Posted on 10/28/2011 6:59:29 AM PDT by markomalley
THANK YOU, mm. Judith Anne seems to spend a lot of time at forbidden websites, she’s almost a scholar on the subject. It’s not only disingenous, it’s downright deceitful. And I, for one, am sick and tired of the accusations. Prove it or shut up.
Well, if it makes the RCC look bad it must not be allowed to stand.
At the very least, when Jesus Himself quotes from them and calls them Scripture, that verifies it.
My point was that each of us has the Holy Spirit within us to protect us from charlatans such as organized the RCC.
Ah, but that is your opinion.
I believe the Holy Spirit leads me to find and follow Jesus through His Church.
Exactly. Destroy the message, the messenger, and anything else that could possibly shed truth on that den of deceit. Even if you have to resort to deceit and lies yourself to destroy it.
Cults believe they have a corner on the truth. They may use a specific set of texts to create their own truth, interpret the Bible according to a set doctrine, or hold the words of the cult leader equal with the words of the Bible or God. Cult members hear that the only truth lies within the teachings of the cult and access to other sources of spiritual wisdom may be restricted.
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Does that mean you should feel obligated to presume the worst about someone?
A quick google search shows the two sites, one copyrighted, and one forbidden, as the top two results.
Let’s not get personal, here.
Well, if you go to a site that the RM says “mongers hate” and pick up your quotes there, or at copyrighted sites, then you have to expect that your sources will be rightfully impeached.
As usual.
Do you believe YOU have a corner on the truth? It appears you do, from your posts. I disagree, should I then call you a cult member? So far, I have not.
OTOH, we believe that Scripture is the source of all truth, open and available to all, with no requirements of membership in our church or special interpretation by our church leaders only. The Holy Spirit will guide the sincere seeker into all truth and God will not let him go.
Do Catholics think that God is not capable of taking care of the spiritual growth and maturity of the individual believer Himself so that they have to do the job for Him?
The whole attitude smacks of the thinking that God is somehow going to botch the whole thing and lose souls because he can't handle it Himself.
Not when I did it.
And besides.....
SO WHAT?
Does that still mean you have to presume the worst about someone?
Can’t you just feel the looooovvvveeee...????
"For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him." 2 Cor. 11:4.
What is the gospel, according to the RCC? What does the Holy Spirit do, in the RCC? If you are being led to anyone other than Christ, you do not have the Holy Spirit leading you. If you are led to Mary to intercede for you, other saints to pray to, or visions and apparitions to heal you, give you new information from God, etc., it is not the Holy Spirit leading. The Holy Spirit always leads to Christ. No one else. What about Jesus? There is a false Jesus, one who tells you works are your way to him, who distorts and twists Scripture so that no man can understand without others telling them what it means. One who leads you to destruction, one "good" work at a time. This "jesus" leads one AWAY from the finished work of Christ and leads one TO works for righteousness.
Please do not get personal.
Again we are expected to imprint the limitations of English onto Scripture and accept what it gives us. It is similar to watching a modern High Definition movie on an old black and white TV. Father (πατηρ Pator) in Greek had three distinct meanings; genitor, metaph, and God. When Protestants tell us in English that we are to call no man "father" they are being way too vague to be taken seriously.
Another example of a post that can’t be discounted ey?
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