So Catholics don’t trust God after He gave us an earnest that He would follow through on that?
Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Earnest
arrabón: an earnest (a part payment in advance for security)
Original Word: ἀρραβών, ῶνος, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: arrabón
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-hrab-ohn')
Short Definition: an earnest, earnest-money>br> Definition: an earnest, earnest-money, a large part of the payment, given in advance as a
security that the whole will be paid afterwards.
http://biblesuite.com/strongs/greek/728.htm
I assure you that I DO believe that God means what He says when He gives the Holy Spirit as an ernest in the payment for us and will follow through without fail. I would call that a gurantee.
So Catholics would claim that it’s a perishable seed that God planted in us when we were born again?
1 Peter 1:23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
Do Catholics say the seal of the Holy Spirit is weak?
Ephesians 1:13 And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit,
If the RCC believes that God will not back up what He says I would get out of that organization and rely on Christ alone.
“So Catholics don’t trust God after He gave us an earnest that He would follow through on that?”
No, there is no guarantee in that we can’t lose our salvation. We, indeed, can lose our salvation. Hence, no guarantee. If we reject Christ, we lose our salvation.
“If the RCC believes that God will not back up what He says I would get out of that organization and rely on Christ alone.”
It has nothing to do with believing “God will not back up what He says”. It is about those who reject God, rather than about God not backing anything up.