[Alex Murphy]

And in your statement we see the fundamental error of Rome: the confusion of the law and the Gospel.

There is a Catholic Church that I pass by ocassionally, that features a large banner posted on the building outside. It's message reads:

Obey the Ten Commandments
for Everlasting Life

If that isn't "confusing the law and the Gospel", I don't know what is.

[Gamecock]

^^^Obey the Ten Commandments for Everlasting Life^^^

OH! Is that all I have to do? < /sarc>

The Pelagianism of Rome must be why so many cross the Tiber. The crossers just want to get in touch with their inner-heretic.

[annalex]

Obey the Ten Commandments for Everlasting Life

This is quite scriptural, like it or not, unlike the "confusion of law and Gospel" bugaboo that Luther invented from thin air.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

There is a Catholic Church that I pass by ocassionally, that features a large banner posted on the building outside. It's message reads:

Obey the Ten Commandments for Everlasting Life

If that isn't "confusing the law and the Gospel", I don't know what is.

AMEN!

As Wmfights so often reminds us, some simply do not know what the Gospel is.

Over Easter we passed a large Catholic church named for a particular woman saint. Outside the front doors of the church there is a huge statue of this woman. On Easter morning, people were standing before this statue placing flowers at its cement feet.

This particular saint has nothing to do with Easter morning, and very little to do with anyone else's Christianity (except for her small circle of intimates.)

Yet there on Easter morning, the day when Christ rose from the dead to prove to all eyes that He was God Himself who had taken on our sins and paid for every one of them at Calvary, on this most important morning in Christendom, parishoners were paying tribute to a dead human woman!

Such is the myopia of the RCC.

"And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.

They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?" -- Isaiah 44:17-20

[Petronski]

There is a non-Catholic Church that I pass by occasionally, that features a large banner posted on the building outside. It's message reads:

Just say "I'm born again"
Then do whatever you please!

Take my word for it, it's there.