Posted on 02/18/2026 1:33:40 PM PST by Coleus
A committed Christian who followed a call to Baptist ministry, Gary’s life took a dramatic and unexpected turn when he was invited to help develop a network of Cowboy Churches in Texas.
He flourished in this role, and it grew rapidly. However, the chaos of COVID, combined with partisan political infighting in his congregations, led him to seek an anchor in a theological tradition that could transcend the spirit of the age.
This led him to discover the history and authority of the Catholic Church, and he knew that he had to come home.
**...partisan political infighting in his congregations,..**
As if there is none of that in the RCC.
He left a lame horse and saddled up one with pink eye.
Hebrews 6:4-64 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Grave warning to a person like him. Now run along and put this sereies in the Catholic Caucus and nobody will bother you.
That the real Church was the Roman Catholic Church was never mentioned in the Bible at all. Could not have happened. The Romans were throwing the Christians in jail and to the Lion’s. How foolish to think that the Romans were Christians, expect for the ones hiding from the Romans government. They never had mass or anything like that. They read the old testament and sang songs, believes who actually seen Jesus die on the cross and rise from the dead, and that followed Jesus shared their eye witness testimony.
The Bible instructs believers to expose the deeds of darkness primarily in Ephesians 5:11, which states: “Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them” (NIV). This verse is often interpreted as a call to stand for truth, bring hidden sins to light through holy living, and avoid participating in sinful acts.
It’s a sin to add or subtract from word of God.
“authority of the Catholic Church”
authority of Word of God and Jesus Christ.
Worshipping a church is a cult.
Read the Bible and worship Jesus.
Great post, it’s so sad that they just don’t read the Bible and follow Jesus. Forget worshipping a church.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father except through Me. JOHN 14:6
NOT THOUGH ANY CHURCH
"Church" is mentioned in 103 verses of the New Testament.
The one started by the one guy Christ turned to and called “Satan?”
That really is dumb.
Read more.
Roman Catholic refers to to the Latin rite. It was used as a slur by the Anglicans.
Catholic is the proper term.
And the Bible is not a word search. That’s Protestant tradition and in not biblical.
Using OUR book.
The same guy was named Peter, the Rock, on whom His Church was founded.
received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. (Acts 17:11)
In so doing, they will find that distinctive Catholic teachings are not manifest in the only wholly God-inspired, substantive, authoritative record of what the NT church believed the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, and with Acts through Revelation especially revealing how the NT church understood the gospels).
To a saved believer, home is Heaven. Nothing less.
The Church is not to be worshipped, Jesus is.
The Roman Catholic Church is not mentioned in the Bible.
For God So loved the world that he gave the Catholic Church and whosoever believeth in the Catholic Church shall have everlasting life.
That’s not in the Bible.
Laughably absurd. First, if it was your (Rome's) book, and thus those who invoke it should submit to her other judgments (so the argument goes) , then (as you have been told), first century souls should have submitted to the historical magisterial authorities of what was of God, writings and men. Which as regards a certain itinerant Preacher (in their eyes), would invalidate the NT church.
And if faith in the Catholic org was essential assuredly know what Scripture consists of (and means), then the Lord and apostles would not have been able to invoke them in in establishing Truth claims by Scriptural substantiation in word and in power, nor would first century souls have been testing Truth claims by Scripture.
Yet indeed, an authoritative body of wholly inspired Scripture had been established by the time of Christ, (Luke 24:27, 44, 45; Acts 17:2, 11, 18:28, 28:23) and which provided the prophetic and doctrinal epistemological foundation for the church, but the New Testament was manifestly not penned by Catholics.
And as that body was established without Catholicism, so also can the rest of Scripture. And which establishment is essentially due to their enduring heavenly qualities and attestation, by which men of God became accepted as being so, even when the magisterium rejected them. Thus the church actually began in dissent from those who sat in the seat of Moses over Israel, (Mt. 23:2) the historical instruments and stewards of Scripture.
And on that foundation, the common people "counted John, that he was a prophet indeed" (Mark 11:32) and followed an itinerant Preacher whom the magisterium rejected, and whom the Messiah reproved upon Scripture as being supreme, (Mk. 7:2-16) and established His Truth claims upon scriptural substantiation in word and in power, as did the early church as it began upon this basis. (Mt. 22:23-45; Lk. 24:27, 44; Jn. 5:36, 39; Acts 2:14-35, 4:33, 5:12, 15:6-21, 17:2, 11, 18:28, 28:23; Rm. 15:19; 2Cor. 12:12, etc.)
Besides this reality, if the NT was penned by Catholics then her apologists would not have to engage in such egregious extrapolations as they must to defend distinctive Catholic teachings that are not manifest in the only wholly God-inspired, substantive, authoritative record of what the NT church believed, and resorting Aristotelian metaphysics in their theology since their priests do not practice confecting what a purely literal reading of the words of the Last Supper would mean.
Among other things, it certainly would not have been hard to add to Scripture distinctive Catholic beliefs "which has been believed everywhere, always and by all' (the dictum of Vincentius). Such as recording just one prayer addressed to created beings in Heaven, and one actual example of paedobaptism.
And giving Mary some place of importance in Acts and epistles, rather than absence after a singular mention on Acts 1. Likewise at least one Peter being in Rome, and exhortation of obedience to him as the papal head of all the churches, and maybe or preparations for a successor.
And of pastors being clearly instructed in solemnly conducting Lord's supper as their main daily unique paramount active function, providing spiritual food thereby (versus Acts 2:46, 20:1-7; 1 Co. 10,11), in contrast to the word of God as preached being "milk" (1Pt. 2:2) and "meat" Heb. 5:12-14 by which one is nourished (1Tim. 4:6) and built up, (Acts 20:32
But of course, Truth is only as decreed in the eye of the Catholic devotee.
Well, at least such absences of teachings that RCAs can only wish Scripture said, is a rebuke to Muslims who imagine Catholics changed the Bible.
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