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Posted on 07/14/2014 9:20:18 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
To my Protestant brothers and sisters:
It's time to come back to Mother Church. We want you, we need you, we love you.
I've spent a lot of time in dialogue with activist atheists recently, and the direction we are going is not pretty. We are witnessing a rapid cultural decline into amorality.
Satan seeks the ruin of souls through the destruction of marriage and family, and the quickest route to his goal is the profanation of sex. The truth and meaning of human sexuality is our era's cultural fault line, and unfortunately, Protestant denominations have been tumbling into its widening crevace at an alarming pace.
The first cracks denying the sacred nature of human sexuality began mere decades ago with the first tentative acceptance of contraception by a Christian church (the Anglicans). After 1,900+ years of unbroken Christian teaching on the immorality of contraception (including 400+ years of unbroken Protestant teaching), a moral evil was suddenly declared good. The entirety of Protestantism, although horrified at first, soon followed suit.
"Woe to those who call evil good" -- Isaiah 5:20
Then came other issues -- sterilization, masturbation, abortion, fornication and cohabiting, homosexual activity and homosexual "marriage". One by one, Protestant communities have broken from Christian teaching and sided with the secular culture. Many Protestant communities do not accept all the aforementioned evils as good, of course, and some are making a valiant attempt to fight one or more of them. However, there is no guarantee that those denominations won't eventually accept other sexual sins in the same way they accepted contraception, sterilization and masturbation. A majority vote by church leaders could launch an unsuspecting Protestant from the Spirit of the Gospel right into the spirit of the age -- the Planned Parenthood age.
Look where you are standing. Unless you stand with the Catholic Church, you may already have one foot off the cliff.
How to guarantee that you'll stand firmly on the ground of moral Truth? Come back home to the Catholic Church.
For over two thousand years:
The Catholic Church has never taught that contraception is a moral good, and she never will. The Catholic Church has never taught that sterilization is a moral good, and she never will. The Catholic Church has never taught that masturbation is a moral good, and she never will. The Catholic Church has never taught that abortion is a moral good, and she never will. The Catholic Church has never taught that fornication is a moral good, and she never will. The Catholic Church has never taught that homosexual activity is a moral good, and she never will.
The moral teachings of the Church have never changed, and they never will.
Human sexuality is transcendent, life-giving and sacred, and the Catholic Church will teach that Truth till the last day.
Dear Protestant, a church with a changing morality is a church built on shifting sand. If you want to build your life and eternity on something solid, build it on the Rock of Peter. Don't be carried about by every wind of social change; come back to the Catholic Church and stand strong with us -- one united Body as Jesus intended.
America may not survive many more generations at the rate we are going, but the Church and her teachings will stand regardless, speaking the same Truths, undisturbed, till the end of time. Believe me, it's a really nice place to be in a storm. Extremely peaceful.
So, come on. You'll like it here, living in peace and joy and certainty. It's your rightful home anyway.
Come back to Holy Mother Church. It really is time.
If you read the Catechism, you might be surprised.
“There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.”― Fulton J. Sheen
Catholics walk talk is louder than their talk talk.
“You claim there is not other infallible source for what the apostles taught.”
Show me where I claim that. You will fail. Honestly why do you keep making these things up? I know EXACTLY WHAT I DID AND DID NOT WRITE. And never did I “claim there is not other infallible source for what the apostles taught.”
1) You’re leaving out a number of words in what was said - originally by you.
2) You’re assuming that my demand for evidence that I said one thing means i believe the opposite or something close to it. This is a terrible mistake on your part and shows a complete lack of understanding of why you must only impute to people what they actually said or what their words MUST MEAN. Protestant anti-Catholics absolutely stink at either one of those because many can barely read and other are simply too stupid to know what they are actually attacking since they have relied - often for their entire lives - on false information from other anti-Catholics as to what Catholics believe.
“Paul said anything they didn’t teach was to be considered “accursed”.”
And yet you believe in sola scriptura - which they NEVER taught and sola fide which they also never taught.
“What you teach is therefore accursed.”
Not at all, but what you teach is as mentioned above.
“Your teachings accursed and your credibility a zero.”
No. The Church’s teachings are sacred and true as always and my credibility has not suffered in the least and is far above zero. You on the other hand have been shown to make things up - repeatedly - out of thin air.
“Not a good track record there vlad.”
CynicalBear, dishonesty is the real problem Protestant anti-Catholics suffer from. It’s a shame they don’t seem to see lying as wrong.
This is one of the most lame arguments of all...
Joh 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
We as Christians know that God's word, the scriptures is truth...We know that...We have no evidence whatsoever that God's words exist outside of scripture...
There are religions who say they have God's truth outside of scriptures??? Certainly...They are a dime a dozen...Yours included...
We only need one proof and yet we have dozens...Your religion claims Mary was/is sinless...God says ALL have sinned...Therefore we know with certainty that your religion is a faker...A counterfeit...
Your tradition contradicts the words of God...That makes any statement by your religion pertaining to the scriptures irrelevant...
Of course you didn’t. We all saw that. There is no other infallible source for what the apostles taught. Scripture is the only infallible source for what the apostles taught. It’s Sola Scriptura! Thank you for proving our point!
HaHa...That's where they failed...They crossed the Tiber...Luther tried to get them to come back to this side but they refused...Now they want to drag the rest of us down with them...
Goodbye!
HE founded IT to make it easier and more organized to follow HIM rather than 20,000 or so diverse opinions as to what HE had founded...
And yet you don't have a clue why...It's because unlike Catholics, many non Catholics actually study and believe the bible and they/we see sola scripture everywhere we look...We don't need the word alone to see that were are to believe the scripture alone...
RE: nope, if you’re baptized, you’re Catholic...
The I’m catholic.
RE: nope, if you’re baptized, you’re Catholic...
Then I’m catholic.
Buh Bye, CB.
Yes...Everybody dies (until the rapture) except for those who God specifically said did not die...
Heb_9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
It's an appointment, for everyone...
We don't need to be organized to follow Him. We follow Him individually. His sheep know His voice and follow Him.
No, but if you hire a lawyer and call the office, that lawyer probably won’t answer the phone.
If an associate lawyer, a legal clerk or a receptionist answer, are you going to hang up?
No, more likely you’ll say something to the effect of “Please ask my lawyer to call me back” or “Please ask my lawyer to do this regarding my case”.
Game. Set. Match.
Bravo and well said!!
Hoss
That contradicts scripture so we know that it is a lie you are repeating...Jesus made US the church after he saved us...
You know, I think you’re a crypto-Protestant.
You’re everything anyone ever rejected the Catholic Church over, all rolled up into one egomaniacal jerk.
All anyone has to do is read what you post, and they reject even the smallest thought of becoming a Catholic. You even make Catholics cringe.
Brilliant, actually. You must piss the Jesuits off to no end.
Mary wouldn't have been caught dead (or alive) bowing to a statue (idol) of anything...
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