Posted on 01/31/2019 6:59:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I wonder if he is still living with Sandra Lee.
I am sure if he is, they are sleeping in separate rooms.
Jesus is speaking of our flesh, not His Flesh.
Religious or not.
I figured so.
"I’d bet Cuomo will get as many, or more, Catholic votes next election."
Look at what is happening in Ireland for a preview.
The Catholic church is now a Satanic Cult.
You make a good point about Ireland. Who in the world would have ever thought Ireland, of all places, would do that. Sad and sickening.
Does this mean that every Roman Catholic who gives money to the Vatican is now complicit in child murder?
Then again, considering that the Vatican uses funds to protect AND enable child-rapists, are they complicit in THAT sin too?
How far will the Vatican have to fall before they even take the first step of withholding money from an obviously evil group of people?
I guess that being pro-life is YOPIOS now. After all, Pope and Cardinals say that abortion is just hunky-dory now, and we’re not allowed to gainsay them or else we’re damned to Hell.
“Who in the world would have ever thought Ireland, of all places, would do that. Sad and sickening.”
Ireland, Europe, NYC/NY, Virginia, and ? are in what seems to be a world wide pattern to support the dark side from the church leadership to the pulpits of our churches.
Also, most if not all of our major Christian churches are under seize from the inside out. The sermons on the Gospels are being replaced with Dark Side Left Wing Rhetoric Social Justice BS from the pulpits.
Any increase in any local donations goes up the church ladders or into the salaries of the local priests/pastors and out of the community and the local churches.
Me, either. I’m all US Constitution (KJV).
Not really. LOL
How can you receive "the Sacrament" from despicable, lying, perverted priests? Do you honestly think that they're in a state of grace while they're serving Mass? The thought of all of that repulses me.
AMEN!!!
Yes! Excommunication IS a matter of accountability as well as church discipline for scandalous sin in a member. Dolan weasels out by referring to its use as "weaponizing". What professed Catholics Cuomo, Pelousi, Biden, Kennedys, et al have done in their overt support and codifying of grave wrongs as "legal rights" is a scandal not just for Catholics but for all Christians. If excommunication is the only remedy to set them straight, then it HAS to be used. Anything less makes a mockery of Christian morality. They can use their exclusion from the church for political gain but they will STILL know that their actions have brought the judgment upon themselves and the eternal consequence will be earned. Let them boast that they got kicked out of their church! It obviously didn't mean much to them so it's better that they stop claiming to be Catholics at all. They should be set as an example which WAS what disfellowship also accomplished.
This is the advantage of being a follower of CHRIST, and not a man or denomination.
If the denomination goes off the rails, it neither damns us, nor ties us to it so that we have to participate in its sins.
We are free to find a fellowship where the Truth is still taught and we can participate with it without being complicit in its sins.
Good, accurate points.
Pastors are supposed to guide and lead their flocks. They are supposed to be good Shepherds. Few are.
The Muslims Imams teach hate and show their people how to conduct war against us. Our churches do nothing to educate their people and keep them ignorant of the reality of the threats.
When you consider what those hands might have been doing in the last few days, it's disgusting that not only does the priest lift up those hands to allegedly consecrate the host as if they were holy hands, but that they'd use those hands to place the host on someone's tongue.
I am with you all the way, I NO LONGER believe what my church believes it has been coming for years with me, it is NOW time for me to seek out a TRULY Christian faith I can believe in and follow!!! Cuomo IS THE LAST STRAW!! The pedophilia and cover up was bad enough the STINK of that was VERY HARD for me to shake BUT this thing with Cuomo is the LIVING END FOR ME!!!! The Catholic faith is NOT a Christian faith!!!!
I was raised Catholic and thought I had to go through the church or a priest to get to Him, but in the gospels, He chastises the apostles who try to hinder anyone from coming directly to Him.
The apostle John, in 1 John 1:9, says that if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Confession is very familiar to Catholics, so it's not hard to acknowledge and ask God to forgive us. And He promises He will.
Then we ask Jesus to forgive and save us and He will. That's when someone is born from above.
This example from Scripture that Jesus gave is great.
Luke 18:9-14 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’
But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
The one guy comes right to God in humility. The other brags on his religious activity and works.
Jesus here tells us who gets forgiven, ie. justified. I see it as throwing yourself on the mercy of the court. You really do. We all stand before God condemned and cannot pay what we owe. Asking for His forgiveness in His mercy is the only option.
Romans 10:9-13 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
I did much like that. I asked Jesus to come into my heart and save me and He did. And the transformation was amazing and immediate.
Here's a link to a good site for Bible reading. I like the English Standard Version (ESV) myself. It's very readable.
Start with the gospel of Luke and ask God that as you read, He would show Himself to you. And He will. He will open your eyes to truth in it.
And if you are interested in finding a church, PM me. There are options and it should not be hard to find one that would work for you.
One wonders whether Pope John XXIII called the Council for the sake of calling a council, and left it up to everyone else to figure out what it should be about.
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