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Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity

sprinkleeninow

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2. I take it to mean like marrying them, attaining a really close intimate friendship with them, perhaps screening out

Reply to 4catsmom (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 20, 2025, 07:27 PM

Jun 20

who you use for important legal stuff or say a doctor, etc.

They're all around, but one is not compelled or expected to have these in one's intimate circle.

It is advised as a guide for one's own spiritual journey. So as not to be influenced, fall into a trap, veering off the Way.
'We' recognize/discern the behavior void of any redeeming qualities/virtues in others especially in control of our nation. We keep ourselves from that behavior.

As a believer, I have need to watch myself, judge mysel. There will come a day of reckoning. So let 'them' eat, drink and be merry.

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☦️ Eastern Orthodox Christianity 🕊 'Timothy 3:1-5' [View all] sprinkleeninow Jun 19 OP

so how do you do that 4catsmom Jun 20 #1

I take it to mean like marrying them, attaining a really close intimate friendship with them, perhaps screening out sprinkleeninow Jun 20 #2