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To: NKP_Vet; Salvation; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; CynicalBear; daniel1212; ...
You were baptised a Catholic and you’ll leave this world a Catholic. Now it still might be a Catholic who does not practice the faith, but a Catholic nevertheless.

Wrong.

When I was a baby, my parents had me baptized into Catholicism, but when I was saved, I was baptized into Christ and became a new creature in Christ for whom old things are passed away, all things are become new.

IOW, I was sprinkled as a sinner while a baby, and got saved as an adult.

Getting sprinkled does not and did not make me anything but a wet sinner. It did not make me anything else. It leaves no mark on my soul because getting physically wet doesn't make spiritual reality happen.

The RCC can make all its claims of ownership of my soul it wants, but they are meaningless. It is nothing more than a desperate attempt at a power grab on my life and soul which I do not recognize.

In reality, it owns nothing of me because I belong to Christ. HE bought me at a price and I belong to HIM, not the Catholic church.

341 posted on 09/04/2014 10:42:21 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom

You’re a non-practicing Catholic, but Catholic nevertheless.
A lot like Nancy Pelosi and the rest that don’t practice the faith.


385 posted on 09/05/2014 8:01:31 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: metmom

The statement “a Catholic who does not practice the faith” is rather interesting. Are all Catholics saved? Only Catholicism cs who “practice the faith”? Exactly what part of “practicing the faith” is it that saves? If one does not “practice the faith” are they saved by still being Catholic? If those who are not “practicing the faith” are not saved why do they insist they are still Catholic?


444 posted on 09/05/2014 1:11:11 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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