Posted on 10/08/2014 11:39:09 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Why would intelligent, successful people give up their careers, alienate their friends, and cause havoc in their families...to become Catholic? Indeed, why would anyone become Catholic?
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wow. this claim to fame of the catholic church gets really old.
the roman catholic church has been distorting the Word for a long time now. see teachings on Mary for example.
the ekklesia, the church, adopted and identified the NT canon around 200 AD as we understand it today.
many are called but few are chosen....very sorry for them!
Matthew 18:8-9 (NASB) 8If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. 9And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
I seriously doubt you've done this. No doubt you've sinned...right?
Oh, He forgives alright, but He expects that you won't continue the same behavior over and over and over and etc.
Did the angel tell Mary what was going to happen or did he ask her? Look it up.
God used Judas, Balaam's donkey, Harrod, and others who will not be in heaven for His purposes.
Catholicism saves? Not Jesus? Paul must have lied to that jailer.
>>Catholics take His word very seriously and believe that the Eucharist is truly the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ..<<
Did Jesus eat His own flesh and drink His own blood?
Baloney. We follow the Bible, the whole Bible and nothing but the Bible. It is out Christian manual for a Christian life. I was on another site recently. It was about Catholic beliefs. I found it very strange that not one time did they quote the Bible. It was all about some edict or the other. Did not seem like the Catholics who owned it cared very much about what the Bible says. I tried to find it again but could not even after going through my history sites but I have hundreds of those. Catholic beliefs seem to have a lt to do with pagan ideology.
Satan accepts and knows exactly who Jesus is...he, however doeas not follow Jesus' teachings nor does he follow Jesus' church, the Catholic church.
To be clear...Satan intellectually knows who Jesus is. He doesn't "accept" Him in the manner the original poster is indicating. To think otherwise shows a lack of knowledge of the text.
Second...the roman catholic church is the one that has been "making up their own rules" as they go along. We can easily point to any of the popes ex cathedra statements, the change in indulgences, etc.
But here is a change in doctrine:
Before Vatican II: The condemnation of freedom of conscience and freedom of worship:
"Especially fatal to the salvation of souls is that erroneous opinion of Liberty of Conscience and Liberty of Worship is the proper right of every man. By Our Apostolic authority, we reject, proscribe, and condmen this evil opinion." ( Pope Pius IX )
After Vatican II: relgious freedom.
"The Council further declares that the right to religious freedom has its foundation in the very dignity of the human person... This right to religious freedom is to be recognised in the constitutional law whereby society is governed. Thus it is to become a civil right." (Declaration on Religious Liberty Dignitatis Humanae)
Here's another:
Until Vatican II
"Cut off from the Church: One must neither pray nor sing psalms with those who are cut off from the communion of the Church, whether clergy or layman: let him be excommunicated" - Council of Carthage.
"How does a Catholic sin against faith? A Catholic sins against Faith by Apostasy, heresy, indifferentism and by taking part in non-Catholic worship." (Catechism of the Council of Trent, Catechism of Pope St. Pius X and The Baltimore Catechism).
However, in the last 50 years:
DIRECTORY FOR THE APPLICATION OFPRINCIPLES AND NORMS ON ECUMENISM
On March 25th, 1993, His Holiness Pope John Paul II approved this Directory, confirmed it by his authority and ordered that it be published. Anything to the contrary notwithstanding., Vatican City, March 25th, 1993
“While the concern for restoring Christian unity involves the whole Church, clergy and laity alike,religious orders and congregations and societies of apostolic life, by the very nature of their particular commitments in the Church and the contexts in which they live out these commitments, have significant opportunities of fostering ecumenical thought and action…”
“taking account of the circumstances of place and persons, to organize meetings among Christians of various Churches and ecclesial Communities for liturgical prayer, for recollection and spiritual exercises, and for a more profound understanding of Christian spiritual traditions;”
As you said...one is right and one is wrong. looks like the roman catholic church just goes with the wind.
You see that right here on the Catholic caucus threads. No scripture.
They seem to trust man a whole lot more than what Jesus says.
I’d love just for once...for once...for a roman catholic to give me a verse from the New Testament where it says we are to pray to Mary. It has to be a clear one...not full of the typical allegorical stuff Catholicism is made of. Just one clear verse about praying to Mary. Just one.
Yes, I would too. They quote what man has said but not very much about what Jesus taught. I thought that was the point of Christianity-to believe God’s Word.
>>say I believe and then live whatever lifestyle you choose..<< Why did you then switch to this?
>>Now if that does not free them from any responsibility for their own salvation, I don't know what does...<<
Please explain you diversion.
alcohol is odorless.
Lol.
Not gonna happen. The whole concept is taken from the pagans.
There is no doubt in my mind that they trust man more.
so....John Smythe knew far more about establishing a bibilical church than did Jesus and Peter?????....O.K., I guess.
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