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To: BipolarBob

I’m a Protestant, and I’m ignoring him/her. Full disclosure: I’m considering joining the Church. I’ve been doing so for years now because it’s not an easy decision.


11 posted on 09/29/2013 7:31:23 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: goodwithagun

In Revelation there are 7 churches. I lean toward the Calvinists in theology but worship in any church I attend. Don’t have a church that matches my theology but that’s okay.


88 posted on 09/30/2013 6:37:15 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: goodwithagun
Not easy, as you must use your human reasoning to objectively examine evidence need to warrant making a fallible human decision to submit to a supposedly infallible magisterium which calls you to forsake objectively examining evidence so as to ascertain the veracity of official RC doctrine, now or in the future.

As C.S. Lewis expressed,

“The real reason why I cannot be in communion with you [Catholics] is not my disagreement with this or that Roman doctrine [but see his quotes below on disagreements with some Roman Catholic doctrines], but that to accept your Church means, not to accept a given body of doctrine, but to accept in advance any doctrine your Church hereafter produces. It is like being asked to agree not only to what a man has said but also to what he is going to say.”- C. S. Lewis, “Christian Reunion”, in Christian Reunion and Other Essays, edited by Walter Hooper, London: Collins, 1990, p. 17-18. http://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2011/09/two-excellent-quotes-by-c-s-lewis-on.html)

RCs suppose that Rome is steward of Divine revelation and inheritor of Divine promises of God's presence and preservation, and has historical descent, and thus she is the perpetually infallible interpreter (or declarer) of Truth. But which is not how the church began, and in fact that model effectively nukes the church.

Of course, Rome has presumed to infallibly declare she is and will be perpetually infallible whenever she speaks in accordance with her infallibly defined (scope and subject-based) formula, which renders her declaration that she is infallible, to be infallible, as well as all else she accordingly declares.

However, the Lord and NT church established truth claims upon upon Scriptural substantiation in word and in power, (Mt. 22:23-45; Lk. 24:27,44; Jn. 5:36,39; Acts 2:14-35; 4:33; 5:12; 15:6-21;17:2,11; 18:28; 28:23; Rm. 15:19; 2Cor. 12:12, etc.) and it was by Scriptures that they were tested, as Acts 17:11 testifies, and thus to it being the supreme standard and assured word of God.

And in the world today it is not that of Roman Catholicism that evidences the resurrection and thus regenerative power of Christ the most (though coming short of the prima NT church), but those church who most hold to the conservative evangelical faith.

96 posted on 09/30/2013 11:32:47 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: goodwithagun

:)


112 posted on 09/30/2013 2:52:33 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: goodwithagun

Please rethink that, goodwithagun, and watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mxmXKvtSUM


178 posted on 10/01/2013 4:45:00 AM PDT by jodyel
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