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Posted on 05/01/2017 2:01:15 PM PDT by ebb tide
Beloved, these things have to happen so that the end will come. Just love one another as He commanded and hold fast to what you were taught when you first believed. The wicked will be wicked. The righteous will be righteous. Hate evil and love good, but most of all love another.
Yep, SO invincible that you have an anti-Christ as your Pope who thinks that he’s greater than Jesus.
Allow me to snigger in your general direction.
Oh, and...
You want to know how old my ‘cult’ is?
It starts with ‘In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth.’ And ‘In the beginning there was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.’
Only you Papists think that God’s plan of salvation began with your anti-Christs. The Apostle Peter would be horrified at what you attached his name to.
Anyways, I’m tired of the flame war already. As I said, invincible Catholic ignorance.
Bye bye.
So why do we now have Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Moslems, etc., when Jesus Christ established only one Church?
What's your particular protestant cult; or are you ashamed to reveal it?
Sorry buddy; I told you I’m done.
If I thought that you’d reply with anything but insults and contempt, maybe I’d say something different. But considering your behavior on this thread even before I stepped in, I’m not going to cast any pearls before swine.
You may have the last word if it’s THAT important. Bye!
Looking at what you regularly post here, it sounds like the label "protestant" fits YOU to a tee! Explain to everyone where you get the authority to condemn your own Pope - coronated by the very magisterium you are commanded to be in subjection to (according to the canons of the RCC).
If you’re done, how many times are you going to say, “Bye”?
Once again, you are now making stuff up.
I’m not surprised.
Didn’t we have a FRoman Catholic recently EXTOL some Popes as martyrs who had been murdered BY succeeding Popes??? The mind reels!
You are not alone MM. Quite a few of us do. It's nice to KNOW POSITIVELY, that we will go to Heaven, even at the risk of committing a certain sin, that we have been told we commit by saying that. 😀😆😄
This should be good...what stuff am I "making up"?
What in the heck are you babbling about? I never even mentioned Martin Luther or John Calvin.
Age doesn't make right.
Nobody *founded* it because coming to Jesus is not about a religious system of works.
It's a heart issue, just like this one.
Luke 18:1-8 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’”
And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
Ah, as expected, trotting out the ole *we're all sinners* meme to justify and excuse a kind of debauchery that got Sodom and Gomorrah smoked.
I can't imagine standing before God and trying to explain how I excused and glossed over that kind of heinous sin implying that it was just pretty much normal stuff.
Of maybe for Catholics it is, so they're not so bothered by it?
Or they won't condemn it because then they'd be condemning themselves?
All I know is that the pastors I've known of who engaged in immorality were removed from the pulpit post haste and when you read about any instances in Non-Catholic churches of pedophilia, they are followed by words like *arrested* and *jail*, instead of *moved to a different parish and nobody was told*.
I’ve noticed.
That is beyond laughable.
The Catholic church is rotted from within, right to the core.
And the people who speak out against it,, like Msgr Pope has, get slapped down and put in their place pretty quickly.
Far quicker than if he had engaged in certain kinds of sin.
Elected by its college of cardinals no less.
And I've yet to get an answer as to whether the Holy Spirit guides the college of cardinals in their selection of the new pope.
The core of the Catholic Church is Jesus Christ. I'm sorry to see you have walked away from Him.
Sounds familiar.... :) I know that voice.
Here's your answer: the Holy Ghost guides them, but they don't necessarily follow Him; kind of like you prots.
A Christian is a follower of Jesus Christ. Not a member of a church.
Ebb, you must be lonely to post this to start a flame war.
The Roman Catholic Church along with its idolatry and worship of Mary is not seen in the New Testament.
Roman Catholics are the last ones that should be questioning who is or is not a Christian.
Hey, most of the time you can't get a Catholic to say Christian.
May we never forget that our being Christian (3) obliges us, not only to believe from the bottom of our heart, but also to confess our belief with our mouth: outside of this there is no salvation: "for with the heart we believe unto justice; but, with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation" (Rm 10:10).
Which is not what is espoused by Roman Catholicism. For it to be Roman Catholic one will have to add a lot of works, a lot of penance and Hail Mary's, hoping you haven't committed a mortal sin, hoping that Mary gives your prayer the thumbs up, hoping you've got on your Scapular or Medal when you die, hoping you've been to confession....the list can go on and on.
Paul writes nothing of this in Romans.
Whoever has not offered to Jesus Christ the supreme testimony of blood, which makes one a "martyr", will only have access to heaven with the title of "confessor"(4).
More lies from Roman Catholicism. This sounds more like Islam where martyrs are guaranteed entrance into Paradise per Islam.
There is nothing in the New Testament that indicates this difference between martyr and confessor. This is yet another reason why Roman Catholic "tradition" is rejected.
For context, this is what Paul wrote in Romans 10:5-13
5For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness. 6But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: “DO NOT SAY IN YOUR HEART, ‘WHO WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN?’ (that is, to bring Christ down), 7or ‘WHO WILL DESCEND INTO THE ABYSS?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).” 8But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,
9that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
10for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
11For the Scripture says, “WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.”
12For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him;
13for “WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.” (NASB Translation)
This one passage from Romans completely refutes the Roman Catholic version of how one is saved.
It completely supports salvation through faith and faith alone. It also supports eternal salvation.
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