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John 1:1 = In the beginning was the Word was with God and the Word was God.



Which is why many Jews AND catholics AND protestants PERISH = Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being priest for Me;
Because you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.
Many have long forgot ten or never knew
THE JUDGE on the last day
HE who has the final word
HIS WORDS WILL BE THE JUDGE . And their whorish popes and sold out protestant leaders
WILL NOT be able to save them . THEY DECIE VED THEM .
They cannot save this generation , they cannot even save themselves .
FOR TO DENY JESUS IS THE SECOND death sentence
and to Deny HIS words of T RUTH , IS TO DENY HIM . them popes cannot save them
ecumenincal in tefaith WILL not save th em .
It cannot deliver them from the wrath of THE ALL MIGHTY and RIGHTEOUS GOD .
FAITH IN JESUS saves . Faith in interfaith WILL DAMN every last soul .
for it is faith IN A LIE of a god that cannot save but has his own TRAPPED IN BONDAGE .
OH he cannot set the captives free . HE KEEPS THE CAPTIVES IN BONDAGE .
JESUS can . BUT JESUS IS BEING DENIED by this people . NOT gonna bode well on the da y of THE LORD .
 

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Wow, that's my story too only it was at age 35 when I became a Christian. I had communion and confirmation when I was 11; so getting out of school was just a cool thing to do, (which happened to be next door from a Catholic school). Once a week for a Catechism class and then on Saturdays, meant nothing to me. It didn't stick, it went in one ear and out the other - likely because my parents weren't believers, so they didn't share and nuture the principles of the Bible/Jesus. They just gave me a choice, go or don't go - we don't care. I should have chosen the Protestant class, maybe I would have been more receptive? Anyways, I'm good now.
That said, I do believe many Catholics can be and many are born again believers. Half of the body of Christ are Catholics, and 1.4 billion nake tha claim. As far as I know the only prerequisite to be a Christian is to believe that Jesus died for our sins, was buried and rose from the dead on the third day. They have faith in Jesus, regardless of the flaws in their religion (which do not invalidate their faith). We are all flawed sinners.
Thank you @Ronald David Bruno. My parents were both Catholics but not very involved. When my mom left the CC, her mom and siblings were horrified! Lol. They never wanted to hear scripture because none of them knew any. From there us kids (all grown now, of course) all but one is a believer and follower of Jesus.

God bless!
 

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Thank you @Ronald David Bruno. My parents were both Catholics but not very involved. When my mom left the CC, her mom and siblings were horrified! Lol. They never wanted to hear scripture because none of them knew any. From there us kids (all grown now, of course) all but one is a believer and follower of Jesus.

God bless!
Folks we been lied too big time .
The peace board was long planned even before Mr man brought this into the forefront .
I seen and heard tony blair and the un and others plans in it .
THEY been duped sister . Its all a sham .
This man is a wolf in wool . i knew it the whole time . Do not run to the other side either
IT came of them too .
A governing body of elite leaders to bring peace .
The work and the working of t he mother harlot HAS Indeed been at work .
And the nar realm cannot save you , me or anyone else .
THEY ALL in on this sister .
And there are speculations now as to the possibility
it will be , TEN KEY leaders sitting over it .
As if that aint familiar .
Its all of anti christ , centered on a god w ho h as totall y decieved them all
and called himself GOD and love . Man the devil is a wise one indeed .
THE bible sure did say tHE MOST SUBTILE of all creatures . HE has them sister .
buT GOD has the sheep . this is not looking good at all .
 

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Thank you @Ronald David Bruno. My parents were both Catholics but not very involved. When my mom left the CC, her mom and siblings were horrified! Lol. They never wanted to hear scripture because none of them knew any. From there us kids (all grown now, of course) all but one is a believer and follower of Jesus.

God bless!
Get everyone you know OUT of them ecumenical churches NOW .
I cannot stress this enough . This is the most subtile entity i have ever seen .
It knows how to seduce . Sister it knows how to pander to any type of man alive and any group .
IT is the devil . I have no doubt about this .
Get this people away from this unity finding common ground stuff . It knows how to lie and to make
things seem as good , as love and as good for humanity . WHEN IN REALITY
it desires ONLY their death and destruction and TO KEEP them FAR from the ONE TRUE GOD and HIS CHRIST who could have saved them . .
 

