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Your statement above in RED makes absolutely NO sense grammatically. Would you like to rephrase that?

I’ve come to find that “LOL!” on this forum usually means, “Oh no! I put my foot in my mouth again – deflect, deflect!!” Pay attention: It is the SAME teaching. EVERYBODY is saved BY the blood of Christ – but they are saved THROUGH the Church (Matt.29:19-20, Matt. 16-18-19, 18:15-18, Luke...

Pay attention – James 2 shows us that faith itself is true faith ONLY by our cooperation. Faith = Belief + Cooperation (works, love, surrender). You CANNOT be justified without faith, as defined above. Ergo, the James 2:24 does NOT contradict the Romans 4 definition of Justification - NOR is it...

NO, you didn’t. Face it – I caught you in a LIE. First, you stated that the Church “changed” its position on the teaching that there is no salvation outside the Church (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus). NOW, you’re back-pedaling by saying, “Well, they contradicted themselves!” WRONG. I proved to...

Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus - the teaching that there is NO salvation outside the Church - goes all the way back to Cyprian of Carthage (circa 256 AD) – 50 years before Constantine became Emperor of Rome. Like many other doctrines – it has had to be officially DEFINED because of people like YOU...

This is precisely the kind of nonsense I expected. You completely dodged the question. YOU made the faile claim that the Church “CHASNGED”’ its position on this matter – and yet, you FAILED to show ANY documented evidence. Tim Staples doesn’t make thus false claim in his article. Now – either...

I don’t care what Luther said – he was a heretic. The BIBLE says: James 2:24 You see that a person is justified by works and NOT by faith alone. It doesn’t say that a person is “shown” to be justified – but IS justified.

WRONG. Necromancy is defined as seeking information (oracles) from the dead. Catholics ask our departed brothers and sisters who are in the presence of Almighty God to PRAY FOR us. ALL members of the Body of Christ are encouraged to pray for one another (James 5:16). Rev. 5:8 shows the Elders...

I openly challenge you to PROVE the manure you posted. Show me DOCUMENTED PROOF that the Catholic Church taught that there is NO salvation outside the Church – then CHANGED that teaching to include those OUTSIDE the Church as long as they join the Church and “keep communion” to “keep...

No I committed a long time ago. Just not to YOUR version of history.

Misinterpreted is more lkke it . . .

And you see something completely different than what thew Early Church saw - yet THEY were the ones who carried the Apostolic teachinhs and passed them down through the centuries. YOUR opinion, on the other hand, came 2000 years later . . .

It's not a case of my "narrowing" the context - but one of your inventing a context that doesn;t exist. The crux of the passage is is verseses 16, 18-19. Verse 17 tells us HOW Simon knew who Jesus was.

Once again - I think you're reading too much into verse 17 - when the meat pof the passage is oin the following 2 verses (18 & 19). In verse 17, Jesus us merely informing Simon WHERE he got the idea that Jesus is the Messiah. I'm not downplaying the importance of this because it means that...

I beg to differ. His name was SIMON barJonah - and Jesus changed his name to "Peter" (Kepha), which means "Rock" and gave Him unprecedended Authority. Just as Abraham's rols as the "Rock" in Isaiah 51:1-2 points to Yaweh - Peter's rols as the "Rock in Matt. 16:18-10 points to Christ. What WE...

Jesus told Peter that it wasn’t PETER who came up with this confession on his own – but that he was inspired – even compelled to say this because the Father revealed it to him. That’s ALL Jesus is conveying to him in verse 17. There’s not some “greater mystery” or “fork” that we all must take...

For the record, @ScottA, I know we've had some heated discussions in the past - but I am enjoying this more civil exchange . . .

No – it ALL points to CHRIST. Everything Jesus told Peter in Matt 16 points to JESUS. Everything God promised Eliakim in Isa. 22 points to JESUS. The Heavenly Jerusalem in Rev. 21 represents the CHURCH – which is the Brid of Christ. OT Type and NT fulfillment is ALL about Him – even the types...

What an ASININE response. I would posit that ANY minister – Protestant OR Catholic that preys on children is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. YOU are trying to say that only charlatans and Catholics can be perverts – but NOT well-educated, ordained mainline Protestant ministers. YOU are a fraud and...

NOT sure how you can say this when I DID, in fact, point to the spiritual with regard to Matt. 16:18-19. I showed that Jesus calls Simon, “Kepha”, which means “Rock”. I also showed the connection to the Heavenly Jerusalem in Rev. 21 is built on 12 ROCKS (foundations) with the name of one of...