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Lincoln as secular saint
06-25-2015, 06:19 PM (This post was last modified: 06-26-2015 03:20 AM by My Name Is Kate.)
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RE: Lincoln as secular saint
Suppose the Catholic Church has canonized someone a saint, then the Second Coming (for those who believe in Christianity) finally comes around, at which the Bible tells us all people both living and dead will be judged by God, and His judgment conflicts with the Catholic Church's judgment. I know the Catholic Church claims, or used to claim that the Pope is infallible in his judgment, still, I would assume God's judgment takes precedence over the Pope's or the Catholic Church.

I'm not nearly as religious as I probably should be, and I have not opened a Bible in I don't know how many years, but I did study it at one time and many things that are written in it stick in my mind. Here are a couple more that I think are relative to the concept of sainthood.

In one of the Gospels, someone called Jesus "Good Master" (or it may have been "Good Teacher"), and Jesus took exception to that, countering with "Why do you call me "good"? No one is good except God" (meaning "of course I am good since I am God, and there is no goodness other than or apart from me.")

Somewhere else in one of the Gospels, someone asked Jesus about the dead (I forget the exact question) and Jesus' response was "The dead know not anything." So what possible good could it do to pray to someone who has no consciousness? And what is the Final Judgment for if people immediately go to the next world?
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Lincoln as secular saint - Juan Marrero - 05-20-2015, 01:50 PM
RE: Lincoln as secular saint - RJNorton - 05-20-2015, 04:36 PM
RE: Lincoln as secular saint - Gene C - 05-20-2015, 04:16 PM
RE: Lincoln as secular saint - Gene C - 05-20-2015, 04:32 PM
RE: Lincoln as secular saint - L Verge - 05-20-2015, 07:16 PM
RE: Lincoln as secular saint - Gene C - 05-21-2015, 09:59 AM
RE: Lincoln as secular saint - Wild Bill - 05-23-2015, 08:24 AM
RE: Lincoln as secular saint - My Name Is Kate - 06-25-2015 06:19 PM
RE: Lincoln as secular saint - L Verge - 06-26-2015, 09:55 AM
RE: Lincoln as secular saint - L Verge - 06-14-2016, 05:18 PM
RE: Lincoln as secular saint - Angela - 06-15-2016, 03:20 PM
RE: Lincoln as secular saint - L Verge - 06-15-2016, 04:34 PM
RE: Lincoln as secular saint - davg2000 - 06-15-2016, 11:50 AM
RE: Lincoln as secular saint - L Verge - 06-16-2016, 01:40 PM
RE: Lincoln as secular saint - Angela - 06-16-2016, 02:00 PM
RE: Lincoln as secular saint - Angela - 06-17-2016, 03:29 PM
RE: Lincoln as secular saint - LincolnMan - 01-22-2017, 02:16 PM
RE: Lincoln as secular saint - RJNorton - 01-22-2017, 05:49 PM
RE: Lincoln as secular saint - LincolnMan - 01-23-2017, 05:38 PM

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