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Folks we been lied too big time .
The peace board was long planned even before Mr man brought this into the forefront .
I seen and heard tony blair and the un and others plans in it .
THEY been duped sister . Its all a sham .
This man is a wolf in wool . i knew it the whole time . Do not run to the other side either
IT came of them too .
A governing body of elite leaders to bring peace .
The work and the working of t he mother harlot HAS Indeed been at work .
And the nar realm cannot save you , me or anyone else .
THEY ALL in on this sister .
And there are speculations now as to the possibility
it will be , TEN KEY leaders sitting over it .
As if that aint familiar .
Its all of anti christ , centered on a god w ho h as totall y decieved them all
and called himself GOD and love . Man the devil is a wise one indeed .
THE bible sure did say tHE MOST SUBTILE of all creatures . HE has them sister .
buT GOD has the sheep . this is not looking good at all .
DITTO
 

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Get everyone you know OUT of them ecumenical churches NOW .
I cannot stress this enough . This is the most subtile entity i have ever seen .
It knows how to seduce . Sister it knows how to pander to any type of man alive and any group .
IT is the devil . I have no doubt about this .
Get this people away from this unity finding common ground stuff . It knows how to lie and to make
things seem as good , as love and as good for humanity . WHEN IN REALITY
it desires ONLY their death and destruction and TO KEEP them FAR from the ONE TRUE GOD and HIS CHRIST who could have saved them . .
@amigo de christo
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Folks we been lied too big time .
The peace board was long planned even before Mr man brought this into the forefront .
I seen and heard tony blair and the un and others plans in it .
THEY been duped sister . Its all a sham .
This man is a wolf in wool . i knew it the whole time . Do not run to the other side either
IT came of them too .
A governing body of elite leaders to bring peace .
The work and the working of t he mother harlot HAS Indeed been at work .
And the nar realm cannot save you , me or anyone else .
THEY ALL in on this sister .
And there are speculations now as to the possibility
it will be , TEN KEY leaders sitting over it .
As if that aint familiar .
Its all of anti christ , centered on a god w ho h as totall y decieved them all
and called himself GOD and love . Man the devil is a wise one indeed .
THE bible sure did say tHE MOST SUBTILE of all creatures . HE has them sister .
buT GOD has the sheep . this is not looking good at all .
@amigo de christo
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When I started this topic, I simply wanted testimonies of former Catholics...in order to help someone. I never dreamed it would evolve into so much bickering.
 

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OOPS!!!

Last time i checked with SDA, they say that saturday is a commandment that must be kept!!!

My encouragement to you = Run to the LORD of the sabbath
It is a commandment that must be kept. As are all the commandments. Would anytime at all dare to argue that it is okay not to obey God's commandments?
The thing you do not understand is the how. And though you read my post and quoted it, you missed the how.
Do you know what eternal life is? Scripture explains. Jesus explains.

“And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. ”
John 17:3 KJV

Salvation and receiving the gift of eternal life is all wrapped up in having a relationship with the Father and Son.
God's grace is of such beauty and wonder that not only does God make the way to glory possible through giving to the human race His own Son, thus providing the legal license to enter into the presence of God, but also provides the power to overcome sin through the gift of the holy Spirit and the fruit of that relationship is obedience to ask God's commandments. Justification through the blood of the Lamb, sanctification through the ministry of Jesus as High Priest in the heavenly sanctuary and His holy Spirit working in the minds and hearts of His redeemed children. That's the gospel.

“21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. 27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. 29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: 30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. ”
Romans 3:21-31 KJV

“17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) 18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. 19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. ”
Romans 5:17-21 KJV

“16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. 18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. ”
Romans 6:16-18 KJV

“2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. ”
Romans 8:2-9 KJV
 

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The commandment of the 7th Day is ONLY kept in the LORD of the Sabbath

Could you invent a time machine and let Jesus know He picked the wrong day for the Resurrection?

Maybe you can go back to the late 1800s and find this apocalyptic cult that failed twice to predict the end of the world and when all seemed lost found a seaman and self-proclaimed minister who said forget all that... if you tell people you must worship Jesus on the seventh day and threaten them with hell, you can make a religion out of it.
 

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Verily verily i say unto thee
That just because a man can lip the gospel do not mean that fellow follows or even knows Christ .
And i sure have noticed a lot of adding too and taking from that gospel they have on their walls
BUT DARN SURE NOT O N THEIR H EARTS .
The NAME of JESUS and the cliam one beleives
means NOTHING when the heart is far FROM HE W HO DID THE SAVING .
The prostestant realm has indeed become a very infected realm .
And its mother has long BEEN infected and has fed her c hildren deceptoin and delusion
since the day of her conception .
I wouldn't say since the day of HER conception...
since I don't know when you believe that is.
The rest can be true since there is fear of mentioning hell in the CC
and sometimes this is necessary.
 
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Could you invent a time machine and let Jesus know He picked the wrong day for the Resurrection?

Maybe you can go back to the late 1800s and find this apocalyptic cult that failed twice to predict the end of the world and when all seemed lost found a seaman and self-proclaimed minister who said forget all that... if you tell people you must worship Jesus on the seventh day and threaten them with hell, you can make a religion out of it.
Mocking God is the source of pride and satanism.

Satan loves the intellect and intelligence of man.
Have you heard the saying: "If you had a brain you would be dangerous" = It is TRUTH
The more intellectual the man the greater the availability of Satan to use that person for his purposes of spreading deception.

GOD loves to demonstrate His Glory in weak lowly vessels.

