Posted on 05/17/2006 9:08:53 PM PDT by Full Court
font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="4" color="#990000">From Operation Rescue to Operation Convert
May 21-27, 2006 |
by TIM DRAKE |
Also in the Register: Randal Terry, CatholicRandall Terry has become Catholic. Tell me about your family. How did you come to know Christ? How did you first get started in pro-life work? What led to the founding of Operation Rescue? How many times were you arrested? When did you first take an interest in the Catholic Church? Which theological hurdles were the most difficult for you to jump? I understand that you are awaiting word on the annulment of your first marriage. Can you tell me why you chose to be received into the Church (without being able to receive the Eucharist), before the resolution of your annulment? Tell me how your reception into the Church came about. What was your greatest fear? How do you expect your evangelical colleagues will react to news of your conversion? Do you anticipate that your conversion could hurt you in your Senate race in a predominantly Protestant state?
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LOL. That's great.
This thread is eerily reminiscent of Willie Wonka's trip through Candyland.
Minus the acid scene. 8~)
I meant to ping you guys, too.
Sugar rush.
I was Confirmed into the Catholic Church at the Home for Incurables (it's antique name), in New Orleans by a good friend and Jesuit priest in the mid-70s.
Not true. My baptism as an 8 y.o. in a tiny Baptist church in Utah was sufficient. I was never required to be Baptized into the Catholic Church.
Obvious but also totally redundant. God is the creator of time and thus doesn't "Pre-anything" from his own perspective. Predestination is a meaningless dogma unless you confine God to a temperal reality.
The founder of your whole religion (Luther) believed the Pope was the anti-Christ and that has been an official line of many revolutionary Protestant sects in the past and even some today.
I think there is subtle flaw in your reasoning that stems from the notion that a person has a right not to believe and not to be baptized. Does a person have a right to commit suicide? If they don't is it OK if someone stops them against their will?
The founder of your whole religion (Luther) believed the Pope was the anti-Christ and that has been an official line of many revolutionary Protestant sects in the past and even some today.
Luther was never head of anybody's church.
He was just a man who tried to help the Catholic Church move toward needed reform ... who got kicked out as a result.
Although I can't speak for every chrisitan group which claims the name Protestant, there are and have been few, if any, which had a central tenet that the Pope was the Anti-Christ.
OTOH, Rome, herself, from the popes on down, ... held official anathemas against Protestants ... until 1960 or so.
"Obviously, however, it was at the time of the Reformation that the Roman Papacy was clearly revealed as the Antichrist." from The Concordia Lutheran Conference
"However, the Scriptures also teach that there is one climactic "Anti-Christ" (Dan. 7:8,11,20-21,24-25; 11:36-45; 2 Thessalonians 2; 1 John 2:18; 4:3; Revelation 17-18). . . Concerning the historical identity of the Antichrist, we affirm the Lutheran Confessions' identification of the Antichrist with the office of the papacy whose official claims continue to correspond to the Scriptural marks listed above." Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
"There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ: nor can the Pope of Rome in any sense be head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin and son of perdition, that exalteth himself in the Church against Christ, and all that is called God." from The Westminster Confession of Faith (1646).
Just a few current and past official statements from recognized Protestant sects.
Ann's a protestant.
Just a few current and past official statements from recognized Protestant sects.
I said that there were 'few'.
And I'd wager that these confessions were modified long before 1960.
According to God, many people do disobey the Gospel.
But the point here is that God has said that baptism is for beleivers. Not unbelieving infants.
Absolutely not, never have said that never will.
Now, back to the subject, why baptize unbelieving infants and follow the papist?
But when were you saved?
I am not a CoC.
I am a born again bible believer who attends an independent baptist church which does not practice the papist tradition of pedo-baptism.
ohfereverluvincryinoutloud...
Full Court, you're bothered by a lot of things for which you have no factual basis.
Good grief, here's the Arminian again defending Calvinism. They wrote the book on missions Full Court.
That's a matter of history.
Gene Wilder or Johnny Depp?
What do they do now?
And BTW, Jorn R. Rice wrote the book on Soul Winning.
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