Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?
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Posted on 10/18/2013 11:50:16 PM PDT by jodyel
The irony is that if it wasn’t for Catholicism there would be no Protestantism for them to argue with! To borrow from Harper Lee’s Miss Maudie, some people are so busy reliving the Reformation that they aren’t living in the present.
I think that's a silly statement because of Romans 10:13 - "Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."
However, you seriously misunderstand the power of communion:
1 Co 11: 27 Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. 28 A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. 29 For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself. 30 That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.
1 Corinthians 10:16 Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?
1 Corinthians 11:27 Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.
How can you be guilty of "sinning against the body and blood of the Lord", and how can you be guilty for "not recognizing the body of the Lord", if the Lord is not present?
There is far more power and presence in Communion/Eucharist than you are acknowledging. It is not some passé symbolic act.
38 Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the Law said to Him, “Teacher, we want to see a miraculous sign from you.”
39 He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a miraculous sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
Good question!
Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
1 John 3:21-24
Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
Only TWO choices?
Surely not the SAME church that gave us...
Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.
I'm sure glad that Roman Catholicism hasn't said such vile things ab out PROTESTants!
Oh?
"It is my desire to eat this meal WITH you."
Luke 22:15
Words...
It's like manna - worthless if you try to save iut.
You MUST return to the source to get it.
Kinda like having your own drug pusher I guess.
Or else you’ll throw a hissy fit?
Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?
Words...
The world knows what Rome thinks of PROTESTants...
The word "participation" seems to be ignored a lot...
Hmmm.....
Make something and then bow down and worship it.
Seems to me that God had something to say about that once or twice.....
For the true believer, the true Christian, Christ dwells in the heart through faith.
He doesn't live there because we eat Him.
We don't have to go somewhere to meet Christ. Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit who swells in us.
Anyone who isn't sure they have Jesus in them, doesn't.
No kidding....
You got any links?
I've just been doing some research on the emergent church and the mysticism that is creeping in.
I have never seen you post here on these frequent debates on the FR RF, but posting more propaganda rather than reasoned conclusions based on objective examination of Scripture, which your article is not, accomplishes nothing except to indicate that indoctrination is behind belief in the Real Presence as defined by Rome.
Save my FReeper handle and ping me when a Catholic claims Protestants aren’t Christians, mmm kay?
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