Posted on 12/09/2020 8:49:51 AM PST by WTanner1776
Generally, the Marxists of the left are, like Karl Marx, unapologetic atheists. They slander religious people, openly advocate against religious ideas and practices, and advocate for policies that are antithetical to a religious and moral society. However, come election time, they are forced to reckon with the fact that most of America is still, in fact, a religious society. So, to make themselves seem more electable, the Democrats occasionally pretend that they are religious. Recently, they have been claiming that Joe Biden is a Catholic, despite his support of anti-Christian policies and support for a part that stands against God. That raises the question “is Joe Biden Catholic?”
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Some people wear their religion as a coat to hide their sins.
is the pope catholic?
"is the pope catholic?"
Only if bears in the woods are"
Joe doesn’t poop in the woods, he tends to wander off so they put diapers on the old fool.
Yes he is. He was baptized catholic received sacraments. He will be judged by God when he dies, as a Catholic- informed, responsible and either obedient or disobedient. Oh. And scandalous or not. I e how many did he bring to heaven or lead to hell.
Doesn’t matter if he is Catholic, the question is, is he a Christian. IF so, then “...there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”.
1 John 4:20
New King James Version
If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
What can be more hateful than killing an innocent baby Joe?
To operate as the former is what so much papal teaching generally exhorts while to do the latter is essentially to operate as an evangelical in making the veracity of truth claims subject to their understanding of NT church teaching.
'the one duty of the multitude is to allow themselves to be led, and, like a docile flock, to follow the Pastors," "to suffer themselves to be guided and led in all things that touch upon faith or morals by the Holy Church of God through its Supreme Pastor the Roman Pontiff," "of submitting with docility to their judgment," with "no discussions regarding what he orders or demands, or up to what point obedience must go, and in what things he is to be obeyed... not only in person, but with letters and other public documents ;" and 'not limit the field in which he might and must exercise his authority, " for "obedience must not limit itself to matters which touch the faith: its sphere is much more vast: it extends to all matters which the episcopal power embraces," and not set up "some kind of opposition between one Pontiff and another. Those who, faced with two differing directives, reject the present one to hold to the past, are not giving proof of obedience to the authority which has the right and duty to guide them," "Nor must it be thought that what is expounded in Encyclical Letters does not of itself demand consent." (Sources http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3578348/posts?page=14#14)
And Catholic leadership both elected Benedict who affirmed bloody Ted Kennedy as a Catholic as well as social warrior Francis as pope, and thus Catholics have such as brethren as well as these... ‘Catholics for Biden’
We’ve been assured here on FR by some FRoman Catholics that *Once a Catholic, always a Catholic*.
Seems Catholics can’t decide among themselves if one is always a Catholic when they are baptized as a Catholic, or not.
Biden’s as Catholic as the pope
If you don’t know the word Psalm, you aren’t even Christian.
Meanwhile, I should know not to post while on the phone, and the first sentence of my post was worse than my normal miscues. Corrected [in brackets].
The question is who [determines what] a Catholic is, the pope and leadership - which Catholics are to follow - or the laity based upon their judgement of what qualifies [one as being] a true [Catholic] based upon their interpretation of church teaching.
No one is more Catholic than FRoman Catholics.
What a tangled mess!
For all the grief that Osteen gets, he closes each Sirius 128 program with:
“Friend, if you prayed that simple prayer, I believe you have been ‘born again.’ I encourage you to attend a good, Bible-based church and keep God in first place in you life.”
And just what WAS that simple prayer??
‘Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins. I ask you to come into my heart. I make you my Lord and Savior.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obp-9BEZe1c
But is this a Christ who focuses on purity and warns of judgment and eternal damnation and not loving this world, and atonement by His sinless shed blood, or one who minimizes sin and focus in being successful in this world?
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. (2 Corinthians 11:3-4)
Indeed He does, and He's also the One that said:
Osteen's sermon preparation involves memorizing his remarks and listening to himself on tape.[21] Osteen says he chooses to focus more on the goodness of God and on living an obedient life rather than on sin.[22] He says that he tries to teach Biblical principles in a simple way, emphasizing the power of love and a positive attitude.[23] When asked why he does not focus more on sin, the devil and hell in detail, Osteen stated in an interview with CBN News:
When I grew up, the devil was a reason why I had a headache or the devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the devil. I think today when I say the enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the enemy can be our own thoughts. We've trained ourselves the wrong way. Or the enemy can be our own lack of discipline. Some people preach about hell like you're already going there, and to me the Gospel means 'Good News.' I'd rather say God is a God of mercy. So I think the people already know what they're doing wrong, and I certainly believe in hell. But to me, when I see thousands of people before me, it just doesn't come out of me to say, 'You guys are terrible, and you're going to hell.' I'd rather say that God is a God of mercy. You've got to live an obedient life, but for every mistake you've made, there's mercy there, and I believe we can do better.[9]
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