Want to correct the title to “Former Baptist...”?
Isn’t that what you guys traffic in? Johnny Schmuckfodder used to be a Calvinist, but now, look, he is a Catholic. That proves the Vatican is right. We knew it, we knew it.
Please. Call a man that used to be a Catholic and ask him this question, “Is the sacerdotal system of Rome alive under the New Covenant?” Men like Luther would say, “Of course not. Just those that love Pharisiaism need it.”
Thumbs up. ;)
You wrote:
“Please. Call a man that used to be a Catholic and ask him this question, “Is the sacerdotal system of Rome alive under the New Covenant?” Men like Luther would say, “Of course not. Just those that love Pharisiaism need it.”
Luther might. But those former Catholics who became Orthodox or Anglican would disagree with you.
Very well put, sir.
I'd also add that the doctrine of praying to dead people (like, say, Mary) isn't sanctioned anywhere in the Old Testament.
Jesus said, “Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.” (Matthew 23:9)
1 Timothy 2:5 says, “For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus.”
The Old Testament priesthood was reserved for descendants of Levi. The old covenant has been superseded.
We have direct access to the Father through His Son. We no longer need to go through other men to gain access to God. That is what our precious Savior accomplished on the cross.
Thanks for letting me chime in—as a former Catholic, I am grateful that we can rely on the authority and inerrancy of Scripture—God’s very word—rather than on the traditions and words of men.
A cult claims that they are the true cult and have the true priesthood, and without the true cult and its ordinances and ceremonies, you will be damned. Leave the cult and you will abandon your salvation.
Geeze! Talk about psychologically and spiritually abusive! Instead of Christ being our salvation it is the cult.
yeah -- he left a cult and came to Christianity!