Posted on 05/12/2015 4:21:27 PM PDT by RnMomof7
Advanced evangelicals will note the evidence of salvation in their lives. Note that Hebrews was talking about PAST TENSE history as such evidence. These believing Jews were longing to hang it up in the face of persecution. The author of Hebrews points out that makes no sense using some hypotheticals (such as suppose you totally could give up your faith in Christ, what would be left?). The result of stumbling badly is not to be lost, however, but to fail to gain a reward.
On St. Robert Bellarmine
Robert Bellarmine, A Valid Authority For Ecclesiology
The 15 Marks of The Church [St. Robert Bellarmine]
Mary: Mediatrix in the Theology of Bellarmine
Saint Robert Bellarmine [Patron of Catechists]
In other words, no form of government (with the exception of the explicitly condemned form, communism) is incompatible with Catholicism, provided that God is honored. As Pope Leo concludes,
"...political dissensions aside, upright men should unite as one to combat, by all lawful and honest means, these progressive abuses of legislation. The respect due to constituted power cannot prohibit this: unlimited respect and obedience cannot be yielded to all legislative measures, of no matter what kind, enacted by this same power. Let it not be forgotten that law is a precept ordained according to reason and promulgated for the good of the community by those who, for this end, have been entrusted with power. . . Accordingly, such points in legislation as are hostile to religion and to God should never be approved; to the contrary, it is a duty to disapprove them."
If Truth is considered bashing, so be it! Roman Catholicism reveals all the signs of being the largest cult in the history of the world!
And...
Cult: a group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing, and employing unethically manipulative techniques of persuasion and control designed to advance the goals of the groupís leaders, to the actual or possible detriment of members, their families, or the community. Unethically manipulative techniques of persuasion and control include but are not limited to: isolation from former friends and family, use of special methods to heighten suggestibility and subservience, powerful group pressures, information management, suspension of individuality or critical judgment, promotion of total dependency on the group and fear of leaving it, etc. ...
Isnt here a scene from Monty Python where 20 crusaders are about to be wiped out by a horde of Muslims. A fight breaks on between a Dominican and a Franciscan monk.
Free will No predestination they yell as they roll on the ground choking each other.
As this fight breaks out the horde on the hill starts charging.
Yours posts remind me of this.
A lot of people look askance at “organized religion” and that can be pressed to a fault.
There’s a certain minimum point of churchhood at which you can’t even plausibly say you are in accord with the bible’s prescriptions.
Well howdy, stranger! Good to see you again!
It is better that people vocally want God to be at the top of their pictures, whatever the specifics of their view of how God assumes that role, than that they should try to dumb the discussion about the faith down to making it some kind of helper auxiliary to worldly goals.
If “ALL” we want to be is “Gentlepersons” then we will fail in the end to be even that.
As an unabashed Wascally Evangelical, I am “assured” that Christ is big enough to handle the confusion.
Keep up the good work mom.
You let us all know just when and where your All Knowing, All Seeing Pope found it in himself (and himself is all there is, right?) to come up with the establishment of the American Republic.
Oddly, I think that occurred right about the time y’all were still insisting that The Little People had to bow down to the Anointed Ones who ruled by Divine Right, typically confirmed by El Papa.
I think the Roman church has gotten itself into a mell of a hess... and still think this is catty too.
...of very little importance in the greater scheme of things."
I'm not sure what point you're trying to convey here.
"Oddly, I think that occurred right about the time yall were still insisting that The Little People had to bow down to the Anointed Ones who ruled by Divine Right, typically confirmed by El Papa."
The pope remained neutral on the American Revolution, and when the United States was officially established the pope (Pope Pius VI at the time) approved a petition to establish the Apostolic Prefecture of the United States, officially recognizing the US. Doesn't quite fit with your narrative, does it?
One of the reasons this article caught my eye was that Catholics continually mock OSAS (preservation of the saints) and accuse us of antinomianism ...and yes it seems Rome does have a problem with it
TULIP
Well I’ve been around ... had some flights to do but otherwise ....
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