Legion of Apologetics
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@resonantcog1dCan a sin be felled on someone?
Can sin be handed to someone and what do you do regarding these sins? Let me explain. When I was a child and had my first birthday party with "friends", I didnt feel like I had any friends and my parents invited my whole class. My parents set up a game of hide-n-seek with Easter eggs and my instinct was to hand all of my Easter eggs to the kids that were having a hard time finding them. Fast forward and my parents buy me my first car for which I was thankful but also leaving with my parents going off to college in the big city. Now most of what I own is given to me as a gift.... Such are things that would be dishonorable to my parents if I ever gave them away. My parents have been generous to me and I love them for it but now I have this wealth that I feel would be wrong to give. Is it greed that I hold onto it or greed that my parents wanted me to have all of this? All I have ever wanted was to have the opportunity to do good and now everything I have is like an anchor weighing me down and keeping me from moving. Walls that are so tight, I have a hard time turning. A ceiling so low that it makes my neck hurt. A car not built for travel but for going to and from a job that is isolated from the world. A job that costs so much to work that I barely have enough to give afterwards. I went to college for art so that I could try and make the world a more beautiful place but failed to get a job out of college and my parents saved me by having a position ready for me for when I failed so that I could pay off my college debt. I am told there is a difference between Gods plan and my plan and thay plan has led me to the Catholic Church but is Gods plan also my fathers plan for me? I feel so trapped by a wealth that my father gave me... Is it also a wealth that my FATHER gave me to be an anchor that holds me in place? Is it greed that I choose not to dishonor my parents or is it my parents greed that I am made to feel that it is dishonoring them to hold onto it? Should I not be that child that wants to give all of his eggs away to the kids that could not find any? Am I to have my father tell me that I should not give them away because they are my eggs?
@resonantcog16dThe gift of silence
I have never been a person to leave things unsaid but this morning, everything I seek to comment, I find jumbled in my head. "No, this comes from anger, this comes from division, this comes from fear, this comes from the world." What, Lord, is to reside in my heart when thou hath cleansed me? I shall say, "Glory be to you Lord, that I may know your presence." Holy, holy, holy Lord, my God almighty.
@gospelforceMay 5Beginner protestants
Yesterday i had a little encounter with a Neopentecostal group, they were preaching their experience with God, nothing about doctrine. So, i decided to have a talk with them but they told me they're new in their church and that started a year ago and almost don't know about a lot of things, then i knew from the start that they'll not understand me at my questions about faith. At least they recognized that they have the Bible thanks to the Catholic Church, they did not fought me back with verses or hate for the Church. How would you guys have interacted with them?
@gospelforceMay 1Mother goddes
Hey bros have you heard of a sect called Mother Goddess that was founded in South Korea? They're invading countries and spreading their vision of the Trinity wich comes from docestism, and keeping Saturday as rest day. Any comments?
@josephpilgrim111Apr 18Jehovah witness
Blessings family in Christ. Have any of you ever debated/converted Jehovahs witnesses? I want to know a few good arguments I can use for the faith. Also, I have a feeling the eucharist might be an issue, since they have such a heavy doctrine on blood. God bless 🙏
When does the Eucharist stop being Jesus?
Below is a comment from a Protestant I saw and I’m stumped: “According to your belief system, When does the Eucharist stop literally being Jesus? This is not meant to be disrespectful, it is a good faith concern and question. To focus in on the issue at hand, at some point bread becomes human excrement and wine becomes human urine. It is a reality that people have taken the Eucharist who are/get sick (stomach virus, pregnancy, digestive disease) causing them to pass literal bread or wine (through digestive issues or vomit) which still very much is recognizable as bread/wine. Are they throwing up Jesus? Is their excrement literally Charity? If not, at what point did it stop being Him in a literal and physical sense? l've never heard a coherent answer to this.” Can someone tag the AI on this, or if you have an actual answer, even better!
@roamingtoromeMar 22Proof that the traditions we have is from the Apostles?
Dear friends; a non-denominational friend of mine asked if there’s any evidence that the traditions we hold to even come from the apostles themselves. As a new Catholic, and coming from an evangelical reformed background, and having friends in many Protestant communities, where can I find resources for him to learn about it all. Thank you and God Bless.
Peter's primacy in the early Church — the patristic evidence
Matthew 16:18-19 is the starting point, but the patristic evidence is what clinches it for me. Clement of Rome (96 AD) intervening in Corinth's affairs without being asked — uniquely, among all the sees. Ignatius of Antioch addressing the Roman church as presiding "over the whole assembly of love." Irenaeus appealing to Rome as the standard of orthodoxy. This is not later Romanist projection onto neutral texts. The evidence for Roman primacy is earlier and more substantial than most Protestants realise. What sources do you lean on?
How do you answer "why does God allow innocent suffering"?
Not the philosophical version (I can refer you to the threads in Philosophy) but the pastoral version — when someone who has just lost a child, or been diagnosed with something terminal, looks at you and asks this. Every true apologist has faced this moment. The logic of theodicy is not the right tool here. What is? I have learned more from getting this wrong than from any book.
Responding to the abuse crisis objection charitably but honestly
This is the hardest apologetics question because it is not primarily philosophical — it is moral and personal. "How can you remain in an institution that covered up the abuse of children?" deserves an honest answer, not a deflection. My answer has three parts: (1) the crimes and cover-ups were real and inexcusable; (2) institutional failure does not refute the truth claims; (3) leaving does not undo the harm or protect future children — staying and demanding reform does. Is this the right frame? What would you add or change?
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