That question leads to Two of the Hardest Questions Ever Asked at the end of this short post.
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Question 1: “Why is St. Paul one of God’s Brightest Lights in History?”
Answer: “The Bible is clear in Mt. 7:16; ‘By their fruits you will know them.’ St. Paul’s ‘fruits’ include the billions of Catholic souls descended from those he led into The Church Spoken Into Being by The Church-Creating Word of Jesus to His First Catholic Pope; ‘And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.’”
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Question 2: “When we look at the trillions of stars shining in the night sky, do we get an idea of the ‘fruits’ by which we ‘know’ St. Paul’?”
Answer: “Each of the Catholic souls saved by and descended from the long, hard, dangerous work of St. Paul is a living, shining testimony praising God: Philippians 2:15, ‘among them you shine like stars in the dark world.’”
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Question 3: Did Old Testament Prophets recognize that?”
Answer: “It is as simple as ‘one, two, three’ in Daniel 12:3; ‘Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the Heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.’”
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Question 4: “Many of us have Catholic ancestors who guided their descendants to The Church. Do they, like St. Paul, ‘shine like bigger stars’ in Heaven?”
Answer: “There is no end to the rewards God gives Catholics! The soul of every Catholic descendant lets them shine more brightly!”
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Question 5: “What happens to the souls of those who keep people from being Catholic and getting ‘the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven’?”
Answer: Mt. 18:6 makes that clear: ‘If anyone causes one of these little ones to stray, it would better to be drowned in the sea with a large stone around his neck.’”
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Question 6: “How many Catholic souls have been saved in the last 2,000 years?”
Answer: “One hundred billion people have lived in the past 2,000 years. About 15% of the people on earth have been Catholic for the past thousand years.
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Question 7: “Many tyrants hate The Catholic Church and Her Teachings. What happens to the souls of people whom they kept from being Catholic?”
Answer: “If people of goodwill are not Catholic through no fault of their own, they may be saved.”
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Question 8: “Two hard questions! Does God have The Power to let the souls of people who would have been born if evil tyrants had not stopped their parents from being child-bearing Catholics and the souls of all their descendants come into being and let them be in Heaven, ‘shining like the stars’?”
Answer: “Those are questions for Catholic priests who know that God let us have modern telescopes that let us see there are over 200 billion trillion stars in the sky!”
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “Every Catholic sees God’s Light. Every Catholic IS God’s Light.”
