Why do you come here to divide Christian? What is your goal?
“offers the only coherent view of the history of Christianity (i.e., Christian, apostolic Tradition)”
Hehehehehe! Just wait till Catholics actually start to read Christian history! They’re in for a rude awakening.
Sorry but Christ is the savior not a denomination
When the Episcopal Church fell to the dark side, I went without a church, even though I was the senior warden of the oldest Episcopal church in west Tennessee, (1832). After moving to Slovakia, I did, on occasion, attend the very old, beautiful and ornate Catholic church in old town Bratislava.
Now I am in the Philippines where most everyone is Catholic, including my wife and our 3 year old boy. I am amazed at how he has taken to the religion. He frequently comes home, repeating the chants, prayers, and “ahhhmens” that he hears in the 300 year old church. I sometimes wonder if he is going to grow up to be a priest !
3 reasons the roman catholic church is wrong and so far from the Elohim of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob:
nancy pelosi
joe biden
You name either cuomo
Any church that keeps them, isn’t for me..
I’m Christian. I’ve gone to AG, Christian, non-denominational and now Baptist congregations. But I’m not baptist. I’m Christian.
Duck call.
Would you like to elaborate on point #4 in the article? Meaning what metrics were used to assert such unity?
I’m a Christian...
and no I’m not a Catholic..
I’m a Protestant...
I am Catholic because I was baptized into my faith. It wasn’t really until I was older, and challenged on my faith by Jehovah Witnesses, that I had to sit down and read, research and truly ask the “why” of my faith. I do believe that Christ intended only one Church, and that Church grew and flourished and was persecuted for almost 400 years before Christians were presented with the Bible. I believe that mankind has indeed screwed things up and the faith is obviously fractured throughout the centuries. That being said, I have come to the conclusion that when my time is up and I am judged, Christ will ask “Did you love me, and did you love the least of me?” I do t think he will ask if I was Catholic. My 2cents. God bless all on this thread!
Read Trail of blood
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Books,%20Tracts%20&%20Preaching/Printed%20Books/trail_of_blood_jm_carroll.htm
and FOX’s BOOK of MARTYRS http://www.ccel.org/f/foxe/martyrs/home.html
Then get back to us.
“NKP_Vet” - I always find it interesting when someone dumps and runs on a post like this here on FR - ZERO follow up reply posts. Zero.
For the record I was born and raised Roman Catholic. I renounced that “denomination” and left that Church when God began to reveal the truth about himself to me through the person of Jesus Christ.
I KNEW something was wrong when as a young boy I made my first confession - long meditated on and heartfelt - the Priest, after asking me several questions which basically identified me personally to him, said “Ah you’re a good kid go say 10 hail marys and you’ll be all set”. I KNEW THIS COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE THE TRUTH AND COULD NOT CLEANSE ME NOR FORGIVE ME OF MY SINS.
Love and Truth won out in my life and I am a follower of Jesus Christ, my Savior AND Lord. Hope the same for all of you who earnestly seek Him. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, not the Catholic Church or any other for that matter.
As a practicing Catholic I object to posts preaching religion on a political webpage such as this. These types of posts do more to divide Christians than unite.
Deuteronomy 4:19 and Malachi 1:11.
This is a great article. Thanks for posting it.
9. Catholicism avoids ecclesiological anarchism - one cannot merely jump to another denomination when some disciplinary measure or censure is called for.
10. Catholicism formally (although, sadly, not always in practice) prevents the theological relativism which leads to the uncertainties within the Protestant system among laypeople.
11. Catholicism rejects the “State Church,” which has led to governments dominating Christianity rather than vice-versa.
12. Protestant State Churches greatly influenced the rise of nationalism, which mitigated against universal equality and Christian universalism (i.e., Catholicism).
13. Unified Catholic Christendom (before the 16th century) had not been plagued by the tragic religious wars which in turn led to the “Enlightenment,” in which men rejected the hypocrisy of inter-Christian warfare and decided to become indifferent to religion rather than letting it guide their lives.
14. Catholicism retains the elements of mystery, supernatural, and the sacred in Christianity, thus opposing itself to secularization, where the sphere of the religious in life becomes greatly limited.
15. Protestant individualism led to the privatization of Christianity, whereby it is little respected in societal and political life, leaving the “public square” barren of Christian influence.
16. The secular false dichotomy of “church vs. world” has led committed orthodox Christians, by and large, to withdraw from politics, leaving a void filled by pagans, cynics, unscrupulous, and power-hungry. Catholicism offers a framework in which to approach the state and civic responsibility.
17. Protestantism leans too much on mere traditions of men (every denomination stems from one Founder’s vision. As soon as two or more of these contradict each other, error is necessarily present).
18. Protestant churches (esp. evangelicals), are far too often guilty of putting their pastors on too high of a pedestal. In effect, every pastor becomes a “pope,” to varying degrees (some are “super-popes”). Because of this, evangelical congregations often experience a severe crisis and/or split up when a pastor leaves, thus proving that their philosophy is overly man-centered, rather than God-centered.
19. Protestantism, due to lack of real authority and dogmatic structure, is tragically prone to accommodation to the spirit of the age, and moral faddism.
20. Catholicism retains apostolic succession, necessary to know what is true Christian apostolic Tradition. It was the criterion of Christian truth used by the early Christians.
But the Catholic Church doesn’t want “Biblical literalists” as members, remember? “G-d” set up all those Fundamentalist Protestant “sects” for people who just aren’t smart and intellectual enough to understand the sublime Catholic dogmas of evolutionism and higher criticism.
Read “Raggamuffin Gospels by Brennen Manning, a former Catholic Priest.
#1 is only true if you throw out the bible, which makes it a pretty weird statement.
Does individualism undermine the American political process?