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I know both Catholic theology and Protestant theology and sometimes I do get a little mixed up. Paragraph 1213 in the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches something that even the priests I know do not teach. They DO teach that a person must be baptized - for the forgiveness of sins. Let me...

OK But tell me why....

Ronald, in post no. 178 you stated this: And we are to rebuke, and judge when brothers are in error to save them The above means that you feel you must rebuke and judge a brother in error IN ORDER TO SAVE HIM. Now, you might have misspoken, but you clearly said that you could save someone...

@Johann I mean, I'm not sure. Does baptismal regeneration mean I could ONLY BE SAVED through baptism?

Could you go thru the attached and tell me if you agree with it or why you think it's wrong? https://www.catholic.com/tract/what-the-early-church-believed-baptismal-regeneration

Could you explain baptismal regeneration? Sometimes I lose track of the meaning....

I agree with all of the above. On some matters, the church fathers agreed. On some they disputed and had to come to some kind of understanding. When I speak of the ECFs maybe I should make this more clear. What I mean is that I trust the ECFs more than some teachers of today. I like Ignatius of...

EG, maybe some day we'll be on the same thread and could post regarding the CC. @Augustin56 does not do what we Protestants do.... He follows what his church teaches. And with his brain. as you very well know, we read scripture and then decide what we agree with and what we do not agree with...

Was Christ God?

Which creed do you believe is specifically Catholic?? ALL the creeds are Christian and even Protestantism is based on the creeds of the early church. BTW, an interesting fact....that Protestantism actually has BORROWED from the Catholic Church and then spends a lot of time criticizing it.

So, according to you, Nestorius was correct about the nature of Jesus instead of the church that had existed from after Jesus ascended? You believe Jesus was a god-like man instead of Jesus being God? And you deny the Holy Trinity? What else do you disagree with regarding the Christian faith...

Ronald, these first 2 items were YOUR WORDS . I said that ONLY THE HOLY SPIRIT could teach you how to behave as a Christian. And ONLY THE HOLY SPIRIT could save someone. I said nothing else in regards to the Holy Spirit. Actually, unless we're having a general conversation, scripture should...

Agreed. Let me say that "original sin" was mentioned by the ECFs but as a stain on humanity.... and not as Augustine later defined it to mean that man is born responsible for this sin of Adam's and is born lost even as a baby. (no age of accountability). Agreed. Augustine did bring with him...

⁹ Agreed. Just want to point out the what Augustine believed was 1,000 years before the reformation and even the CC has abandoned what he (Augustine) taught as have the other Protestant denominations. All this to say that calvinism is so extreme that even Protestantism has moved on to what I...

I'm not here to teach you how to be a Christian person....if you want to rebuke, judge and always know when your brother is in error so YOU COULD SAVE HIM..well, only the Holy Spirit can teach you. However, let me assure you that it's not YOU who are saving them because I doubt they'd come back...

That's something I would never state...that if only one doctrine is false, the gates of hell would prevail. And what promise of Jesus would not have been fulfilled? Maybe mankind was created to seek the highest good, God, but most do not seek God. However, some have....even in the farthest of...

Ah. But WHAT IS THE TRUTH??!!

My goodness Augustine! Even the CCC teaches that every religion has truth in it. And I wouldn't go so far as to say, in your statement, that the CC has NO FALSE DOCTRINE.... Let's say that purgatory could be debated. And believing that only Christians could be saved would be another topic...

I haven't read through either, plus I don't know where you're headed with the above, but I'd like to make a statement too. Luther began the reformation and he's the one who started the doctrines that would become known as Calvinism, since Calvin had a big effect on this belief system due to his...

Just saw this while replying to another member. Just want to say that you may or may not agree with @Eternally Grateful , who happens to be a mainline Christian, knows his bible, and posts scripture all the time. We as Christians should behave better than those that are not... I've been...