Why Evangelicals are Returning to Rome

CIC ^ | April 2008 | Bob DeWaay

[Petronski]

Pentecostal, or spirit filled churches, are growing by leaps and bounds.

She offered a contrast to Catholicism. The Catholic Church is filled with the Holy Spirit. It's arrogant to exclude other churches from that description.

Further, the pride of expanding numbers can be fulfilled by any number of Scriptural compromises.

[Marysecretary]

Praise and worship to Him IS loving Him.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Catholics are closing their schools and churches around here.

I guess all the conservative Catholics are moving here, to Georgia. It's great!

[Petronski]

You've referenced their errors (sola fide, sola scriptura, etc.).

I have studied them. I have no obsession with them, I am only responding (repeatedly) to the anti-Catholic fetish.

[Petronski]

To claim that Catholicism is immune to error is only a demonstration of Christ’s founding of it.

[Fichori]

If you have accepted and placed your trust in Jesus Christ as the Lord of your life, you can know without presumption that you will join him in heaven.

Otherwise, you can know for sure that you will not.

[Iscool]

You are wrong. The Holy Scripture is nothing but Truth, but heresy results when those separated from the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church interpret Holy Scripture incorrectly to create their man-made traditions in opposition to His will.

I pray your eyes be opened because your heart desires Truth and that someday soon you come home to His Church.

Thanks for your concern but that's not going to happen...I'm spoiled...I'm ruined...I've spent enough time studying the scripture that I couldn't possibly become a Catholic...

Besides, I'm not willing to give up my guaranteed place in eternity...

[Petronski]

You missed the point completely. The point was a response to this:

Nonsense. God doesn’t want us to love Him.

No, I did not misquote it.

[big'ol_freeper]

You said: That was little truth on quotes.

There is only one Truth and that is faith found in Jesus Christ. The only way you can arrive at the fullness of that faith is through the Graces that flow from the sacraments offered by Jesus Christ in His One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.

You are correct in one aspect though. There is “little truth” found in the reformed exegesis.

[Iscool]

The Catholic Church is also filled with the Spirit.

I'd say that's an impossibility...Saved individuals are filled with the Spirit...Perhaps you could show some scripture to point that out...

[big'ol_freeper]

I’ll still pray for you. In fact I will make a deal with you. You pray for me to be led into Truth and I will pray for you for the same.

[Petronski]

If you have accepted and placed your trust in Jesus Christ as the Lord of your life, you can know without presumption that you will join him in heaven.

Sola fide is scriptural error.

[Fichori]

What again is sola fide?

[Petronski]

What again is sola fide?

You're kidding, right?

[Fichori]

Nope, serious question.

[Petronski]

www.google.com

[big'ol_freeper]

You said: If you have accepted and placed your trust in Jesus Christ as the Lord of your life, you can know without presumption that you will join him in heaven.

The deceiver uses the name of Jesus Christ to lead the weak-minded into all sorts of error. “Judge not lest ye be judged” applies to oneself as well as others. I imagine thinking yourself guaranteed is pride.

[Petronski]

Latin: “only faith”

[Fichori]

"The deceiver uses the name of Jesus Christ to lead the weak-minded into all sorts of error. “Judge not lest ye be judged” applies to oneself as well as others. I imagine thinking yourself guaranteed is pride."

So thats how the RCC did it.

[Petronski]

Only if you think “the deceiver” is Christ, for it was He who founded the Catholic Church.

If you want disciples of the deceiver, I suggest you look in Geneva or New Jersey.