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To: Rocketman
As a member of a large denomination, I'm faced with the perennial decision: Should I stay inside the Roman Catholic Church and fight back the forces of evil, or should I quit the Roman Catholic Church and join another denomination?

I made the decision a few years back. I will stay inside the Church.

While in college, I sojourned several non-Roman-Catholic denominations. Guess what? All of them had plenty of faults as well as good points. The large Protestant denominations were infiltrated by liberals at the highest levels, some of 'charismatic' churches were practicing the same voodoo Christianity that it is found in Santeria, and the s 'non-denominational' churches were as good as the current pastor.

Whenever you find Christ, I respect your decision. As Jesus said in St Matthew 18:20: "For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them." The people who worship at my local parish are real Christians, and the Holy Spirit is inside my parish every time we meet.

I remember a Protestant friend visiting my parish and being pleasantly surprised. He expected to find a moribund church, according to his low expectations of what a Roman Catholic Church should be. He felt Christ's presence since the instant he entered the parish, and he couldn't hide his joy. Our friendship became much stronger after he realized that Christ has not abandoned his sheep inside the Roman Catholic Church, despite what so many wayward priests had done.

51 posted on 11/11/2004 12:57:48 PM PST by george wythe
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To: george wythe

Have you ever looked at the church of Christ? There are many bad stereotypes out there about the church of Christ, but I have been attending my entire life and I find it closer to the 1st century church than any other church I have studied or visited.


52 posted on 11/11/2004 1:14:49 PM PST by jkl1122
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To: george wythe
I agree 100% There is only one true body of Christ.

Behold how good and plesantit is when brethren dwell togethe in unity. The cornerstone of that fellowship is Jesus Christ and our relationship with him.

I seldom use all of never to describe anything but in the case of Church denominations I have to make an exception. All of them are blinded by their own ambitions, by their love for corrupt mammon and their love for the things of the world.

Denominations serve to limit people views of God and the bible by having installed a list of man made rules for bible interpretation and traditions and teachings concerning what you can or can't beleive -- the protestant manual was wriiten in large part in the 1500's by Menno Simons as the denominations fought and split into 2000+ protstant denominations they have carried along with them the doctrines and their traditions from Menno Simons.

The protestant church has more in common with Menno simons an ex catholic priest and the Church of Rome than with Christ and the apostles.

People read the bible like liberals read the constitution --discovering all kinds of things (traditions and interpretations)that are simply not there.

It is the challenge of this hour for us to put asside all that we have heard and return to the Christ of the Gospels and the apostles of Acts and the Epistles.

We need to walk softly before God and humbly confess to our brethren that we don't know all things. We can't give definite answers on every subject and that what was known as common knowledge in the first 2-3 centuries concerning things that Paul spoke of and the extent of the healing and gifts of the spirit, how they conducted church services, the doctrine of the laying of hands, the doctrine of baptisms, the nature of paul's thorn, these things and so much more have been largely lost on us.

Further since paul the apostle Christ has seen fit to not appear to a single church leader catch him up to heaven and teach him all that occured with the disciples for the three and a half years of his ministry. Not a single pope, not a single protestant leader. None can say with full authority walk this way -- this is the way of the Lord.

None has had the witness of the Father bearing them witness with signs and wonders as did Christ and the Apostles.

Anyway I have said enough here.

57 posted on 11/11/2004 1:38:11 PM PST by Rocketman
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