Someone said that the decision of the vatican city are made by the holy spirit. Are Christians crazy?
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What that person said is not true.  The only Vatican decisions one might be able to say are made by the holy spirit are those of the pope when he is speaking ex cathedra - that is, infallibly, on the authority of the promise made to St. Peter.
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Most Roman Catholics follow the pope and the Vatican...... and if they do, they are not Christians.  The pope and the leadership in the Vatican have openly discredited Jesus and the Doctrine of Christ (the triune nature of God).  Jesus said he is God.... He said I and the Father are One.  Muslims deny that Jesus is God and they deny the Trinity of God.  Yet, the pope recently said that Muslims are going to heaven with Christians.  The pope and the Vatican are lying.  Muslims are living in damnation without believing that Jesus died for their sins.  Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.  No one commeth unto the Father, but by Me." \n\nA true Christian believes that Jesus is God and that He loved us enough to die for us..... offering salvation to anyone who would receive Jesus.
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This is only a theory, \nbut when Constantine and the Council of Nicaea canonised the Bible, they weren't too kind to the Jews. They didn't want anything to do with them as they felt Jews were beneath them. So they made it known, separated Easter from Passover, introduced the death penalty for ministering Judaism, same for those listening, coined the term 'Christ Killers' and basically treated them like dirt, and the same went for their Prophet and Book. \nAfter changing words in the Bible, adding to it (words like 'begotten' meaning to sire or father), calling Jesus a son of God - which was more powerful than having a Prophet who was only spoken to by God, they then started to regain their power back away from the people.... and all because some guy called Jesus had stirred up plenty of trouble for Rome by giving out free medicals and telling them to believe in One God that created all of us.\nThey set out to burn any Bible that didn't match their own and kill anyone who wouldn't accept the new doctrine - crusades. \nThe God of Constantine in the NT would certainly be more merciful than the God of the Moses in the OT.... it says so, as written by powerful political men of the 4th Century.\n:)
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ssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh not so loud.these questions confuse the church and the vatican may send their ninja monks to shut you up .
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Time will tell... If there's any truth to the rumor of the 3rd letter of Fatima, then maybe the countdown is around the corner. More on this later.\n\nBut in answer to your follow up questions: Yes; yes; maybe; yes; and finally, a BIG YES!\n\nThere are huge vaults in several levels of undergound basement containing actual and original manuscripts, hermetically sealed to preserve their antiquities, that have been gathered eons ago --well, since they gained power as the Official State Religion of Rome, circa 325 AD or thereabouts. These vaults are called the 'Archives' of the Vatican.\n\nThe Knights Templar followed the victorious First Crusade and were sanctioned by the reigning King of France, under the auspices of the then pope, in early 12th century AD. Their military mission was to  protect and provide safe passage to Christian pilgrims en route to Jerusalem and back home. They started out with humble beginnings and the original nine knights took vows of Chastity, Poverty and Obedience. Their rule of conduct was based on the Cistercian monks' manuals.\n\nTheir Order grew rapidly and gained favor with the pope who ordered all monarchies to support them and their cause. In the process they became very wealthy and started to build their temples [mostly round floor plans] along the route and in their travels. They are credited to have started retail banking as we know it today: deposit your gold/cash in one temple at home and withdraw it anywhere along the way to Jerusalem or back by presenting your receipt.\n\nTwo centuries later, the Order had gained so much substantial power that King Phillip and Pope Clement decided to have them all eliminated by execution on trumped up charges of heresy, spitting on the cross, homosexuality, sodomy, idolatry, etc. and were burned at stake. Their Grand Master at that time was Jacque de Molay, who cursed the King and the Pope to die with him while he sizzled at the stake. Within months, both the Pope and King died too.\n\nJacque de Molay is CREDITED to have founded the Freemasons... Fascinating stuff, isn't it??\n\nSeek and you shall find.\n\nPeace be with you!
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I think that decision can only be made by God Himself.\n\nAnd even then it's done by an individual by individual basis, not a group basis.
