Posted on 05/25/2017 8:27:02 AM PDT by Salvation
You're inventing a requirement (underlined) that's not part of the caucus rules and, mutatis mutandis, can't be met be a lot of "Protestant caucus" threads.
And spoken with such Christian charity.
*tribe of rabid monkeys*? Really.
Maybe looking in the mirror would be a good place to start.
LOL. So "five-point Calvinists" aren't Christians?
So God is sort of random and capricious that way? Not likely.
18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. 19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? -- James 2:18-20, NKJV
You continue to prove my point.
Random or capricious?
WHERE do you come up with this stuff?
I never said anything about random or capricious. That's on your head.
Redemption is about saving mankind.
For whatever reason God has, He did not offer salvation to the spiritual realm. But that hardly makes Him random or capricious just because He never told us why He does what He does.
Don’t know about Calvinists. I identify as a Christian as I follow Christ.
God must be just, he does not have to be merciful.
Didn’t the Lord tell Moses that He is merciful?
Unfortunately, some are not very gentle in their “instruction.”
Nope....nor is it an endorsement.
Do you truly not know about Calvinists and Arminians ?
I know about them.
However, I don't personally know any right now.
What I do know is Roman Catholics on this board overwhelming identify as being Catholic. That you have to go into a lengthy explanation of what that means is telling.
When I see articles about people who've converted to Catholicism I read about how they love the ceremony, the ritual, etc. Rarely do we read about how they came to be a follower of Christ.
Joining a church does not make one a follower of Christ.
When people ask me where I attend church I note I'm a Christian....a follower of Jesus Christ.
you mean like these posts from some of your fellow Catholics??
and you are one cranky old fool. a very sad case.
are you looking for help ? sympathy ? attention ?
*tribe of rabid monkeys*?
There was another post but I see the RM has deleted it. I believe it was involving the last comment above.
No one has claimed the ekklesia has been overcome nor failed.
However, one of your fellow Catholics posts numerous articles everyday about how bad the current pope is.
Not sure how that is any different than what happened with the Reformation. Kinda ironic that the poster might be a modern day Luther in his/her own right.
No one reported you.
I monitor all the threads I can on a regular basis.
The guidelines (click on my name at the bottom of this post to read them) state that potty language will not be allowed in the Religion Forum.
That, and the fact that you attacked a whole group of posters, is the reason your post was pulled.
The guidelines also mention that making posts personal, mindreading and attacking other posters are also not permitted in the RF.
For those reasons the post I am replying to will be pulled also.
It is always best to send me a private message about concerns instead of posting them on a thread.
Who went running to the mods over your post and got it pulled?
Not me.
Ask the RM.
If the Roman church is an example to you of an overcoming church, you and I have vastly different concepts of what an overcoming church looks like.
Considering most of it's sordid history and the present state of the Catholic church especially starting at V2, I would say the overcoming is being done TO the Catholic church BY the forces of darkness.
If the Catholic church is truly a model of an overcoming church, then all the more reason to not want to have any part of it.
Perhaps you can tell us.
Was the college of cardinals guided by the Holy Spirit in the selection of Francis?
How about this.
*I* don't care about Calvinists or Armineans.
I identify with CHRIST also.
HE gives me life, not some religious organization.
Calvinism doesn't save.
Arminianism doesn't save.
I don't identify with a denomination or a theology. My spiritual identity is in Jesus Christ and in Him I live and move and have my being.
Nobody ran to the RM over your comments. I personally don’t like them removed as they’re there for all to see the mind of the Roman Catholic.
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