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Your understanding of the Catholic Canon of Scripture is pathetic.
nice. Funny to me that the ppl who insist upon literal interpretations are usually the same ones that deny the meek inheriting the earth lol, i don't really get it? It's like...i don't even know, being proud to be an ignorant hypocrite or something. Stupid and proud of it. Ok that isn't very kind, so whatever "i can't even make logical sense of what i believe, but i believe it completely" is.
In that case stop saying that all the splinter groups and lone-rangers are lost. Because in reality you have no clue about their standing with God. You need to get down from your ivory tower of judgment and allow God to save whoever He wills as He is not willing that any should perish. That's why there are revivals all over the world, in Muslim countries, in China, Philippines etc. not because of any church or denomination but because God can save without you or me, or with you or me.
Now it is you who lie. Your judgmental crystal ball doesn't know me from Adam. I've known and have a loving relationship with my Lord and Saviour for over 45 yrs now. And if it wasn't for someone who brought me the true Gospel, I'd be still stuck in my sin and the Catholic religion until this day. Thank you Jesus for showing me the difference between that dead religion and Your life giving relationship. Just a simple prayer of repentance and receiving You as Lord and Saviour. Now I don't have to light candles, kneel before idols, pray to dead saints, do stations of the cross, hope I make it to purgatory. I don't even need to go to confession because Jesus is my advocate before the Father and He forgives when I stumble and ask for His forgiveness. Why? Because I'm a child of the King and accepted in the Beloved.
Great post ! Yeah there are many and only the Lord knows who is His, not any self appointed 'church police'..I am going to have to back off from BOL, the man has spent such a long time in what he believes is the absolute truth, so it would take a 'Road to Damascus' moment of his own, before he will stop persecuting The Lords believers... I feel so sad for him, because he TRULY believes what his teachers and alike have told him. He forgot to cling to Christ and instead clung to a man made institution, however well meaning it may have been at the start...One day it will all crash for him, and then he will need help and support from those who know better. I can't write him anymore, said all I have to say anyway...I so hope he makes it into the true Light...Perhaps if everyone ignored him, he would eventually either stop, or give SOME thought to what others have shared with him...I'd prefer the latter, but only time will tell... God bless you Pia
But dear BOL, that's just it......They did NOT do that, but He knows each and every one of His own, and THEY collectively make HIS CHURCH. Neither you or I 'approve' of the splintering, but neither do I believe that the institutionalized churches of ANY denomination, has His Truth in it, because it IS an IT.....concocted by various men across centuries, who DEMAND allegience.
No cause im always wrong and God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are always right. Something you may well find out when its to late for you. So nice to join the forum with a new flame being lit, makes me feel so warm in side.
Hi BofL
HI BoL
We are saved by God's grace via the blood of Christ alone.
Yes - this verse is talking about sexual impurity and has nothing to do with mjrhealth's views about the Catholic Church being the "Harlot of Babylon". If you continue to read the verses that follow, Paul is telling them that their bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit.
I don't refer to your Protestant factions as "lost".
Then my earlier statement is that much more true. Since you claim to have been a Catholic before you don't have an excuse and probably won't be able to claim invincible ignorance.
And again, Pia - thousands and thousands of perpetually-splintering and bickering factions is not what Jesus willed.
Yup - God is always right.
Now if you where only a comedian that really might be so funny, Guess you are in teh wrong business.
Another way to say your signature line:
Hi....Now this is a concise and true statement from start to finish... Bless you and Praise our Beloved for showing us the Way.
Hi....Do you KNOW the actual history of the C C ? If you checked it out, I believe you would be absolutely shocked ! Or are you like other C C members, who just refuse to accept what history has shown, as well as the torture chambers of the Catholic church, STILL in it's original torture room, preserved now as a museum...... I almost fainted when I looked at those things, and the thought of how they used some of those awful instruments on ANYONE who wouldn't 'denounce' the devil and convert to Catholicism or even just convert.. .... Any person who can claim that the group who did these things were men of God, really need their head examined...........How about the Cardinal ( or Cardinals ) not sure how many were in the room, who were recently busted by police, who then found these 'men of the cloth' engaged in sex with young men and taking all sorts of highly illegal drugs like Heroin and cocaine...........According to some, who think the men of the C C's hierarchy are Gods special people, I would just say.......You need help, ASK JESUS !!! http://www.beinaberean.org/writings/church.html.....here is some of that history if interested.
