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italo: You can't show where a Christian existed in the Bible without the Church...

...that is because this 'only me and Jesus' doctrine of yours is not of God.

iwonbaoko: Please name one country with a population over 100 million that gives free university education. Only one example please.NOTHING in this life is free.The handwriting has been on the wall a long time.Nigerians have an attitude of ENTITLEMENT and that explains partly why you see 27 year olds living at home with their parents collecting pocket money. We need less university education and more vocational TRAINING.
Are those people in universities better than those who learn trades? Does government contribute anything to the training of tailors,mechanics,Bricklayers,Vulcanizers etc How are those cultists in universities claiming to be studying economics and politics etc more deserving of government funding than those training as hairdressers and butchers or poultry farmers??
I believe that education should be free up to the age of 18 i.e secondary school or Vocational training.
University education of good quality cannot be free.We should not compromise quality because we want everyone to have it
This is how universities should work:
The universities should operate like a petrol station. No pay no admission
They should be stand-alone entities independent of government.
They should determine the actual cost of educating each student .Without this information we are deceiving ourselves.
Sometime people just refuse to look into the mirror because they are afraid of what they might see.
Having determined the cost we can now have a discussion about how to pay for it. That way the issue of underfunding universities will not come about .
Government will then declare how many students they can afford to pay for and how they are going to allocate those resources. Otherwise government forces universities to over-admit and we end up with students sitting on the floor and aisles.

"Obviously, he said, it is not always easy to walk the path of faith with other people. "Sometimes it's tiring. It can happen that a brother or sister creates problems for us or scandalizes us, but the Lord entrusted his message of salvation to human beings, to us, to witnesses," he said.
"It is through our brothers and sisters with their gifts and their limits," the pope said, "that he comes to us and makes himself known. This is what belonging to the church means. Remember: Being Christian means belonging to the church. If your first name is Christian, your last name is Member of the Church."
At the end of his talk, the pope asked people to join him in praying that they would never "give into the temptation of thinking you can do without others, without the church, that you can save yourself, of thinking you can be a laboratory Christian.

Christians, he said, are not manufactured in isolation, but belong to a long line of believers who handed on the faith and challenged one another to live it fully."



I totally agree!

Of course, you're supposed to talk to God through your Priest, Reverend, Pastor, etc, etc...with a Generous Contribution to the Church in the process.

Otherwise you wouldn't need Religion, and they can't have that.

You better not try to have a personal relationship with Jesus.

If you try we will do to you what we did to the believing of the middle ages, remember how we would burn them, strangle them, put them on the rack, remember.

He didn't say any personal relationship is dangerous, he just pointed out that involvement in a community of believers is important as a supplement....I interpreted it to mean, though he didn't say it, that it probably helps to keep us honest when we are tempted to rationalize all of our beliefs.

We are all probably involved at arm's length anyway with one or several belief systems (i.e. we benefit from their years of accumulated wisdom) even though we complain about organized religion.

The entire Bible is about having a personal relationship with Jesus.

Catholics seem to be always trying to put things between people and Jesus, whether it is their religious rituals or idols of Mary.

I guess that's why the catholic authorities got so angry when people started translating the Bible for english commoners.

I left that "church" almost 25 years ago, and they'll never get me back.

My Savior is real, while Catholics have a guy with a pointy hat, that sits on a throne in Rome. I'll stick with mine, thank you very much.

He is going out of his way to include everyone except for Bible-believing Christians into his fold.

His "succession" is built on a lie, paved by heretics, satanists, pedophiles, murderers and specifically, murderers and torturers of Christians who would not succumb to their pagan doctrine.

This is not surprising but just after the Islamic prayers in his "church" made of gold and declaration that Atheists and everyone can get to Heaven w/o Christ (Jesus said "I am the Way the Truth And the Life. NO MAN COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT BY ME." tells me the timing is too perfect.

I see this going downhill for us "free-agents" in the next few years.

Even so, Maranatha and God's will be done.

EXACTLY why the Pope does not speak for the majority of Christians.

I wouldn't even call Catholics Christians. They are satanists and don't even know it.

yes

bypassing the control of the church is dangerous

don't you dare have a personal relationship with jesus or God

hahahah

f-u-c-k you pope

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