[SoFloFreeper]

An excellent read. Something to think about....the above is only an excerpt.

[ravenwolf]

If we are saved we have the assurance, but are we saved or are we just playing at it.

I have an idea that is the reason for calling it heresies.

[sportutegrl]

Sola Gratia

Sola Fide

Sola Christus

Sola Scriptura

Sola Deo Gloria

Martin Luther

[fishtank]

"Robert Bellarmine" was my confirmation name.

I hereby formally repent of that.

Of course, I repented of Romanism about 33 years ago....

[Albion Wilde]

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[boatbums]

If final justification is dependent on something we have to complete it is not possible to enjoy assurance of salvation. For then, theologically, final justification is contingent and uncertain, and it is impossible for anyone (apart from special revelation, Rome conceded) to be sure of salvation. But if Christ has done everything, if justification is by grace, without contributory works; it is received by faith’s empty hands — then assurance, even “full assurance” is possible for every believer.

That is really the gist of the argument. Do we depend upon Jesus Christ and His sacrifice for our sins or do we depend upon our own works of righteousness to redeem us? I think God's word is pretty clear that it is NOT by our works righteousness that we are saved but by the mercy and grace of God. Salvation is the GIFT of God. To make a gift dependent upon what we do to earn or merit it negates that it is a gift.

[FourtySeven]

What Is the Greatest of All Protestant “Heresies”?

Posting articles on FR thinking they will somehow have the power to "convert" a Catholic (or anyone else for that matter)

Note, that goes for any Catholic who does the same with the same intention.

[Elsie]

...How would you answer? What is the greatest of all Protestant heresies?

Oh; about the same way I answer, "When did you stop beating your wife?"

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They can take their loaded questions and load them somewhere sunless.

[Elsie]

...What he wrote was: “The greatest of all Protestant heresies is assurance.”

What a FOOL!

Has he NEVER read John 5:24?

Or what he wrote later in 1 John 5:13?

[Jim Noble]

The greatest of all Protestant heresies is presentism.

The idea that God would abandon His people for 1500 years (until the printing press was invented), so that the only (the Sole) means of ascertaining His will and HIs plan did not, in effect, exist - is absurd.

That’s not Christianity. If He would do that for 1500 years, why not 1800? If you’re a Protestant, why are you not a Mormon?

[Grimmy]

Not toeing the line of the Church of Mammon so that the Counts and Princes can have yet more silk dresses to parade around in from the tithe tax?

[imardmd1]

What Is the Greatest of All Protestant “Heresies”?

The Greatest "Heresy" of The Protesters seeking to Reform the Catholic paradigm was/is rejecting only some of the RCC's false doctrines, rather than all of them. Such false doctrines include baptismal regeneration, paedobaptism, considering the emblems of Christ's Passion as sacraments, a two-class clergy/laity system of government of the assembly, a bishopric external to the local church, gaining/losing/gaining/losing one's salvation ad infinitum, episcopacy, special religious dress for the clergy, female elders/pastors, etc.; to name a few unbiblical heresies.