And now for something completely different. NOT!
Get ready for a shower of anti-Protestant hate, Doc.
"For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him." (Isaiah 53:1).
I guess we’ll both be in hell, me for being a catholic and you for condemning me in your ignorance. I know Jesus died for me, it is central to RC Theo!ogy.
http://209.157.64.200/focus/religion/3257212/posts?page=164
As if we need to see this tripe once, let alone twice!
I think works are practices of faith. Humans backslide. Faith is forgotten or compromised. Practice, as they say, makes perfect.
But the RCC wants to be the gatekeeper of works, rather than acknowledging it to be between a person’s faith and God. And then to counter that, Protestants say no works at all - while at the same time acknowledging a person has to still live a good, moral and faith-based life.
You live your faith. Words are cheap. We’re not all getting ready to argue our cases before God. No, we will all, each and every one of us, be made to stand silently and naked before God, our very lives themselves the open book of our true faith. That’s why Jesus said there will be those that acknowledge him as Lord and even develop the power to cast out demons in his Name, but to whom he will say “I know you not.”
You live your faith with your life, before God. Your life is the proof of your faith to Jesus Himself. And neither priest nor pastor has any say in the matter.
Thank you for making me glad to be Catholic, I feel a Te Deum coming on.
Are you the TRUE Protestant sect please Prove the other 32,689 Protestant sects are wrong> When you all agree ....
We will be waiting with the actual Church you denigrate Founded by Christ Himself. Who Promised it will prevail till the end of time and from the gates of hell.
Christ gave Peter the 1st POPE the keys to the Kingdom and the Gift to forgive Sins or Not... What did Luther Receive? I read the Bible I didn’t see him mentioned.
Maybe you should read the early Church Fathers they can explain along with the Bible the Sacraments. St Ignatius of Antioch talks and wrote about the REAL Presence in the Eucharist in 1st century. Recruited & Baptized and baptized by John The Apostle. Read John Chapter 6 Christ will explain it to you about the entire Covenant of the New Testament. The Real Presence.. St Ignatius understood it as well as John maybe you TOO! Ciao
“It is essential for everyone who claims to be a Christian and says that they love Roman Catholics—and who believe that most Catholics are saved simply because they “love Jesus”—to understand the official Catholic “gospel” (which every Catholic is obligated to believe) and to realize how diametrically opposed it is to the biblical gospel.”
Not really, I dislike when Catholics (who love Jesus) give me their legalistic lectures about why I am a heretic for not being Catholic. I will now show them the same courtesy.
It isn’t a protestant concept to run around trying to “save” catholics.
This writer writes like a catholic. A long, legalistic tome that reads like a brief in a securities fraud case.
I will greet my Catholic bretheren in heaven someday, and continue my disagreements with them there.....as Christ himself stands over across the room shaking his head at the both of us.
That is my fatwa.
Sound article ...excellent observations