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!
Typical of the die-hard traditionalists
Take a comment and apply some semantic gymnastics in a pathological manner and then they can twist what was said to fit their agenda regardless of the truth of the matter
Really! I never knew that.
So THIS is why ADULTERY is not mentioned in the letter the ECFs wrote to the Gentiles in Acts chapter 15.
John 20:27 NIV
Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe."
Now; lick off your fingers and LIVE!!!
Sorry, Rome.
You assembled it for a REASON.
Oh??
Where?
You REALLY expect people to BELIEVE this tripe??
That GOD, the Maker of the UNIVERSE, needs the puny Roman Catholic Church to get HIS word out?
You silly, silly man!
And now that brave men have WRESTED the bible from the clutching hands of the 'church'; EVERYONE can read what GOD told those 7 CATHOLIC churches in Asia!!
You claimed it to be TRUE.
Will you either retract or find the link to it?
Or just bluster away as usual?
Then it behooves your fine reputation on FR to track it down so the rest of us can SEE it and scold her properly!
I missed that part in the Gospels; where BREAD was nailed to a cross.
No; his tagline is correct and it is perfect.
Though he DOES seem deranged at times.
Only the Douay-rheims translates the passage in this manner. Another poor translation by catholicism causing poor theology.
placemarker
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