believe it to be the way that the Lutheran Church believes concerning Holy Communion.

John Yurich USA wrote:
What a bunch of insane nonsense the Catholic doctrines of indulgences and Purgatory are. The doctrine of Purgatory is a total negation of Jesus Sacrifice On The Cross. Anybody who believes in Purgatory is insane and psychotic and is obviously incapable of logical and analytical thinking. And in fact anybody who believes in any of the unscriptural Catholic doctrines and unscriptural parts to the Mass is insane and psychotic and is incapable of logical and analytical thinking.

Lance Eccles wrote:
Absolutely right, Jim!

Lance Eccles wrote:
So are you suggesting that RCs don't believe in the Trinity?

Roman Catholics and moslems "worship the same god" according to your pope

in the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem,there is an inscription on a pillar which says "god does not have a son"

ok,this throws up 2,no, 3 inescapable conclusions.....

1.RC's and moslems worship a god which does not have a son

2.your pope is wildly mistaken and in error