Posted on 05/17/2006 9:08:53 PM PDT by Full Court
font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="4" color="#990000">From Operation Rescue to Operation Convert
May 21-27, 2006 |
by TIM DRAKE |
Also in the Register: Randal Terry, CatholicRandall Terry has become Catholic. Tell me about your family. How did you come to know Christ? How did you first get started in pro-life work? What led to the founding of Operation Rescue? How many times were you arrested? When did you first take an interest in the Catholic Church? Which theological hurdles were the most difficult for you to jump? I understand that you are awaiting word on the annulment of your first marriage. Can you tell me why you chose to be received into the Church (without being able to receive the Eucharist), before the resolution of your annulment? Tell me how your reception into the Church came about. What was your greatest fear? How do you expect your evangelical colleagues will react to news of your conversion? Do you anticipate that your conversion could hurt you in your Senate race in a predominantly Protestant state?
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I've got a question for you, do ask others to pray for you who are sinners?
Of course you do!!
Then why not ask someone who is a saint and in heaven already to pray for you??
Makes sense to me.
Excellent points. Thanks for the links too!
**which are the prayers of the saints. **
Bingo!
Peggy Noonan is Catholic and I think that Laura Ingrahm may be also. Ann Coultler is a devout Jew.
Where in the world do you get the idea that Mary Magdalene was a whore?
Oh yeah, just ask the Kennedy's!
**I'm glad I'm a Baptist and spiritually inoculated against this threat.**
Many Baptists become converts. Check out some of those links above.
I certainly hope you are not 'Catholic bashing' with that statement.
Y'all are welcome to that nutbag!
Um, could you try and make some sense next time?
OK, so I goofed on the spelling.
Christ died for all sinners.
Love the sinner, hate the sin.
I think you know what I mean; you're just trying to provoke an argiement -- bait, etc.
ROTFL!
You're getting veeery sleeepy...
Black is white and white is black. Rome loves the Five Solas of the Reformation. Calvin really adored that eucharist. Luther was just joshin' about justification. And Willilam Tyndale, who was burned at the stake for translating the Bible into English against the dictate of the Romanists, was only fooling around when he was confronted by the Biblical ignorance of a particular priest...
"If God spare my life, ere many years pass, I will cause a boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scriptures than thou dost."
And so he did, by the grace of God alone.
1449 The formula of absolution used in the Latin Church expresses the essential elements of this sacrament: the Father of mercies is the source of all forgiveness. He effects the reconciliation of sinners through the Passover of his Son and the gift of his Spirit, through the prayer and ministry of the Church:
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Emphasis added.
If I were the Catholics, I would NEVER place any of these testimonials out in public. I'm not sure how much you can learn about "Reformation theology" from the "Charismatic Episcopal Church". It says that he enrolled in "Bible College" in New York but it doesn't state the name. Seems the only thing that was a major selling point for the Catholic Church was the fact that Catholics appeared to be more committed to his cause than "evangelicals". Pretty poor reason if you ask me.
However, on the lighter side and just so you can't accuse me of sounding like a sour puss, he does seem to have nice beach front property.
Unfortunately, that is true.
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I can see what your friend's problem is: he doesn't know much about Catholicism.
Secondly, he believes Mary ...didn't need salvation"
Again, that's not true. Mary said "He who is mighty has done great things for me." She attributed all of the "great things" in her life to --- in her words--- "God my Savior."
There are two ways to save a person from a pit. One way is to pull them out after they've fallen in; the other way is to intervene to prevent them from falling in to begin with. Our Lord saves most of us the first way; he saved his mother the second way. (The Church calls it "prevenient.")
Why? Think about it: she is his only genetic link to the human race. He received his entire human nature from her. If she had any heritable defect, she would have passed it on to Him. God prevented that. Hence: prevenient grace. God can do that. God is not subject to the laws of time and space.
"Third, he believes that Mary, along with others who have died, can hear [our] prayers ..."
Those who love us --- our believing and God-loving mothers and fathers, relations, neighbors and friends --- intercede for us even in this life. Why would they be less able to do this when they are in the glorious presence of Almighty God?
**Catholics appeared to be more committed to his cause than "evangelicals". Pretty poor reason if you ask me.**
Could that be because the Catholic Church stood against these eveils of abortion, euthanasia, stem cell research, etc. long before it was popular to do so.
And then we can always go back to the founder of the Chruch, Jesus Christ -- did he support life? Of course, He did!
Why do you think he kept infant baptism?
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