[paterfamilias]

I just don’t understand their problem with Good Works, veneration of the saints and the Blessed Mother, etc.

Let’s see... If I accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior and read the bible, but beat my wife and drink to excess: that’s okay.

However, if I accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior, pray the Rosary, read the epistles and gospel and chant psalms and commemorate Christ’s Last Supper, Passion and Death at Mass, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, protect the unborn, and, when I stray, go to confession and do penance I lose my soul?

Boy, I deserve to go to Hell!

[defconw]

I know! I just don't understand why they can't just leave us alone. I mostly stick to Caucus threads. I don't like to argue about it. It's like trying to speak logically to a liberal.

Let the flames begin! Carry On!

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

"Let’s see... If I accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior and read the bible, but beat my wife and drink to excess: that’s okay. However, if I accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior, pray the Rosary, read the epistles and gospel and chant psalms and commemorate Christ’s Last Supper, Passion and Death at Mass, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, protect the unborn, and, when I stray, go to confession and do penance I lose my soul?"

That is NOT at all what we Protestants are trying to say to you. We have no problem with you wanting to "pray the Rosary, read the epistles and gospel and chant psalms and commemorate Christ’s Last Supper, Passion and Death at Mass, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, protect the unborn, and, when you stray, go to confession and do penance"..... you are to be commended for wanting to do all of the above.

Our point is that you tell us Protestants that if we do not do all the above the same way you do (for instance, we pray, just not with a rosary, we confess our sins, but directly to God, not through a priest)then you tell us we are not saved.

We are saying that being saved does NOT hinge on that list of good works, as good as they are. Being saved hinges on one thing and one thing only... profession of faith in Jesus Christ and exactly what He taught.

I would not have such a negative feeling about the Roman Catholic Church if they would quit telling me that because I don't pray to Mary and the their designated "saints", confess to one of their priests, attend their Mass, give my money to them, be baptized in their particular ceremony (and I can go on and name hundreds of more works)then I am not saved. I am confident that it is NOT the Roman Catholic church that will save me, nor will any particular Protestant church save me. ONLY Christ Jesus will save me. And if I chose to worship Him in a Protestant church rather than in a Roman mass, then do NOT tell me I am wrong, for doing so, you are adding "works" to the conditions of salvation.

[redleghunter]

Let’s see... If I accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior and read the bible, but beat my wife and drink to excess: that’s okay.

Quite a canard there no? Or a harbored straw man? Did you comment on the "How can Protestants be Saved" thread? Now I will say, the poster should have turned the other cheek and not create another opportunity to relive the Middle Ages.