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.
(Excerpt) Read more at ourcatholicfaith.org ...
Nobody ever claimed that there was a church with no sinners. The issue is how the church deals with the sinners and that’s outlined in Matthew 18 and 1 Corinthians 5.
So why doesn’t the Catholic church follow the protocol that is outlined in the very Bible they take credit for?
After all, if they indeed did write it and if that does indeed give them exclusive right to correctly interpret it, WHY don’t they follow what they claim are their very own teachings?
And we’re not talking about just sinners here with Pelosi, Schumer, Kennedy, et all. We’re talking about dyed in the wool, liberal, pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage supporting, spitting in the face of the Catholic church they belong to and yet still receive communion from.
Doesn’t anyone in the Catholic church have the um... backbone to actually stand up to these people, stand for what is right instead of what is popular, and put their foot down and say enough is enough?
It happens in non-Catholic churches. THEY can do it. Why is the RCC so hogtied in that regard? They’re just complicit in the sin they refuse to address and correct.
OH don’t go to sleep on us sugar. We are waiting for where to find the apostles teaching the assumption of Mary. Fullness of the gospel and all you know.
“When’s the RCC going to do something about THEM?”
Why do YOU care? What is it to you and your odd little cult?
You have your own little cult, be happy. I have the fullness of the One True Church. You go your way, I will go His way.
Oh now there ya went and did it. Expecting the Catholic Church to have all live up to what they teach. The vows of poverty and all for the leadership living in those squalid conditions as an example to the masses. Walking around in sackcloth just to show humility. Oh……….wait………never mind.
>>> they probably find your views just as irrelevant.<<<
You certainly have chewed up a lot of bandwidth to prove I am irrelevant.
Philip
“You certainly have chewed up a lot of bandwidth to prove I am irrelevant.”
And in doing so he landed your irrelevance on post number 666, good job Vlad!
Oh no, you keep telling us how “fractally wrong” we are. We are waiting for you to show where the apostles taught the assumption of Mary from the fullness of the gospel.
Why? What do you and your odd little cult of one care what anyone else believes?
Touched a nerve, did it?
Don’t forget the vows of celibacy.....
But then, boys will be boys.
We can’t expect them to be perfect, you know. There’s *sinners* in all churches.
That sure is a pretty picture, honey.
Bless your heart.
At least they think you have an excuse.
Here I thought because you said you had the fullness of the gospel you could tell us where it show the teaching by the apostles of the assumption of Mary. If you can’t show the masses where in “the fullness of the gospel” the teaching of the assumption by the apostles is why don’t you just say so? Or maybe the statement “fullness of the gospel” isn’t quite so full after all since the RCC forgot to add that little tidbit when they wrote it? Doncha just hate it when that happens? I can just imagine how hare you “searched the scriptures daily” to find it too. Bless your heart.
The boring noise you make is still boring, no wonder your cult has just you in it.
As for what the True Church teaches, it is all available, go to the Catechism and learn, or not.
Again, what do you care sweetie? You and your cult of one knows all, and needs no one, right?
YOUR pope kissing the koran. Fits right in with YOUR Catechism of the Catholic church.
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P29.HTM
841 The Church's relationship with the Muslims. "The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind's judge on the last day."330
So, you guys are no longer calling priests and the pope "Father" and "Holy Father", as Christ instructed us not to do?
"... call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven." (Matthew 23:9, DRA)
You cannot imagine how relieved I am to know you are finally hearing his Word, because:
"... the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day." (John 12:48, DRA)
Philip
So? Again, what do YOU care?
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