Posted on 11/13/2019 9:59:30 AM PST by Salvation
The Sabbath was from Friday sundown until Saturday sundown. It was commanded of Jews, and is the only commandment not repeated in the New Testament for Christians.
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The Sabbath is not commanded to Christians and is not repeated (alone) in the NT. What about Matthew 5:17?
This verse says Christ came to fulfill the Law. He did so perfectly.
“Read”? A person can read the Scriptures ‘til they go blind and STILL not get the point that GOD is making. 2 Timothy 2:15. “Study to show thyself APPROVED unto God; a WORKMAN who needeth NOT to be ashamed, rightly DIVIDING the word of truth.”
“STUDY(not just read- STUDY God’s word of truth- the Bible). And how does He tell us how to study His word ? By rightly DIVIDING it. Knowing where we fit in to God’s plan. We CAN know. Read Romans through Philemon. Especially EPHESIANS.
And WHY should we follow His directions? So that we will be approved to Him, and not ashamed of our work as ambassadors for Christ.
He tells us very clearly what he expects from us. And it has nothing to do with not eating fish on Fridays.
Devotion is not specific worship.
Lumen Gentium, 1964
” III. On the Blessed Virgin and the Church
60. There is but one Mediator as we know from the words of the apostle, “for there is one God and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a redemption for all “
The text says Mary is the object of worship.
There are plenty of legitimate areas to attack The Church.
Marian Doctrine is not one. The Catholic Church is Trinitarian, believing with all it’s power in God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
The Church believes Mary’s role in Salvation history is by bearing the Christ by Virgin Birth.
To the contrary, it is one of the most legitimate areas to expose the false doctrines of Rome.
The Church believes Mary’s role in Salvation history is by bearing the Christ by Virgin Birth.
PLUS a whole bunch more!
“...it is one of the most legitimate areas to expose the false doctrines of Rome.”
If one believes that Christ’s one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church is false, one can say it - albeit borne of the ignorance of those said doctrines.
The church is comprised of those who have faith in Christ...and only Christ, for their salvation.
Rome allows its adherents to trust in man-made pieces of cloth known as the Brown Scapular to avoid the eternal fire. That is a non-Scriptural position and an idolatrous one.
lol simply false.
I seriously wonder why the silly strawman’s are made - and it makes me wonder why the need to do this.
Nope. What is posted is the Truth.
I seriously wonder why the silly strawman’s are made - and it makes me wonder why the need to do this.
No strawman argument made.
That Roman Catholicism allows and even encourages the Brown Scapular is true.
Faith in Christ, and only Christ, is the only way for salvation.
To heck with God’s Final Judgement.
It’s called the the sin of presumption.
Ummm...let's see. Jesus sure seems to be telling Nicodemus how to be saved and how he can know he's saved.
The Roman Catholic perspective would have to conclude Jesus was leading Nicodemus into the "sin of presumption" by telling Nicodemus this.
This is what happens when the Scriptures are replaced by "tradition" allowing the false notion of trusting in a man-made piece of cloth to keep the Roman Catholic out of the eternal fire.
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9Nicodemus said to Him, “How can these things be?”
10Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and do not understand these things?
11“Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony.
12“If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
13“No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man.
14“As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up;
15so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.
16“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
17“For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
18“He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19“This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.
20“For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed
. 21“But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”
John 3:9-21 NASB
Perhaps if Roman Catholics would trust in Christ, and only Christ, and not Brown Scapulars, they too could have the assurance of their salvation.
[16] By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? [17] Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit. [18] A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit. [19] Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire. [20] Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.
[21] Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. [22] Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name, and done many miracles in thy name? [23] And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity. [24] Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock, [25] And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a rock.
[26] And every one that heareth these my words, and doth them not, shall be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand, [27] And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof. [28] And it came to pass when Jesus had fully ended these words, the people were in admiration at his doctrine. [29] For he was teaching them as one having power, and not as the scribes and Pharisees.
Matthew Chapter 7
Too bad Rome hasn't dogmatically defined this verse for its members. Rome is leaving them hanging without the ability to understand the passage.
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