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GodsGrace

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They were called Christians by name but the most were Jews by nationality, and all the Apostles including Jesus were Jews by birth. Definitely not Roman Catholics LOL.
They were Jews by nationality.
But not by religion.

Indeed Jewish is BOTH a nationality AND a religion.
By the time the bible was put together,,,the 400's about,,,the Jews by religion were known as Christians.


Umm, the Bereans when confronted by those who should have known (i.e. the Apostles) still checked the Old Testament to see if these things were so.

Acts 17:11 (KJV) These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

...that is how we are to treat all teachings
Agreed.
 

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Oh please. The early Church Fathers were all over the map,,,besides, in my book, they were not early enough and had their uninspired opinions. I'll stick with the 'earlier Fathers' like Moses, David, Jeremiah, Matthew, John, Paul, James etc.`.. at least their writings were inspired by the Holy Spirit and can be trusted.

OK, I don't care to waste any more time discussing with you as obviously your sold on that denomination of yours. I have my convictions, you have yours and they are nearly opposite when it comes to the role of God's written Word in our lives. So have a nice life and I'll pray some day your eyes are opened through the new birth (and I don't mean water baptism). Bye
Sooooo, I have asked that ONE of you show me where the Bible teaches Sola Scriptura - and so far, you've ALL failed.
Instead, all I get are angry "goodbyes" and "I'm done with you's" instead of ACTUAL Scriptural evidence for your claims.

Listen - if you are going to elevate something to a doctrine - make sure you can prove using the means by which you state is our SOLE Authority.
 

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Sooooo, I have asked that ONE of you show me where the Bible teaches Sola Scriptura - and so far, you've ALL failed.
Instead, all I get are angry "goodbyes" and "I'm done with you's" instead of ACTUAL Scriptural evidence for your claims.

Listen - if you are going to elevate something to a doctrine - make sure you can prove using the means by which you state is our SOLE Authority.
Actually, the N.T. states that we are to follow tradition.
I'm sure you know the verse...could you post it?
I have to leave soon...
 

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The Holy Spirit guides everything.

Is Confirmation in the bible?
Are indulgences in the bible? (or even in oral tradition)
Is purgatory in the bible?
Mary's assumption? Assumption may be possible,,,but where is Mary's?
First of all - YOU have to show me where the BIBLE says that everything we believe in has to be written in the Bible.
CAN you show me that??

The Holy Spirit doesn't guide everything. He doesn't guide anybody into wrongdoing or sin.
However - Jesus guaranteed the Holy Spirit would guide His Church to ALL truth . . .
 

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Actually, the N.T. states that we are to follow tradition.
I'm sure you know the verse...could you post it?
I have to leave soon...
2 Thess 2:15
"Stand firm and hold fast to the Traditions you were taught, EITHER BY an ORAL STATEMENT - OR BY a letter from us."

Luke 10:16
Whoever listens to YOU listens to ME. Whoever rejects YOU rejects ME. And whoever rejects ME rejects the ONE who sent ME."

2 Thess. 3:6
"Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is living in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us"

1 Cor. 11:2
"I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I have delivered them to you".
 

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First of all - YOU have to show me where the BIBLE says that everything we believe in has to be written in the Bible.
CAN you show me that??

The Holy Spirit doesn't guide everything. He doesn't guide anybody into wrongdoing or sin.
However - Jesus guaranteed the Holy Spirit would guide His Church to ALL truth . . .
Didn't YOU say that everything the CC teaches is biblical?
If not, I misunderstood and apologize.

OK re the Holy Spirit.
My but you hang on to every word!
Of COURSE, He doesn't lead us into sin...
that's self-explanatory!
 

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just because one person who is a member of the Church has an opinion - that doesn't mean that this is what the Church teaches.
If only the papacy was as accommodating toward the millions of Christians they turned over to the State for execution during the Dark Ages for holding "opinions" not taught by the papacy, right?
 
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2 Thess 2:15
"Stand firm and hold fast to the Traditions you were taught, EITHER BY an ORAL STATEMENT - OR BY a letter from us."

Luke 10:16
Whoever listens to YOU listens to ME. Whoever rejects YOU rejects ME. And whoever rejects ME rejects the ONE who sent ME."

2 Thess. 3:6
"Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is living in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us"

1 Cor. 11:2
"I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I have delivered them to you".
Thanks.
Yes,,,I was thinking of Thessalonians.

