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ROMAN CATHOLICISM: A DIFFERENT GOSPEL
Apprising Ministries ^ | January 16, 2008 | Ken Silva

Posted on 02/28/2008 6:25:40 AM PST by Manfred the Wonder Dawg

ROMAN CATHOLICISM: A DIFFERENT GOSPEL

In their lust for unity the Emergent Church and post-evangelical “Protestants” are right now embracing the Roman Catholic Church as another Christian denomination. But the issue is simple: If, as taught the Church of Rome, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without “the new birth in baptism” then we are now in hopeless contradiction with the Gospel contained in Holy Scripture.

But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. (Galatians 1:8)

Speaking The Truth In Love

Let me make this as clear as I possibly can for the Roman Catholics who may read this work in Christ from Apprising Ministries. I personally am former member of the Church of Rome and care very deeply about those, such as the majority of my own family line, who are trapped in this apostate man-made system of religion known as Roman Catholicism. I also fully realize that what I say may sound “unloving” and possibly even “harsh.” However, there is just nothing that I can do about that. By not telling the Truth we aren’t doing anyone a service.

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TOPICS: Apologetics; Religion & Culture; Theology; Worship
KEYWORDS: catholicbashing; culturalsuicide; emergent; gnostic; gospel; itsfuntobeabigot; letsbashcatholics
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To: narses

I’m a born again Christian. I was Episcopalian until a teenager, a Methodist for many years, a Baptist (where I finally heard about salvation) and now I belong to a church that believes in the Trinity, the baptism of the Holy Spirit and all the gifts of the Spirit. Great place to worship. Been there 25 years.

RCC religion is what I was talking about.


641 posted on 03/02/2008 10:47:33 AM PST by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: Quix

Thank you, Quix!


642 posted on 03/02/2008 10:56:58 AM PST by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: phatus maximus

Thank you for your good reasoned answer. I did think you were Catholic. Of course we will always commit sin, even when we’re born again, but Jesus does forgive us our sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness. I will never believe that babies go to hell.


643 posted on 03/02/2008 11:01:34 AM PST by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: Marysecretary

“...and now I belong to a church that believes...”

And what Church (denomination) is that?


644 posted on 03/02/2008 11:01:47 AM PST by narses (...the spirit of Trent is abroad once more.)
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To: wmfights; the_conscience
How does a baby a couple months old look back on their life?

The baby doesn't look back. The believer looks back and sees that God has been guiding his steps from the day of his birth. Don't you believe that, William?

Why not join the RCC then. How is what you're saying any different than what they say?

We've said several times now the grace that is present at baptism and the Lord's Supper is not saving grace, but his presence is felt more dearly during the observation of His commandments as He instructed -- "remember me, and be baptized in my name."

This is why it's hard for me to understand a reformed Baptist. I can understand free will Baptists saying our public declaration of faith is required for our salvation. But for a predestinarian Baptist (thank God they exist and thrive by His grace) to say that "something must be done in order for our salvation to be accomplished" really truly smacks of Rome and Arminianism.

Can God save without baptism? Of course He can. And most likely does. But for those of us who have been given the Bible and new eyes, we know it is His will for us that we are baptized into his family which is simply a recognition of our birthright as His seed. Infant baptism affirms the new covenant.

We aren't saved by our assent to faith. We are saved by grace through faith...which is given to His children from their first breath according to His decree from before the foundation of the world. Graces saves, and grace alone. Our faith is the fruit of that grace which grows at a time of God's choosing.

645 posted on 03/02/2008 11:02:36 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: StAthanasiustheGreat

Exactly. Much like the muslim rules in the “land of war”, anything goes.


646 posted on 03/02/2008 11:02:47 AM PST by narses (...the spirit of Trent is abroad once more.)
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To: wmfights

I feel sometimes I’m shouting into the wind here... thanks.


647 posted on 03/02/2008 11:03:52 AM PST by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: narses

It’s a non denominational church. We used to be Baptists but that changed. We’re under the umbrella of Elim Bible Fellowship, a charismatic, spirit-filled, bible believing school and institution.


648 posted on 03/02/2008 11:07:07 AM PST by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: Marysecretary

“We used to be Baptists but that changed. “

Which of the many denominations that you have followed has “plenty of heresy in it” and how do you know the one you currently adhere to does not?


649 posted on 03/02/2008 11:09:45 AM PST by narses (...the spirit of Trent is abroad once more.)
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To: StAthanasiustheGreat; narses
Translation: You caught me, but you are evil, therefore I can lie all I want.

Gee, I didn't know BJ Clinton went into the evangelism bidnis!

650 posted on 03/02/2008 11:17:52 AM PST by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Petronski
Many thousands every year?

Suuuuure.


Though you conveniently "forgot" to include the qualifier "for one reason or other" the fact is far more Priests leave for one reason or another than are added to the rolls.

Using a single statistic "Priests who leave to marry" we can see a decline in active Priests of approximately 1,700 per year.

