Is the Catholic Church Today Part of Jesus' Body?

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Wrangler

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Prejudice is a great timesaver. It enables you to form opinions without bothering to get facts.

Efficiency is gained in recognizing and accepting common knowledge. For instance, I can plan for tomorrow without having proof that tomorrow will come.
 

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"He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." John 3:18-19

So then by judging them are you admitting they are in the Church? If they are in the Church should not each person be judged according his heart and his deeds or the lack thereof rather because of his affiliation with a group within the Church?

If, on the other hand, they are not in the Church are they not already condemned as per the verses above? Are they then of the ungodly? If that is the case then who made your business to establish your own place of judgment when God has not?

"And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous." Psalm 1:3-5
You have answered just as you were led to do so by the question. Either way, if the Vatican is part of Christ's Body, they are to be judged today. If they are not to be judged, then they are merely part of the heathen world.
 

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Efficiency is gained in recognizing and accepting common knowledge. For instance, I can plan for tomorrow without having proof that tomorrow will come.
Jesus did not bring common knowledge.
 

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You answer my questions directly and I may consider answering yours, but I am also not their judge!
Correct my friend . we are not their judge . Thus i condemn none . But to do all out of love to pull those in error out of error ,
i simply must do . My soul aches for the people and watching folks get destroyed brings much pain to my heart .
We must do something . I did not come to bash on anyone . Simply to remind . IF we love folks we
point them to Christ , sound doctrine and away from error . Now , let the LORD be praised my friend .
 

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Who gave you the authority and qualification to speak for other lambs?
God

2Co 10:7 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.
2Co 10:8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

amigo can speak for me.
We share a common truth.
We are Christ's. And Christ has given us words to speak to help edify each other.
And amigo's words are edifying to me.

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You answer my questions directly and I may consider answering yours, but I am also not their judge!
The Catholic Vatican worship their own influence and power under the hand of Satan within Freemasonry.

Why is the Vatican's public meeting hall constructed to look like the mouth and head of a serpent?
 

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2Co 10:7 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.
2Co 10:8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

amigo can speak for me.
We share a common truth.
We are Christ's. And Christ has given us words to speak to help edify each other.
And amigo's words are edifying to me.

Hugs
Yes, his words do make sense to you. Is the pope saved into Jesus, or is he going to Hell for worshipping Satan?
 

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Correct my friend . we are not their judge . Thus i condemn none . But to do all out of love to pull those in error out of error ,
i simply must do . My soul aches for the people and watching folks get destroyed brings much pain to my heart .
We must do something . I did not come to bash on anyone . Simply to remind . IF we love folks we
point them to Christ , sound doctrine and away from error . Now , let the LORD be praised my friend .
How do you point Catholics to Christ other than merely imagining to do so?
 

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The hearts of the Vatican are for Satan. The pope is a Freemason.
And these conclusions are based on personal revelation from God or from prayerful study of the scripture? How closely was the Holy Spirit involved in your conclusions? Are you an eye witness in the Spirit or even in the flesh of their activities?

Notice that I am not saying your conclusions are wrong... but how do you know they are right? Did you talk to God about it just before your posted your ideas and received a definite answer?
 

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Yes, his words do make sense to you. Is the pope saved into Jesus, or is he going to Hell for worshipping Satan?

Answer:
Jhn 14:30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
 

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No my friend is it not . The system does have some sound doctrine , yet the actions and also other teachings are outright blasphemous .
I mean , if even i came and held the bible , that alone would not prove who i belonged too .
Any true lamb would point to the bible as truth . But i have seen false ones hold up that book
and yet they false . Ye shall know them by their fruits .
And yes by their doctrine . For though a man may claim He is biblically sound , he can also be there as a deceiver
to both twist and omit sound doctrine . RCC is full of them . SO is many a protestant church .
What we must do , is continue to do all to point to Christ , and i mean the biblical one . Flood the places with bible doctrine .
Keep reminding them and one another of all things JESUS taught , all things the apostels taught ,
What the prophets taught . ALL things written in that bible are for our adomintion , our learning ,
so as we do not the evil they did . SO its very good to get well engrained and stay well engrained in the bible .
For many teach another jesus , another gospel , and that means IT AINT NEITHER .

And you are an infallible interpreter of the Bible?
Everyone is wrong who disagrees with you?
 

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The Vatican's armies did what to those who had their own beliefs in disagreement with the pope?

Speak truth.
The Vatican's armies? How long ago did the Vatican have an army according to men's histories? What makes you certain the histories of men really coincide precisely with God's Truth?

Even if the histories were true, can you connect them with the Vatican or the Catholic Church or any Catholic individuals alive in the flesh today? Even in men's courts of law that is called inadmissible "hearsay" evidence. Is that how you want your case judged when someone accuses you?

Help us dear Lord get on with the work you do have for us today!
 

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And these conclusions are based on personal revelation from God or from prayerful study of the scripture? How closely was the Holy Spirit involved in your conclusions? Are you an eye witness in the Spirit or even in the flesh of their activities?

Notice that I am not saying your conclusions are wrong... but how do you know they are right? Did you talk to God about it just before your posted your ideas and received a definite answer?
Worshipping and praying to mother Mary is a replication of Pagan fertility beliefs.
 

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The Vatican's armies? How long ago did the Vatican have an army according to men's histories? What makes you certain the histories of men really coincide precisely with God's Truth?

Even if the histories were true, can you connect them with the Vatican or the Catholic Church or any Catholic individuals alive in the flesh today? Even in men's courts of law that is called inadmissible "hearsay" evidence. Is that how you want your case judged when someone accuses you?

Help us dear Lord get on with the work you do have for us today!
Did Vatican armies go to France and slaughter Albigensians?
 

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Do you mean trolls can vomit out anti-Catholic bigotry they like without any evidence?
Yes, Catholic history and its current Office of Inquisition are indeed vomit.
 

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What do active Catholics assume they are doing?
I do not know today as I am not an active Catholic. Your accusations are across the board as if everyone Catholic today must be guilty for sin supposed committed in the past by some other unnamed and unknown Catholics. Is God not able to deal with those things? Does anyone other than God have to knowledge and resources to do that and to do it right and fairly? Not me!
 
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I do not know today as I am not an active Catholic. Your accusations are across the board as if everyone Catholic today must be guilty for sin supposed committed in the past by some other unnamed and unknown Catholics. Is God not able to deal with those things? Does anyone other than God have to knowledge and resources to do that and to do it right and fairly? Not me!
Yes. The extended history of the Vatican torturing and slaughtering those who pursue their own lives into God is the knowledge we have to characterize what the Vatican is all about. The Vatican murders, the Jesuits subvert countries, and neither want to mind their own business.

Why do Catholic buildings have statues of evil gargoyles, and Masonic symbols purposefully placed in the architecture?
 
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