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To: LurkingSince'98
Go ahead and pretend that partial verses, single words, MIS-interpreted passages and Apocryphal, non-scripture tidbits all qualify as "Scripture" in your little game. Anything to win this pre-loaded, presumed, pretended and prideful boast, while the true meaning of HAVING Scripture studied as a community of believers is ignored as repetitious noise. Most RCs can quote their canned responses in their sleep but do they actually meditate on God's word? Do they truly understand that they are hearing the very essence of the heart of God through His divine revelation to mankind?

I went to Mass until I was nearly an adult and if anyone asked me if I knew I was going to heaven when I died, I could only have answered, "I hope I will." Any religion that misses the whole point of grace in God's salvation economy and teaches that our personal works, deed, acts and goodness can merit eternal life in heaven with God is in no position to presumptuously assert superiority over anyone else. They have FALLEN from grace and preach an accursed gospel. No thanks. The Roman Catholic religion holds NO sway over me or anyone else who is diligently seeking to know the truth - no matter how much Scripture is supposedly spoken there. The main reason I drive my Catholic mother to mass every Sunday is the hope that the Holy Spirit will perhaps use some part of the word of God to open her eyes to the truth of the gospel of the grace of God and she will understand that she can never earn her way to heaven, but wholly trust in Jesus Christ, who loves her and died for her sins. Been praying for that for over forty years and I don't plan to stop. Nothing is impossible with God.

1,059 posted on 04/10/2014 11:58:29 PM PDT by boatbums (Simul justis et peccator.)
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To: boatbums
The main reason I drive my Catholic mother to mass every Sunday is the hope that the Holy Spirit will perhaps use some part of the word of God to open her eyes to the truth of the gospel of the grace of God and she will understand that she can never earn her way to heaven, but wholly trust in Jesus Christ, who loves her and died for her sins. Been praying for that for over forty years and I don't plan to stop. Nothing is impossible with God.

Two people in the same family, each praying for each other to be in the Kingdom of God. May it come to pass. Amen. Indeed, For with God nothing shall be impossible.

1,100 posted on 04/11/2014 4:59:39 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: boatbums; LurkingSince'98; CynicalBear; Gamecock; Alex Murphy; daniel1212

Additionally, believers do not go to church to get their daily or weekly dose of Bible reading. They do it on their own.

If they are depending on attendance at services for that, they are missing the whole point of what coming together is all about and they are starving themselves spiritually.

I don’t go to church to hear Scripture. I go for corporate worship and fellowship and edification. I take the responsibility to make sure I’m in the word seriously and myself. I don’t wait to be spoon fed it.


1,137 posted on 04/11/2014 7:25:09 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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