PRIESTS WHO LEAVE TO MARRY

Factor in deaths, retirement, for reasons of faith, "kicked out", etc., and it is rather simple to say "thousands" leave each year.

I await your documented rebuttal.

651 posted on 03/02/2008 11:20:32 AM PST by OLD REGGIE (I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me be perfectly clear. I know nothing.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

PUHHHHLLLLLLEASSSSSE

DR E!

Using ROME and Armenianism

in the same sentence . . .

more than gauche! . . . I might have to get my PeptoBismol!


652 posted on 03/02/2008 11:31:03 AM PST by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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To: Quix; wmfights
The more I study God's word, the more I find it all comes down to God's election by grace through faith in the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

He did it all. God elects; Christ redeems; the Holy Spirit sanctifies.

We live out God's thoughts after Him. For those who have been given faith in Christ, that is wonderful, merciful news.

For those who haven't been given faith in Christ...well, they don't want it anyway because Christ assures us that when someone asks...

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you" (Matthew 7:7 and Luke 11:9)

Here's a quick comparison. When you have a few moments, read it and see where you disagree. I once tried, but failed.

WHAT IS THE GOSPEL?

Pinging Wmfights because I know he loves that question. 8~)

653 posted on 03/02/2008 11:54:34 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: OLD REGGIE

Seventeen hundred is not “many thousands,” if that number is even accurate.

Death is not “leaving the priesthood,” it is death. Retired priests are still priests.

Your funny numbers did not stand up to scrutiny. You failed.


654 posted on 03/02/2008 12:05:57 PM PST by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: OLD REGGIE
PRIESTS WHO LEAVE TO MARRY

AMEN!

My husband attended a Jesuit prep school. At the time there were 50 priests. Now there are two with twice the student enrollment.

Monasticism is not the way God intended men and women to live. It does not glorify God; it denies God's instruction to "be fruitful and multiply."

655 posted on 03/02/2008 12:14:12 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: narses

ALL religions have heresy of one kind of another. As long as our pastors stick to scripture, I have no problem with it. The Holy Spirit is perfectly capable of showing us error.


656 posted on 03/02/2008 12:17:14 PM PST by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; wmfights
Let me add a few thoughts to Dr. Eckleburg's excellent post.

I believe what is latent in "believers baptism" is the pernicious error of Neonomianism (new law). This is the belief that the new covenant instituted a new law to be obeyed, namely faith. This was the error addressed at the synod of Dordt. It displaces grace (Gospel) with law. In it's practical application, believers baptism then glorifies the believers faith instead of God's grace.

The other major problems of the baptistic mindset is the position of their children in relation to God and the evidence of faith. God has always dealt with families beginning with Adam through Seth and Noah to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This is truly evidenced by the importance of geneology in Scripture. Children were always considered part of the family of God unless they proved to be ungrateful through their disobedience.

Because of the baptistic tendency toward revivalism and the evidence of faith being an emotional encounter with God one wonders of the children who being raised by godly parents and perhaps always having an implicit faith in God how they must doubt themselves for lacking an emotional experience, if that be the case? I think this is a terrible burden to put on them.

In the Sacraments God accomodates our finite and sinful nature. Because the spiritual realities are beyond our comprehension God conjoins the spiritual reality with the physical manifestation to help our understanding which is a true blessing.

Our difference with the Romanists are that the spiritual reality must always be distinguished from the sign so that we always look toward Christ instead of the sign. But the spiritual reality does accompany the sign when accepted by faith so that by our senses we can understand that reality. The Romanists, otoh, make the sign the reality.

Moreover, when we speak of sacraments, two things are to be considered, the sign and the thing itself. In baptism the sign is water, but the thing is the washing of the soul by the blood of Christ and the mortifying of the flesh. The institution of Christ includes these two things. Now that the sign appears often inefficacious and fruitless, this happens through the abuse of men, which does not take away the nature of the sacrament. Let us then learn not to tear away the thing signified from the sign. We must at the same time beware of another evil, such as prevails among the Papists; for as they distinguish not as they ought between the thing and the sign, they stop at the outward element, and on that fix their hope of salvation. Therefore the sight of the water takes away their thoughts from the blood of Christ and the power of the Spirit. They do not regard Christ as the only author of all the blessings therein offered to us; they transfer the glory of his death to the water, they tie the secret power of the Spirit to the visible sign.

Calvin's Commentaries, 1st Peter


657 posted on 03/02/2008 12:29:12 PM PST by the_conscience ('The human mind is a perpetual forge of idols'.)
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To: the_conscience
Calvin's Commentaries, 1st Peter

Traditions of men. How odd.

658 posted on 03/02/2008 12:34:39 PM PST by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: Petronski
No, just good exegesis of Scripture and not some extra-scriptural proclamation from a papal god.
659 posted on 03/02/2008 12:43:00 PM PST by the_conscience ('The human mind is a perpetual forge of idols'.)
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To: the_conscience

“Papal god?”

You seem to have been blessed with a very vivid imagination.


660 posted on 03/02/2008 12:52:51 PM PST by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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