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Catholics Don't Believe You Can Earn Your Way to Heaven
Tradition | 03-06-2022 | CharlesOconnell

Posted on 03/06/2022 11:16:06 AM PST by CharlesOConnell

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To: Philsworld
False World Major Principle #1:

Steal that which was given to and belongs to Israel.

1,041 posted on 03/29/2022 8:44:04 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything.)
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To: metmom

LOL, when my son was little he ‘dressed up’ the walls of our apartment with his crayon work. Potent analogy, metmom.


1,042 posted on 03/29/2022 8:44:11 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Belongs to who?

Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave[a] nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.


1,043 posted on 03/29/2022 8:49:13 AM PDT by Philsworld
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To: Philsworld
Belongs to who?

I used your post as a springboard to teach readers about your false religion. I wasn't posting to you.

1,044 posted on 03/29/2022 8:51:09 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I wasn’t posting to you.


Then don’t post to me, when you say you aren’t posting to me, or whatever you mean.


1,045 posted on 03/29/2022 8:53:46 AM PDT by Philsworld
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To: Philsworld

From now on, just assume I am not posting anything to you, if you want to save time.
If you want to respond, obviously, feel free.


1,046 posted on 03/29/2022 8:57:15 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

If you want to respond, obviously, feel free.


certainly


1,047 posted on 03/29/2022 9:03:23 AM PDT by Philsworld
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To: Luircin
Roman Catholicism is still the Whore of Babylon and will lead you right into Hell.

Nimrod, Semiramis, and Tammuz. The unholy trinity.

1,048 posted on 03/29/2022 9:20:50 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of a USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Mark17; MHGinTN

Don’t forget about the Whore’s Harlot Daughters, of which most of you are associated with (such as any false teacher scam artists who have ever appeared on Prophecy watchers, just to name a few....Has Robert “law” Breaker ever appeared on Prophecy Watchers? Just asking).

No offense to any of you. Just pointing out the obvious. Have a nice day.


1,049 posted on 03/29/2022 9:33:08 AM PDT by Philsworld
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To: MHGinTN

John 10: 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:


Maybe you should figure out what this means, first?


1,050 posted on 03/29/2022 11:30:06 AM PDT by Philsworld
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To: MHGinTN; Elsie

Jesus came to redeem the dead spirits of Adam’s children who will believe in Whom GOD has sent for their redemption. To comprehend this one needs to understand that each descendant from Adam has a body, a behavior mechanism otherwise called the soul, and a spirit. In the dead spirit state the spirit is caught in the grasp of the flesh thus characterized as dead in trespasses and sins. Jesus offered HIS BLOOD to wash away the deadness of the flesh ‘wrapped around’ the spirit. When Jesus speaks of life more abundant He is referring to life in the spirit, not just physical life in the body.


Elsie, you’re an old guy like MHGinTN, so maybe you can explain what on earth he’s jibber-jabbering about here (it’s a pile of mumbo-jumbo). Help a guy out, will ya?


1,051 posted on 03/29/2022 11:38:56 AM PDT by Philsworld
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To: MHGinTN
John 10: 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and my Father are one.

Jesus puts His teaching in the present tense, thus when He says 'neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand" He has issued a guarantee that in this life a man who is in His hand cannot be removed from His hand, and that includes the man himself.


Obviously God would not be so omnipotent if there was a stronger power to take (pluck) something from or away from God's hands. Maybe that wasn't so apparent in those early days.

But when you say..." that included man himself."...you're offering your opinion, in thinking that man has no capability of walking away from God.
It actually happens very often, usually a result of a tragedy. I have experienced this first hand in my family.
But nowhere in those verses do you read anything about not being able in removing themselves from God, insofar as you can make that claim.
It would be a stupid thing to do, walk away from God, but it is possible. Your just reading back into scripture your present day faith ideals to make that claim sem possible to you.

And if you read any of Sunday's Prodigal Son parable, you would see it as a cautionary tale against exactly that which you suggest is not possible.

Do you not think the Prodigal walked away from the Father then?
1,052 posted on 03/29/2022 11:49:18 AM PDT by MurphsLaw (+++11"How is it you don’t understand that I was not talking to you about bread?"+++)
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To: All; aMorePerfectUnion; Salvation; metmom; SouthernClaire; Mark17; imardmd1; ducttape45
Let us now look at one of the letters Paul wrote, the one to The Hebrews. In this letter Paul sought to contrast the old covenant with the new covenant. He was writing primarily to born again Hebrews who had chosen to be under the new covenant, though they had not made the connections which contrast the old covenant from the new covenant.

By the sixth chapter of the letter to the Hebrews the Apostle emphasizes the nature of the old coovenant, wherein every year, once per year, there was a High Priest function to remember the sins of himself and the people and use the blood of innocent animals to make an atonement. This was done once per year, every year, as remembrance of their sins dealt with by the shedding of blood, innocent blood.

Jesus quoted from the prophets when He stated that the blood of bulls and lambs did not please God and that God the Father had provided a body for Him, God the Son, so He could make the perfected sacrifice for the sins of the many. Paul clears it up that this sacrifice was done once, for everyone, forever, then The Lamb Sacrificed sat down at the Right Hand of The Father and is our High Priest forever before The Father.

