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Posted on 07/14/2014 9:20:18 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
To my Protestant brothers and sisters:
It's time to come back to Mother Church. We want you, we need you, we love you.
I've spent a lot of time in dialogue with activist atheists recently, and the direction we are going is not pretty. We are witnessing a rapid cultural decline into amorality.
Satan seeks the ruin of souls through the destruction of marriage and family, and the quickest route to his goal is the profanation of sex. The truth and meaning of human sexuality is our era's cultural fault line, and unfortunately, Protestant denominations have been tumbling into its widening crevace at an alarming pace.
The first cracks denying the sacred nature of human sexuality began mere decades ago with the first tentative acceptance of contraception by a Christian church (the Anglicans). After 1,900+ years of unbroken Christian teaching on the immorality of contraception (including 400+ years of unbroken Protestant teaching), a moral evil was suddenly declared good. The entirety of Protestantism, although horrified at first, soon followed suit.
"Woe to those who call evil good" -- Isaiah 5:20
Then came other issues -- sterilization, masturbation, abortion, fornication and cohabiting, homosexual activity and homosexual "marriage". One by one, Protestant communities have broken from Christian teaching and sided with the secular culture. Many Protestant communities do not accept all the aforementioned evils as good, of course, and some are making a valiant attempt to fight one or more of them. However, there is no guarantee that those denominations won't eventually accept other sexual sins in the same way they accepted contraception, sterilization and masturbation. A majority vote by church leaders could launch an unsuspecting Protestant from the Spirit of the Gospel right into the spirit of the age -- the Planned Parenthood age.
Look where you are standing. Unless you stand with the Catholic Church, you may already have one foot off the cliff.
How to guarantee that you'll stand firmly on the ground of moral Truth? Come back home to the Catholic Church.
For over two thousand years:
The Catholic Church has never taught that contraception is a moral good, and she never will. The Catholic Church has never taught that sterilization is a moral good, and she never will. The Catholic Church has never taught that masturbation is a moral good, and she never will. The Catholic Church has never taught that abortion is a moral good, and she never will. The Catholic Church has never taught that fornication is a moral good, and she never will. The Catholic Church has never taught that homosexual activity is a moral good, and she never will.
The moral teachings of the Church have never changed, and they never will.
Human sexuality is transcendent, life-giving and sacred, and the Catholic Church will teach that Truth till the last day.
Dear Protestant, a church with a changing morality is a church built on shifting sand. If you want to build your life and eternity on something solid, build it on the Rock of Peter. Don't be carried about by every wind of social change; come back to the Catholic Church and stand strong with us -- one united Body as Jesus intended.
America may not survive many more generations at the rate we are going, but the Church and her teachings will stand regardless, speaking the same Truths, undisturbed, till the end of time. Believe me, it's a really nice place to be in a storm. Extremely peaceful.
So, come on. You'll like it here, living in peace and joy and certainty. It's your rightful home anyway.
Come back to Holy Mother Church. It really is time.
Sorry. I don't think your font was big enough for the Blessed Mother to see it from Heaven. After all it must be far away. Millions and millions of miles away, or something like that.
“Again; what is the GIFT am I lacking??”
Plenty. Find out.
“I think you’ve confused me with cereal boy...”
Not in the least.
"You smell of elderberries" is personal...
Anything else is a mere flesh wound.
You’re thinking of Kobol...
Where do I look?
I think you meant Kolob.
It was a greeting from the angel to Mary. It was not a prayer and nowhere is it commanded to repeat it as a prayer.
Try again.
“Where do I look?”
Where do you think? Oh, wait. Let me rephrase that: Where, if you were to think about it, would you go to find that information?
*seems to me*....
Does that make it your own personal interpretation?
Well, by Catholic standards, that just invalidates anything you have to say after that.
Thanks for admitting that I’m right.
However, it may come close to "potty language" which i would avoid.
But while you may not like the broad brush, it is you again which posted another article broadly attacking Protestantism while the fruit of Rome overall is more liberal than historical Prots. Something about taking the beam out of your own eye. I
These guys sound like Shia and Sunni.
And they sure as hell don’t sound christian.
that would be someone asking Mary to intervene with her Son to assist them with a particular problem...as Catholics do now...
Well, if that's all that scripture is, a historical account, then how can it command anything? Are the ad-hoc prayers of a protestant eccesial community explicitly laid out in Sacred Scripture?
Perhaps you should peruse what's below. I think this gives a fuller idea of the Catholic position on Sacred Scripture and what is lacking in protestantism:
In Christianity, Lectio Divina (Latin for divine reading) is a traditional Benedictine practice of scriptural reading, meditation and prayer intended to promote communion with God and to increase the knowledge of God's Word. It does not treat Scripture as texts to be studied, but as the Living Word.
if you don't give me a hint as to which of my brilliant posts that you refer to...I don't know which one you apparently agree with...
Indeed. Out of approx. 200 prayers to Heaven in Scripture, there is exactly ZERO to anyone else in Heaven but the Lord - except by pagans* - nor does someone interceding something on earth mean they have Divine power to hear virtually infinite prayers in Heaven addressed to them - someone for which there is also ZERO evidence of any created being doing.
But autocratic Rome, presuming Divine powers, calls things that are not as if they were.
But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers... (Jeremiah 44:17)
you are probably right...there have been at least 6 new storefront Protestant churches in our community in the last year (Blue ball church???? Church without spot or wrinkle???)
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