I think some folk don't read THE WHOLE bible, but just the parts they like.
 
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The Papacy is a manifestation of apostate Christianity. But it has nothing to do with the reign of the Antichrist, other than succumb to his rule. Some say that a future pope will be the False Prophet, but that has no solid biblical basis.
Enoch111, very definition of "Antichrist" is "in place of Christ", "instead of Christ", "in behalf of Christ", "for Christ".

The papacy has always claimed to be just that, even as it does so this day.
 

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They were Jews by nationality.
But not by religion.
Excuse me but the faith of Abraham was the same faith of the Apostles which should also be our faith.

Indeed Jewish is BOTH a nationality AND a religion.
By the time the bible was put together,,,the 400's about,,,the Jews by religion were known as Christians.
You mean by the time the NT was confirmed.
A Jew doesn't stop being a Jew when he believes in his long awaited promised Messiah. If anything, he becomes a 'completed Jew' going from a relationship of Feasts, Traditions and Holy Days, to a living relationship with the One all those Feasts etc. pointed to in shadows and types.
 

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Excuse me but the faith of Abraham was the same faith of the Apostles which should also be our faith.


You mean by the time the NT was confirmed.
A Jew doesn't stop being a Jew when he believes in his long awaited promised Messiah. If anything he becomes a 'completed Jew' going from a relationship of Feasts, Traditions and Holy Days to a living relationship with the One all those Feasts etc. pointed to in shadows and types.
So you want I should become a Jew?
Maybe move to Crown Heights in Bklyn?
What are you talking about?
Jesus removed the division..
there is now no Jew or Gentile or male or female.......
 
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That doesn't make any sense. I've never met a Christian who was actually sola scriptura. Instead they:
- Hold in their hands a collection of books (ranging from 66-81 books therein) which was defined by tradition.
Not tradition, but prayerful consideration as to which to cling as inspired by God and which to cast off as inspired by Satan. It's called the gift of Discernment - by way of the Holy Spirit.
The invite divine persons to aide in their reading of that collection, and guiding them throughout their everyday lives.
Only one "divine Person", not persons - Jesus Christ.
They include studies of historical and cultural context in studying that collection of books.
"Sola Scriptura" doesn't mean we never read anything but the Bible - it means all others are subordinate to the Bible.
They gather with other Christians and preach between each other, adding in their understanding of the book collection and divinity. And those are all good things! But clearly it doesn't remotely result in everybody being Catholic :)
So, what do you think about the papacy claiming that if a Christian wants to use the Bible as the final authority on religious matters, that he join the Seventh-day Adventist church?
 

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That's a bit of a strange statement.
How can one only read the parts one likes without reading the other texts?
I mean.....one needs to read all in order to find out what one likes, right?
I've never read revelation all the way through.
I've tried....I just can't.

Yes,,,one must read it all to know what they like.
But they kind of refuse to see parts of the bible they don't like.
At lease this happens with the persons to whom I post.
They just stick to what they like and basically ignore my verses.
I do answer to all verses...I've read it all and am not prejiduced.
But good catch T...
you're sharp.
 
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So you want I should become a Jew?
Maybe move to Crown Heights in Bklyn?
What are you talking about?
Jesus removed the division..
there is now no Jew or Gentile or male or female.......
You twisted my words to mean their opposite. Where did I say Gentiles become Jews or Jews become Gentiles? I was making a case for Jewish identity of Jews. Is that how you also twist Scripture?
The verse you are misapplying refers to our identity in Christ as His Body...'there is neither...etc.', otherwise Christians might as well join the world in it's gender confusion lol.
 

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Enoch111, very definition of "Antichrist" is "in place of Christ", "instead of Christ", "in behalf of Christ", "for Christ".

The papacy has always claimed to be just that, even as it does so this day.
That may be so. But the fact remains that God allows the Antichrist just 3 1/2 years to do his dastardly deeds.

Therefore you will find in both Daniel and revelation:
Forty and two months (42 mths)
One thousand two hundred and three score days (1260 days)
Time, times, and half a time = 1 yr + 2 yrs + 6 months = 3 1/2 yrs

On the other hand the Papacy has been around for about 1500 years. It displays the characteristics of the Antichrist, but never has any pope had total and absolute control over all the inhabitants of the earth.
 

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That may be so. But the fact remains that God allows the Antichrist just 3 1/2 years to do his dastardly deeds.

