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One Hundred Fifty Reasons I'm Catholic - And You Should Be Too!
http://www.ourcatholicfaith.org ^ | January 23, 2014 | Dave Armstrong

Posted on 01/23/2014 9:29:40 PM PST by NKP_Vet

1. Best One-Sentence Summary: I am convinced that the Catholic Church conforms much more closely to all of the biblical data, offers the only coherent view of the history of Christianity (i.e., Christian, apostolic Tradition), and possesses the most profound and sublime Christian morality, spirituality, social ethic, and philosophy.

2. Alternate: I am a Catholic because I sincerely believe, by virtue of much cumulative evidence, that Catholicism is true, and that the Catholic Church is the visible Church divinely-established by our Lord Jesus, against which the gates of hell cannot and will not prevail (Mt 16:18), thereby possessing an authority to which I feel bound in Christian duty to submit.

3. 2nd Alternate: I left Protestantism because it was seriously deficient in its interpretation of the Bible (e.g., "faith alone" and many other "Catholic" doctrines - see evidences below), inconsistently selective in its espousal of various Catholic Traditions (e.g., the Canon of the Bible), inadequate in its ecclesiology, lacking a sensible view of Christian history (e.g., "Scripture alone"), compromised morally (e.g., contraception, divorce), and unbiblically schismatic, anarchical, and relativistic. I don't therefore believe that Protestantism is all bad (not by a long shot), but these are some of the major deficiencies I eventually saw as fatal to the "theory" of Protestantism, over against Catholicism. All Catholics must regard baptized, Nicene, Chalcedonian Protestants as Christians.

4. Catholicism isn't formally divided and sectarian (Jn 17:20-23; Rom 16:17; 1 Cor 1:10-13).

5. Catholic unity makes Christianity and Jesus more believable to the world (Jn 17:23).

6. Catholicism, because of its unified, complete, fully supernatural Christian vision, mitigates against secularization and humanism.

7. Catholicism avoids an unbiblical individualism which undermines Christian community (e.g., 1 Cor 12:25-26).

8. Catholicism avoids theological relativism, by means of dogmatic certainty and the centrality of the papacy.

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TOPICS: Apologetics; General Discusssion; History; Theology
KEYWORDS: catholic
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To: CynicalBear

“The Catholic focus is always on what they do rather than what they believe. “

False. We are taught that faith and works go hand in hand.


1,321 posted on 01/30/2014 4:28:21 PM PST by Prince of Space (Be Breitbart, baby. LIFB.)
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To: Prince of Space

Helping you out.


1,322 posted on 01/30/2014 4:28:41 PM PST by Gamecock (If you like your constitution, you can keep your constitution. Period. (M.S.))
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To: Prince of Space
Of course faith without works is dead. Let’s look at what Jesus said about that.

“Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” John 6:28-29

1,323 posted on 01/30/2014 4:29:26 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: CynicalBear

So we agree about something....that faith and works are both important.


1,324 posted on 01/30/2014 4:41:45 PM PST by Prince of Space (Be Breitbart, baby. LIFB.)
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To: Prince of Space
>>So we agree about something....that faith and works are both important.<<

It depends on what you mean by works. Clearly the Catholic Church understanding according to Jesus’ words is in error.

1,325 posted on 01/30/2014 4:50:01 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: CynicalBear

Don’t bother. I like being a carnal Catholic. If it was good enough for Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dominic, Francis of Assisi, Joan of Arc, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Jesus, Therese of the Child Jesus (neither of whom, I’m sure, ever thought about Jesus), John Fisher, Thomas More, Ignatius of Loyola, Vincent de Paul, Catherine Laboure, Bernadette Soubirous, Padre Pio, Edith Stein, Maximilian Kolbe, Teresa of Calcutta, and other carnal, Pelagian idolaters, it’s good enough for me.


1,326 posted on 01/30/2014 5:45:44 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan
>> Don’t bother.<<

I won’t. I was given a revelation by reading Jesus words just after my last post to you.

John 17:8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

Jesus prayed for only those who received Him and the words He gave them. He did not pray for those who didn’t receive His words. I won’t either.

1,327 posted on 01/30/2014 6:05:36 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: Prince of Space
For every verse you quote saying works don’t matter, there is another contradictory one saying they do.

So I've heard...


 

John 6:28-29

Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”

Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”


1,328 posted on 01/30/2014 6:57:18 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Prince of Space
We are taught that faith and works go hand in hand.

We know.

You are saved by Grace.









And are kept by Works.










1,329 posted on 01/30/2014 6:58:16 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: CynicalBear

Dang!

I shudda read ahead!!!


1,330 posted on 01/30/2014 6:58:40 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

LOL GMTA! Confirmation never hurts.


1,331 posted on 01/30/2014 7:11:10 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: Arthur McGowan

Love it! Some people really need to lighten up around here.


1,332 posted on 01/30/2014 9:30:33 PM PST by Prince of Space (Be Breitbart, baby. LIFB.)
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To: Prince of Space

It’s astounding, the people who run around all day, every day, seething with rage because of auricular confession, incense, holy water, and the rosary. There must be a propaganda machine out there of which sane people are barely aware.


1,333 posted on 01/30/2014 11:25:36 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: CynicalBear

But...

so do small ones!


1,334 posted on 01/31/2014 3:09:01 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Prince of Space
Some people really need to lighten up around here.

Physician: Heal thyself.

1,335 posted on 01/31/2014 3:09:47 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Times two...


1,336 posted on 01/31/2014 3:11:00 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Arthur McGowan
There must be a propaganda machine out there of which sane people are barely aware.

AnOTHER one?

1,337 posted on 01/31/2014 3:12:30 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

:)


1,338 posted on 01/31/2014 4:38:28 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Elsie

DOH!


1,339 posted on 01/31/2014 5:49:25 AM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: Utah Binger
Yer pitcher is purtier!
 
  
Spotted on the magazine rack at Wally World two days ago...
1,340 posted on 01/31/2014 11:30:12 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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