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So the curses from the Council of Trent still stand, right? I am ‘anathema’ for rejecting Tobit as uninspired … cursed, expelled from the Church and damned.

Just for the record, you do know that I said that. Right? I claimed that was NOT a teaching of the Catholic Church. I try very hard to only accuse the RCC of things that it is guilty of (like Baptizing babies or placing Tradition and Scripture as equal in authority or proclaiming certain...

That is a half-truth ... what you really mean is that YOU have accepted none of the answers that anyone has given, so can he guess the answer that YOU are thinking of? :)

I stand corrected ... the Blessed Virgin even has saving faith for Catholics. (Yet another reason to be grateful that I am a Baptist rather than Roman Catholic.)

My daughter is a senior at a High School on Florida. Her school is ranked near the middle of the pack for the state. My wife and I volunteer at the school. Here are some observations from the front lines: parents have abrogated their responsibility to actually "raise" their children and...

[Genesis 2:7 NASB95] 7 Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. Breath gives life. [John 3:5-8 NASB95] 5 Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit* he...

As a reference to the Parable of the Sower [Matthew 13, Mark 4, Luke 8], does the soil improve itself or does the Farmer improve the soil [Ezekiel 11:19, Ezekiel 36:26]?

I agree that men (and women) can now "come to Jesus to be forgiven and delivered of sinning." [Luke 7:47-48; 1 John 2:12] I think that I disagree with "the Spirit of God is now poured out upon all flesh to convict all men everywhere of sin" and was wondering if you have Scripture references to...

Reading posts from Christian Forums. (Oops, sorry. I thought that said “How does the Body of Christ Manure?”) ;)

Catholics would scream bloody murder if “I SUGGESTED” that you were saved by the faith of the “blessed virgin Mary” rather than God given faith in Christ … so you might want to avoid that particular sarcasm in the future. (You Catholics already waste too much time nagging Jesus’ mother when He...

How many times and in how many ways can it be repeated that “it” is a gift of God. So the FAITH is not human generated faith (“for within me no good thing lives” … remember that verse). Just for the record, the “gift” is more than Faith, but that requires looking at masculine and feminine word...

You mean the questions you asked to change the topic? You are welcome. I am a 5 point Calvinist, so you are barking up the wrong tree when you accuse me of advocating “universal salvation”. :rolleyes:

By the numbers: Q1) you claim you were “saved” without faith? No. Faith is a gift from God. “as God has allotted to each a measure of faith” [Romans 12:3] “it is the gift of God” [Ephesians 2:8] “to another [is given] faith by the same Spirit” [1 Corinthians 12:9] Q2) you claim you were...

Foul. Moving the goal posts in the middle of a play. Sola Fide (Faith Alone) is “justification by faith apart from the need for works of righteousness”. When the RCC adds “sacraments” as prerequisites or co-requisites to being “in Christ”, it is adding works of righteousness by men as a...

WANTED: Heaven is looking for a few good con-men! :confused:

FYI: Even the RCC acknowledges that God can save without Baptism ... or else all death-bed confessions and infant deaths before baptism MUST result in damnation because God cannot save without "water baptism" [or fill in any other sacrament]. We both know that the RCC claims no such limitation...

Yes it does refer to my salvation. Read it again, it says so right in the text: “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, [it is] the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.” [Ephesians 2:8-9] It says that I have been saved ... by...

It always seemed to me that Peter made good on his impetuous promise that he was ready to die for Jesus. In modern terms, a Lieutenant approaches with a squad of armed marines and you charge the Lieutenant with a pistol ... you are not walking away from that encounter. Jesus saved Peter's life...

Maybe my wires are "different", but I found this curious: John, the fisherman from Peter and Andrew's old neighborhood, was known in the household of the High Priest in Jerusalem and comfortably able to just walk in.

“Faith Alone” (Sola Fide in Latin from the Reformers) means “justification by faith without the need for religious works to earn that justification” … and comes from scripture (as did all of the Reformation arguments that challenged RCC Traditions) like this: “For by grace you have been saved...