Posted on 05/15/2014 2:15:20 PM PDT by NYer
Jesus answered, The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.
AMEN!
Another good, ol’ Hoosier boy!
At what point in his life?
Possibly; but the QUESTION was about CHRISTIAN...
Finally took the bait; didn't you!
How many of them in FW do NOT post on FR???
I know how you feel. My sisters and I took turns caring for our mother during the last 2 years of her life. Due to a series of ministrokes, she had become like a small child, a very sweet small child, who needed to be groomed and dressed.
Caring for her became a blessing instead of a burden, as it became a bonding time, a time for me to return, in small measure, some of the nurturing she had given to me over the years. And my mother had been a very, very devoted mother to her nine children.
It was 7 years ago, May 1, that she passed on to her reward. She would have turned 95 that June. Miss her very much.
May our Blessed Lord watch over you and your mother.
Let's try some easy math:
There are approximately 1.2 billion Catholics world wide;
If merely 1% of them 'ask' Mary for help just once each day;
that means that 12 million separate prayers are headed Mary's direction every day.
Given that there are 86,400 seconds per day... (24 hours times 60 minutes times 60 seconds)
...that means that Mary has to handle approximately 139 'requests' per second!
Purty good fer someone NOT 'devine'!
He was always an atheist....he used religion as a way to sell Marxism.
I was just going to post the exact same thing but I figured that I'd read a little further down and see is someone had already addressed it. These little old ladies certainly know Jesus! I'm sure they miss going to church but I would never presume that they are lost souls.....
Like my old geometry teacher used to say: "Some things are given..."
Notice, it doesn't mention any "church building" or formal religion!!!
Awesome questions. That is the exact attitude that drove me away from the Roman Catholic Church.
Origen
"If someone from this people wants to be saved, let him come into this house so that he may be able to attain his salvation. . . . Let no one, then, be persuaded otherwise, nor let anyone deceive himself: Outside of this house, that is, outside of the Church, no one is saved; for, if anyone should go out of it, he is guilty of his own death" (Homilies on Joshua 3:5 [A.D. 250]).
Cyprian of Carthage
Whoever is separated from the Church and is joined to an adulteress [a schismatic church] is separated from the promises of the Church, nor will he that forsakes the Church of Christ attain to the rewards of Christ. He is an alien, a worldling, and an enemy. He cannot have God for his Father who has not the Church for his mother" (The Unity of the Catholic Church 6, 1st ed. [A.D. 251]).
"Let them not think that the way of life or salvation exists for them, if they have refused to obey the bishops and priests, since the Lord says in the book of Deuteronomy: And any man who has the insolence to refuse to listen to the priest or judge, whoever he may be in those days, that man shall die [Deut. 17:12]. And then, indeed, they were killed with the sword . . . but now the proud and insolent are killed with the sword of the Spirit, when they are cast out from the Church. For they cannot live outside, since there is only one house of God, and there can be no salvation for anyone except in the Church" (Letters 61[4]:4 [A.D. 253]).
Lactantius
"It is, therefore, the Catholic Church alone which retains true worship. This is the fountain of truth; this, the domicile of faith; this, the temple of God. Whoever does not enter there or whoever does not go out from there, he is a stranger to the hope of life and salvation. . . . Because, however, all the various groups of heretics are confident that they are the Christians and think that theirs is the Catholic Church, let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the sins and wounds to which the weak flesh is subject" (Divine Institutes 4:30:1113 [A.D. 307]).
Jerome
"Heretics bring sentence upon themselves since they by their own choice withdraw from the Church, a withdrawal which, since they are aware of it, constitutes damnation. Between heresy and schism there is this difference: that heresy involves perverse doctrine, while schism separates one from the Church on account of disagreement with the bishop. Nevertheless, there is no schism which does not trump up a heresy to justify its departure from the Church" (Commentary on Titus 3:1011 [A.D. 386]).
An erroneous extrapolation of the following...
Hebrews 10:23-25
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
If this had only been the case for the last 2000 years...
Sigh...
You cannot be a Christian without being a believer.
And you KNOW this how?
His early years in Indianapolis did not reveal this.
Kindly show me the exact verse in the Bible that says that a Priest is the necessary conduit to Christ.
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