Posted on 01/18/2012 3:19:15 PM PST by NYer
Selling one "borrowed" from Motel 6?
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.
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?
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
What? - You’re too cheap to buy a new one?
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?
I don't. The odd, backwoods trailer park preachers who call icons idols really bore me.
Its called the Bible.
You’ve never seen it.
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
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?
>> Convert to Christ while you still can.
There’s only one thing missing, the gospel of your salvation. And it’s the ONE thing that saves, johngrace.
“So when will Joseph Ratzinger be converting to real Christianity?”
How are you judging him not a Christian? And why?
“The pope and others can hurt mens eternal souls.”
What do you base that judgment on? And how are you to judge others?
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.
Freeper Regards though!
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