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Pope says uniting Christianity requires conversion
cna ^ | January 18, 2012 | David Kerr

Posted on 01/18/2012 3:19:15 PM PST by NYer

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To: editor-surveyor
Will the pope be buying a Bible now?

Selling one "borrowed" from Motel 6?

61 posted on 01/18/2012 5:23:57 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Iscool

The Church converted the tribes that became Europe (likely your own ancestors as well) and the Christian Faith is all that united them after the fall of Rome in pushing back the onslaught of Islam.

Keep posting in ignorance, please.


62 posted on 01/18/2012 5:24:38 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Iscool

So those folks who died in the first 3 centuries of Christianity — because, remember, we’re told (wrongly) that there was no Pope until Constantine — died in vain? They weren’t “real martyrs”? Peter, Paul, and the rest died in vain? Do you really want to go there?


63 posted on 01/18/2012 5:24:48 PM PST by Campion ("It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins." -- Franklin)
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64 posted on 01/18/2012 5:29:06 PM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: editor-surveyor

65 posted on 01/18/2012 5:30:38 PM PST by rzman21
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To: D-fendr

Stop thrashing!

We have the Word of God, and it condemns your every practice!

Calling men Father

Repetitive prayers

Using prayer beads

Praying to the dead

Praying to anyone other than the Father

Bowing at idols

Making idols

Following the traditions of men

Wearing long gowns


66 posted on 01/18/2012 5:31:49 PM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: Revolting cat!

What? - You’re too cheap to buy a new one?


67 posted on 01/18/2012 5:35:37 PM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: editor-surveyor

You illustrate that few oppose what the Church teaches, only what they think the Church teaches. But correcting your thoughts is useless now: it would require some honesty on your part first.

Until then, without basic knowledge, your criticism is quite meaningless, without importance or significance, except as it pleases you.

I’m still wondering though who taught you. Where did you learn your doctrines and beliefs?


68 posted on 01/18/2012 5:37:37 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: editor-surveyor; Bill W was a conservative; verga; thesaleboat; Sick of Lefties; Chainmail; ...
"Why do you post Idols on FR?"

I don't. The odd, backwoods trailer park preachers who call icons idols really bore me.


69 posted on 01/18/2012 5:41:26 PM PST by narses
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To: D-fendr

Its called the Bible.

You’ve never seen it.


70 posted on 01/18/2012 5:41:59 PM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: editor-surveyor

Following the traditions of men

>>The last time I checked Evangelicals created their own traditions of men like altar calls, once saved always saved, Jesus dolls, Jesus theme parks, private interpretation of scripture, the rapture, etc.

Evangelicalism = Gnosticism

We have the Word of God, and it condemns your every practice!

Like the following:

Eating pork

Wearing clothing made of mixed fibers

Eating shrimp

Mixing meat and dairy

“And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’

Matthew 7:23

A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, avoid:

Titus 3:10


71 posted on 01/18/2012 5:42:55 PM PST by rzman21
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72 posted on 01/18/2012 5:44:18 PM PST by rzman21
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To: editor-surveyor

So you haven’t had any teachers in theology, soteriology, eschatology? You just got a Bible and decided the Most Holy Trinity, the Sacraments, the Christian Faith, the Church, all doctrine and dogma… all on your own.

Is that correct?


73 posted on 01/18/2012 5:45:45 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Iscool

>> Convert to Christ while you still can.


74 posted on 01/18/2012 5:46:08 PM PST by narses
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To: johngrace

There’s only one thing missing, the gospel of your salvation. And it’s the ONE thing that saves, johngrace.


75 posted on 01/18/2012 5:46:57 PM PST by smvoice (Better Buck up, Buttercup. The wailing and gnashing is for an eternity..)
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To: Above My Pay Grade

“So when will Joseph Ratzinger be converting to real Christianity?”

How are you judging him not a Christian? And why?


76 posted on 01/18/2012 5:47:24 PM PST by narses
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To: smvoice

“The pope and others can hurt men’s eternal souls.”

What do you base that judgment on? And how are you to judge others?


77 posted on 01/18/2012 5:48:30 PM PST by narses
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To: smvoice

78 posted on 01/18/2012 5:48:30 PM PST by rzman21
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To: narses
Well, narses, it's the gospel that saves. If your pope isn't preaching the gospel of your salvation, then you are not hearing what saves you. Oh, and God's Word tells me that the gospel saves. And i'm not talking about Matthew, Mark, Luke or John.

How am I to judge others?

"Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and DOCTRINE." 2 Tim. 4:2. THAT'S how.

79 posted on 01/18/2012 5:52:57 PM PST by smvoice (Better Buck up, Buttercup. The wailing and gnashing is for an eternity..)
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To: smvoice
I Strongly disagree. It is the Gospel from The Apostle John. The Test is from the Apostle John

Freeper Regards though!

80 posted on 01/18/2012 5:58:17 PM PST by johngrace (I am a 1 John 4! Christian- declared at every Sunday Mass ,Divine Mercy and Rosary prayers!)
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