Use that line during your particular judgment and see what it gets you.
Use that line during your particular judgment and see what it gets you.
Since the concept of the Catholic Church being the sole arbiter of Christianity and the “only Church” is not Biblical, I think I’m on pretty good ground.
The Catholic Church teaches many things contrary to scripture. Yes, I’ve had many lecture me on making my own interpretation of scripture - something Augustine understood, BTW, since he wrote 4 books on how to do it - but I’ll take my chances staying true to scripture.
Purgatory denies the power of God and the completeness of the sacrifice of Jesus.
Indulgences are simply obscene, and Mariology - the very fact that such a term exists - is blasphemy as well. There are some things I can compromise on, but treating the created like the Creator is not one of them!
Hilarious.
LOL
LOL! That has to be the best I’ve come across.
Love it!
I think the problem that I see in many of the “I have left the Catholic Church” posts is the ability to forgive and laziness. They abandon the church for its human frailty and in its illness, to follow their own whims.
They blame “The Church” when the Church is explict in its teachings. They blame everyone but themselves, where were they when their church needed their faithfulness? Where were they the first time a new priest did something stupid, taught something heretical? They need to stay and take care of the patient!
There are many ways to dissent against bad priests and bad doctrine but leaving the faith that Jesus established is not one of them.
Going to heaven has little to do with church membership, esp. Catholic church membership. It has everything to do with receiving the Lord Jesus Christ into your life and living the way He chooses for us to live. The One True Church still gets it wrong.