Posted on 06/08/2014 1:59:17 PM PDT by matthewrobertolson
Bump
Kind of sad really...At one point in history they would hold a sword to your throat and let you chose to become Catholic, or die...
Now, they have to resort to falsely claiming God's glory for themselves to appeal to your ignorance of God...
He and a few others do this all day
They are like neoyankees disparaging the south with all the anti nonCatholic stuff
The ignorance in lumping all protestants together is like Paul Gigot today saying Mississippi is in play if Cochran loses nomination
Some folks blather with no ground knowledge
Last time I checked Christ willed that we believe in Him and Him alone....not a church. But a Savior.
The "point" is that calling oneself or being a member of the Roman Catholic church is no guarantee that one is saved and a true part of the body of Christ. Insisting that the Roman Catholic church is the ONE, TRUE church Jesus established is contradicted by the fact that not all who are "Catholic" are saved. The body of Christ, His bride, on the other hand, IS comprised of ONLY born again believers. You certainly ought to know that.
Like Peter said:
As you come to him, the living Stone — rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him — you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (I Peter 2:4,5)
All day?
Yeah, right, please explain timeline.
Protestants don’t worship Mary.
They don’t have a human on Earth who is said by the RCC to be infallible and God’s man on Earth.
Protestants don’t allow the purchases of indulgences as a way of mitigating a sin.
Protestants don’t worship saints even though every believer is a Saint, I’m talking about canonized saints.
I was baptized a Catholic but that was it.
I seem to recall Jesus mentioning eating of his body, broken for us (a metaphor) and drinking his blood (another metaphor) for the blood shed on our behalf. Yet Catholics only distribute the host, the priest gets the wine. Now, an argument could be made that providing even a sip of wine to their congregants could be rather expensive. Of course the Vatican could sell of their billions in dollars of art and artifacts, they could also help the poor this way but they are greedy leading me to once more think the RCC is the whore in Revelations.
People I know who were Catholics all said the same thing, they never read the Bible or were encouraged to read it on their own, why. I recently read an RCC apologist that they read the Bible all the time but I know 4 ex-Catholics who have said they never read the Bible during the service.
Oh yeah, one more thing, so, if a 1 day old baby dies, it goes to purgatory or hell because it didn’t get Baptized. That makes sense, if your Satan.
I see you failed Bible class.
“Yet Catholics only distribute the host, the priest gets the wine.”
Really? How clueless are you?
That must be why there is a shrine to Mary everywhere in Italy and Mexico.
Logic is obviously not your strong suit.
My soul magnifies the Lord,
And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.
For He has regarded the low estate of His handmaiden,
For behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
For He who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is His name. And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with His arm:
He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
He has put down the mighty from their thrones,
and exalted those of low degree.
He has filled the hungry with good things;
and the rich He has sent empty away.
He has helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy;
As He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to His posterity forever.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen
Magníficat ánima mea Dóminum,
et exsultávit spíritus meus
in Deo salvatóre meo,
quia respéxit humilitátem
ancíllæ suæ.
Ecce enim ex hoc beátam
me dicent omnes generatiónes,
quia fecit mihi magna,
qui potens est,
et sanctum nomen eius,
et misericórdia eius in progénies
et progénies timéntibus eum.
Fecit poténtiam in bráchio suo,
dispérsit supérbos mente cordis sui;
depósuit poténtes de sede
et exaltávit húmiles.
Esuriéntes implévit bonis
et dívites dimísit inánes.
Suscépit Ísrael púerum suum,
recordátus misericórdiæ,
sicut locútus est ad patres nostros,
Ábraham et sémini eius in sæcula.
Glória Patri et Fílio
et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio,
et nunc et semper,
et in sæcula sæculórum.
Amen.
She became the Mother of God, in which work so many and such great good things are bestowed on her as pass man’s understanding. For on this there follows all honor, all blessedness, and her unique place in the whole of mankind, among which she has no equal, namely, that she had a child by the Father in heaven, and such a Child . . . Hence men have crowded all her glory into a single word, calling her the Mother of God . . . None can say of her nor announce to her greater things, even though he had as many tongues as the earth possesses flowers and blades of grass: the sky, stars; and the sea, grains of sand. It needs to be pondered in the heart what it means to be the Mother of God.
(Commentary on the Magnificat, 1521; in Luther’s Works, Pelikan et al, vol. 21, 326)
No thanks. Not interested in catholic teaching.
Probably less than 12...
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