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Your question assumes that the Holy Spirit has already taught the Church everything there is to know. This is an incorrect assumption on account of the fact it flies in the face of the "living God". The whole idea behind exemplifying the "living God" is to show that He continues to teach us and reveal new Truths to us.\n\nOther than the Pope himself, it's impossible for anyone to determine who else knows what's in the Vatican's Secret Archives. All we can do is speculate.\n\nSpeculating is not a bad thing, as long as we realize our speculations are based on no hard evidence whatsoever. Speculation is simply educated guessing. If I guess, I would say the Secret Archives contains material that is, at this point, beyond the Church's understanding. At some point in the future, at a time of God's choosing, the Holy Spirit will reveal these Truths to the Vatican. When this happens, it's possible, even likely, that any related documentation will be released to the public.\n\nAgain this is speculation but, assuming I am right, to release these documents before Truth is revealed would lead to massive misunderstandings of said documents and, thus, do far more damage than good to the Church.\n\nI am at peace with the idea of the Vatican having a Secret Archive. The Truth, God's Truth, has nothing to hide - but that does not mean we have a right to raid a library of written material that is above and beyond all humanity's understanding.\n\nMight I suggest that, instead of worrying about written material that the Vatican has not YET released. Why not dig in to the massive library of writings penned by saints and doctors of the Church. There is enough material there to keep you reading for years.
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It would require some understanding as to the decision making process in the Catholic Church.  The Catholic Church is a highly varied body.  There is more internal variation inside the Catholic Church than there is across all of Protestantism.  All Protestant groups have an analog within the Church, the reverse is not true.\n\nFirst, the bible was canonized 350 years after the death of Jesus.  There wasn't a book someone could call the bible to cite as a reference.  They often did cite the scriptures, but they were not referring to the NT in the early Church.  They did also cite that which was handed on, traditio, from the apostles.  The bible is part of what was handed on, but not the whole of what was handed on.\n\nIn the early Church women were not ordained to the major orders, deacon, priest or bishop.  There were deaconesses, but their ordinations were different from the men.  Because early Christians did not do it, the Church cannot change it now.  When John Paul II was asked to rule on ordaining women, he ruled he could not change anything.  Popes and bishops may not make changes to beliefs, even if those beliefs no longer make sense.  Just because roles have changed does not change what was handed on.  Jesus was pretty radical, if he had wanted Mary Magdalene to be an Apostle, he could have made her one.  None of the Twelve, or the Seventy were women.  This may simply have been practical for some reason.  Nonetheless, what is is.\n\nUnlike Protestants who get to vote at conferences about what they believe, the rule in the Catholic Church is simple.  What did the early Christians believe and do?  That guides everything else.
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I think that Pope Benedict is in support of this movement in general, though he, like others in the Catholic hierarchy, has some concerns about it. He seems to support the movement, but reminds members to stay connected to the whole Church.  The quotation below is from before he was elected Pope.\n\n\n\n\n \nFor his part, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has added his voice to the Pope's in acknowledging the good occurring in the Charismatic Renewal and providing some cautions. In a forward to a book by Cardinal Suenens, at that time the Pope's delegate to the Charismatic Renewal, the Prefect comments on the Post-Conciliar period stating,\n\n"At the heart of a world imbued with a rationalistic skepticism, a new experience of the Holy Spirit suddenly burst forth. And, since then, that experience has assumed a breadth of a worldwide Renewal movement. What the New Testament tells us about the charisms - which were seen as visible signs of the coming of the Spirit - is not just ancient history, over and done with, for it is once again becoming extremely topical."\n\nSpeaking of the book's subject, renewal and the powers of darkness, he says,\n\n"What is the relation between personal experience and the common faith of the Church? Both factors are important: a dogmatic faith unsupported by personal experience remains empty; mere personal experience unrelated to the faith of the Church remains blind."\n\nFinally, he urges those who read the book to pay special attention to the author's double plea,\n\n"... to those responsible for the ecclesiastical ministry - from parish priests to bishops - not to let the Renewal pass them by but to welcome it fully; and on the other (hand) ... to the members of the Renewal to cherish and maintain their link with the whole Church and with the charisms of their pastors. "[Renewal and the Powers of Darkness, Leo Cardinal Suenens (Ann Arbor: Servant Books, 1983)]
