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By: Whitney

Whitney — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:24:43 +0000

I have an interesting question for anyone who can answer. I have looked through this website and found the cenarios between Catholic and Mormon marriages to be a strain at best often times leading to dischord and divorce at worst. I have found no site or post that explains a Pagan/Wiccan and a Morman relationship. From what I’ve read, if two people who at least both believe in the same god (even though they don’t worship him the same way) can’t find a way to find the middle ground with religion and raising a family… how can a Wiccan and a Mormon make it work?

By: Gino C

Gino C — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:25:19 +0000

I’m dateing a mormon girl she said if we are going to get marrie she wants me to become an active member for aleast one year so we can get marrie i said that i agree not just for her to get marrie to me cause i willing to learn about her religion too so i need to know how i can become a active member and what that means?

By: lararch

lararch — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:31:52 +0000

The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat? So Jesus said to them, “Amen, Amen I say unto you unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever.”

Taking Communion is not saying that you will become a God. Catholics believe that nothing can, has been, or will be equal to God. God gives us eternal life in heaven. The Eucharist is food for the soul. In order to take Communion you must be in a state of Grace. That means you must have had a recent confession, be in good standing with the Church and have attended Mass on all Holy Days and Sundays.

By: ct

ct — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:10:50 +0000

(sorry to double-post)

I just realized though — the striking similiarity between that third quote and the famous couplet:

“For the Son of God became man so that we might become God.”

compared to

“As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become.” The second part of the couplet almost exactly matches the first quote…

By: ct

ct — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:08:33 +0000

In reply Mary Ann’s comment –

I do think you’re onto something there! I’m having that same discussion with a Catholic friend of mine, and I came across an article in the Catechism which seems to agree with what you just said:

460 The Word became flesh to make us “partakers of the divine nature”: [2 Pt 1:4] “For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God.” [St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 19, 1: PG 7/1, 939] “For the Son of God became man so that we might become God.” [St. Athanasius, De inc. 54, 3: PG 25, 192B] “The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods.” [St. Thomas Aquinas, Opusc. 57, 1-4] [1265, 1391, 1988]

As far as I know, there hasn’t been any statement made to disagree with that by anyone else in the Catholic Church since, and I believe it’s still a tenant of Eastern Orthodox traditions.

By: Mary Ann (INRI/CTR)

Mary Ann (INRI/CTR) — Sun, 20 May 2007 03:37:52 +0000

On the Mormon theology of man becoming god… In Catholic belief of the Sacred Species of the Holy Eucharist…if we partake in the sacrament of eating the actual body and blood of Christ, would we not then, become gods? having ingested the physical manifestation of Christ?