Then this means that MORMONism; Jehovah Witness, ...
Posted on 05/11/2018 7:25:14 AM PDT by ebb tide
John is the book I suggest non-believers read if they have questions about Christianity.
I was also raised in the Roman Catholic Church too. (Yes, we called it the Roman Catholic Church) I went to a Roman Catholic grade school and a Roman Catholic high school. I don’t think I knew even one Catholic, who expected to go to Heaven. There may have been some. It’s just that I never personally knew any.
I remember telling one of the Roman Catholic nuns, that I hoped to go to Heaven, when I croaked. She thought I was crazier than a loon. I suppose maybe she thought she was heading to the fires of Hell.
I left the Roman Catholic Church, because I wanted to go to Heaven, and realized that, as a Catholic, I wasn’t going to go to Heaven. I don’t know why people remain in the “one true church,” when they have NO assurance of ANYTHING. For me, it wasn’t going to cut the mustard, so I left the Roman Catholic Church, never to return. I am comfortable with that. 👍😁
That ain't even the half of it!
It’s all about a power grab.
You forgot the part about the pedos, prochoicers, etc. aren't "really" Catholics. We have several on these threads who adamantly claim that even their current Pope isn't Catholic!
Sure they do but where a Baptist pastor may molest one kid, a Catholic priest may molest 1 or two hundred...And then be moved to another location to continue his perversion...
lets also be honest about why people leave the Catholic church...they want a divorce...they want an abortion...they don't want any stinking rules telling them how to live their lives..
According to the latest numbers from the Guttmacher Institute, 24 percent of women who procure abortions identify as Catholic, almost the same as 22 percent of all U.S. women who called themselves Catholic in a 2014 survey by Pew Research Center.
In the same sources, evangelical Protestants made up 27 percent of all women in the United States but only 13 percent of those who underwent abortions, revealing a greater reluctance toward choosing abortion, a greater reluctance toward revealing their religion on a survey or both.
Facts matter...
Of course it ISN'T...The church that Jesus Christ founded had a requirement that all of its pastors to be married, to women, and have a bunch of well behaved kids...
That's the first thing to look for when searching for the one, true church...
They're just as 'Christian' as Catholics, and possibly Izlamaniacs...
It's us who they doubt...
A very interesting website indeed.
I know right?
I’d respect some people more if they said that Pope Frank is terrible, and maybe they need to rethink the idea of concentrating so much power in the hands of one man who isn’t Christ, and maybe put some checks and balances in the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
Instead they blame Luther.
What.
Where is Pope Benedict?? How can we get him out of captivity??
It sure seems that the Roman Catholic church does a good job at ELECTING a fella that manages to STOMP on some very sensitive toes of those who want THEIR party line to be the CORRECT party line!
So, by those comments, the EO, the Greek Orthodox, the Russian Orthodox, the Ukrainian Catholic, all are not saved since they are not ROMAN Catholic or in subjection to it.
Sure seems that way!!
"One indeed is the universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved, in which the priest himself is the sacrifice, Jesus Christ, whose body and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under the species of bread and wine; the bread (changed) into His body by the divine power of transubstantiation, and the wine into the blood, so that to accomplish the mystery of unity we ourselves receive from His (nature) what He Himself received from ours."
--Pope Innocent III and Lateran Council IV (A.D. 1215)
AFAIK; the above is STILL in force.
Some things are DEEPLY rooted...
Why do you HATE Mary so???
Besides; 'tis better to be SAFE than SORRY!!!
26. "Gens quæ non servierit illi, peribit; gentes destitutæ tantæ Matris auxilio, destituuntur auxilio Filii et totius curi’‘ coelestis."— De Laud. B. M. I. 4.
Cardinal Hugo http://fatima.org/crusader/cr38/cr38pg3.asp
Translation: "that those who do not serve Mary will not be saved; for those who are deprived of the help of this great Mother are also deprived of that of Her Son and of the whole court of heaven."
--Catholic_Wannabe_Dude(Hail Mary!!)
HMMMmmm...
Catholic_Wannabe_Dude may have to change his(?) tagline to be more in line with ELSIE's...
Then this means that MORMONism; Jehovah Witness, ...
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"No man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith. From the day that the Priesthood was taken from the earth to the winding-up scene of all things, every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are—I with you and you with me. I cannot go there without his consent. He holds the keys of that kingdom for the last dispensation—the keys to rule in the spirit-world; and he rules there triumphantly, for he gained full power and a glorious victory over the power of Satan while he was yet in the flesh, and was a martyr to his religion."
Brigham Young, October 9, 1859
Brigham Young, --JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES, vol. 8 p. 224
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Do you just make up fake news? YOUR COMMENT: “They had nothing to do with the sect founded by Constantine 300 years later. Whether you acknowledge it or not.” Your assertion does not agree with historical facts.
Very early in post-apostolic times, however. the Church did acquire a proper name—and precisely in order to distinguish herself from rival bodies which by then were already beginning to form. The name that the Church acquired when it became necessary for her to have a proper name was the name by which she has been known ever since-the Catholic Church.
Around the year A.D. 107, a bishop, St. Ignatius of Antioch in the Near East, was arrested, brought to Rome by armed guards and eventually martyred there in the arena. In a farewell letter which this early bishop and martyr wrote to his fellow Christians in Smyrna (today Izmir in modern Turkey), he made the first written mention in history of “the Catholic Church.” He wrote, “Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church” (To the Smyrnaeans 8:2). Thus, the second century of Christianity had scarcely begun when the name of the Catholic Church was already in use.
https://www.ewtn.com/faith/teachings/churb3.htm
I do hope as an educated Mom, that you seek the full Truth from Jesus that is protected by the Holy Spirit in the Catholic Church.
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