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!
But you CAN'T trust everything the 1st century churches taught.
All you have to do is read the epistles of Paul to the Corinthians and Galatians to see that error was creeping in almost immediately. Paul addressed those issues in his letters to the churches.
As a matter of fact, error was creeping into the church in the book of Acts. Else there's have been no need for the Council at Jerusalem to write its letter and send it out.
Here's the conundrum....
If I'm not John MacArthur (which is what he's claimed in the past), he's making it personal, bearing false witness, and mind reading, most of which violates the RF posting guidelines.
If I am John MacArthur then he's compromised my screen name, a VERY, VERY serious breach of protocol on FR and actually a ban worthy offense.
So which is it, tc? Are you making false accusations and bearing false witness or just compromising my screen name?
It's up to your leadership to lead; otherwise another Luther will come along and pull back the curtain again.
I think the story of Gideon is still in the bible that Rome uses.
While vast numbers of folks will say....
... there's absolutely zero guarantee that any of the Biblical stuff is true!
Don’t worry, Mom.
It’s when they QUIT talking to (or about) you that you’ve REALLY gotten to them.
tc might get back to you, if he can sort out his tagline.
How about having faith in the One who told us....no, ordered us to eat of His Flesh and drink of His blood. And in case you hadn't noticed, the OT is over and done.
The old testament certainly told them who to look for and, of course, they found Him. However, the old testament pretty well ended about then and without the followers of Christ, the Catholic church, you would not have a bible, you would not have a new testament, and you would not know who Jesus Christ was....
Set your bible aside and try to find original writings concerning Jesus....rely on none which use the Bible for reference and they tell me what historical documents that you would use to describe the character of Jesus Christ.....there are none.
She/he referred to himself/herself as John long ago.
Here’s the conundrum....
If I’m not John MacArthur (which is what he’s claimed in the past), he’s making it personal, bearing false witness, and mind reading, most of which violates the RF posting guidelines.
If I am John MacArthur then he’s compromised my screen name, a VERY, VERY serious breach of protocol on FR and actually a ban worthy offense.
So which is it, tc? Are you making false accusations and bearing false witness or just compromising my screen name?
Did God really say?
I'm not setting my Bible aside. You can abandon the Truth if you want, I'm sticking with it.
John 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
and???
post 768 contained new testament passages and makes my point, without the Catholic Bible and new testament, you would never know who Jesus was.
Granted that the words are all there and were written down, but the ONLY place to find them is in the CATHOLIC Bible....try to find them elsewhere and let me know where.
All too easy to do.
You do recall that Phillip taught the Ethiopian Eunuch about Jesus from the OT......right?
Sometimes, no, many times, you amaze me with your lack of knowledge on the Bible.
The Catholic church can only maybe take credit for assembling all known Scripture into one volume.
The writing of the Scripture is the work of the Holy Spirit and we would know about Jesus because GOD made sure we would not because the Catholic church made sure we would.
God can do just fine without the Catholic church.
Catholics understood the Revelation of John for 1,600 years before there even were Protestants...
I don't think they can even do that. Roman catholicism didn't come into existence until the 4th century. The NT canon was established well prior to that. I'll give 'em Trent when they officially made their canon.
The writing of the Scripture is the work of the Holy Spirit and we would know about Jesus because GOD made sure we would not because the Catholic church made sure we would.
He sure seemed to do ok in getting the OT put together without roman catholicism didn't He!
God can do just fine without the Catholic church.
And He will continue to do fine in spite of it.
Now that's very comical seeing how only 31.9% is covered in the Liturgy. That's based on a Sunday and Weekday Lectionary.
It drops to 9.4% if only Sunday and Major Feasts are counted.
http://catholic-resources.org/Lectionary/Statistics.htm
You apparently don't think that God has the power to do that.....you are wrong.
Just like He's always been doing.
There are churches in heavily Catholic areas that are just chock full of former Catholics.
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