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And bring to nothing the intelligence of the intelligent

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called.
But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.
But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption— that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.”
 
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Mocking God is the source of pride and satanism.

Satan loves the intellect and intelligence of man.

Hmm, is that in Galoshes chapter 3? I think the apostle Forrest said stupid is as stupid does.

I do not make fun of intellectually challenged people or people whose writing is off due to a disability or language barrier. I do not present myself as or pretend to be intelligent.

When seemingly non-challenged people say stuff that is flat our wrong and threaten people with things like you are going to hell for disagreeing with me over something God could not possibly care about or as you put it, "Mocking God is the source of pride and satanism."
 

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Hmm, is that in Galoshes chapter 3? I think the apostle Forrest said stupid is as stupid does.

I do not make fun of intellectually challenged people or people whose writing is off due to a disability or language barrier. I do not present myself as or pretend to be intelligent.

When seemingly non-challenged people say stuff that is flat our wrong and threaten people with things like you are going to hell for disagreeing with me over something God could not possibly care about or as you put it, "Mocking God is the source of pride and satanism."
God's Wisdom is WATER

Your intellect is foolishness before God and thus why you believe in the deception of NASA and CGI globe earth
I do not present myself as or pretend to be intelligent.
And you just lied for i have seen your posts.

Your only position is to be prideful in your intelligence as per your quote "Stupid is as stupid does"
 
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God's Wisdom is WATER
I am glad I brought my chapter on Galoshes.
Your intellect is foolishness before God and thus why you believe in the deception of NASA and CGI globe earth

And you just lied for i have seen your posts.

Your only position is to be prideful in your intelligence as per your quote "Stupid is as stupid does"

I lied? Where did I claim I was intelligent? There is a thing called the Dunning-Kreuger Effect. So if I think I am smart, I am not.

I was quoting Forrest Gump.
 

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Can you please give your testimony of being born again and leaving the Catholic Church? Thanks.
I became catholic later on, and wanted to find God. I loved ticking the religious boxes (sacraments).
I failed to 'find' Him, then hardened my heart, and blew it with sins.

20 yrs later, i came to a crisis point and went to evangelical. Started studying john, and discovered that Jesus was God.
It took me a year to actually leave rcc. I was going to both services!

The last time i went into a rcc (to witness to my priest), i had to turn around, because there was a big statue of mary in the foyer.
 
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I became catholic later on, and wanted to find God. I loved ticking the religious boxes (sacraments).
I failed to 'find' Him, then hardened my heart, and blew it with sins.

20 yrs later, i came to a crisis point and went to evangelical. Started studying john, and discovered that Jesus was God.
It took me a year to actually leave rcc. I was going to both services!

The last time i went into a rcc (to witness to my priest), i had to turn around, because there was a big statue of mary in the foyer.

I am pretty sure us Catholics believe Jesus is God. You and anyone else are welcome to witness to me.

I don't know how the Mormons found me. I have nothing to do with them at all. I sarcastically replied to a spam email requesting how I can acquire their temple underwear:
"We have received a request for a missionary visit from a response to a Come Unto Christ email campaign. RESPONDENT WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT TEMPLE GARMENTS. Below you will find the contact details."
 

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I don't know how the Mormons found me. I have nothing to do with them at all. I sarcastically replied to a spam email requesting how I can acquire their temple underwear:
"We have received a request for a missionary visit from a response to a Come Unto Christ email campaign. RESPONDENT WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT TEMPLE GARMENTS. Below you will find the contact details."
At a different forum long ago, I knew a missionary to the Mormons. He even moved to Utah to be able to minister to them.

And he did tell me about some of their secret practices including their underwear with symbols on it.
 
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When I started this topic, I simply wanted testimonies of former Catholics...in order to help someone. I never dreamed it would evolve into so much bickering.
And when did the bickering uptick . When suppoters of a certain place came to defend such a place .
You will find that any time one brings TRUTH
and that TRUTH gets in the way of the apple of their eye , they gonna fight against it tooth and nail .
No matter what sin or lie is exposed , the one who loveth that sin or that error
will resist and accuse any who brings the LIGHT of the TRUTH whereby the darkness was exposed .
And this is not a new thing . Its been going on since nigh the beginning of creation itself .
WHY are thou angry and why hast thou contenance fallen
IF ye do well YOU will be accepted , but if not SIN Lies at the door .........
We seen it even in cain as his anger for his error was exposed and his offering not accepted .
BUT , and this is a big big ol but , DO NOT LET THIS silence you from ever bringing the TRUTH .
We are not here to please man , BUT GOD. T RUTH is the only hope this people has my friend .
I AM the TRUTH THE WAY AND THE LIFE , MY WORDS are SPIRIT and THEY ARE LIFE .
WE must speak THE Truth my friend . Never let emotions silence us . We are not being mean
cause we bring such reminders , WE DO SO for their own good .
 
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