And that is exactly what we are trying to impart to them, Talisker.
We want them to have “the majesty that is Jesus Christ.” But they will not find that in Catholicism.
I have never known anyone, born again and filled with the Spirit, attending a Catholic church. Once the spiritual eyes are open nothing is left for them there.
You may think I am attacking, but I am not. As you can see, no Catholic here is interested in anything other than defending Catholicism. The snarky pics and comments start immediately.
My hope is that the stark contrast will be noticed by those seekers of no faith and that the Lord will use us to reach them. We are commanded to go out and make disciples after all, and that means Catholics too.
Also, Talisker, I don’t consider Catholics to be Christian...perhaps what I have heard called nominal Christians but not true believers. So we differ on that point. And anyone not born again and filled with the Spirit is not a Christian no matter what they say.
And it is very telling because not one Catholic here has ever said to me that they are born again and Spirit filled. Most don’t even know what it means. Catholics are definitely a mission field.
Thanks for your comment.
“I have never known anyone, born again and filled with the Spirit, attending a Catholic church.”
Now you have.
Protestantism is a cut-down, abridged, Reader’s Digest version of Christianity.
Everything good in Protestantism was brought from The Church. The difference is that Protestantism jettisoned much of the Good out of wrong-headed, wrong-hearted iconoclasticism.
“And it is very telling because not one Catholic here has ever said to me that they are born again and Spirit filled.”
We use different terminology, and view the thing from the standpoint of a more sophisticated, more mature, and deeper understanding of theology.
Signing on to the Protestant understanding of ”born again and Spirit filled” is several steps backward in spiritual and intellectual development.
You may feel free to put my name at the top of the list. I left the Catholic Church due to poor Catechesis and became a prot. After sitting down and reading the Bible and being challenged by a very knowledgeable Catholic I found my way back to Jesus in the Catholic Church and have been in full communion ever since.
now that is funny...really funny, but pathetic.
read your bible, look at it, touch it, memorize it.......where do you think it came from, Luther....no, Wesley....no, Calvin....no, Henry VIII...no, Knox....no......it came to you through the courtesy and l,600 years of extremely hard work by the CATHOLIC CHURCH....do you ever read a history book????