As you wish…
Probably more than most people, including my family. And no, I’m not making that up.
That’s an odd question to ask, but no, I don’t. And I don’t see how this has anything to do with my afterlife. But I know Catholicism has changed since I last practiced it.
Not sure what this has to do with my afterlife, but no, I have no idea.
No I don’t. And I still fail to see why this is relevant to my eternity.
Yeah…so is there a reason behind all of this?
You’re right, in this avatar, I don’t. But outside this avatar where I’m not limited by this meat suit, I probably would be able to answer most if not all of those questions.
Yeah I do, and wouldn’t you like to too? It just really blows my mind how your God thinks. If this is how perfection works, I’d rather be imperfect cause this is terrible. Cause if I’m sitting in your shoes and I’m a Catholic, I don’t innerstand why we have to be so mysterious and not know certain things. Does that not sound off to you? Cause it sure as hell does to me! And as a Catholic, I’m given very little information to go off of about Hell. If Hell is such a terrible place, don’t you think that your all-powerful and all-loving god would give us any sort of clue about what causes a person to end up in Hell? I appreciate the Bible verse you gave me about the desires of the flesh, but that list of desires is incomplete, because I have proven (using your Bible verses) that there are other things that can cause one to go to Hell (and the example I used was unbelief). So there’s more to add to this list. As a Catholic, I would want to know, at the very least who is in Hell so then I can look up that person and see how they lived their life to cause them to end up in Hell. It would give me an idea of what a godly life would look like, but your god can’t even do that. So basically, here I am as a Catholic having to try to fill-in the blanks myself.
It’s not a bad thing to say that the Catholic Church is the fullness of the truth, but to say (as part of being the “truest religion”) that at the end of your life you’re either going to Heaven or Hell, when I see this statement made, then I expect to be given some knowledge on how to achieve Heaven and avoid Hell. And I’m sorry, but the Catholic Church in particular is so vague about Hell, it’s a little disturbing. We are told that “Oh, God desires for everyone to be in Heaven.” And in my mind, that’s a lovely sentiment, but to not be given any idea other than a few Bible verses and that it’s going to be eternal torment and suffering is not enough to go off of to avoid such a place. Your religion makes the claim that Hell is an actual place, and it’s a terrible place. I mean, the idea of Hell being a place of eternal torment is the most cruel thing you can do to a person. I like the idea of the phrase “The punishment should fit the crime.”, but I cannot think of a crime, no matter how heinous that warrants eternal torture and suffering. Because honestly, that doesn’t sound like a punishment, it sounds cruel, so cruel, and the worst part is, once you’re there you can never get out. I’m all for punishment when a person harms another person, but eternal torture and suffering? At that point it’s just cruelty, it’s not even a punishment anymore. It sounds like a parent with zero empathy would do to their son or daughter if they ever committed a crime. God is supposed to be all-loving but eternal punishment? That doesn’t sound like something a being who is all-loving would do. It’s like catching a fly in a jar, putting on the lid with no airholes, and watch it slowly suffocate. That’s cruelty, and kind of messed up.
Do I want know Divine Mysteries? Well here’s the thing, I know of Divine Mysteries, but I want to be able to solve them too. And I’m being as serious as a heart attack…this is my afterlife dear, this is my chance to go to Heaven (even though that coercion thing bothers me) so yes, let’s not leave anything a mystery, cause that only causes confusion. If God is love and if God is truth, then surely God would not hide anything. When you hide something it’s because you don’t want the truth to come out. So what is god hiding? This is the truest religion and yet god’s hiding something from us. Or does god not even know the answers himself? If that’s the case, then god obviously isn’t as perfect as I thought.
I’ve done all of that before, and believe me I tried almost everything I could think of to stay in the Church but, I couldn’t anymore. I asked God “God if you’re real then please answer some of the burning questions I have, cause I’m losing my faith!” And God didn’t do anything. God did what he’s famous for, he sat down, looked at me and did absolutely nothing. When I was a Catholic I prayed for 16 years for 1 friend. All I wanted was one friend, I didn’t care if it was man or woman, I just wanted a friend. And I prayed 16 years for one and it never happened. I was done with God by that point. I was so done. I’ve constantly had to struggle with my own family at home and I was getting weary and defeated. God let me suffer for 16 years, cause that was his plan for me. God planned for me to do nothing in this life but suffer. And so, after a while, I had it. I went back and studied and my days were filled with research and learning. It still is periodically, but I like studying these things.
I dunno if I’d say everything is for the good of us, but I kind of get it.
Exactly, this body is not mine nor is this mind. All this vessel does is house my spirit. It’s the only way to maneuver around in the 3rd Dimension but this body and mind is not mine at all. I’m a spirit having a 3D Hueman experience.
I agree, your god’s ways are alien to me, because it would seem like normal everyday loving Father’s don’t quite act the same way your god does. I will always fail to see how unaliving little kids, babies, and little children under ANY circumstance warrants someone to take an innocents life, literally. Any child both inside and outside the womb deserve to live, PERIOD!