Posted on 10/14/2009 10:26:11 AM PDT by jacknhoo
GOD BLESS BISHOP SAMPLE!!!
Well?...Our Founding Fathers did give us the Second Amendment, and our Declaration of Independence does have something to say about our **duty** in the face of corruption.
What religion are you??
Christian
Me too....what Church or denomination? Do you go to Church every week? If not why not.
Hello.....will you answer my #45?? Thanks.
So what do you plan on doing?
“Good for him! The Church (East and West) needs more bishops like him.”
Its great to see a bishop act like a real bishop, using his canonical authority the way and in the place the canons call for!
“Now, why is the other (retired auxiliary bishop) not defrocked as the Councils call for? After all, everything he teaches seems to be contrary, indeed anathemical to Catholic doctrine.”
Good question! But this sort of “teaching” is inevitable when hierarchs of The Church involve themselves in secular politics. Politics and political involvement by clerics becomes like an evil narcotic and more often than not leads to uncanonical behavior and even heresy.
In my thirties I understood that the Catholic Church was a cult. (Although, at the time, I would not have had the spiritual maturity to have recognized it as such.) Thankfully, I escaped that mind control.
I now know that salvation is through Christ and Him alone.
Although organizations ( Christian churches) are for Christian fellowship, salvation is not through the organization,its rituals, or its people. To believe that it is, is to worship the organization rather than God.
How do you know you are saved?
Although organizations ( Christian churches) are for Christian fellowship, salvation is not through the organization,its rituals, or its people. To believe that it is, is to worship the organization rather than God.
Where does it say that in the Bible?
WOW!! I see that you can answer a question but you CAN’T answer mine that I have asked you TWICE about?? Why the fear of answering me??
Read it while you can.
I read your post. I have carefully edited my remarks to keep them within the bounds wherein I have a right to address you.
You're free to believe your assertion, but to declare it as fact, instead of your own opinion, is nonsense.
Good luck.
Good for Bishop Sample!
Well said!
By grace we are saved through faith (sound familiar?) through the sacrament of baptism, because he who believes and is baptized will be saved. (Sound familiar?) FYI, The Catholic Church recognizes the validity of a Trinitarian baptism, and so does not require a Catholic baptism when converts enter the Church who have been so baptized.
I’ve asked wintertime TWICE what denomination of Christinity he is and if he goes to Church every Sunday.....no answer, which makes me go “hmmmmmm”.
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