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 Discussion on question by Clark Radfo…

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Matt Gutting
Jun 7, 2021 14:39
Almost better. My point was that you can't outright condemn something that didn't happen, and you can't support it either. You can't say "This didn't happen, and it was bad/good that it happened. If the Church denies that it was involved in genocide, it can't be described as supporting, condemning, or being indifferent to its involvement. At least, I don't understand how. (part 1)
Matt Gutting
Jun 7, 2021 14:39
So the better question might be: Does the Church admit or deny its involvement; and if it admits its involvement, does it support it or condemn it?
Matt Gutting
Jun 7, 2021 14:39
"Support" is the opposite of "condemn", not of "refute"; and "refute" is the opposite of "prove", not of "support". It's impossible to support something you've refuted, since that amounts to saying "It's OK that this did in fact happen [support], but I'll now prove that it didn't in fact happen [refutation]." That's what's confusing me.
Matt Gutting
Jun 7, 2021 14:39
By "support" and "refute" do you mean "admit" and "deny"?
 

 Discussion on answer by Valorum: What…

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Matt Gutting
Dec 24, 2020 12:47
@valorum if he does, it's down to him to drink it.
 

 Discussion on answer by KorvinStarmas…

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Matt Gutting
May 13, 2020 14:40
My point is, it doesn't matter whether there's a pastor at the church, or parishioners in the parish, if the woman is prevented from speaking with them. And I know, or know of, people who call themselves Catholic who will suggest an abortion in this case, or who would simply refuse to speak with her.
Matt Gutting
May 13, 2020 14:40
"there is always available the counsel of the pastor and the rest of the faith community." Not always. Depends on the availability of these people, which could easily be restricted or prevented by (for example) an abusive spouse. Depends also on the willingness of the pastor and faith community to listen sympathetically and give counsel rationally and in accordance with Catholic doctrine.
 

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Matt Gutting
Apr 5, 2020 05:18
Conception happens, as my link says, in the fallopian tube, and the embryo travels to the uterus about 3 days after fertilization. I'm not sure how you're getting the idea that this contradicts my statement. As far as the time for Mary to go from Nazareth to "the hill country of Judah", estimates I've seen are on the order of a couple of days.
Matt Gutting
Apr 5, 2020 05:11
And I do not believe I would contradict the Gospel of Luke. Gabriel, and Elizabeth, were speaking in the understanding of those of the time, who didn't know about the ovum and the detailed process of conception. That's not a contradiction; it's an adaptation of wording to the understanding of the listener.
Matt Gutting
Apr 5, 2020 05:08
Here's one source for my assertion about the fertilized egg. I can provide more if you want: webmd.com/baby/qa/…
Matt Gutting
Apr 5, 2020 05:07
An egg is useless without sperm in the absence of a miracle, which is what obviously occurred. As Ken said, private revelation or the opinions of even a Father of the Church don't constitute Church teaching. And in fact, conception takes place before the embryo is implanted in the womb. But this is not the place to discuss such questions. I've submitted my downvote reason - you're free to edit, or not, in response.
Matt Gutting
Apr 5, 2020 05:07
My main objection, and the reason for my downvote, is this statement: "The fetal development does not takes place in the ovum of Mary rather in the Mother's womb or uterus... In the case of Mary, there's no fertilized egg in the ovum..." The ovum is the egg - it's what becomes fertilized and makes its way to the womb. An egg, that is, an ovum, is naturally released in a fertile woman every 4 weeks or so without need for any "physical/carnal sensation"; nor is there need for such a sensation for conception to happen. Your argument falls down there.
Matt Gutting
Apr 5, 2020 05:07
One could easily say that it came from the 23 chromosomes found in Mary's ovum. I can grasp your theology, and I'm sure Ken can as well. We just don't see it as standard Catholic teaching, which this answer ought to supply.
Matt Gutting
Apr 5, 2020 05:07
I'm not sure what you mean when you say that "Jesus humanity came from 'blood cell' of Mary alone".
 

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Matt Gutting
Mar 29, 2020 05:39
As a matter of fact Catholics may and often do receive the Blood of Christ, although there was a period of several centuries where this was not practiced in the Latin Church. (It's always been customary in the Eastern Catholic Churches.)
 

 Discussion on question by Pastychompe…

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Matt Gutting
Dec 12, 2019 20:26
I'd take a wild guess it was down to the books' massive and very sudden popularity. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings have been banned too, for having satanic themes or something.
 

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Matt Gutting
Nov 20, 2019 21:04
@edwinaoliver
Matt Gutting
Nov 20, 2019 20:55
It's not enough, either, to say "you give your answer and let another group give their answer." On this site, a strict "Q & A" site, we need to be able to point to one answer as "the best". You can't do that if everyone's just giving an opinion.
Matt Gutting
Nov 20, 2019 20:54
Hi Edwina! Your question is a really important one for Christianity - for people wanting to know the truth (as you do). The problem is that this site isn't about the truth of Christianity. It's about what different groups calling themselves Christian believe. That means we'd have to tell you what each group believes is "necessary and sufficient" for salvation - and since there are tens of thousands of groups calling themselves Christian, we just don't have time or space for it.
Matt Gutting
Nov 20, 2019 20:13
The first question - "What are the necessary and sufficient requirements?" - is a question about The Truth of Christianity. That kind of question is off-topic for this site. "What do the various denominations say about this?" is on-topic, but considering there are thousands of groups calling themselves Christian (not all of which even believe God exists), it would take a long time to enumerate all those groups' beliefs on the subject. That's what makes it too broad.
Matt Gutting
Nov 20, 2019 20:13
Ok. It wasn't clear to me whether you were asking "what are the requirements" or "what do various denominations believe the requirements are". The former question is not on-topic here. The latter is on-topic, but probably too broad for our format.
Matt Gutting
Nov 20, 2019 20:13
As far as this site is concerned, if they call themselves Christian then they are Christian. And the evidence to be provided will be evidence that this is what they believe, not evidence that what they believe is true. That's the way this site works.
 

