Posted on 12/24/2014 11:18:31 PM PST by redleghunter
First of all, who are YOU to be judging what we have given up or not? What gives you the right to decide what is our hearts? Are YOU God??? No, you are not and the religion you defend as the ONLY true Christian faith, ironically, doesn't agree with you. Check out your OWN catechism sometime. They changed their minds and don't teach non-Catholic Christians will go to hell if they aren't Roman Catholic anymore. Didn't you know that?
The truth is that it wasn't until I was sixteen when I received Jesus Christ as my Savior, believing that he died for my sins, it was really the FIRST time I DID come to Him. All the times in the past that I swallowed the Eucharist, I was doing so in UNBELIEF - I didn't understand that to believe in Christ is how one receives Him and His blood cleanses us from all our sins. I had been taught I had to be good, do all the things I was told, say the right "prayers" and maybe when I died I might go to heaven after a stint in a place called Purgatory where my "minor" sin's punishment was taken out on me. Sure, I believe what I was told about Jesus, I believed He was God's son, that he died on the cross to open the gates of heaven, but that was pretty much it. It wasn't what HE did for me, but what I did for Him, that determined where I spent eternity. But, I found out that I was being taught a false gospel - which was no good news at all!
Finally, instead of condemning Christians for not being Roman Catholic, why don't you recognize that there really ARE genuine believers and followers of Jesus Christ who love Him and live lives that honor and glorify Him outside of your religious choice? Why not read those verses you posted and let the Holy Spirit illuminate the truth to your heart so that you can join other believers who rejoice that because of Jesus Christ, we will never perish, will not be cast out, that we HAVE eternal life, that by our sincere faith we HAVE eaten His body and drank His blood and we join with fellow believers every time we observe the Lord's Supper in remembrance of Him - just like He told us to?
Just as GOD intended :>} Man when left in control can compound and confound others even with the simplest of scripture. GOD shows us who He is and what He wishes to us in the same manner He did with Peter, John, and others. He calls us out of bondage of our sin into our new spirit beings.
Because God is Good.
Do NOT tell our CATHOLIC FRiends!
And GAINED a freedom that is beyond description.
You just keep eating them wafers, and thinking there is ANY magic in that old silk hat you’ve found
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