Posted on 05/30/2008 10:21:34 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
mgist, what we are trying to do here is not anti-catholic HATE or bashing. I know when one is under what they perceive to be an attack, it can feel like hate. We born again protestants on these threads know that the only way to be saved is to have faith and belief in the Lord Jesus Christ. When we see here how many people believe they can be saved through baptism, through Mary, or the Eucharist, it really makes us hurt for those who do believe that, because it may lose them their salvation. There are SO many differences between our pathways to salvation that we feel we need to speak out against them. It has NOTHING to do with you or any other Catholic personally.
Hopefully the truth will set you free from the bondage of not knowing until you die whether or not you will be in heaven for all eternity.
Thank you for sharing your own personal interpretation of Scripture.
Lately, he hasn't said anything about it, instead opting to ignore God in most of his movies. Too bad.
Wow, you ARE OLD Reggie! I love old saints of God.
Thank your for your own personal interpretation of Scripture.
She was a pretty deaf dog in life, and she sure can't hear any prayers now.
Perhaps you would like to explain to me how exactly sola scripture COULD have been employed prior to 1440.
Before Gutenberg invented the printing press, ALL Bibles had to be inscribed by hand. As a result, Bibles were extremely expensive and took a long time to get. On top of that, large segments of the population was illiterate (when there are no books available, literacy is not a priority). These are historical FACTS and they are not up for debate.
So, in light of this, how is it that you think sola scriptura could have existed. Do you believe that God is so cruel that He would develop a method of Salvation that would only be available to the very wealthy for fourteen centuries? Do you not find it at least somewhat revealing that the doctrine of sola scriptura only came AFTER Bibles became much more available to the average person?
And many may go to hell because of it.
Please explain how someone is going to hell for not believing something that is specifically warned AGAINST in the Bible?
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction. 17 You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness. (2 Peter 3:16-17).
Do they have 2 Peter in their Bibles?
LOL.
Jesse Duplantis asserts in his book and videos about his trip to Heaven [CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE GOD KIND]
that there are definitely animals in Heaven.
Sounds like something God would do.
Hah, I doubt that most protestants even notice or care.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. 52 If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world. 53 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 54 Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. 55 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day. (John 6:51-55)
Hopefully the truth will set you free from the bondage of not knowing until you die whether or not you will be in heaven for all eternity.
Perhaps practitioners of 16th Century theological error should be more concerned with the state of their own souls.
I think so.
Absolutely wonderful post, roamer. You said it beautifully and lovingly.
YEESSSSS!
You've got to understand, apologetics is new to them. They come from a history of being a state church in an era where the kings could determine the faith of their subjects. It's only been about 500 yrs since freedom came to man in the Reformation. ;-0
Honoring the Bible and living by its precepts will get you a whole lot farther.
Preach it everyday at every opportunity.
The only reason I ask is because I told a non-Catholic coworker of a quote from a Bible Study I was taking.
She said, “Oh that’s from those books you added.”
It made me laugh!!!
FUNNY!
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