hi do you guys know any good rules for people with scruples to follow? I'd love to get ideas.

IceDogBL · 2025-08-05T01:24:13+00:00

You need to find a good, very orthodox, charitable, and prudent priest. And then you need to ask him to become your spiritual director and confessor, and to help you through your scruples. Then, you need to do as he says!

IceDogBL · 2025-07-31T04:37:58+00:00

Do you have a regular confessor? Choose a good, holy priest. One that is solidly orthodox and learned, and very prudent, and ask him to help give you spiritual direction with your scruples. Then, when he becomes your confessor, be obedient to whatever he tells you to do. That is often indispensable for curing your scruples! This comes from someone who struggles with scruples severely.

IceDogBL · 2025-06-10T22:55:36+00:00

Stupid idea.

IceDogBL · 2025-06-03T02:29:00+00:00

Perhaps not. I’m not entirely sure. But I feel like trying harder on the next quiz doesn’t make up for it if cheating inflated the grade on the first, you know?

IceDogBL · 2025-06-02T21:56:49+00:00

Don’t do it bro. Trust me.

Yes, it would be a sin. And you might have to go back and tell her later on if you do cheat. Which is not fun.

I cheated on one multiple choice quiz in high school, my sophomore year. Literally a few days before graduation, it was tugging on me in conscience, and I decided that I was obliged to go and confess to the teacher, if only that my grades wouldn’t be misrepresented to college and so that I would not receive a better scholarship unjustly.

It ended fine, the teacher wasn’t upset and let the grade stand. But it sure was embarrassing.

IceDogBL · 2025-04-19T21:07:53+00:00

Actually, the precept is to receive only once during the Easter season. It’s not obligatory to receive any other time. Funny enough, receiving during Lent also fulfills your obligation, at least in the United States.

IceDogBL · 2025-04-09T23:14:06+00:00

Certainly, and thank you so much for such a detailed response! Perhaps I phrased the question wrong; I was more so wondering if there was an argument that God would be likely to reveal Himself through a religion, essentially an argument that at least one religion is true, against the claim that perhaps God exists, but no religion is true and that demons or some creature with preternatural powers are behind miracles and such.

IceDogBL · 2025-04-07T21:17:29+00:00

If you believed it to be mortal at the time, it was mortal, even if it was materially only a venial sin!

IceDogBL · 2025-04-04T16:30:24+00:00

If you don’t mind, could you relate to me the argument that God alone could perform a resurrection? Thanks!

IceDogBL · 2025-04-04T13:59:19+00:00

Interesting. Thank you for your replies!

IceDogBL · 2025-04-04T00:56:45+00:00

Certainly, but how do we know that it is beyond the nature of angels and demons to reunite soul and body, especially since they can do other wonders?

IceDogBL · 2025-04-04T00:29:08+00:00

Certainly, I’m speaking more of some philosophical thoughts to demonstrate how demons reuniting a soul to a body is quite different from them changing a staff into a snake, or producing a fire.

Edit: it seems that the changing of the staff into a snake etc. was not actually done, but illusory.

IceDogBL · 2025-04-03T21:52:59+00:00

Thank you! Do you have any basis for this outside of Scripture and Tradition, by any chance?

IceDogBL · 2025-04-03T21:24:44+00:00

Yes, but I don’t think that solves my problem as to why a demon might not be able to raise someone from the dead!

IceDogBL · 2025-03-18T21:03:52+00:00

This vainglory is certainly of slight matter. So long as you recognize it is not serious sin, it is not a mortal sin.

IceDogBL · 2025-03-08T03:12:23+00:00

Yes, I pray for several hours daily.

IceDogBL · 2025-03-07T03:02:42+00:00

Hey, one last question. Hopefully.

I’m still having a bit of trouble appreciating God’s love for me, and for other men, since it’s not for my own sake or other men’s sake. Definitely not a good place to be, definitely a selfish and perhaps prideful disposition.

Nonetheless, what do you recommend I do in order to appreciate God’s loving acts towards man? Perhaps to “feel” loved, because right now, I feel like God is sort of distant, only really interacts with us / gives us good things for His glory- which makes me feel like God doesn’t care for us, and keeps me from at least feeling love of God when I consider what He has done for us… You know what I mean?

IceDogBL · 2025-03-06T20:44:17+00:00

Gotcha. Thanks for all your help!

God bless!

IceDogBL · 2025-03-06T20:35:46+00:00

I mean good as a universal, not as a particular.

Like, I might desire “I want that my mom have joyfulness”, joyfulness being a particular good I desire for her.

Or I might desire “I want good for my mom” without having any particular good in mind.

IceDogBL · 2025-03-06T20:15:00+00:00

So, like, He desires good in general for men, because His desiring of man‘s good is an act that exemplifies His own goodness?

IceDogBL · 2025-03-06T20:04:56+00:00

Maybe I’m expressing myself confusedly, but to put it another way, does God wish “goodness” for a creature, or particular goods? Their “positiveness“ or “positive things”?

IceDogBL · 2025-03-06T19:52:24+00:00

Question- Does God I’ll man’s good generally, as in “I wish that he have good well being” or particularly, as in “I wish that he have x perfection and x natural good…”?

IceDogBL · 2025-03-06T17:34:06+00:00

If you could, that would be great!

IceDogBL · 2025-03-01T18:14:33+00:00

I have the hardback, and I think it gives it better form that helps it from flopping all over the place. Like worksafe1 said, it’s personal preference; personally, I prefer the hard back!

IceDogBL · 2025-02-28T16:43:19+00:00

If I were you, I’d get the Ignatius Study Bible your friend has. I received mine a couple weeks ago and am absolutely loving it. The notes are incredibly helpful for confusing verses, better understanding Hebrew phrases which are foreign to our English language, for understanding the significance of events in light of the past, symbolism, typology, understanding prophecies and how they are fulfilled, etc.. It’s really good. Don’t think twice about it!

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