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To: annalex
No, the world owes us nothing. If someone wants to be saved, he has to obey the Gospel and be Catholic, but the choice is entirely his. Many are called, the elect are few.

If someone wants to be saved he/she must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, being Catholic is a denomination of Christianity. When a person is saved he/she is a member of the spiritual body of Christ and automatically is catholic - because that simply means the universal body of Christ. A person can be part of Christ's body no matter what denomination he/she belongs to. Being a Roman Catholic sure doesn't guarantee that, that's for sure, but neither does being a Baptist!

7,163 posted on 02/05/2011 11:25:13 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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To: boatbums
Catholic is a denomination of Christianity

No it is not. Denominations are abhorrent to God who did not want any:

That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us (John 17:21)

The Catholic Church is not a denomination. Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians (all 100 of them) are denominations, and they are the ugly product of the so-called Reformation. The Church is simply the One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church that Christ founded.

7,272 posted on 02/28/2011 6:55:43 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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