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Roman Catholics have  add works to there salvation.  The Holy Sacrements are required to do to get to heaven. Plus they believe in purgutary a place where they go to finish cleanses there sins, based on there works on earth the longer or least time there will spend in pur. then they will go to heaven. The pope goes straight to heaven bypassing purgutary. They have strange views about Mary, they lift her name up. She did have favor in God's eyes but thats it she still was a sinner just like all men. I disagree with there doctrine
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It is not of God.  They do not believe in the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in ALL Christians.  That is why they need a prophet (singular) to tell them what God's will is.  They are similar to the Catholic Church in that regard with their allegiance to the Pope.  God's Word-the Bible testifies that we can `have all understanding' (Ephesians 1, Colossians 1:9)\n`anyone who lacks wisdom should ask God, who gives generously to all' (James 1:5) \n\nI think Mormons are an outwardly good, moral people.  But so were the Pharisees in Jesus day....and they killed him.  The very meaning of the word `Christ' is the Anointed One'.  Anointed with what? the Holy Spirit.  Christians are likewise anointed with the Holy Spirit- we have the very Spirit of Christ living in us.  I do not need a man made prophet to `reveal' God's will to me.  I do need the confirmation of the Body of Christ, the Church, to act in God's Will.  That is the way of Christ.  \n    Also, if you study the history of the Mormon religion you will find their founder, Joseph Smith was convicted of fraud and had in fact, made a living of fraudulently swindling good people. It seems his legacy continues.
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Jesus said to him in reply, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." (Matthew 16:17-19)\n\nThe Catholic Church believes the Lord made Simon alone, whom he named Peter, the "rock" of his Church. He gave him the keys of his Church and instituted him shepherd of the whole flock.\n\nThe Pope is the senior pastor of 1.1 billion Catholics, the direct successor of Simon Peter.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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Of course there's a significant element of truth to it. Why do you think the Catholic Church is so wound up about it ? Why haven't scholars been allowed to translate the Dead Sea Scrolls in the public arena ? Catholicism has manipulated the truth for it's own ends .... it's used threats over the centuries to ensure there is no debate. The end is nigh .... if there's nothing to hide they'd happily open their vaults & show the full spectrum of religeous texts .... not just the ones they'd like us to see. Now the truth is becoming available with or without their consent - Truth Lives once more.
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Lol Do Christians not rule European countries today?\nYou rule the country not the peoples minds.
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This controversy has existed from the very beginning, and\nthe writings of the "Church Fathers" themselves reveal\nthat they were constantly forced by the pagan\nintelligentsia to defend what the non-Christians and other\nChristians ("heretics")4 alike saw as a preposterous and\nfabricated yarn with absolutely no evidence of it ever\nhaving taken place in history. As Rev. Robert Taylor says,\n"And from the apostolic age downwards, in a never\ninterrupted succession, but never so strongly and\nemphatically as in the most primitive times, was the\nexistence of Christ as a man most strenuously denied."5\nEmperor Julian, who, coming after the reign of the\nfanatical and murderous "good Christian" Constantine,\nreturned rights to pagan worshippers, stated, "If anyone\nshould wish to know the truth with respect to you\nChristians, he will find your impiety to be made up partly\nof the Jewish audacity, and partly of the indifference and\nconfusion of the Gentiles, and that you have put together\nnot the best, but the worst characteristics of them both."
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No, most christions believe that the choice is one that the person has to make, a baby cannot choose. In catholism, they have to go through confirmation, in prtestantism, they must declare to a preacher and stand up before a congregation that they believe that christ is their one true savior and then be baptisted.\n\nThe age that a person can do that vearies depending on the sect you talk to.
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Ive heard of christians that convert people at gunpoint. in my opinion thats a true christian (TM)  they have done that since Roman times and they will never stop being that way. the Mafia came from Rome and so did christianity. i dont think thats a coincidence.