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Why I Have Decided to Leave the Catholic Church
timstaples.com ^ | April 1, 2016 | Tim Staples

Posted on 04/01/2016 12:41:08 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

I am letting you be among the first to know. It is true. I am leaving the Catholic Church. I want you to know that this has not been a decision made in haste or without serious and intense research and consideration. But I can no longer remain in a church that I no longer believe in.

Let me explain.

I will be writing more about this soon, but for now let me just say there are five main reasons why I am leaving the Catholic Church:

1. I believe the sole rule of faith for Christians has to be Scripture. The Holy Bible is the only unchanging and definitive word of God that a Christian can build his or her life upon. Everything else, including the Catholic claims to authority, in the end, amount to ever-changing and ultimately sinking sand.

2. I believe works or any sense of salvific cooperation with God’s grace as constitutive to a Christian’s eternal life is unbiblical. “… not of works” (cf. Eph. 2:8-9) means not of works.

3. The idea of Mary and the saints being involved in the salvation of a Christian is tantamount to a denial of the sufficiency of Christ’s redeeming work on Calvary’s cross.

4. #3 can also be said of Purgatory, the “sacrifice” of the Mass, the Catholic view of salvation/justification, and more. These and more of the elements of Catholic teaching result in a denial of the sufficiency of the sacrifice of Christ. More to follow in a more detailed post.

5. What Catholics call the “veneration” of Mary and the saints is actually idolatry.

These are just for starters here. Many of you know that for the last 28 years I have defended the above teachings and more from the Catholic Church. I can no longer do so in clear conscience.

And by the way, just so you know…

April fools!


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To: Syncro
That is/was for those that follow Catholicism, not those that follow Christianity and Jesus.

Public confession of sins was one of the earliest known practices of the Church, and you only got one shot. After that you were barred from Communion for life.

781 posted on 04/08/2016 11:50:33 AM PDT by Legatus (I think, therefore you're out of your mind)
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To: Gamecock; verga; terycarl
Did you hear the latest on the Pope?

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782 posted on 04/08/2016 12:14:23 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Legatus
Public confession of sins was one of the earliest known practices of the Church, and you only got one shot. After that you were barred from Communion for life.

DAMN!

That there be purt neer as good as the Unforgivable Sin!

783 posted on 04/08/2016 12:16:09 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
That there be purt neer as good as the Unforgivable Sin!

The Christians (both heretics and orthodox) of the Apostolic Age were very strict with themselves... and each other.

784 posted on 04/08/2016 12:22:01 PM PDT by Legatus (I think, therefore you're out of your mind)
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To: Elsie
"Queen of hearts"

No wait, that's Ravenger of Hearts.

Sounds like a monster from Harry Potter.

785 posted on 04/08/2016 12:23:29 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.)
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To: Legatus
Didn't they read that Love one another thing that Rome included in the bible?

How about...

Love covers a multitude of sins?

786 posted on 04/08/2016 12:29:30 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Legatus
Public confession* of sins was one of the earliest known practices of the Church, and you only got one* shot. After that you were barred* from Communion for life.

Please show Biblical references (each issue, see the *s), chapters and verses and which translations used.

Thanks

787 posted on 04/08/2016 12:29:34 PM PDT by Syncro (James 1:8- A double minded man is unstable in all his ways)
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To: Syncro
Please show Biblical references (each issue, see the *s), chapters and verses and which translations used.

Why? It's what they DID. Not everything the Church practices or believes is found in Sacred Scripture. But the practices of the Early Church are well documented and easily available, google is your friend. :)

788 posted on 04/08/2016 12:46:51 PM PDT by Legatus (I think, therefore you're out of your mind)
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To: Elsie
How about...

Love covers a multitude of sins?

Well apparently post-baptism it covered a multitude of exactly one sin, of a mortal nature. That's one of the reasons you see people delaying their baptisms for YEEARRS.

