Posted on 12/24/2019 7:54:59 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
We are not all children of God. We are all creations of God. Only the redeemed are adopted children of God.
Merry Christmas, FRiend.
If a friend of mine hadn’t gotten in my face about accepting Christ as my savior, I doubt I would have become a believer (although God may have eventually put somebody else in this man’s place). He was a fairly new Christian himself and he was this way with everyone who would talk to him. At dental school, they mockingly dubbed him St. John the Evangelist because he witnessed to others so much. I and at least two others I knew became believers because of him.
As marvelous as it was, he fell away and became a Scientologist while I am still walking with Christ. God, in His own time, uses both the saved and unsaved for His will and His works.
Amen Bro!
John 1:12
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, the gave the right to become children of God
Period...
Let’s keep in mind the Pope represents not just individual Catholics but the entire Church.
It seems to me it’s malpractice if the Church stops trying to convert nonbelievers.
Look, he’s telling his stupid “migrant” story and he names Jews only for cover. His focus is on Muslims and in giving them cover to eliminate Christian societies, he is a fool or worse.
He’s really saying, accept Muslims into Europe and leave them alone about their religion.
false pope
Pope Francis is the anti Christ
Do you think a pope who hides his pectoral cross whenever he is in the presence of Jews or muslims is living his faith?
How about a pope who refuses to make the sign of the cross when giving an apostolic blessing for fear of offending non-Christians? Or a pope who refuses to kneel or even genuflect before the Blessed Sacrament? Or a pope who continually attacks his fellow Catholics, both priests and laymen, for being too "rigid", i.e. traditional?
The high priest questioned them, saying, “We gave you strict orders not to continue teaching in this name, and yet, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.” But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men!"
Romans 10:
14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
It’s unusual to find someone that understands the actual meaning of a word in English. Prosletizing and sharing the Gospel are not the same thing. I’m not a Pope Francis fan, but the amount of crap written that is misleading is huge. Of course, if he’d just learn when to not talk, he’d be far more successful.
No, if you advanced it by deed, that would be doing good works, and every Protestant knows you can’t earn anything by doing good works, lol!
Proselytizing is marked by those who try to convert others through fear, malice, manipulation, deception, threat, or bribery. It does not respect religious freedom or human dignity. For example, ISIS is trying to establish a caliphate and is using force through the threat of death or taxes to make people convert to their version of Islam. Proselytizing is concerned with the number of people who convert by any means and success is measured by such.
True evangelization is concerned with the good of the other person and the salvation of their souls through charity. Evangelization is the “proclamation of Christ and his Gospel by word and the testimony of life, in fulfillment of Christ’s command.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church)
“Proselytizing is marked by those who try to convert others through fear, malice, manipulation, deception, threat, or bribery. It does not respect religious freedom or human dignity.”
And we all know the Roman Catholic Church would never be guilty of this right?
Aliens and migrants more important that citizens:
Yes that is what "jesus" really stood & died for
Let's read some religion together
Take a look at our serpent hall at the Vatican commissioned by Paul VI
What about our our Demon Throne room inside it?
Saint Joseph, please guide Franky to the next life soon.
True evangelization is making the person aware they are a sinner separated from God by their sin and sharing how they can have eternal life and forgiveness of their sins by faith in Christ.
Perhaps, but in this case he is there to promote the global effort to provide the seeds for the ultimate destruction of the church and its teachings of self-responsibility, particularly to family and community, to that of sacrificing to the alter of anti-science (”climate change”) and anti-Western hysteria, particularly through its masses in the Latin world. In short, Francis (at this point, I do NOT use his title as he is abusing it) is the most destructive element the Catholic Church has suffered in centuries.
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