By the writing of chapter ten (really there were no chapter divisions, the writing was a flowing stream of thought, stream of Spirit urging) Paul focuses in more closely to the reality of the new covenant functioning, contrasting that with the weakness of the old covenant functioning and how God enacts His new covenant. In the New Covebnant there is no remembrance each year for the Blood of Jesus is sufficient forever, and the New Covenant does not require that Jesus be sacrificed over and over like in the old covenant because this would mean the first and ONLY time He shred His blood for us was not enough. God forbid!

The Spirit culminates this focus with the statement that God will remember their sins no more! That is stated to those in whom God has put His ordinances and character. How did God / how does God do that, put His character and ordinances within a man or woman? Well, by coming in to abide in that born again spirit which the Blood of Christ has cleansed from ALL unrighteousness.

In the old covenant the sins of the many were remembered each year and addressed once each year with the High Priest entry into the Holy of Holy. In the New Covenant which cancelled the old covenant (according to what Paul wrote) the remembrance of the sins of the many is now dealt with by the blood of Our High Priest such that God remembers their sins no more! What? Yes, there is no next years ritual and the next years ritual to deal with the sins, Christ dealt with them ALL, past, present and even next years sins with His Once for All sacrifice/ This is where God expects something from us ...

The work of God, the thing God requires from us is to believe He has dealt with our sins, once and for all by the blood of Whom GOD sent for our redemption. Behold a believer is a new creation ... in spirit. Not in flesh, in spirit. While we are alive our flesh is alive in this body we will sin. BUT GOD ... God has dealt with that sin and remembers it no more following our being born again. THAT is the astonishing preciousness of the Gospel of God's Grace in Christ: we who believe God, though we are yet sinners in this flesh, are made to be the righteousness of Christ by God's Presence in our born again spirit, thus not requiring every year once per year to remember sin and have it dealt with temporarily.

The key is right there in the letter to the Hebrews, that the Word of God separates the soul and spirit so that God, by His Holy Spirit, abides in our human born again spirit.

Jesus explained this to Nic, as written in John 3. What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the spirit is spirit. We are not yet equipped to 'see' into the spirit, so Jesus added for Nic that the Spirit is likened unto wind which blows and only the effect of that wind is seen, not the wind itself.

What Paul wrote to the Hebrews is actually quite the defense of once born again thereafter forever a born again, because Jesus through His blood shed for us dealt with sin once and forever so that it is not remembered every year to be dealt with once peer year. We have a High Priest in Heaven who has dealt the penalty for sin and cleared the ledger forever.

Those who would argue against this teaching by Paul in the Letter to the Hebrews will try to focus attention on 'unrepentant sin' or the withholding of eternal life until AFTER the flesh is dead. Some will even commit a heresy of insisting the person must pay a penalty for which Jesus has already met the price.

Once a man or woman is born again, they are in the Hands of God, not in their own hands. They didn't get into the hands of God by their flesh and cannot get away from the hands of God by their flesh. It is satan who wants you to believe otherwise. Their spirit has been birth by God, into the family of God,with the imputed righteousness of Christ as their new life identity, in the spirit, regardless of what sin the flesh which is dying may commit. And satan is so subtle and powerful in this world that he can produce sin in the flesh of the born again that makes the hair stand on end! But that sin has already been dealt with Once and forever by the shedding of Christ's blood, the power of which is connected to the Believer by faith, by believing, thus by the Power of God's Grace not the efforts of the sin-laden flesh.

God is going to grace us even further at some point in the future (perhaps this week?), when He comes to transform us in the twinkling of an eye and call us up into the clouds to meet the Lord Christ in the air and return with Him to the Father's House.

1,053 posted on 03/29/2022 11:54:32 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MurphsLaw

Catholic, was the prodigal son still a son even as he was immersed in the sin he eventually walked away from to return to the Father? Think, Catholic. There is no once a year every year remembrance of sin to be dealt with. Jesus dealt with ALL of it through His blood, establishing a new covenant forever.


1,054 posted on 03/29/2022 11:59:14 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MurphsLaw
Do two things: first, locate when in His ministry Jesus gave the parable, and second to whom did He address that story? Israel has walked away from Messiah, but Messiah is waiting for them to return one day.

Try a different gotcha.

1,055 posted on 03/29/2022 12:03:34 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MurphsLaw

Does unrepentant sin and walking away from the Father apply to entire church bodies as well?

Because let me tell you, there are two very big unrepentant sins committed by Catholicism right off the top of my head.


1,056 posted on 03/29/2022 12:07:20 PM PDT by Luircin
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To: Luircin

Want to re write the Title of this article to read ... but they are admonished to believe they can earn their way out of purgatory’?


1,057 posted on 03/29/2022 12:12:16 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MHGinTN

It’s very aggravating how close they seem to be sometimes, and then turn around and run right back into the arms of “mother church” and her sales of indulgences and child predator priests.


1,058 posted on 03/29/2022 12:31:53 PM PDT by Luircin
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To: Philsworld
If all future sins were already forgiven, why would Jesus say, as recorded by John in the fifth chapter Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee. ?

    To warn those who were/are being saved not to fall and suffer
  1. many stripes
  2. being assigned a portion with unbelievers
  3. weeping and gnashing of teeth


These warnings are for those who believe in Jesus.
1,059 posted on 03/29/2022 12:39:35 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: MurphsLaw

Snark about Catholicism’s sins aside, here’s the problem.

Catholicism doesn’t welcome the sinner back with joy. Catholicism says, “Sure you can come back, once you spend hundreds of years being tortured in Purgatory.”


1,060 posted on 03/29/2022 12:43:30 PM PDT by Luircin
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