Posted on 06/27/2009 10:33:55 PM PDT by bdeaner
whereas a document written solely by man and without divine guidance is?
Leave the Institutes of Christian Religion out of this.
He’s a member of the Roman Catholic church. (Watch this.)
ROTFL!!!
Well, Fitzgerald's "Eckleburg" was a failed oculist, so perhaps poor vision is a factor.
Amen.
Now that thief that hung beside Christ DID not need Peter or a church to receive salvation. AND further more at HIS death there was a miracle that took place wherein it was NO longer required that any be saved through a flesh priest/being when the veil of the holy of holies was rent from TOP to bottom.
Aside from alll this CHURCH guilt there are seven churches listed in the book of Revelation and who has the ‘key’ and who has not and who left their first LOVE.
“I didn’t know you could leave Hell. Is there a toll at the gate or something?”
I’ll let you know. Is that you tailgating me?
“I’ll let you know. Is that you tailgating me?”
No its me trying to get you to turn around.
According to the Roman Catholic Baltimore catechism...
A. An Indulgence is the remission in whole or in part of the temporal punishment due to sin.Q. 839. What is an Indulgence?
The RC hopes to get around the uncomfortable, anti-Scriptural position of his church by saying the "remission of sin" is not the same thing as "forgiving a sin."
Are we buying that one? Anyone? Anyone?
Why would the reformed Calvinist do that? Calvinists don't have any teachings on sin or punishment, just a check to see whether or not you're a star-bellied Sneech (predestined to heaven) or one of the Sneeches with no stars upon thars (those poor souls Cauvin's little pocket deity created solely for the purpose of eternal damnation in the lake of fire).
Getting back to the Catholic Church, though, there is no conflict between what I said, what the answer you posted said, and what Scripture says.
Thanks for the help.
“No its me trying to get you to turn around.”
Good one!
I’ll be just fine though, and so will you, but I appreciate the sentiment.
Remember, here in the sunny U.S.A., God is...
I assure you that God is not making that obscene gesture to me.
Perhaps Cauvin’s little pocket deity is who you meant.
RC stands for "Roman Catholic." You.
I'm not a Roman Catholic. I've told you time and time again, I've never been to Italy.
LOL. Usually the slander is that Calvinists worry too much about sin and punishment.
But since Calvinists, like all Bible-believing Christians, base their beliefs on the infallible word of God, they most certainly do have a lot of teachings about sin and punishment. All men sin every day. By the grace of God alone believers in Jesus Christ have been forgiven their sins by the one-time sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, and thus they are saved by the righteousness of Christ being freely imputed to them according to the will and purpose of the Triune God.
But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." -- Galatians 2:16-21
For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified... Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin." -- Hebrews 10:14,18
"(God) hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began" -- 2 Timothy 1:9 "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
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