Posted on 04/20/2014 12:50:38 PM PDT by Gamecock
To you; perhaps - blind heretic SCUM!!!
What TRUTHS are LEFT out of Scripture that are so VITALLY needed for man's salvation?
Always nice to see a CATHOLIC so lightly dismiss the gross SINS of the LEADERSHIP of the One True Church; the very vechicle the Holy Spirit is present in.
So you don't err and still claim to speak for the Holy Spirit?
When Christ established HIS CHURCH, it was ONE. Not 35,000.
The Bible is a Catholic document, handed on to the world By the inspiration of the Holy Ghost ON A CATHOLIC COUNCIL in 398. If the Church is wrong now, it was wrong then. The Church is the infallable Teacher, and the Perfect Body of Christ,(containing sinners) Christ established the Church, He IS God, God doesnt make mistakes.
There is one Catholic Faith, as God is One, there are tens of thousands of non catholics taking bits and peices of the bible to carve out whatever little niche helps them cope with who they are. If individuals can define the faith for them selves then Christ and his Word becomes babble.
Christ didn't need man to invent holy days...he had that covered.
I attend a Wesleyan congregation.
Now what??
13 I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith[a] even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. 14 But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality. 15 So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans. 16 Therefore repent. If not, I will come to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth. 17 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.
#3; again...
14 But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality. 15 So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
MY 'church' is full of bad people...
We love 'em!
Romans 14:5
One man esteemeth one day above another; another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
Excellent question.
Yes, and there are plenty of wonderful text discover as in “ the lost Scriptures” which were not included in the canon by the powers that were back then. The real answer is that the inner holy spirit is the ultimate authority and if we are true Christians, that is obvious. The Bible is not God, nor is any church.
Rom 14:1 Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things.
Rom 14:2 For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
Rom 14:3 Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him.
Rom 14:4 Who are you to judge another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.
If you want to esteem that you can eat vegetarian on certain days feel free. I won't stop you.
But if you think Paul is suggesting that he didn't give a rip about the 4th commandment or the holy days of Jesus Christ then you're embracing Roman heresy and tradition.
Nice that you are comforted by the illusion that the Holy Spirit would lead Protestants in a dozen different directions.
Your assertion has each individual as their own Pope.
sorry that you cannot see that Jesus came to save us from everything worldly, including and leaders or teachers. The spirit is the ultimate truth, just as it became that at Pentecost. Where is your faith? In the church, or the holy spirit?
How so and which ones?
Interesting essay.
Now what??
I go study George Bernard Shaw's theories on wrestling.
Go fish.
My faith is that the Holy Spirit has guided me to Scripture and the traditions of the Church.
Are you continuing to pretend that the Holy Spirit guides us each in a different direction?
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