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To: trebb
Define "Christian"...

Gladly!

Please, Don’t Call Protestants Christians

60 posted on 08/14/2017 11:14:44 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide; trebb
Define "Christian"... Gladly! Please, Don’t Call Protestants Christians

From your link: Only Catholics can be true Christians. No one who dissents from the Roman Catholic Church can be a Christian. The terms are synonymous.

So not only is this elitist, exclusionary snobbery anti-Scriptural, it is contradicting your OWN Catechism! No doubt some Roman Catholics are genuine Christians, but to presume membership in "your" human organization - that no longer teaches it alone is the way to salvation - is the ONLY way to know Jesus Christ and receive the gift of eternal life by the grace of God through faith is ludicrous. It was NOT something the Apostles taught nor was it what Jesus taught and it certainly is not what God's divinely-inspired word teaches, either. I can't tell you how wonderful it is to NOT be under the condemnation of the pharisaical and accursed gospel of Roman Catholicism and to KNOW I have eternal life through Jesus Christ!

67 posted on 08/14/2017 3:38:52 PM PDT by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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To: ebb tide
Kind of ironic that the "Catholic" Church is so discriminatory - especially since the word "catholic" means universal/all-inclusive.

I hope they carry more of the Good News of the Gospel than they did when I was missing the boat in the '50s-'60s, but it seems they are more into the Southern Baptist "You're all going to hell because you ain't good enough for God" mode.

I wish you well and I'm so glad Jesus lets me appreciate His gift w/o the intervention of a bunch of "holier than thou" self-appointed "judgementalists" who delude themselves into thinking they are less prone to sinfulness than all others.

106 posted on 08/15/2017 2:42:50 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: ebb tide; trebb

That link is an unmitigated load.

Of Catholic talking points.

Only Catholics can be true Christians???

Boy is that guy in for a surprise come Judgment Day.

I didn’t see anywhere in Scripture where either Jesus or the apostles told anyone they had to be Catholic or belong to a church to be saved.


122 posted on 08/20/2017 2:31:02 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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