Posted on 10/30/2014 7:16:19 AM PDT by Keli Kilohana
It certainly doesn’t appear you understand infallibility. I am certain many others do not either. That is not a criticism, rather an observation based on comments.
I don’t blame non-Catholics for not getting it. Why should they spend the time looking it up? Were I non-Catholic, I wouldn’t look it up either. Bigger fish to fry, you might say.
However, some would truly like to learn for learning’s sake, that’s why I posted the info.
No...I am show THE ignorance of Catholicism...
So you get to butcher a verse of scripture again??? You know Adam didn't have a soul but you ignore the fact that Adam didn't have life...Until it was breathed into him...Which means his evolving progenitors didn't have any life either...
We also know he made the universe and everything in it, but again don’t know how long ago.
So there's another contradiction...Your religion teaches that God created apes, or something similar and those apes evolved into something else on their own...Without God's help, until God intervened with Adam...
At some point, God took the last in line and that was Adam...And so now you ignore the fact that if Adam evolved, he had some parents and probably siblings and cousins...
And then to add more absurdity, all those dinosaurs who roamed around with Adam's ancestors are never mentioned in the bible...But the bible says whatever God created was made to reproduce after its own kind (no evolution)...
But the world as Christians know it started with Adam and Eve.
That's an impossibility if you believe in evolution...How can you even say that...It doesn't even make any sense...
The demiurge is the “bad” god in dualist systems, like the Manicheans’ and other gnostics’.
And God made the cookie monster too! Anyone that believes the earth is around 4,000 years old ain’t playing with a full deck. Anyone that believes the earth was literally formed in the 7 days that writers of the Old Testament talk about ain’t playing with full deck. We have no earthly idea how long a day was when the Old Testament was written, or how long a year was. So much of the Old Testament is allegoric. A great mystery of God, the creator of all things.
The Church DOES NOT teach man from apes. Rather, it doesn’t take a position one way or the other. However, it does teach God gives man a soul. It is not an inherited characteristic, but God-given.
Finally, however the physical universe has come about, it is by God’s hand, plan, and will.
Good try.
So the Catholic church started at the last supper?
Or at Pentecost as Catholics contend? Or when Jesus told Peter he would build His church on the Biblical Rock, which would be Himself?
So I would say false statements such as I just read are subversive.
Illustrates "going their own way" instead of following scripture.
The “Church (I'm assuming meaning the Catholic denomination,”): the universal (catholic) Church, is made of all Christians.
Close.
The church, the universal catholic church spoken of in the Bible, is made up of every born again believer that has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
No need to join the Catholic belief system to be part of Jesus' church.
You choose not to believe the Roman Catholic Church, as that is your right as a human being.
Well how gracious of you to recognize that!
I choose to believe Jesus, as he is the Way, the Life, and the Truth.
Once I found the Truth, Jesus, I no longer seek the ultimate truth. That is the "who" you speak of, glad to see you understand that.
"...who am I to judge?"
That's what I was thinking as I read your cleverly disguised judgment of my beliefs. I forgive you.
I hope and pray you continue to have the zeal for Christ you demonstrate.
No problem there, it's stuck with me for many decades so far...
As far as the books you recommend, I'm too busy with the Bible for reading about men that have been sidelined from their original faith.
I am sorry for those that left their simple belief in Jesus to become entangled in the falsehoods and rituals of Catholicism, whose central figure these days seems to be Mary.
May God bring you to his simple truth so you may be filled with the Joy of having Jesus in you and you in Jesus.
This letter is spot on. Frank is a socialist who seeks to be acceptable to progressives by softening his church's stance on the only two issues on which it previously took a stand - abortion and homosexuality. The Catholic church's theology has been insane as long as it has existed with its pagan worship of Mary and other dead people, transubstantiation and elevation of tradition over Scripture.
Frank is killing what's left of Catholicism just like Obama is killing what's left of Americanism.
Ouch! And i though I was blunt at times. But we should pray for them and use restraint, with salt, try to reason with them,
In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; (2 Timothy 2:25)
Sometimes subtlety doesn’t work.
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