A Curious Girl: Dreaming weird things..

I had a weird dream before I woke up this morning. Firstly for some reason we were putting on a play of Isaac Asimov's The Robots of Dawn, or maybe it was one of the others in that series - it was a bit confused. And then (don't laugh at me) the Second Coming happened!! Could have been a trifle clearer, as it was all rather mixed up with computer-y stuff on account of the fact that I am becoming a HTML freak (what's more, I think I like it :-) ), but anyway, I remember asking God about Catholics, probably as a result of certain anti-Catholic propaganda and some things in Catholicism that I disagree with, and reading for some reason Abc's guestbook. Chris and I were wandering around at wherever the waiting place is before Judgement, and I asked God, "OK, probably a stupid question, but is the Pope infallible?" (Please don't hit me Stephen :-) )

God (in my dream) said something like, "No, all have sinned." When I woke up a few minutes later I immediately remembered that 'by their fruits you will know them' thing, and reasoned that although I don't believe he's infallible, I know that the Pope is indeed a very good man, for instance, he forgave instantly that man who shot him. John Paul II is fine by me :-).

Back in my dream, I asked (again, Stephen, don't hit me!!), "All right, a harder question (for me, not God :-) ), are Catholics saved?"

God said, "If they follow me, yes." Which rather reminded me of Romans 14:13-23, where it says that belief about more trivial things (in Paul's example, what people eat) should be personal and we should do what we believe is right and not tempt others to do what they believe is wrong. And it reminded me of Catholics I know like Mrs. T, Mum's Uncle John, various priests I've met, Stephen (obviously!!) who all genuinely love and worship God, and even if we disagree on more serious issues that just what we eat and how we worship, that's the most serious issue of all - we're all the Body of Christ.

I woke up before the Day of Judgement (which I'd been reading about in 1 Corinthians, which is possibly why I dreamt about it!). Probably a good thing because I've still got some life left to live so his last judgement would be rather pointless before then. It was an odd dream - I'm not going to say, "Mwaha! God told me!" (I had a dream in which David asked me out once!) but on the other hand it helped me to clear up some points in my head. Which is, after all, what dreams are for. I do believe that God would like a lot more love between denominations - if we talked more and loved each other more, perhaps we might end up agreeing!! It reminds me of something I read from a link from Abc, a woman who had been a Satanist and then turned to Jesus - read it here 'Frustrated, he asked what kind of Church I go to. My response was, "I go to the kind that love Jesus." '

Exactly!!! Jesus is wonderful. I know I sometimes feel inclined to worship the Church instead of him (sounds weird, but that's the best way I have of expressing it), and although it feels all right for a while, after a bit it's easy to discover that Church is empty without him. I feel inclined to quote some Terry Pratchett... hold on... can't find it! Anyway, there's something in Small Gods where he says that people start out by believing in the god, and then as the religion continues, in years and centuries, they believe in the buildings, statues, relics etc. I think that's true.

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