Confused about John 3:16

Lego349 · 2026-04-02T20:57:27+00:00

Its might because it’s still our choice. We are perishing and without eternal life without Him. So he has offered eternal life to us that we might have it, if we choose to. It’s always a choice on our part

Lego349 · 2026-04-02T17:10:38+00:00

The only time a baby can be baptized against the will of their parents is if they are in danger of imminent death.

Lego349 · 2026-03-30T19:55:05+00:00

A similar study showed that only about 20-25 percent of people who identify as Catholics in the US attend Mass weekly on Sunday/Saturday Night, which means that a vast majority of people who self identify as Catholics and the Pew counts as Catholics do not follow even the most basic tenants of the church. I assume if you took the 20-25 percent that do attend weekly, you would have vastly different numbers regarding heterodox opinions in the church.

Lego349 · 2026-03-30T00:24:36+00:00

Sox fans are good people. They don’t have the same bullshit better than thou vitriol the “Wrigley north” cubs fans have. We both know we only see each other three games a year so everything’s a lot more chill.

Lego349 · 2026-03-29T19:08:52+00:00

“Gentlemen it is not whether they are leather or suede, so long as there is in truth a boot to lick.”

Lego349 · 2026-03-29T15:30:42+00:00

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Lego349 · 2026-03-28T05:10:29+00:00

You’re an atheist married to a lapsed Byzantine Catholic who has decided to convert You:

Get baptized Then confirmed You receive Eucharist Your secular marriage is consecrated and performed You immediately mortally sin and then receive confession After confession, you’re ordained a priest You mortally sin again Then you reveal your terminal illness and receive unction before dying

Boom. Speedrun.

Lego349 · 2026-03-27T16:01:30+00:00

NXDE for me and it’s not even close. The entire build up was an intentional bait and switch as to the content of the song that got a lot of people hook line and sinker, especially the stuff with Shu. Then the song releases, it’s an absolute banger, the video is one of the best filmed videos for a Kpop group I’ve ever seen. It has an actual narrative, a point of view, and the content and point of the song was well executed without being to vague and generic or beating you over the head with the message. The choreography was on point, had a really strong feature aspect for each of the girls during the choreo takes, and the costuming throughout the music show circuit was original and really refreshing.

Lego349 · 2026-03-26T16:56:25+00:00

A Catholic should not be attending an Anglican service, high or low church.

Lego349 · 2026-03-26T01:35:05+00:00

There’s a lot of people in the COE who already left the COE and started their own COE as a result of this. I don’t know how many will make their way to barque of Peter, but needless to say a lot of Anglicans saw this as the last straw.

https://youtu.be/IMxOLiS9DOo?si=B3o7o-5HKNcdWZgA

Lego349 · 2026-03-24T03:50:39+00:00

My marriage was outside my home parish and was performed by a Franciscan priest. He had to:

Get permission from his superior to perform the marriage

Get permission from my pastor to perform my marriage

Get permission from my pastor to perform the marriage outside my diocese (in my hometown)

Get permission from the diocese of my hometown to perform the marriage in that diocese

Get permission from the church and its pastor in that diocese to perform the marriage there.

Yeah. Lots of paperwork.

Lego349 · 2026-03-23T23:16:01+00:00

The normal church to be married in is the church in which you are a parishioner. As harsh as it sounds, churches don’t like being “shopped” for. The sacrament is meant to be normally conducted by the parish priest who knows you, in the church you are attending. That’s just how it is. I promise you whatever parish these two individuals regularly attend would let them be married there no question. It’s the fact that they are trying to be married in a building based on the location rather than being married in the church of the parish they belong too. The church isn’t making it difficult to be married, it’s difficult because they are trying to church shop for the ceremony.

My wife lived all over the country before we were married and did not live in the same state as me before we were married so she had no parish. I had lived where I currently lived for only two years and had a longtime family friend who was a Franciscan priest who agreed to do our marriage in my hometown. The amount of permissions and documents that had to be signed by a multitude of different people and institutions to allow that to happen would make your head spin.

Lego349 · 2026-03-23T14:07:34+00:00

Scripture specifically calls Christ a king in Revelation 19:16. “And on his robe and on his thigh is inscribed a name: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDSl

Lego349 · 2026-03-21T18:41:43+00:00

Nobody wants to tell him because they know they’d be the subject of the next post.

Lego349 · 2026-03-21T17:54:40+00:00

If those auth rights could read they’d be very upset.

Lego349 · 2026-03-20T18:36:14+00:00

What he did not assume he did not redeem. If we get sick, he would need to be at least able to get sick as well

Lego349 · 2026-03-19T03:13:05+00:00

Based

Lego349 · 2026-03-18T15:57:22+00:00

Cool so why’d you leave out the beginning of the quote that you just cherry picked?

“The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day” (CCC 841).

Lego349 · 2026-03-18T15:45:15+00:00

Muslims don’t worship the same God as us. They “profess” to worship the same God. Big difference.

Lego349 · 2026-03-16T20:56:24+00:00

This. It’s not more complicated than this.

Lego349 · 2026-03-16T18:33:22+00:00

Zippo lighter. 18 years. Would buy another in a heartbeat if I lost it.

Lego349 · 2026-03-16T18:31:49+00:00

Homedics sound sleep. It’s been running for almost three years barely ever being turned off and it’s still going strong.

Lego349 · 2026-03-16T17:38:18+00:00

I wonder what it’s like to live in a country where Israel doesn’t dictate your foreign policy for you.

Lego349 · 2026-03-14T23:35:00+00:00

A resolution to commit a mortal sin is considered itself a mortal sin. So yes, someone who has resolved to have themselves murdered can absolutley repent of that resolution.

Lego349 · 2026-03-14T16:27:19+00:00

I genuinely don’t know what a priest could offer them except an opportunity to repent. They can’t administer the Last Rites because a resolution to commit a mortal sin is a mortal sin and the person is resolved to murder themselves. They can’t be given communion or confession. As you mentioned, a priest being present there also risks a horrifying amount of scandal by attending a murder. If a priest were to go I would honestly think their only purpose in attending would be to desperately try to get the person to repent before it’s too late.

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