God is so STINGY with His forgiveness, He won't forgive anybody who doesn't get it JUST RIGHT!
However, it didn't take long for God's complete and perfect Gospel message to be corrupted by religious leaders. These men, who say they speak for God, have distorted and perverted this good news of God's mercy and grace.
Jesus was so stupid, He didn't make provision to protect billions and billions of people from getting His message ALL WRONG and therefore going to HELL!
Reaching those who are being held captive by religious indoctrination must always begin by establishing the Bible as the supreme authority for knowing God's Gospel.
Which is why Jesus never once mentioned to any of his disciples that they should WRITE? Not once. He instructed them to teach and to baptize, but never mentioned writing anything. That's peculiar, if their WRITINGS are the ONLY way for people to know the gospel.
If it is true that ONLY Scripture is the source of truth about God, then necessarily that doctrine must be found in Scripture. (If it's not in Scripture, then it's a human tradition.)
It is not in Scripture. Therefore, it's an extra-biblical tradition. Which means that the doctrine of sola scriptura, not being in Scripture, is self-contradictory.
Each Catholic is taught that their [sic] salvation is utterly dependent upon the ministry of their priests.
False.
Sorry.
No sale.
Maybe we can generally agree that the man has a valid point in this: We need to sup on God’s Word, mainly, as opposed to being blown and tossed by every wind of doctrine. His conclusions after having thus supped are, as anyone else’s, up for debate.
James 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
I've wondered for some time how it's possible, as some people seem to think, to use "religion" as sort of a Bad Word while taking these scriptures seriously.
To me, it's like reading "Rescuing Precious Souls from the Bondage of Hope" or "Rescuing Precious Souls from the Bondage of Humility." Of course, not everything labeled with a Good Word is a good thing. As the example of "hope" well illustrates, an abusive twist on a good thing may be sadly easy and even popular. In such a case, though, why throw out the good thing in response?
Do you hold that there are 27 inspired books in the New Testament, no more and no less?
If so, you are relying on a final determination made by the Catholic Church a couple of centuries after the last word of the New Testament was put down on paper.
You also can listen to a Rusty Humphries interview I did about the book. It is radical but it is the Gospel.
http://banneroftruth.org/us/resources/articles/2013/eight-symptoms-of-false-doctrine/
Eight Symptoms of False Doctrine
Many things combine to make the present inroad of false doctrine peculiarly dangerous.
There is an undeniable zeal in some of the teachers of error: their ‘earnestness’ makes many think they must be right.
There is a great appearance of learning and theological knowledge: many fancy that such clever and intellectual men must surely be safe guides.
There is a general tendency to free thought and free inquiry in these latter days: many like to prove their independence of judgment, by believing novelties.
There is a wide-spread desire to appear charitable and liberal-minded: many seem half ashamed of saying that anybody can be in the wrong.
There is a quantity of half-truth taught by the modern false teachers: they are incessantly using Scriptural terms and phrases in an unscriptural sense.
There is a morbid craving in the public mind for a more sensuous, ceremonial, sensational, showy worship: men are impatient of inward, invisible heart-work.
There is a silly readiness in every direction to believe everybody who talks cleverly, lovingly and earnestly, and a determination to forget that Satan often masquerades himself ‘as an angel of light’ (2 Cor. 11:14).
There is a wide-spread ‘gullibility’ among professing Christians: every heretic who tells his story plausibly is sure to be believed, and everybody who doubts him is called a persecutor and a narrow-minded man.
All these things are peculiar symptoms of our times. I defy any observing person to deny them. They tend to make the assaults of false doctrine in our day peculiarly dangerous. They make it more than ever needful to cry aloud, ‘Do not be carried away!’
While I’m a passionate defender of the scripture being our prime source for truth (* see Note), I suggest a study of the book of Acts and the term, “the word of God”. It never refers to scripture, but always to the word spoken by saints that originated with the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is the only one called, “The Word of God” (written on His thigh - Revelation).
Jesus said, “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me.”
Yes, we all should be Berean’s (Acts 17:10, 11), but the term Jesus used was “scripture”, not “the Word of God.”
*Note: Scripture without the Holy Spirit can be the “dead letter” that kills, rather than giving life. Most common in the hands of legalists or the “doctrine police”.
“Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.’ And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.’ “
Yeah, yeah, everyone went to Hell until Martin Luther came along and straightened them out. Or was it Calvin? Or maybe Mike Gendron.
All these lies about the Catholic Church are pretty tiresome. You want to follow your religion, fine. But stop doing the work of the Communist left by attacking every other Christian who doesn’t see it your way.
“...This eliminates all the requirements Roman Catholics have added ...”
This is the author’s opinion only and not backed up by God’s Word.
Paul to the Colossians in Colossians 2 Chapter Verse 24
Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church.