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I presented what I know, and since people do not desire to actually read material, I gave you a summary video.
What's wrong with the above!!!!
I taught the Trinity, NOT the document signed with Lutherans.
You're missing the point.
I'm not missing this.
I am glad this thread was so started, and with the topic it has.
Strawman. I clearly demonstrated the difference. "the flesh" Philip. Think about how "the flesh" of Christ makes a difference between "fallen" (likeness of sinful flesh) and "unfallen" (as angels or Adam had before the fall), and work it through in each case in what it would do to the way in which salvation works.
Amen to all.....and so it goes on...and on...
It is amazing how on one thread we can speak about forgiveness , love and the suchlike...and then come to a thread and find no such godly attributes!!!
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On one thread we read phrases like "real Christians" and " genuine Christians" ...then we come to other threads and see that so few even understand what anything means...they don't act like "Real" Christians.
I have another word for you other than "real christian...= DISCIPLE
John 13:35 "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another. "
I think I can hear the Lord saying..." And I am Still waiting"....
There is so much twaddle posted on anti-catholic.
OBVIOUSLY the Catholics will jump to defend what they happen to hold as precious. They happen to believe what they believe...they are free to do that!!!! ...just as some protestants foolishly believe some of the junk that they have been spoon fed.
What and who makes anyone more superior than another? Seems much like "Pride in what one believes"
All the rubbish about - " We must expose the false teachings of the Catholics.
The house is on fire, the sky is falling!
Give me a break...do people really believe that ANYONE on this Site has not had that drummed into them from the moment they were 'saved'?
We all know it, we have all read it...we have all seen it, we have all heard it for decades...yet here people are ...instead of preaching the Good News of the kingdom...some feel they have some divine right to yap on and on and on about all that is wrong with someone else and have their nose into what they believe.
I personally believe that the Muslim "army" is an insidious threat to the world. It does not obsess me, I do not talk very much about it..I do not feel that I have to scream "the sky is falling" or write long boring posts about it and put a hundreds photo's up about it.
Ask yourself how good is your own walk, how perfect are you?
We need to put our own house in order...God will take care of the rest.
Go pray in some corner if you must attack what 'you' deem as evil.
God WILL have the last word, He only is the Judge of mens hearts.
YES, we know it is "a system" not the people...blah blah blah..we are not stupid.
As for THBE's dominant flooding of long posts...obviously he feels he has some divine calling to get everyone saved because we are all idiots and know nothing for ourselves, obviously we are too stupid to get on our knees with our Heavenly Father and hear for ourselves.
Where is faith? God is a powerful God? ...He is alive and well...He does actually speak to those who can hear Him....yet we are so busy sorting out someone else , God gets sidelined every time as the centre and reason for our life.
It is easy to come on this Site and recognise the the Spirit of the Lord in some people. Just like in Acts 4 ..when- they "knew" that (Peter and John) had been with Jesus.." God's fingerprints show clearly on the lives that spend time in His presence. Those who are heart people..rather than mind and bookish people that have knowledge of God... yet in spite of that they do not reflect Him.... "we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but Love edifieth. "
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We should voice objectionable or even provocative opinions - but to undermine other's sincere evangelistic efforts by demanding publicly that we "give up on them" implies they are "hopeless zealots" and is wrong, insulting, and not very Christlike.
If I sound like a "theologist", well then praise God and thank you!
Yes, a bereaved Catholic widow who's driven almost to the point of insanity and of cursing God because she can't afford to pay the church the monetary amount necessary to get her departed husband out of Purgatory doesn't need a Protestant to teach her anything.
Paganism has been around longer than Catholicism (though arguably one in the same), so I guess we shouldn't try to point the Chinese from Fuxi and Nuwa or Persians from Zoroaster to Jesus, right?
You're mixing Catholic decretal apples with Protestant non-canonical oranges. A few murderous zealots on the Eastern seaboard hardly represent the historic global mission of Religious Freedom of the global Protestant Church, and comparing the Salem Witch trials to the 1,260 years of church-sanctioned global Papal persecution of millions upon millions of God's saints is like comparing Mr. Rogers to Mr. Krueger.
Faith in what, exactly? What you, as well as most non-Catholics, are not aware of is that Catholicism does not teach that faith in Jesus is necessary for salvation but that salvation is something that God - without any need of blood atonement whatsoever - awards to anyone who places their faith in the priesthood/sacraments, by which they obtain forgiveness for sin and the salvation that brings. Jesus' death, relative to salvation, means nothing in Catholicism. A priest not that long ago spoke about how much he loved to sing "How Great Thou Art" in church, but when he gets to the third verse:
Why would the RCC teach a false doctrine about Mary's fleshly sinful nature in order to "prove" that Jesus did not have the same fallen fleshly nature of Adam and his posterity, and by this deny Catholics the privilege of approaching directly the open arms of Jesus? You really ought to check your emotions at the door and try to see things from a logical perspective.
When the Protestant Reformers began proving from the Bible that the Papacy is the Antichrist, there was such unbelievably massive exodus of Roman Catholics who threw away their rosaries and fled from the darkness of the RCC into the marvelous light of Biblical Protestantism, that it took eighteen years - the longest ever church council ever convened in Catholic church history - for the RCC to figure out how to deal with the problem. And today, it is not historic Protestant doctrine that prevents Catholics from seeing the light and leaving behind the darkness, but "protestants" who are no longer protesting that are blocking the cathedral exits.[/QUOTE]
Hi. I know. I get that these matters do not impact some folks as they do others. Some don't feel a compelled to speak up about these things, such as in prophecy etc, as do others. However, does that mean no-one should do so? Does that mean, for example, identifying who the beast is so that people may avoid its mark, shouldn't be discussed? At all? The difference between Catholicism and Islam is that Islam is so clearly wrong that the danger is obvious. Catholicism, at least as far as I am concerned, is a counterfeit, thus not identified as false...your own views toward Catholicism case in point. Thus more needs to be written, more information offered, the masks removed.
I think we need to take great care in belittling anyones personal testimony. I also was raised Catholic. For over 20 years exposed to Catholic teaching, and taught solely in Catholic institutions. I also have the same testimony of freedom from the superstitions, corruptions, and frauds that permeate that institution. I also give Jesus Christ, my Lord and Saviour, all the glory for delivering me and revealing to me the truth. Nothing prideful in such a testimony. It is God Who in mercy accomplished this and opened my blind eyes. Would you reply to such as a Pharisee and deny that God would show such grace to sinners such as we?
I would never call St. Mother Teresa a liar, but a mix of Ku Klux Klan; 7th day Adventist theology, a mentally disturbed sadistic authority hater; educated only in Jack Chick, Hyslop/Pickering lies, addicted to false histories and spiritual porn, gets a high over the most vile anti-Catholic crap available on the internet and fabricates phony anti-Catholic testimonies, I would call a liar. Wouldn't you?
