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To: metmom
There is NO justification found anywhere, including Scripture, for the murder of someone rejecting a denominational affiliation

rejecting Catholicism is rejecting the church that Christ founded and thus rejecting Christ....not rejecting a denominationn

2,748 posted on 10/20/2014 7:34:35 PM PDT by terycarl (common sense prevails over all)
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To: terycarl
rejecting Catholicism is rejecting the church that Christ founded and thus rejecting Christ....not rejecting a denominationn

Even IF it were so, and it's not, just where in Scripture does Jesus sanction the church killing people who reject Him?

2,751 posted on 10/20/2014 7:40:30 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: terycarl
>>rejecting Catholicism is rejecting the church that Christ founded and thus rejecting Christ...<<

Could you show the passage from scripture that teaches that?

2,754 posted on 10/20/2014 7:44:54 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: terycarl; metmom
rejecting Catholicism is rejecting the church that Christ founded and thus rejecting Christ....not rejecting a denominationn

The Eastern Orthodox reject Catholicism. Are they guilty of rejecting Christ? Perhaps you don't understand this but "the church" is made up of ALL the redeemed followers of Christ, those who have received the gift of God which is eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ. If someone rejects Catholicism, they aren't rejecting "the church", just a particular church which asserts IT is the church that Christ founded.

Now, I don't deny that there ARE real Christians that are Catholic, just that the Roman Catholic church is NOT the church spoken of in Scripture. There are many tenets of the Christian faith that Catholicism still holds to, of course, and there are many godly, genuine and sincere Christians that worship in that manner. But, genuine, godly, faithful Christians also exist outside of the Roman Catholic church which demonstrates that there ARE Christians who are not Roman Catholic and they also are part of THE church Jesus established, just as there were in the early centuries of Christianity. Once this important distinction is realized, pride, animosity and hatred can be alleviated.

2,779 posted on 10/20/2014 9:54:30 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: terycarl
...rejecting Catholicism is rejecting the church that Christ founded and thus rejecting Christ....

And yet there is no official Catholic teaching that specifically states this.

In fact; in this thread...

2,795 posted on 10/21/2014 5:21:07 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: terycarl; Elsie
rejecting Catholicism is rejecting the church that Christ founded and thus rejecting Christ...

So are you SSPX or SSPV seeing as you reject V2 teaching on properly baptized Prots?

2,844 posted on 10/21/2014 7:12:27 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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