Is There Different Beliefs Among Catholics? Chrislam Movement?

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Taken

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YOUR problem is that you actually believe that you have MORE authority than God Himself, who commands us to intercede for one another.

Your problem is you cannot respond on point.

As for James 5:16 - he is telling his readers to pray for one another - period.

Period! So? No one said not for people to pray for one another.

Period? nope, and...now your Illusion. LOL.

, he alludes to the fact that asking those in Heaven to pray for us is a good thing as well by saying that "The prayer of a RIGHTEOUS person is very powerful" (James 5:16).


So you think "persons" are in Heaven?

LOL

James is speaking TO: Living People; His Brethren...the Tribes of Israel.


James 1:
[1] James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
[2] My brethren...


James 5:16 is speaking of a "Righteous Person"

Not a big mystery:
People pray for other people....and the Prayer of a Righteous PERSON is most powerful!

According to MOST Protestants - and even YOU - there is "NONE righteous", only those in Heaven.
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LOL...utter garbage.

there is "NONE righteous", only those in Heaven.

Only people in Heaven are Righteous eh?

First of all a human person is a BODY and SOUL.

Secondly...Body's of saints are not in Heaven!

IOW there are no human person in Heaven for James 5:16 to be speaking about.

Also Physically DEAD humans are not scripturally called a person.

1)
There is none Righteous was spoken by Jesus...DUH!!! None became Born Again until After Jesus returned to Heaven.

2)
The Righteous of God...are the Living born Again persons!!!

2 Cor 5
[21] For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

I'm sure that is news to you, since you teach Catholics never become FREED from sin or Righteous until they are a physically dead rotting corpse....and are only a saint in Heaven...that you speak to and ASK them to deliver your prayer to God...

What a load of nonsense.:eek:

Oh and since ALL your verses were about human persons praying for human persons...they had nothing to do with YOU asking DEAD people to pray for you, which was the point you drifted off from.

Nothing new...same old BOL...rude, crude, snarky and off point.
 

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Your problem is you cannot respond on point.
Period! So? No one said not for people to pray for one another.

Period? nope, and...now your Illusion. LOL.
So you think "persons" are in Heaven?
LOL

James is speaking TO: Living People; His Brethren...the Tribes of Israel.


James 1:
[1] James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
[2] My brethren...

James 5:16 is speaking of a "Righteous Person"

Not a big mystery:
People pray for other people....and the Prayer of a Righteous PERSON is most powerful!

LOL...utter garbage.
Only people in Heaven are Righteous eh?
First of all a human person is a BODY and SOUL.
Secondly...Body's of saints are not in Heaven!
IOW there are no human person in Heaven for James 5:16 to be speaking about.

Also Physically DEAD humans are not scripturally called a person.
1)There is none Righteous was spoken by Jesus...DUH!!! None became Born Again until After Jesus returned to Heaven.
2)The Righteous of God...are the Living born Again persons!!!

2 Cor 5
[21] For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

I'm sure that is news to you, since you teach Catholics never become FREED from sin or Righteous until they are a physically dead rotting corpse....and are only a saint in Heaven...that you speak to and ASK them to deliver your prayer to God...

What a load of nonsense.:eek:

Oh and since ALL your verses were about human persons praying for human persons...they had nothing to do with YOU asking DEAD people to pray for you, which was the point you drifted off from.

Nothing new...same old BOL...rude, crude, snarky and off point.
Sooooooooo, you then have to explain why you and others have in the past posted Rom. 3:10 when we Catholics speak of Mary's sinlessness.
You guys here tell us emphatically that there are "NONE righteous" for ALL have sinned (Rom. 3:10).

NOW, you're saying that this isn't true and that there ARE righteous people walking around here in earth?
Why then, could it NOT be true for Msry, who is called "Kecharitomene" in Luke 1:28??

As for there being "bodies" in Heaven - I never said that - although there ARE a few: Jesus, Mary, Enoch Elijah and Moses.

Next time - STUDY your Bible - don't just quote it . . .
 

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who taught you to pray to Jesus, Taken? Can you find that anywhere, one single place, in the Bible?

Excuse me?

I always thought Jesus is God.

And, bbyrd, here is one Biblical evidence about praying to Jesus:

Copied and pasted from a bible study.

Christian martyr, Stephen. In Acts 7, while being stoned to death, he sees the risen Christ standing at the right of the Father in the stance of an advocate (v. 55). Others-centered to the end, Stephen asks his Lord to forgive those killing him (v. 60): “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” The parallels between the way Stephen dies and Jesus himself are not be missed (e.g., compare Acts 7:60 and Luke 23:34). There is further evidence provided in 1 Corinthians, where Paul describes Christians as those who call on the Lord’s name: “To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours” (1 Cor. 1:2). Jesus is explicitly in view here. Indeed, the letter concludes with an appeal to Jesus: “Our Lord, come (maranatha)!” (1 Cor. 16:22) In fact, the biblical canon ends on the very same note: “Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!” (Rev. 22:20)
 
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who taught you to pray to Jesus, Taken? Can you find that anywhere, one single place, in the Bible?

Matt 28:
[18] And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

John 14:
[14] If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

Glory to God,
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Are you Catholic bbyrd009?
not sure how anyone could read that and think i was a Catholic? But to be clear i have nothing against Catholics, all my friends seem to be Catholic, i volunteer Catholic, my boss until recently was Catholic...
 
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right? I mean whats wrong with that? Or praying to Mary too, for that matter?
No offense bro but the Catholic has spoken imo, ty
might as well pray to a budgie or a rock, for all the difference it will make.
 

