Ahhh, the smell of brimstone in the morning. No error, no fabrication. Just the truth of our Lord Jesus Christ as He instructed His Apostles and they have handed down the Faith to us.
The RCC is bleeding membership and the only thing keeping it afloat are immigrants, mostly illegals.
The Catholic Church is growing at a great rate worldwide. The horrid little small minded and putrefying cult known as the Orthodox Presbyterians are on the other hand withering just like the fig tree:
Mark 11: 12 And the next day when they came out from Bethania, he was hungry. 13 And when he had seen afar off a fig tree having leaves, he came if perhaps he might find any thing on it. And when he was come to it, he found nothing but leaves. For it was not the time for figs. 14 And answering he said to it: May no man hereafter eat fruit of thee any more for ever. And his disciples heard it.
No good has come of it. No good will come from it. And when the OPC goes in the next few decades, not even its fleas will mourn it.
As God wills.
The lord of this world shall not prevail; false cults of the devil will dry up and turn to dust as phone booth sized cults wither away and die.
Dozens of articles have been posted attesting to this fact. RCs would be wise not to ignore them the same way they ignore the Bible.
We don't ignore them. We just recognize that they come from their father, the devil. They are completely false. If the Catholic Church falls, all Christianity does. We believe in the promises of Christ; we do not believe in the promises of bloodthirsty tyrants of Geneva. The gates of hell will not prevail against the Church - neither will the antiCatholic.
Just because a person doesn't like the facts doesn't mean they can change the facts, regardless how uncomfortable the truth may be. The RCC is in decline.
More false prattling. The statistics are true. The demographics are true. Comic book tracts distributed on windshields during Mass are not.
God is good. Truth prevails. One God; one Savior; one Christ; one Mediator; one Advocate.
This statement does not validate anything that the OPC preaches. Let us acknowledge that the second religion of hate postdated Mohammed by a century, and was filled with the same regard for humans and their souls.
Read your Bible. Mary was not sinless. She was a sinner until the day she died; just like the rest of us. And she was forgiven her sins, just like all believers, by God's grace through faith in Jesus Christ.
I've gone through the swamp that is the OPC website. Whatever it is that they believe, it bears resemblence to Christianity in name only. It does include contempt for the Mother of God.
As far as the false bishop of Rome in a party dress and Prada shoes is concerned, some adherents actually seem to enjoy being told a lie. No other way to explain the insanity.
Excellent opportunity to address lies. No true bishop of Rome has ever owned or worn Prada shoes or party dresses. I think that the lie is more in the wishful telling than in the fact.
ps - the vague and sparse Scripture you offer so seldom rarely has anything to do with the topic at hand. Do you close your eyes and point? I hear some RCs use that method of exegesis.
I don't doubt that you do not recognize Scripture for what it is - and the relevance to one's every day life.
Matthew 6:33 Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Those who wallow in their own self righteousness and santimonious shallow self interests are as the Pharisee who identified himself for salvation.
Luke 18: 9 And to some who trusted in themselves as just, and despised others, he spoke also this parable: 10 Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. 11 The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican. 12 I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess. 13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes towards heaven; but struck his breast, saying: O god, be merciful to me a sinner. 14 I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather that the other: because every one that exalteth himself, shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted.
The tax collector had a deep and abiding faith in God. And that faith, my good Dr. E. is not the faith the Reformation developed - the faith in the god in the mirror. It is not the faith of Luther's every milkmaid writing her own doctrines in the night. It is not the faith of Jean Cauvin's spies and death squads in Geneva which served as a model for the East German secret police. It is the faith in Jesus Christ, Saviour of the World. We Catholics do not prattle of self-salvation; we leave that to the pale and envious imitators.
Matthew 22: 15 Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech. 16 And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying: Master, we know that thou art a true speaker, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou dost not regard the person of men. 17 Tell us therefore what dost thou think, is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? 18 But Jesus knowing their wickedness, said: Why do you tempt me, ye hypocrites? 19 Shew me the coin of the tribute. And they offered him a penny. 20 And Jesus saith to them: Whose image and inscription is this? 21 They say to him: Caesar's. Then he saith to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God, the things that are God's. 22 And hearing this they wondered, and leaving him, went their ways.
23 That day there came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection; and asked him, 24 Saying: Master, Moses said: If a man die having no son, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up issue to his brother. 25 Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first having married a wife, died; and not having issue, left his wife to his brother. 26 In like manner the second, and the third, and so on to the seventh. 27 And last of all the woman died also. 28 At the resurrection therefore whose wife of the seven shall she be? for they all had her.
29 And Jesus answering, said to them: You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they shall neither marry nor be married; but shall be as the angels of God in heaven. 31 And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken by God, saying to you: 32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. 33 And the multitudes hearing it, were in admiration at his doctrine.
34 But the Pharisees hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, came together: 35 And one of them, a doctor of the law, asking him, tempting him: 36 Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. 38 This is the greatest and the first commandment. 39 And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 40 On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.
It is no love to preach the random destruction of all men. Neither is it love to self proclaim salvation along with one's family, dogs, cats, hamsters, fleas and nematodes. Further, it is no love to preach that Jesus was for the Jews only and it is to a misshapen and unrecognizable version of Paul to whom we must turn.
Flee the Pharasaical Reformation and Sadduccee-based Restoration and receive the love of Jesus Christ, who came for all men, not just the pinch-faced and haughty self-proclaimers of their own salvation.
Mark, it is no coincidence that an entire cabal of anti-Catholics has landed on yet another Catholic topic thread and has re-aired the same tired and oft disproved laundry list of lies, mischaracterizations, anecdotes and urban legends that validates their doctrine and glorifies themselves.
Why Catholic topic threads? Like moths to a flame they cannot help themselves. They are here because the Holy Spirit continues to call them to the Truth. Remember it was the martyrdom of St. Stephen, the first Deacon, and his asking for the forgiveness of his killers that prepared Saul of Tarsus for his conversion.
It is not our job to disprove their claims, the Truth existed since the beginning. Nor is it our jobs to convince or trick them into acceptance of the Truth. That is a task reserved only for the Holy Spirit. Nor can we precipitate the moment of their conversion. Our task is simple; to prepare them for receiving the Holy Spirit through forgiveness, beatitude and displaying the fruits of the Holy Spirit as a farmer prepares the soil for planting. Please join me in forgiving any injuries they may cause us and in keeping them in your prayers. They are not evil, just ignorant and errant.
There is nothing “random” about God’s salvation. The names of His children were written before the foundation of the world.
“Random” is RCs presuming they can buy/earn their own salvation and actually contribute to the salvation of others as evidenced by such lunacies as the ficticious “the bank of merit” and indulgences. .