So your answer is, is long as we forgive our enemies, we can sin with impunity and still get to Heaven?

But KB, if there is no Hell, what ARE the consequences of my actions? That my personality will become extinct? That's not much punishment---that's like a $35 fine for first degree murder.

For once we agree. Of course faith, hope, charity (good works), being born again (Baptism), Communion, and Confession (if we have sinned) are also necessary for salvation.

Some people like to cherry-pick the Bible. Take Martin Luther for instance---he sees in the Bible where St. Paul says "by faith we are saved" ad, forgetting that there are verses that say hope, good works, being born again, receiving Communion, confessing one's sins, and forgiving one's enemies, he fixes on the faith part, and wrongly assumes that faith is all one needs. Or FJO, who reads about forgiveness, neglects all those other verses that say different things. Tnteacher does this with "not one jot or tittle of the law will pass away"---he fixates on this, forgets that Jesus (and Peter's angel) says we can eat anything, so Jesus' meaning is that none of the ten commandments will pass away. And you do it, too, KB---you see where Jesus loves and forgives, and you assume He forgives everybody. You forget that Jesus said, sixteen different times, that unrepentant souls go to Hell.

The Bible is a whole. We aren' t going to understand the Bible unless we view the entire Bible.

You're a cherry picker, FJO. That verse is not the only verse about eternal life in the Bible, or even in the direct teachings of Christ. Jesus told Nicodemus that we must be born again to have eternal life. Jesus says in the sixth chapter of John that we must eat His Body and drink His Blood to have eternal life.

Suppose Joe Jones forgave all who had offended him, but persisted in sin with no attempt to repent. Could Joe Jones be saved?

You're a cherry picker, FJO.

A better analogy---Jesus is like the soldier who threw himself on a grenade to save the rest of the squad.

Those who have no devotion to Mary violate the commandment "Honor thy father and thy mother".

"Generations will call me blessed."

--Luke 1:48

Those who have no devotion to Mary violate the commandment "Honor thy father and thy mother".

"Generations will call me blessed."

--Luke 1:48

KB, Mary is indeed our mother. She is the New Eve. According to Catholic doctrine, Jesus appointed her the new mother of the human race when He said to John, "Son, behold thy mother. Mother, behold thy Son."

The Church set up the Inquisition as a self-defense mechanism, to defend her people from the heretics, who were like today's heretics---medieval heretics would burn Catholics' crops, poison Catholics' wells, kill and kidnap priests, and burn down Catholic churches.

I believe in forgiving sinners who repent. So did the various Inquisitions---all one had to do with as recant his heresy, and the Inquisition would set them free, except for recidivists.

How do my words conflict with Jesus' words (what Jesus actually said, not what somebody wishes Jesus said, or what Mohammed, Luther, Calvin, Arius, or Sadler said He said)?

But what if Jesus' words weren't meant to be taken literally here?

If you called your father "Dad", or allow your children to call you that, you are a hypocrite.

But what if Jesus' words weren't meant to be taken literally here? What of He only meant not to give any loyalty to any father figure or authority figure above what we give to God?

Jesus also said "call no MAN rabbi" and "if your right eye offend thee, pluck it out", but FJO doesn't harp on these statements. Can you say, double standard?