 Discussion on answer by Machavity: Ho…

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Matt Gutting
Sep 29, 2019 05:31
@andrew An answer which is only valid if the question asks what the belief of that particular group believes.
Matt Gutting
Sep 29, 2019 05:31
@andrew the website here isn't too discuss which beliefs are Christian but to discuss what beliefs are actually held by groups calling themselves Christian.
 

 Discussion on question by Nzall: Why …

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Matt Gutting
Sep 14, 2019 19:20
How is the strap attached to the wand, and how fragile is that connector?
 

 Discussion on question by hanugm: Wha…

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Matt Gutting
Sep 6, 2019 16:23
I think you're right about why people are getting confused. A "method" is a way of doing things (what kinds of things?), and one method can be better than another to accomplish something. A statement is just true, false, or perhaps an opinion, and one statement can't be "better than" another. Perhaps "more true than" another.
 

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Matt Gutting
May 7, 2019 22:19
venerate her as a saint - though she may be venerated locally.
Matt Gutting
May 7, 2019 22:03
In 1634, Pope Urban VIII declared that only the Vatican had the power to definitively declare someone a saint - by a decree of canonization. No such decree was issued for Philomena. Nor was she ever presented to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Nor was she ever entered into the Roman Martyrology. I see no basis on which the Universal Church may venerated
 

 Discussion on question by Misha R: Wh…

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Matt Gutting
Feb 18, 2019 05:44
This can get into the philosophical question of whether an entity can be evil without actually doing much that is reprehensible.
 

 Discussion on answer by tchrist: What…

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Matt Gutting
Jan 2, 2018 18:36
writhen, an archaic synonym of wrought.
 

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Matt Gutting
Nov 16, 2017 17:07
Tolkien, being Catholic, wrote a book that by his own admission was Catholic, or at least Christian, in outlook. Christianity in general, and Catholicism in particular, has VERY strong prohibitions against doing evil to produce a non-evil result. In most Christian thinking, that's virtually a contradiction in terms.
 

 The Upper Room

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Matt Gutting
Sep 6, 2017 12:58
@fredsbend This sounds a bit like the Thomistic/Augustinian (I think) idea that evil isn't a thing in itself but rather a privation (a noticeable removal) of good.
Matt Gutting
Sep 6, 2017 12:22
Hey @athanasiusofalex I'm assuming you're not the founder of this: twitter.com/ChurchNameBot/status/904392769262759937
Matt Gutting
Jun 15, 2017 15:26
boo
 

 Discussion on question by Pigfaricus:…

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Matt Gutting
Aug 17, 2017 23:49
@Kris Absolutely.. They have all the properties of ordinary bread. See my answer to a related question.
Matt Gutting
Aug 17, 2017 23:49
@Kris As a matter of fact they do - every Host on the altar is transubstantiated into the Body of Christ. It's for that reason that such care needs to be taken in cleaning the paten/ciborium/etc.
 

 Discussion of Sola Fide

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Matt Gutting
Jun 28, 2017 22:58
I'm not sure about the extent to which any one of those theories of atonement (as opposed to the atonement itself) was or is doctrinal. I'll have to check.
Matt Gutting
Jun 28, 2017 20:18
@LeeWoofenden I don't think it abandoned those ideas; but it certainly did give Aquinas a very loud voice. The current Catechism doesn't specify (as I remember reading at least) that any particular theory of the atonement is the single correct one.
 

 The Restaurant at the End of the Univ…

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Matt Gutting
Jun 15, 2017 13:30
@Edlothiad Hmm. But you have so few answers to upvote. ;-P
Matt Gutting
Jun 15, 2017 12:35
@Edlothiad Thanks :-)
Matt Gutting
Jun 15, 2017 12:05
Anyone have any suggestions how I can improve the following 0-upvote answer? scifi.stackexchange.com/a/161311/26274
Matt Gutting
Jun 14, 2017 20:20
Must go!
Matt Gutting
Jun 14, 2017 20:20
:-D
Matt Gutting
Jun 14, 2017 20:20
@Edlothiad One comes, one knows, one speaks :-D :-P Also, of course, making complete non sequiturs to promote my epilepsy awareness blog epilepsyempowered.org
Matt Gutting
Jun 14, 2017 20:18
@Edlothiad Couldn't care less about that either. I didn't even realize.
Matt Gutting
Jun 14, 2017 20:17
@Edlothiad Couldn't care less. I answer what I answer. It's kind of cool to see the upvotes, but...I'm used to how many upvotes I get on Christianity.SE.
Matt Gutting
Jun 14, 2017 20:14
Consequence of being too specialized, I guess.
Matt Gutting
Jun 14, 2017 20:14
@SQB I think I hit the cap one day. When I posted this: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/64955/…
Matt Gutting
Jun 14, 2017 20:12
@Shokhet I actually did get pinged on this :-)
Matt Gutting
Jun 14, 2017 20:01
@SQB In that case I hope there aren't a lot of Matts.