To: T Minus Four
There are no alternatives. If anyone ever succeeds in convincing me that the Catholic Church is wrong, is not the True Church of Christ, they will not make of me some other kind of Christian, they will make of me an atheist.
There is simply no other option in Christianity that has any credible claim to being the Church Christ founded. There is no group, formal, informal, etc., that has the Words of Everlasting Life.
I'm either Catholic, or I'm nothing. No other options.
To: Dr. Brian Kopp
I'm either Catholic, or I'm nothing.Yeah, yeah, I used to say the same thing. Turns out, I AM NOTHING. But when I gave up all my useless striving and put all my trust to Jesus, everything changed.
I can't believe God got through to my hardened heart. I can't thank Him enough for keeping after me for 50 years!
776 posted on
07/07/2010 10:33:17 AM PDT by
T Minus Four
(If evolution is true, why do we still have reptiles, amoeba and worms?)
To: Dr. Brian Kopp
What of the Orthodox traditions?
800 posted on
07/07/2010 11:44:34 AM PDT by
ejonesie22
(Christians: Stand for Christ or stand aside...)
To: Dr. Brian Kopp
There are no alternatives. If anyone ever succeeds in convincing me that the Catholic Church is wrong, is not the True Church of Christ, they will not make of me some other kind of Christian, they will make of me an atheist. VERY well put.
815 posted on
07/07/2010 12:34:07 PM PDT by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Dr. Brian Kopp
If anyone ever succeeds in convincing me that the Catholic Church is wrong, is not the True Church of Christ, they will not make of me some other kind of Christian, they will make of me an atheist.
Can you see the stronghold the CC has over you?
You put your faith in something/someone other than GOD, The Almighty. His church was designed to be 'members' of His Body and not a hierarchy between God and His sheep. Jesus is The Shepherd.
will make of me an atheist
So if the CC isn't real/true - neither is God and Jesus didn't die for all mankind.
Let's see what God's Word says...
"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other."
To: Dr. Brian Kopp; Amityschild; Brad's Gramma; Cvengr; DvdMom; firebrand; GiovannaNicoletta; ...
No.
If Jesus The Christ appeared to you and showed you the horrors of the Vatican system as well as the horrors of all the other man generated systems . . . as well as the horrors of Atheism
and told you to forsake
ALL
AND FOLLOW HIM
THAT
would be a no other options situation.
Anyone hitching their wagon to a human pile of political garbage is more than living dangerously, spiritually.
Even IF the
Vatican INSTITUTION
WERE PERFECT—WHICH IT IS FAR FROM . . .
AND EVEN IF IT WERE INSTITUTED BY CHRIST . . . WHICH IT WAS NOT . . .
AND EVEN IF THERE WERE A SEAMLESS APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION . . . WHICH THERE WAS NOT AND IS NOT . . .
AND EVEN IF THE VATICAN INSTITUTION BEGAN WITH PETER VS 300-400 YEARS LATER—AS THE UNRUBBERIZED HISTORY RECORDS . . .
AND EVEN IF THE DOGMA WERE PRISTINE BEFORE GOD, WHICH IT IS NOT . . .
IT WOULD
STILL
BE IDOLATRY TO HAVE THE ATTITUDES AND SUBMISSIVENESS AND WORSHIP OF THE INSTITUTION THAT PRODDYS VIEW HEREON DAY IN AND DAY OUT.
889 posted on
07/07/2010 3:55:48 PM PDT by
Quix
(THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
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