WOW, I've NEVER been called thin skinned before...I'm as tough as nails and cannot be embarrassed by anyone. That having been said, you cannot renounce your baptism and luckily for you, the fact that you might deny Christ means nothing. He came to save all mankind and I would assume that includes you...What you do with your life is, of course, strictly up to you but because you are commenting on this thread, I figure that you have at least some interest in salvation. Your baptism was not imposed on you, it was a priceless gift to you...say thanks
OH?
So *Once saved, always saved* (OSAS) is mocked and derided, but *Once Catholic, always Catholic* (OCAC) isn't?
So God cannot seal us until the day of redemption with the Holy Spirit, but the Catholic church can seal us into Catholicism forever with water baptism?
So *Once Catholic, always Catholic* can hold even if we *deny Christ*, but the main argument against OSAS is that we can't claim that because we don't know if we're ever going to deny Christ at some unknown date in the future?
So the Catholic church can do what God Himself cannot do, leave an indelible mark or seal on someone's soul and spirit?
What CHUTZPAH!!!!
Your baptism was not imposed on you, it was a priceless gift to you...say thanks
On the contrary, water baptism does nothing for the soul
You want to talk gift? This is what God has to say....
Ephesians 2:4-10 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Interest in “Salvation”, you MUST be kidding!
I’m a practical atheist, constantly amused by the antics of the loudly “Devout” and their “Faith”.
Don’t usually comment on them unless they attack me (Usually as a vile “Secular Humanist”), or are such obscene self-serving frauds as this thieving priest.
I recall reading that there ARE ways to void an involuntary “Baptism”, who do I have to offend to get excommunicated? LOL
Not really worth my effort to “Undo” such inane superstition.
Never attended a day of ANY church since I was old enough to escape it, the “Sunday School” indoctrination did not work.
So far as I know the silly “Baptism” was my only day in Catholic clutches, ever.
Granny passed several years ago, I have no idea what she was thinking, SHE was not a true believer, and so far as I know not even Catholic!
I did attend a friends Catholic funeral service, forgot what they called it.
Found the ceremony demeaning to my friend, he was clearly an afterthought, he was barely mentioned, but the church was praised over and over!
Got to love the symbolic cannibalism too!