Posted on 07/28/2014 3:10:13 PM PDT by The Grammarian
They never mentioned Protestantism, certainly.
So WHICH one of the 30,000+ different Protestant denominations have the "true form of it" (Christian unity)?
It can't be ALL of them as they are so very different from each other. Some? A few? 14 of them? How many?
There MUST be some Protestant denominations that consider those three horrors as Satan's very own evil as Catholics do?
Now there's a ten dollar word...But no, that's not true...Perhaps you make the same error the Catholics make with that parable...They use that verse to claim there are tares in the Church...All one has do is read the scriptures...It tells you right there that the context is the world, NOT the church...
The wheat and tares are in the world...The wheat only is the church...
Only Catholics are so good at making assumptions about what other people mean with no basis whatsoever.
And you know what? People can be Christ followers in isolation. Indeed, many people are forced into it due to circumstances beyond their control.
A person does NOT need a church, a denomination, an organization, to follow Christ.
A follower of Christ just needs the leading of the Holy Spirit who is the indwelling presence in the believer.
A Christian is one who's one inwardly, not one outwardly based on being a card carrying member of XYZ church.
As a Christian I oppose all of those....along with praying/worshiping to Mary and other false idols.
Catholics don’t worship Mary. Why, do you?
” Nobody needs a denomination,a building,an organization,whatever,to be a church.”
Your right like a lot of protestants on forum threads who sit at home on the Lord’s Day and ‘church themselves’....they dont need no stinkin churches.
AMDG
So are you saying that you don’t obey the Ten Commandments? Especially about keeping the Lord’s Day holy by attending church?
We talk to her asking for things. Don't you ever "talk" to your deceased loved ones? Praying is talking.
We worship God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We pray/talk to many people in heaven.
However, I do know many Protestants who think the way you do...that we worship someone other than God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It always make me wonder where they got so much disinformation.
Steve Ray and Scott Hahn, two former Protestants converts to Catholicism, did give insight on the hatred some Protestants are taught from a VERY early age.
They thought that it was a sad state of affairs to grow up with such religious bigotry, based on the hatred of a faith.
I will pray for the dissolving of your driving hatred for ... Catholicism and us folks who practice it. I was brought up in it. I didn't learn to hate those who were NOT brought up in Catholicism.
WHO taught you such hatred and SUCH disinformation? S/he/they did you a disservice.
you have a real short memory since you have been told repeatedly that any Catholic who ‘worships’ Mary is EXCOMMUNICATED latie sentia ie automatically and are thus no longer Catholic
Just another of your prot smears of faithful Catholics.
AMDG
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Here are a few links which should clear up any confusion about whether Catholics refer to themselves as Christians or not (which we actually do all the time, because we are Christians).
(Please honestly read these few brief example pages to forever clarify that question for yourself.)
None.
And neither can Catholicism make that claim because its hardly unified itself.
Just ask the EO.
It's an error easy to make if you think that the organization is the true church.
There are Christians and non-Christians who make up all the denominations and attend them.
But the true church, the true body of Christ, is comprised of only believers.
And just who exactly does that, pray tell, and how do you know who on this forum sits home on Sundays and doesn't attend church?
Nobody needs a denomination to follow Christ.
Nobody needs to attend services on Sunday mornings to follow Christ and grow spiritually.
Does church help? Absolutely.
Is it essential? No and anyone who thinks it is has real issues spiritually.
They are in far worse shape than they realize.
Church attendance should be secondary in the Christians walk with Christ because it's about a relationship, not doing a list of do's and not doing the don't's.
It may feel good to be able to check off on the list all the obligations and feel like you've done your spiritual duty, but that's not a real relationship.
People who depend on their works are going to be like those who Jesus said He never knew when they appealed to their works.
But Jesus, I did, did, did.....
And He says "I never KNEW you."
We are not under obligation to keep the Ten Commandments to be in right standing with God any more. That’s the old covenant.
And show me where in Scripture that keeping the Lord’s Day holy means attending church.
And what about all those Catholics who go to mass on Saturday evening?
That’s not the Lord’s Day. Are they not keeping it holy then?
*You hater, you hater, you hater.*
You Catholics sound like a liberal broken record. Y’all love your labels.
Is that all you have in your arsenal to respond to the points raised by non-Catholics?
Someone disagrees with Catholicism, so they’re labeled *haters*.
Does it really make you feel so smug and so much superior to the rest of us that y’all level that charge at EVERYONE not a Catholic?
Or is there really no defense against what is being pointed out that y’all have to attack the messenger instead of addressing the topic at hand.
How pathetic.
Wait.... what???
It's not *Once a Catholic, always a Catholic* now?
Can you guys make up your collective minds?
Every authentic Roman Catholic is already a Christian.
If the answer they ask for isn't being granted, something even better is on the way.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.