Posted on 10/20/2013 11:29:26 AM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
“So what? What does being Catholic have to do with scriptural truth?”
It matters, because FR Catholics all think that Protestants are watching porn movies all day.
“I acknowledge that I am coming in at the middle of the discussion, but I am in steadfast agreement with anyone - Catholic or not - who points out that OSAS is bunk.”
I suggest you start the thread from the beginning rather than cluttering the thread up with more of the same material.
That's Tuesdays, Sundays is Rosaries.
Seriously though watch out, I used to pray for Quix at every Mass and we all know what happened to him.
Obviously you haven’t been introduced to the Church the Body of Christ. You will find all the information you need in Romans through Philemon. Turning to Revelation will do you no good. You’re in the wrong dispensation.
Dark is “fear” of God is the beginning of wisdom.
Isaiah 55 lays out the answer to your questions:
Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways 7 and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, 8 neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. As the heavens are higher than the earth, 9 so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
These people obviously put their faith in Jesus. Was Christ in them?
In the Religion forum, on a thread titled What if Once Saved, Always Saved is Wrong?, Hoodat wrote:
The Bible is quite clear that we will be judged for unconfessed sin. And that covers sin both before and after the point we declare ourselves ‘saved’. Revelations is quite clear that even believers can end up in the burning lake of fire.
Of course, the plain reading of Scripture makes that clear. The OSAS crowd denies that, as they do much of Our Lord’s commands. But they all agree, the Catholic Church is the work of the Devil, pagan and horrific.
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.
Credo in Deum Patrem omnipotentem;
Creatorem caeli et terrae.
Et in Jesum Christum,
Filium eius unicum, Dominum nostrum;
qui conceptus est
de Spiritu Sancto,
natus ex Maria virgine;
passus sub Pontio Pilato,
crucifixus, mortuus, et sepultus;
descendit ad inferos;
tertia die resurrexit a mortuis;
ascendit ad caelos;
sedet ad dexteram Dei Patris omnipotentis;
inde venturus est
iudicare vivos et mortuos.
Credo in Spiritum Sanctum;
sanctam ecclesiam catholicam;
sanctorum communionem;
remissionem peccatorum;
carnis resurrectionem;
vitam aeternam. Amen.
In English:
I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ,
his only Son, our Lord.
He was conceived
by the power of the Holy Spirit,
and born of the Virgin Mary,
He suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
He descended into hell.
On the third day he rose again;
he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
he will come again
to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy Catholic church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen
Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways 7 and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, 8 neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. As the heavens are higher than the earth, 9 so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.(Isaiah 55)
Which position would that be? The opne that baptizes adults only, the one that says immersion only, the one that says pouring is okay or may be sprinkling?
Oh I know the one that is OSAS, oh wait some of you are perseverance people.
The truth is, if protestants will admit it, there is no one single protestant position; on anything.
We live in the Dispensation of the Grace of God. The Mystery. (Eph. 3:2,3,5,6,9).
“The truth is, if protestants will admit it, there is no one single protestant position; on anything.”
But there is - The Catholic Church is EEEEEVIIIIILLLLL!!!!!!
Once saved, always saved is wrong.
Perseverance of the Saints however, is not.
narses, is that your “gospel”?? There is NO gospel there. There is NO salvation spoken of in that creed.
I sin willfully sin most every day...I usually eat more food than my body needs...
Rom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Rom 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Rom 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Obviously this and other similar scripture means nothing to you...How can you discuss anything biblical if you don't know or don't believe the scriptures???
Doesn't sound like something Jesus would say though.He did not.
He did say:
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.
Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;
this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us (his) flesh to eat?”
Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.
Whoever eats 19 my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.
For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.
Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.
This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.”
These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum
Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?”
Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, “Does this shock you?
What if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
But there are some of you who do not believe.” Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe and the one who would betray him.
And he said, “For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father.”
As a result of this, many (of) his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him
Jesus then said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?”
Simon Peter answered him, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.”
Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you twelve? Yet is not one of you a devil?”
He was referring to Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot; it was he who would betray him, one of the Twelve. [John 6: 49-71]
Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;
this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us (his) flesh to eat?”
Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.
Whoever eats 19 my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.
For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.
Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.
This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.”
These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum
Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?”
Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, “Does this shock you?
What if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
But there are some of you who do not believe.” Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe and the one who would betray him.
And he said, “For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father.”
As a result of this, many (of) his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him
Jesus then said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?”
Simon Peter answered him, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.”
Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you twelve? Yet is not one of you a devil?”
He was referring to Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot; it was he who would betray him, one of the Twelve. [John 6: 49-71]
“The truth is, if protestants will admit it, there is no one single protestant position; on anything.”
Which, honestly, isn’t a big deal to me at all.
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