Therefore you will find in both Daniel and revelation:
Forty and two months (42 mths)
One thousand two hundred and three score days (1260 days)
Time, times, and half a time = 1 yr + 2 yrs + 6 months = 3 1/2 yrs

On the other hand the Papacy has been around for about 1500 years. It displays the characteristics of the Antichrist, but never has any pope had total and absolute control over all the inhabitants of the earth.
Why do you fight so hard against the "day/year" principle regarding the time of the Little Horn and the time of the First Beast of Rev 13 when the 70 Weeks of Daniel are clearly symbolic days? It's not 3 1/2 literal years, it's 3 1/2 symbolic years which is 1,260 literal years: the exact reign of the papacy from 538 to 1798 when it received the "deadly wound".

The "going forth of the commandmetn to restore and build Jerusalem" is found in Ezra 7 and was decreed in 5th century B.C. NO WAY THE 70 WEEKS ARE LITERAL.
 

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Why do you fight so hard against the "day/year" principle regarding the time of the Little Horn and the time of the First Beast of Rev 13 when the 70 Weeks of Daniel are clearly symbolic days?
Can you honestly say that Satan and the Antichrist have had ABSOLUTE CONTROL of the earth for the last 1500 years?

And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Do you know what that would actually mean if you took Revelation 13 seriously and literally as seen above? We must take 3 1/2 years as a literal period of 42 months or 1260 days to see that God would never allow the devil control of the earth as described in Revelation 13 for more than this period. We are talking about the Church Age, when the Gospel must be preached in the whole wide world and millions of souls must be saved.
 

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Can you honestly say that Satan and the Antichrist have had ABSOLUTE CONTROL of the earth for the last 1500 years?
The Bible does not say the Antichrist will have "absolute control" over the entire Earth for the tenure of its reign - you're saying that - however, it is described to at some point fully attain to this degree of control before it's destroyed "with the brightness of His coming".
And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
That's what the papacy did during the Dark Ages. It condemned between 50-150 MILLION "heretics" to death. It ruled over all the nations of Europe until the the close of its 1,260 year reign, when nations began rebelling against it. It received a "deadly wound" at the end of its reign by the very SWORD (France) that it used to have those millions of saints killed. The nation of France who was the most fierce of all the persecuting powers at the hands of the papacy. "He that killeth with the sword must be killed by the sword" - the sword of France.
Do you know what that would actually mean if you took Revelation 13 seriously and literally as seen above? We must take 3 1/2 years as a literal period of 42 months or 1260 days to see that God would never allow the devil control of the earth as described in Revelation 13 for more than this period. We are talking about the Church Age, when the Gospel must be preached in the whole wide world and millions of souls must be saved.
Why are you denying history? The papacy RULED over Christianity for ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY YEARS, from 538 to 1798. It's a matter of history. Asking why God would allow something to take place that has already taken place is just silly.

He allowed it.
His prophets predicted it.
The Word of God testified to it.
And history records it.

And the Jesuits covered it up by fabricating the very doctrine about a "future Antichrist" that you so boldly preach!
 

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Didn't YOU say that everything the CC teaches is biblical?
If not, I misunderstood and apologize.

OK re the Holy Spirit.
My but you hang on to every word!
Of COURSE, He doesn't lead us into sin...
that's self-explanatory!
Everything the Catholic Church teaches is supported by Scripture.
The Bible states, as I have shown repeatedly, that WHATEVER Christ's Church ordains on earth will also be ordained in Heaven . . .

Matt 16:18-19
And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.
I will give YOU the keys to the kingdom of heaven. WHATEVER YOU bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and WHATEVER YOU loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."

Matt. 18:15-18
"If your brother sins (against you), go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother.
If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that 'every fact may be established on the testimony of two or three witnesses.'
If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church. If he refuses to listen even to the church, then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector.
Amen, I say to you, WHATEVER YOU bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and WHATEVER YOU loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Luke 10:16
Whoever listens to YOU listens to ME. Whoever rejects YOU rejects ME. And whoever rejects ME rejects the ONE who sent ME."

John 16:12-15
“I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.
But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to ALL truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to YOU the things that are coming.
He will glorify me, because he will TAKE from what is MINE and declare it to YOU.
Everything that the Father has is MINE; for this reason I told you that he will TAKE from what is MINE and declare it to YOU.

John 20:21-23
Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the holy Spirit. Whose sins YOU FORGIVE are forgiven them, and whose sins YOU RETAIN are retained.”