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@Behold I agree with much of what you are presenting here. Righteousness comes by faith. Sanctification however is a process, and I believe that as we are made aware of sin in our lives, then we are to confess those sins and repent. True repentance to the point of hating what God hates and...

The descriptive, 'legalism', is often a mere imagined excuse for a lack of willingness to obey, and forsake known sin.

When the Catholic Church dominated Europe, compelling obedience to papal authority under pain of excommunication and even death, joining with the state to subdue dissent, various church leaders, many of them highly educated but taught in the schools of Rome, discovered the scriptures and read...

The future millennium is book ended by resurrections... The first resurrection of God's people at the second coming of Jesus, who are then taken to heaven. The 1000 years is an earthly Sabbath. Nothing on earth is alive after the plagues and earthquakes and upheavals of the final days, and those...

I might add that suicide for many is an act of despair, desperation, hopelessness. Those sad mental states don't always represent mental illness, but can be the result of trauma and abuse. Yet ultimately we must believe God is merciful, not after the fact of death, but prior to any attempt at...

I heard an online sermon a short time ago. The preacher offered a really good analogy to the idea that Jesus came to save us from our sins. You are trapped in a house, surrounded by a wall of fire you know is impenetrable. The walls all around you are about to collapse inwards, and the roof is...

Lol. Yes you do. And the positive responses to such an outrageous idea is positively underwhelming.

There is nothing amusing or comedic about the Catholic notion that a relationship with Christ means to eat a biscuit once a week. That is not relationship. That is deception and a counterfeit: a real relationship with Jesus is spiritual and through a daily constant communion with Him through the...

Indeed. A stumbling stone and Rock of offense for those who seek glory by their works.

Those traditions that non Catholics keep for the most part were inherited from Rome. I say non Catholic, because there are very few who profess to be protestants these days, and even less who actually are.

KJV Romans 11:3-6 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. 4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. 5 Even so then at this...

KJV Romans 9:30-33 30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. 31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. 32...

You are contradicting yourself here. First you say correctly, that "prophecy is not to be interpreted privately', (that we can't decide truth for ourselves), then declare that the only source of truth is man. That the man belongs to a church is irrelevant. He's still a man deciding on your...

You are correct, they are one law, literally one word. Yet they are different commands, even promises if you believe. Thou shalt not becomes a promise rather than an injunction. But if you agree that they are one law, what right did your church have to change the 4yh Commandment from the 7th...

Basically, Paul is saying we cannot earn our way to heaven. Nothing we do, nothing we can be, nothing we say can convince God to accept us...He has already accepted us in Christ, all we have to do is believe it. After belief comes obedience, yet even obedience is impossible without faith, "for...

The Ten Commandments are also promises for those that have faith, yet your church changed them. If the sacraments are promises are promises, then what does your church leaders believe themselves to be to deny them to others?

As I said... It seems that Catholics in general simply do not in any way trust God to lead them into truth, which explains why they cleave fearfully to the magisterium to confirm and teach them everything. Those early churches BoL, had Jesus, and He led them into the truths of the gospel...

Who are you asking, and what do you mean by 'saved'?

That you consider the throne spoken of in Hebrews to be that of Mary is your imagination. There is no confirmation any where else, no evidence, no corroboration. From what I see of your posts, which is the only evidence I have, is that may is on the throne of your life. Not heaven. KJV Acts...

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