Posted on 09/18/2010 8:26:32 PM PDT by markomalley
Quebec is Liberal, European loving, Marxist, socialist and mostly composed of Catholics and atheists. Is that better?
I do believe the THE church of Jesus Christ will remain visible and intact... The word of God indicates He always has a remnant of His Own
The question again is what is the church?
The Roman Catholic church has no leg to stand on when claiming to be the New Testament church .
Scripture indicates that the church is composed of believers.. One is not saved by the church , the church is composed of the saved.
Quebec is unique among the provinces in its overwhelmingly Roman Catholic population. This is a legacy of colonial times when only Roman Catholics were permitted to settle in New France. The 2001 census showed the population to be 90.3% Christian (in contrast to 77% for the whole country) with 83.4% Catholic Christian (including 83.2% Roman Catholic); 4.7% Protestant Christian (including 1.2% Anglican, 0.7% United Church; and 0.5% Baptist); 1.4% Orthodox Christian (including 0.7% Greek Orthodox); and 0.8% other Christian; as well as 1.5% Muslim; 1.3% Jewish; 0.6% Buddhist; 0.3% Hindu; and 0.1% Sikh. An additional 5.8% of the population said they had no religious affiliation (including 5.6% who stated that they had no religion at all).
“Future America is either Catholic or barbaric. In my humble opinion.”
You act as if those are mutually exclusive. I suggest you look at Mexico. It is both Catholic AND barbaric.
I suggest, and evidence supports, that if you ever accomplish an America without Protestant religious tolerance, you will get a Catholic and barbaric country.
Jewish people do not cease being Jewish even when they see Christ as their Messiah. In fact their Jewishness is all the more crystal clear when they do See Christ as their Messiah.
I think it is a serious mistake to assume Jews somehow cease being Jews....and that is what it seemed to me you were speaking about and why I questioned your statement.
Exactly .. one of the things I have noted over the years this teaching is essential if the RCC wants to keep people chained to the church..
They alone have the magical mystery bread to distribute.. and if you leave the "church" you will never have it again
Lets look at that
IF that was a true doctrine there is not one whiff of scriptural evidence that it would be confined to only the Roman church
But in fact scripture does not support the doctrine but it is used to scare people into staying.
Some years ago I knew several Catholic women that attended and AOG every Sunday , they openly professed that they were saved and trusting in Christ..but every Saturday they went to mass..so they could receive Christ
I found it sad that they felt bound to Rome on the grounds of faulty doctrine...
But, as with all Church Councils since the Council of Jerusalem, as recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, these were held, not to establish some sort of doctrine, but to resolve controversies that crop up.
The snark record doesn’t give you any points for non-obfuscation.
It’s a pity that not one of you are able to discuss Chaput’s message in any manner without having the entire thread devolve into a stupid commentary on the same idiotic set of ideologues.
This is his message: “And the most important choice we can make is both terribly simple and terribly hard: to actually live what the Church teaches, to win the hearts of others by our witness, and to renew the soul of our country with the courage of our own Christian faith and integrity. There is no more revolutionary act.”
He had a message to all Christians, but some, like the Calvinists on this thread, and others with an axe to grind, would rather pick at wounds than attempt to find a way to fight the secular influences which in many cases are simply demonic.
Well, I don’t intend to hang individually, so I will exit this thread and find those Protestants, Jews, Orthodox, and others who I have talked to in the past who are interested in actually fighting the worst of what is coming.
Those who continue to embrace these heresies (and as I mentioned before gnostic denial of the Real Presence, and a synthesis of Arianism and Nestorianism is endemic among Protestants), seem to believe that nothing existed before the Church addressed it formally.
This belief that Transubstantiation was unknown before the 13th century is laughable when you consider that the Orthodox also accept it as dogma and the Great Schism was in 1054.
Don’t you get it at all?
The silliness going on on this thread means that division keeps the Christian community from fighting the real enemy. It isn’t each other.
The stupidity of it all guarantees that the demonic WILL be ascendant.
As long as division is present, the demonic is active.
Well you wanted to make it seem like a colony founded or influenced by Protestants were all necessarily demonic and ones founded by Catholics would be anything but. fortunately I’m here to educate you as to the truth
“...fortunately I’m here to educate you as to the truth.”
That’s a pretty tall and prideful statement.
I can see that y’all will just continue to give the devil his due.
Adios.
Can Catholics not stop misrepresenting what non-Catholics say? Ever?
Anyone with a modicum of reading comprehension saw the *and* in that sentence. You make yourself look petty and like a fool for implying that he said *Catholic atheists*.
It’s apparently too complex for some.....
It’s had a long history of being a Catholic stronghold.
“You make yourself look petty and like a fool for implying that he said *Catholic atheists*.”
Let’s get an opinion on personal attacks here.
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LOL!
You are in no position to complain about silliness on this thread when you are a regular contributor to it as with YOUR snarky comment about *Catholic atheists*.
I’m here to point out silliness.
What’s your excuse?
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