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I have some Catholic friends that agree with primary doctrines of Christian Churches here in the US. Our disagreements are on secondary doctrines which doesn't bother me. If they want to wear long robes in church or swing containers of incense up and down the aisles, or wear big cross symbols on their chest, so be it. As long as their sole belief and faith are in Jesus Christ and do not become a stumbling block for new christians. These same friends do not agree wholeheartedly on everything that goes on at the Vatican.

So my question is, coming from a non Catholic background, do some Catholics really support the Vatican and the Pope trying to bring together Christians + Islam, THE CHRISLAM MOVEMENT ? Or is this just the Radical Catholics? My Catholic friends do not support the Chrislam Movement, so there must be different types/levels of Catholicism?

Someone please educate me?

The Lord Jesus Christ ONLY, is Worthy of all our Praise and Worship!
I have studied many of the denominations of the church and generally, you will find that the basic doctrines do not vary much. It is in the peripherals that the variance comes.

In the Pentecostal churches generally, they often come about because someone wanted a ministry that they could not fulfil in the church they are in so they move out and start their own church. Or they hold to a certain doctrine that their denomination does not subscribe to so they start their own so that they can push that doctrine.

A classic example is here in Australia where a pastor in the AOG had a thing about British Israelism which the AOG would not countenance so he left and started the Christian Revival Crusade. Some 50 years later the revival has died a death. In essence, it is AOG as the British Israel thing is rarely heard of.

One thing that Satan does in the church is to try and make you ineffective. He spends a lot of time in the church even though the church doesn't seem to realise it. What he tries to do is make you compromise your beliefs and your belief in God and Jesus so that when you witness you have nothing to say because you have taken onboard the lies of the devil. Chrislam is one such attempt. This enables him to get you to lose your identity in a false religion and once it starts where does it end up.

In the gospels, Jesus had no time for the religious leaders of the day because they were false, having a form of religion but denying the power of it. When you shack up with a false religion guess who wins and guess who loses. I have just read a book about Islam in Afghanistan. In its pure expression, Islam believes they are the true religion and if there is any dialogue with them it is on the basis that you convert to Islam, not the other way around. In fact, if anyone who is a Muslim and converts to another religion they are killed.

So do not believe it is a religion of peace. It is as long as you do what they say. If you don't, you will soon find out that it is far from peaceful. And if you are a woman, stay clear of it because they are treated abominably in Muslim controlled nations.
 

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Sooooooooo, you then have to explain why you and others have in the past posted Rom. 3:10 when we Catholics speak of Mary's sinlessness.
You guys here tell us emphatically that there are "NONE righteous" for ALL have sinned (Rom. 3:10).

Rom 3:10
[10] As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

As usual: You reveal, you can read Scripture, but do not understand it.

I have told you before...
Use what you should have learned in First grade regarding any subject.
Who, What, When, Why, Where, How.

Paul is speaking TO people IN Rome.
Nothing says Paul is exclusively speaking TO Romans or Jews or any other Gentiles.
Paul is speaking TO...any person Who Is Converted...and Speaking ABOUT them AND people WHO ARE NOT converted...and Paul references what WAS written About People NOT converted IN Christ...that "THEY" are Not Righteous!

Did you GO READ what "was Written"?
Did you Learn WHO it was Written About?
Did you Learn WHY none were Righteous?

It's not rocket science.
Righteousness of God is What a person "IN Christ" IS gifted By the Lord God.
And "None" (without Christ IN them) is righteous!

A person IN Christ should know they have been Given the Righteousness of God.

A person NOT IN Christ should be Taught, they have Not the Righteousness of God!
NONE of them, not ONE person, without Christ IN them, has the righteousness of God IN them.

Hello...Christ IS the Righteousness of God!
If Christ IS Not IN a person, that person has Not the Righteousness of God!

NOW, you're saying that this isn't true and that there ARE righteous people walking around here in earth?

Yipes!
It is True, None, not one person has the Righteousness of God IN Them, If they do Not have Christ IN them!
It is True, Every person WHO has Christ IN THEM has the Righteousness of God IN them!

then, could it NOT be true for Msry, who is called "Kecharitomene" in Luke 1:28??

Luke 1:
[28] And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.

The angel came TO: Mary V.erse27.
The angel spoke TO Mary.
The angel greeted her with a word, meant to get her attention...Hail
The angel gave Mary a message (handy, since angel's of God are Messengers of God)
The angel told Mary she was highly favored (wow, what an awesome message to receive from the Lord. Sounds like the angel is about to notify Mary of a great task the Lord has chosen her to do, don't ya think?)
The angel tells Mary the Lord is WITH her.
(That is good to know, since historically it is written the Lord was WITH others He chose to do particular tasks!)
The angel tells Mary she is Blessed among women.
(Humm Blessed among SPECIFICALLY WOMEN...NOT men? Appears her task will have something to do with her being a woman and Virgin ...Verse 27.)


And what about Luke 1:28?

To me it is quite straight forward...
Mary WAS chosen for a particular task
...and so were Others.
The Lord was WITH her
...and so the Lord was with Others.
She was highly favored
...and Others were favored.
She was Blessed
...and others were Blessed.
Her task was exclusive
...and so was Others.

So what is your point?
The scripture you mention say nothing about:
Mary being herself naturally born SINLESS.
Mary becoming SINLESS.
Mary being Righteous.
Mary having Christ IN her heart.
Mary being saved.
Mary being born again.
Mary being given another name.
Mary being a saint.
Mary being Blessed among men.

Why is it Catholic men WHO for centuries have supposedly been celibate preach this seeming odd love affair with Mary? and make up a whole doctrine about her that scripture does not teach?