Posted on 03/17/2016 7:49:46 AM PDT by ebb tide
I didn't. I became part of His body when I was born again and have not turned my back on Christ yet.
What I left was the religious organization that CLAIMS that it the one, true ,church that Christ founded.
What it claims and what Scripture teaches do not agree so I threw my lot in with the Word of God.
And to whom have you been confessing your sins?
God, as if it's any of your business. He promised that if I confessed my sins, He WOULD forgive them. I believe Him.
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
I find it quite amusing that protestants claim "sola scriptura", yet cherry-pick the same to their own whims.
It's quite amusing that Catholics continually take that verse out of context to support their doctrine. And taking verses out of context is what cherry picking is.
Tell me, why would God give unbridled power to send people to hell to mere men?
He would put one man's soul for eternity in the hands of a corrupted fellow human being, so that priests could blackmail people with their eternal salvation?
There's a quote I've seen recently.....*Absolute power corrupts absolutely.*
Since God Himself promised to forgive my sins if I confess them, then no man has the right or authority to retain them.
Thanks for your concern, but I am willing to take my chances with assurance of salvation. It is the cause of a lot of peace in my life. Anyone can have it.
“not any church, of any kind”
The scripture clearly shows us the universal Church is his body. If you stand apart from ‘any church’ you can’t claim to be in Christ. You can not trust in Christ and reject that which he established.
So what is the "one, true Church that Christ founded, that you've switched to?
Christians are not bragging about the security of their salvation. We realize it stems from nothing we've done or can do.
We know that our sins were forgiven at a very, very high immeasurable cost through the shed blood of Christ. Colossians tells us He has wiped away all of our sins having nailed them to the cross.
We know we are not perfect in any stretch.
We also know it is through Him and Him only, due to His grace that we have salvation because we have believed....much as the disciples did as noted in John 6.
As did Mohammed. I hope you fare better than him.
Faith in a "church" does not save you.
Jesus tells us to believe in Him......."I am the Way, the Truth and the Life; No one comes to the Father, but through Me." john 14:6
You’ve not heard me defend Luther. All I point out is that catholics need to remove the beam in their eye before they attempt to remove a splinter in someone else’s eye.
Dude, really. Stop arguing from your erroneous dispensational and politically-correct driven position.
If you find that Luther was an anti-Semite then you should likewise be defending the Mohammedans as he railed against their false religion, too. Can you call Lutherans antiMormonites? How about we are called-out as antiMason or antiShriner? Are you ready to go down those roads?
Why? What's wrong with it?
Jesus isn't enough?
If we claim we have no sin......
I am very thankful I am not a roman catholic. The fear one must live in not knowing if they've blown it somewhere.
But we're not talking about *any* church but rather the organization that claims it's the one, true church, the only one that Jesus established and the one they claim you have to be part of to get to heaven.
Not enough for those who apostatized from His Church.
Religious organizations are not Christ’s body8.
His body is a spiritual body, comprised of all believers everywhere for all the church age, regardless of where they choose to worship.
Churches don’t make believers, believers make up the church.
Jesus isn’t enough, eh?
I’m sure He’ll be interested in hearing that what He did for you wasn’t adequate when you see Him on Judgment Day.
Show me Scripture, in the words of Jesus, where He tells us that we have to belong to the Catholic church to be saved. That membership in a church is what saves one.
And yet you just have, twice, surreptitiously; can you write "Luther was a vicious antisemite and I categorically condemn his antisemitism" before the cock crows thrice ?
Are you kidding? Many of you protestants seem to think that you're already saved, even before their final judgement by Christ. The sin of presumption.
FRiend, if you are just going to be argumentative and distort what I post, perhaps we should end our converstion.
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