The Church was not persecuting. They did their best to convince them to return to the Faith because the Church was afraid for their very souls. What lengths would you go to to stop another from going over to satan?
So by this reasoning the Catholic Church killed them to save them from losing their souls only by killing them they ensured their damnation if they really thought they were heretics.
BIBLE BELIEVING Christians pray for those that they see are heading to damnation they DON’T kill them to make sure they are damned . Oh and many BIBLE BELIEVING Christians also spend hours trying to point out to those they think are in err and in danger of being damned the error of their ways on threads just like this. You see the difference is BIBLE BELIEVING Christians don’t think like the world does.
Oh and BIBLE BELIEVING Christians don’t force conversions either because if you don’t come and surrender your life to Christ willingly your NOT one.
John:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
:15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
:10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
:11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Catholics never killed anyone to make sure that they were damned. False.
The native Americans were killed and hered into reservations by Protestant America. Cotton Mather didn't get the emails on love; neither did 10 out of the original 13 colonies whose Protestant faction killed or drove out the others. The poor Baptists were driven south away from the colonies because of their beliefs. The Quakers were nearly wiped out in Massachussets by the Calvinists and the survivors barely fled to Pennsylvania.
Oh and many BIBLE BELIEVING Christians also spend hours trying to point out to those they think are in err and in danger of being damned the error of their ways on threads just like this. You see the difference is BIBLE BELIEVING Christians don’t think like the world does.
Have you ever heard an evangelical radio station and compared it to, say, Relevant Radio? You are correct - there is a real difference. Ever been to a real old fashioned fundamentalist service that turns into a foaming, screaming, deranged anti Catholic diatribe? Yup, there's a real difference. Ever picked a tract up from under your windshield wipers? Very much of a difference. Ever seen the editorials, cartoons and articles of most of the 1800s in the US and England? Very much of a difference. These Bible Believing Christians may not think like the world does, but they closely resemble the Wahhabis in their mosques and madrassahs.
Oh and BIBLE BELIEVING Christians don’t force conversions either because if you don’t come and surrender your life to Christ willingly your NOT one.
The record of forced conversions throughout England and Scotland is clear. How many Catholics died at the hands of the Crown and Anglican church because they refused to convert?
Good verses; we should all live by them.