You make Mary cry...
Posted on 08/17/2018 8:40:24 AM PDT by wardaddy
Cardinal Raymond Burke has called for “open recognition” of the Catholic church’s homosexual culture in light of recent revelations of sexual abuse. “I believe that there needs to be an open recognition that we have a very grave problem of a homosexual culture in the Church,” Burke said in an interview Thursday, “especially among the clergy and the hierarchy, that needs to be addressed honestly and efficaciously.”
he former head of the church’s equivalent of the Supreme Court said it was already “clear after the studies following the 2002 sexual abuse crisis that most of the acts of abuse were in fact homosexual acts committed with adolescent young men.”
“There was a studied attempt to either overlook or to deny this,” he said, referring to the mainstream media cover-up of the homosexual nature of the abuse as well as such denial within the church itself.
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As we have seen, assertions and insults are all the Catholics have.
That and magical thinking without any proof of Scripture for their anti-Apostolic dogma.
Sadly, there are many who are ignorant of Scripture. A lot of religions - not just Christian-flavored ones - are based upon the person needing to merit or deserve the positive endgame. It could be heaven, Nirvana or Happy-Hunting-Grounds, but you must be worthy through your own efforts to get there. Some of them even say you have to go through multiple lives! The glorious Gospel of true Christianity is that you cannot POSSIBLY earn, deserve or merit eternity in heaven with Almighty God and that is why it is by grace through faith that we are saved. It is the GIFT of God, not by works lest anyone should boast. Jesus Christ is our Redeemer. He bore all our sins upon the cross and by His suffering and death, He made propitiation for our sins and we are found IN Him having HIS righteousness and not our own. That same grace keeps us saved because it was never based upon our works in the first place!
I don't understand why some don't get it that it doesn't matter if you say we are saved by grace but kept by works or you are saved by your works are actually saying the SAME thing. When you add ANYTHING that we do into the equation, you are negating grace.
But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. (Romans 11:6)
Well, I was a "confirmed Catholic" and I am not ignorant of the Holy Scriptures. I'd like to hear how you "discuss" the contradiction/misuse of the Scriptures you posted that I presume you think defend (they really don't) the idea that grace saves us but our works are what we will be judged worthy to merit heaven. Like I said, I was a Catholic and I know what I was taught and I know what the Catechism still says. If our works justify us before God, then our works are what saves us. But Scripture repeatedly states that we are saved by the grace of God through faith and NOT by our works. Are you really ready to withstand correction or am I disqualified because I left Roman Catholicism?
Romans 5 in the Greek really drives home the point that it is God Who saves us.....nothing we contribute to our salvation.
The tendency of man is to make even the instruments of His grace into objects of devotion which only belongs to God.
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan. (2 Kings 18:4)
You can forgive annalex for not knowing what the Word of God so clearly states. Catholic religion followers are not encouraged to be like the Bereans ... too much is discovered that contradicts the man-made part of that religion, catholiciism. Catholicism is not Christianity, it is catholiciism, the religion of traditions of men who have ruled in that religion.
Magical thinking? Pffft, catholiciism is supposedly led by their Magicstearingthem. That group even picks the Popes, like the one they pick last!
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That statement by itself is not a contradiction, as indeed the believer is saved by grace thru but then "judged according to our works" as testifying to whether one was of true salvific faith in life and in his death.
Roman Catholic double-speak is that of saying they believe in being "saved by grace" while meaning that by the grace of God one actually becomes good enough in heart and life to be with God*, versus being accounted righteous by heart-purifying faith in the washing of regeneration.
And he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter; Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved. (Acts 11:13-14)
To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins. (Acts 10:43)
And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. (Acts 15:7-9)
Such as one is washed, sanctified and justified (1Co. 6:11) and accepted in the Beloved, and seated with Him in Heaven (Eph. 1:6; 2:6) wherein he has access with boldness into the holy of holies to meet with God. (Heb. 10:19)
And who will go to forever with the Lord at death or at His return, (Lk. 23:43 [cf. 2Cor. 12:4; Rv. 2:7]; Phil 1:23; 2Cor. 5:8 [“we”]; 1Cor. 15:51ff'; 1Thess. 4:17) And the next transformative experience that is manifestly taught is that of being like Christ in the resurrection. (1Jn. 3:2; Rm. 8:23; 1Co 15:53,54; 2Co. 2-4)At which time is the judgment seat of Christ, which is the only suffering after this life, which does not begin at death, but awaits the Lord's return, (1 Corinthians 4:5; 2 Timothy. 4:1,8; Revelation 11:18; Matthew 25:31-46; 1 Peter 1:7; 5:4) and is the suffering of the loss of rewards (and the Lord's displeasure) due to the manner of material one built the church with, which one is saved despite the loss of such, not because of. (1 Corinthians 3:8ff)
Of course, such a believer is only one who dies in effectual faith, one which manifests "things that accompany salvation," (Heb. 6:9) versus denying the faith, (cf. 1Tim. 5:8)
However, while the effect of faith is the basis for declaring one to be a believer, (Mt. 7:20; Ja. 2:18; 1 Thessalonians 1:4) and fit to be recompensed in grace, (Mt. 25:32-40) the effect is not the cause of justification as one accepted in the Beloved, which is on His account, appropriated by faith. And who will be conformed to Christ in the resurrection.
In contrast, is RC Purgatory in which, besides atoning for sins one did not receive enough chastisement for, one becomes actually good enough to be with God. which premise either requires perfection of character in this life (and which merely being made clean in baptism would actually not effect) or postmortem purifying torments.
The Catholic Encyclopedia states that St. Augustine "describes two conditions of men; "some there are who have departed this life, not so bad as to be deemed unworthy of mercy, nor so good as to be entitled to immediate happiness" etc.
And thus by the close of the fourth century was taught "a place of purgation..from which when purified they "were admitted unto the Holy Mount of the Lord". For " they were "not so good as to be entitled to eternal happiness". - CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Purgatory
Likewise Catholic professor Peter Kreeft states,
"...we will go to Purgatory first, and then to Heaven after we are purged of all selfishness and bad habits and character faults." Peter Kreeft, Because God Is Real: Sixteen Questions, One Answer, p. 224
I was in awe to learn about the Greek word used for "never" in John 10:28 when Jesus said He gives us eternal life and we shall never perish or be snatched from His hands.
"In June, 1829, the Lord gave us the name by which we must call the church, being the same as He gave the Nephites. We obeyed His commandment, and called it The Church of Christ until 1834, when, through the influence of Sydney Rigdon, the name of the church was changed to The Church of the Latter Day Saints,...
...dropping out the name of Christ entirely..." ! ! !
(An Address to All Believers In Christ Witmer, p. 73)
...dropping out the name of Christ entirely..." ! ! !
(An Address to All Believers In Christ Witmer, p. 73)
I am a confused protestant.
What does your statement MEAN?
You have OBVIOUSLY not read the addendum to the scriptures; known as TRADITION; that states:
...or does not follow the other rules set forth by the Only True Church that Jesus founded upon the great man Peter.
Amazingly; this was the main subject in SS class today!
...the book of JAMES says...
You make Mary cry...
Cool!
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