Posted on 06/26/2015 10:18:59 AM PDT by Morgana
A Christian Sunday liturgy with a ritual re-enactment of the Last Supper dates from the earliest days of Christianity. The practice of the Apostles thus illuminates the bare words of the New Testament.
Please show the apostles teaching about the assumption of Mary and the requirement to believe it like the Catholic Church requires.
>>That Protestants interpret such passages differently does not make Catholics or Protestants into pagans.<<
The Catholic Church and it's apologists readily admit they incorporate paganism.
The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields; sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, images at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison, are all of pagan origin, and sanctified by their adoption into the Church.[Cardinal Newman - Development of Christian Doctrine, pg 373]
God said do NOT do that.
Deuteronomy 12:30 beware that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, 'How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise?' 32 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God:
>>Modern Catholic teaching regards Protestants<<
So it changed over time? LOL
“But I always felt that the Catholic Church was an idea that was worth staying and fighting for, given the personal commission given to Peter by Christ.”
I puzzle as to why Catholics don’t feel this way about Paul, commissioned by the RISEN LORD to preach among the Gentiles (i.e. most Catholics). Why is the apostle chosen by the Spirit to author THIRTEEN (maybe fourteen) letters in the New Testament considered less authoritative than the one who authored two?
God continued to reveal truth after the Gospels and Acts. Much of it is to be found in Paul’s letters. Worth taking a look at.
God said He knew of no other Rock but Him yet Catholics claim it’s a man? Maybe God forgot or something? How does that work?
He's obviously in the background for Catholics.
LOL I was waiting for someone naive enough to try that one. She didn’t stop there with that thought. She tied it to earning grace and “sharing in redemption” as if Christ didn’t do quite enough. Catholics just can’t help but try to take some of the credit can they? Like I said vlad, not one point was according to scripture.
The ritual practices and vessels that you disparage originated with the Jews and are described in the Old Testament. Recognition of and veneration of saints is based on proof of a life of heroic Christian virtue and of miracles credibly attributed to them after their death.
The ritual practices and vessels that you disparage originated with the Jews and are described in the Old Testament. Recognition of and veneration of saints is based on proof of a life of heroic Christian virtue and of miracles credibly attributed to them after their death.
Galatians 1:8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed!
The Catholic Church teaches "another gospel".
Excellent! Please direct me to the Bible verses so that I may read it for myself.
I was hoping to read about the struggles of Catholics during the present crisis.
Sorry this is just not true.. Every Pope MUST AFFIRM the findings of the Council of Trent ...which curse/damn all protestants to hell
Canon 12 reads as follows: "If anyone says that justifying faith is nothing else than confidence in divine mercy, which remits sins for Christ's sake, or that it is this confidence alone that justifies us, let him be anathema."
http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/9-things-you-should-know-about-the-council-of-trent
Her article points out what I am no longer Catholic
That's one way of looking at it. But the practice of the early church, as recorded in the Didache, Hippolytus of Rome, Justin Martyr, and others, was to celebrate it weekly on Sunday, in honor of the resurrection.
To do this sacred testament more often conflicts with the example and makes it common and profanes it.
Your opinion maybe, but not something stated in Scripture.
“LOL I was waiting for someone naive enough to try that one.”
LOL I was waiting for an anti-Catholic to try and spin that one.
“She didn’t stop there with that thought.”
The anti-Catholic won’t stop there with the spin.
“She tied it to earning grace and “sharing in redemption” as if Christ didn’t do quite enough.”
The anti-Catholic will falsely claim the author said something about “earning grace” and claim “sharing in redemption” means “Christ didn’t do quite enough”.
“Catholics just can’t help but try to take some of the credit can they?”
Anti-Catholics just can’t help but try to fake things to attack Catholics.
“Like I said vlad, not one point was according to scripture.”
Like I said, CynicalBear, many times, Newman was right when he wrote, “To Protestantism False Witness is the principle of propagation.”
It's been explained many times on this forum why this statement is incorrect.
Today’s Catholics will say most anything to try to lure us into the paganism of Catholicism.
I always enjoy watching Catholics going into parrot mode.
Not only sad, but shocked as well. I used to be one.
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