amigo de christo
Well-Known Member
YEAH , only you dont even do that for yourself . YOu say and yet you do NOT .To argue that Catholicism is untrue because it doesn't transform the lives of those who don't practice it, is like arguing that aspirin doesn't work because it doesn't relieve the headaches of those who don't take it.
The Church only claims to announce the Good News of Jesus Christ, and it invites everyone to embrace the life of grace He offers. It does not claim that people who spurn its teachings and reject its life will be transformed into faithful disciples anyway. Nor does it claim that being born to Catholic parents guarantees that a person will inherit his parents' faith. If you want to see the fruit of the Catholic faith, you have to look at the people who are committed to the faith, who take it seriously and put it into practice every day. It's pointless to look at those who are cultural Catholics only, who say they're Catholic if you ask them, but who don't try to live the life, even though they may go to Mass out of habit, or guilt, or whatever. People aren't magically transformed into good Christians just by walking into a Catholic church (even if they do it every week). Repentance and conversion of heart are the keys to the Christian life. Without them, everything else is sterile and false, whether one calls oneself "Catholic" or not.
But to compare the best Evangelicals with the worst Catholics is hardly fair. If you want to see the real fruit of the Catholic faith, look at the people who actually put it into practice. As you know, the Catholic Church has produced some of the greatest, most on-fire saints the world has ever known. Some of them converted whole nations to Christ. We still marvel at their faith and holiness many centuries after they died.
How Can Catholicism Be True When Catholics Are So Dead?
You say examine its leaders . ONLY YOU YOURSELF cannot see POPE francis FOR WHAT HE IS . HOW hard did you examine HIM
against peter , john and the apostels in the bible . HAD YOU DONE THAT , YOU WOULD HAVE FLED that man .
the problem is you only test your leaders against what they themselves have taught you . How dare one goes back to the bible
and actually read it for themselves . TO YOU its thus sayeth the catholic tradtion and intepreation of said scriptures .
YET had you ONLY trusted in GOD and not in these men , then how clearly you could have seen .
THIS POPE is perhaps the most modern day dangerous pope to ever sit the throne . ONLY YOU JUSTIFY HIS EVERY MOVE .
This breaks my heart for you to say what i do next . BUT TILL your eyes are opened not only are you in grave danger
but you are a danger to the true church and must be warned against . IF ONLY you knew the true love i had for you and that i desired only good for you . BUT YOU REFUSE to hear one word and rather just heed folks like pope francis and others who led men astray for years .