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07-03-2008, 01:33 PM
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Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster
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What does it mean to convert? To turn to something. Basically, it means turning one's life towards Christ, or more towards Christ, even if one is already a Christian.
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07-03-2008, 01:37 PM
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If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do." Last edited by Lief Erikson : 07-03-2008 at 01:40 PM. |
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07-03-2008, 01:50 PM
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Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster
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It's used that way in Scripture: "Repent, and be converted". It's a pretty common phrase. Popes call people to it a lot.
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07-03-2008, 01:53 PM
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Elf Lord
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I can see how using the term that way makes sense, in view of the word root. I'm just saying I don't think it's commonly used that way. At least not where I come from or in any of the articles I've ever read
 .The popes and Sacred Scripture are perfectly entitled to use the broader meaning, of course. As I said, that makes sense in view of the word root.
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If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do." |
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07-03-2008, 01:55 PM
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07-03-2008, 02:09 PM
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 . My point was just that it doesn't show up on normal media channels or conversation with non-Catholics, much. Inside the Catholic tradition of spirituality, sure, but in mainstream use outside of that, it doesn't show up. I doubt very highly that that's what the Zeitoun website meant.
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If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do." |
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