789 posted on 04/08/2016 12:49:36 PM PDT by Legatus (I think, therefore you're out of your mind)
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To: metmom
God spread His word in spite of the Catholic church, not because of it. Y'all seem to forget that the OT existed LONG before Catholicism came along, proof positive that He did not use or need to use the RCC to accomplish His plan for redemption.

Wrong again John, He used the Catholic church to spread His word and it is historically apparent that it happened that way.. Of course the Old testament existed and is fully included in the Catholic Bible, but the old testament alone, available at your local synagogue, certainly would not bring you up to date on that rabble rouser JESUS guy that they crucified.

790 posted on 04/08/2016 1:52:10 PM PDT by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVER ALL)
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To: Gamecock
Did you hear the latest on the Pope? Pope Francis, Urging Less Judgment, Signals Path for Divorced on Communion (Also calls for priests to welcome single parents, gay people and unmarried straight couples who are living together.)

He did nothing of the kind....no Eucharist for divorced and remarried, they are living in a state of adultry. He made ABSOLUTELY no changes in dogma nor teachings, no homosexual marriages....nothing.

791 posted on 04/08/2016 1:57:51 PM PDT by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVER ALL)
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To: terycarl

If you don’t see it coming...well, never mind.


792 posted on 04/08/2016 2:03:39 PM PDT by Gamecock ( Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul...Matthew 10:28)
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To: terycarl
He made ABSOLUTELY no changes in dogma nor teachings, no homosexual marriages....nothing.

I'm afraid he did...

Those who approach the Body and Blood of Christ may not wound that same Body by creating scandalous distinctions and divisions among its members. This is what it means to “discern” the body of the Lord, to acknowledge it with faith and charity both in the sacramental signs and in the community; those who fail to do so eat and drink judgement against themselves

Nevermind that it's incoherent theology, it's a pretty clear change in teaching and it's only one instance out of a 60,000 word document.

793 posted on 04/08/2016 2:07:15 PM PDT by Legatus (I think, therefore you're out of your mind)
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To: Legatus; Syncro

And going to a priest in a cofessional anonymously qualifies as “public cofession” just how?


794 posted on 04/08/2016 2:48:42 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Legatus

IOW, you get one chance or the Church damned you to hell forever, eh?

Because you guys claim that you have to eat Jesus to have eternal life. So if you ban them from communion for life, then it’s hell for them, baby.

I’m glad God is my judge and not the Catholic church. HE is a lot more merciful.


795 posted on 04/08/2016 2:51:42 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: terycarl

Jesus thought it did.

So guess who’s wrong.


796 posted on 04/08/2016 2:54:46 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom
And going to a priest in a cofessional anonymously qualifies as “public cofession” just how?

Why should it, the Church developed a more "pastoral" practice over the course of a few centuries.

Would you have us go back to the times when sinners had to stand outside of the church building with a sign around their necks stating the sin and how long they were excommunicated? That's where the days in purgatory originally came from btw.

797 posted on 04/08/2016 2:54:57 PM PDT by Legatus (I think, therefore you're out of your mind)
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To: Legatus

God makes it way easier to be forgiven than any church does.

His requirement is simple.

Confess and He will forgive.

Not prerequistes no qualifications as to when, where, or how.

We cofess to Him whose laws we have broken, the one whom we have offended and He will forgive. Period.


798 posted on 04/08/2016 3:00:05 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom
Jesus thought it did. So guess who’s wrong.

Jesus thought what did???I don't understand your post.

799 posted on 04/08/2016 3:19:21 PM PDT by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVER ALL)
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To: metmom; Elsie
God makes it way easier to be forgiven than any church does.

You're arguing against the faith and practices of the earliest known Christians. I've already posted the picture that goes with this, but here it is again:

heresy photo img_2729.jpg

Cue Elsie to show up with the 7 churches in Asia thing but the fact remains, if you can't trust the Christianity of the 1st century Christians then you certainly can't trust the Americanism of the 21st.

800 posted on 04/08/2016 3:50:25 PM PDT by Legatus (I think, therefore you're out of your mind)
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