BWAHAHAHA.... Nobody is jealous of the numbers, prestige, history and spiritual fidelity of the Catholic Church because we all realize that it's not the church that saves, that numbers mean nothing, that prestige is only being a respecter of persons, which is condemned, that their history is nothing to brag about, and that their spiritual fidelity is to itself, not the Bible.
Very well put.
Thx.
Apparently denial isn't just the river that the baby Moses was found in....LOL
Ah, again the descent into the gutter by the Roman Catholic apologist. We haven't forgotten what you mean by that phrase, Natural Law, since we recall with not a little disgust your definition of "Crosier Envy"...
From another thread, POST 38 by Natural Law...
38 posted on Saturday, April 17, 2010 1:16:18 PM by Natural Law Nothing elfish about it. Crosier Envy, akin to Penis Envy, is a mental disorder among the lesser denominations in which, when they realize that their clergy lacks the stature and spiritual integtity of the Catholic Bishops, results in feelings of inferiority and psychic conflict. Illogical lashing out, defaming and confabulation are common symptoms. You got it bad.
Maybe this peculiar fixation is fueled by the fact the papacy's "alter Christus" are likewise preoccupied. Or perhaps its payback for all the attention female idols receive in the RCC.
Amen!
I've learned from these discussions that Roman Catholics believe the Holy Spirit is given by God not to individual believers. Instead God supposedly gives the Holy Spirit to the papacy, and thus it is through the papacy's distribution of the sacraments that men are saved.
The reformers of the Reformation realized this is not what the Bible teaches. This is not Christianity. Christianity declares that God gives the Holy Spirit directly to believers who make up Christ's church on earth and thus believers as lively stones of the church do the will of God.
"We ought not to separate Christ from ourselves or ourselves from Him. Rather we ought to hold fast bravely with both hands to that fellowship by which He has bound Himself to us.” -- John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 3.2.7,24."(True faith is) a firm and certain knowledge of God’s benevolence towards us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit...