You wrote:
“With my nickname I can handle anything you can throw at me.”
Apparently not.
“It amazes me how some here can go through a long diatribe and say nothing substantive, pick people apart because they have the audacity to disagree, and throw stones from their glass houses.”
I don’t live in a glass house and you’re only describing your posts. I posted verses. You ignored or dismissed them with no analysis to speak of. You post #313 said ONLY this: “Are you buying carbon credits?” And you accuse me of posting without substance? YOU’RE THE ONE IN THE GLASS HOUSE. And you’re the one throwing stones.
Again, “Are you buying carbon credits?” is not substance.
“I put myself in a time-out yesterday because the RM was right. I needed to walk away, because I was doing things that are contrary to what Christ taught. I am, at least, willing to admit I don’t know everything. I am dumb when it comes to having the full knowledge of Christ, the more I learn, the more I realize there’s so much more I don’t know. One thing I’m not going to do is let someone tell someone else that they have to do more than accept Christ into their heart to be saved. Christ Himself is offended by that.”
Christ is not offended by His own words. Christ said Mark 16:16.
“That means His dying on the Cross wasn’t sufficient.”
Wrong. It is exactly His death on the cross the makes the sacraments what they are. I already pointed out a verse like Romans 6:4 and you ignored it as you had to because you had no argument against it.
“That is blasphemy!”
The blasphemy is all yours, not His.
I’ve asked you many pertinent questions, and you failed to answer them. I have countered a number of your questions. So, again, I will, in all humility, ask how do you know there are only Catholics in heaven? Or that Christ was a Catholic, or his disciples? I countered you with them being Messianic Jews, which you ignored.
We all, at one time or another, live in glass houses. Even the “anointed” ones. Are you going to condemn all who aren’t part of the Catholic church to hell? That emcompasses masses of people.
Salvation: John 3:16-17
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. For Christ came into this world, not to condemn it, but that the world, through Him, might be saved.”
So simplistic, yet with monumental impact. I don’t see where it says “and baptism is required”. Yes, we want to be baptized after we’re saved, it’s a proclamation of our repentence and conversion.
When you retorted that “with a moniker like mine” I “shouldn’t ask dumb questions” is equally as childish as anything I threw your way. So you were inhabiting a glass house.
Again, “Are you buying carbon credits?” is not substance.
But saying only “true believers are Catholic” is? Sorry, that’s divisive. You’re, in essence, excluding people who share the same hope, as you, in Christ, they just happen to belong to a different denomination. How very selective of you. Thank God He will decide. I know my name is in the Lamb’s Book of Life. You know how I know? He told me so.
John 4:22 “...for salvation is from the Jews.”
Jesus was a Jew. So maybe the One True Church is the Messianic Jews. We are all Jews in lineage. So that would encompass alot more people than you do.
If we both believe that salvation comes from Christ alone, why do you try and alienate people who’s core belief is the same?