Rick Warren’s Call for Christians to Unite With Catholics, ‘Holy Father’ Raising Concerns

http://christiannews.net ^ | December 2, 2014 | Heather Clark

[CynicalBear]

Yeah, I knew that and thank God she escaped that apostate organization for the freedom that is in Christ. Now that she has been enlightened by the Holy Spirit there is no way she would revert to the cult of Catholicism.

[metmom]

So you damn billions to hell. Got it. Now I’ll refer you to my previous post.

CB does not damn anyone to hell and has no power to do so and does not even claim to have that power.

Unlike the Roman Catholic church.

Seems like the RCC and Catholics have it backwards.

Nobody is saved until they become damned. All are damned until they become saved.

And it's God who does the judging.

Pointing out what He told us in Scripture is not damning anyone to hell.

What a typical blame the messenger knee jerk reaction.

[metmom]

Actually, John 3:18, those words are Jesus’ very own words.

You know, the Jesus that Catholics say His words are held in higher esteem than anything else in Scripture.

And now Jesus Himself is being tried and found wanting by Catholics.

What chutzpah.

[metmom]

Not there, so de facto if you aren't in the Church, you are not a follower

As usual, backwards Catholic thinking.

It's not *if you aren't in the Church, you are not a follower*

It's *if you aren't a follower, you aren't part of the church*.

Nobody becomes a follower of Christ by joining a church.

People become the church by following Christ.

[metmom]

Heck, I even hope he forgives those who spew unenlightened, bigoted, anti-Catholic, vitriol.

Oh, the irony........

[Resettozero]

There is only one true complete Christian church on Earth and it is the Catholic church..eastern and western are both still united in their authenticity as the true church.

Yes, that sentiment has been stated here on FR many times over the years. Say it for few more years and it will be no less a lie in a pack of lies. You are willfully allowing yourself to believe a false narrative of history because you love your...RCC...so very much. Yet, the Spirit of Lord Jesus Christ is still knocking at the door of your heart, wanting in. He is Truth; not an ounce of deception in Him. Believe the Truth while it is still called Today.

[metmom]

You noticed that too, eh?

[Religion Moderator]

Have you read the rules, particularly about the websites that may not be linked (or text posted) and understand those rules?

When you have you will be released from having your posts monitored.

[SampleMan]

Yep, the Church.

[SampleMan]

Do you ever have time to worry about your own soul, or does the Catholic bashing consume all that you have?

[metmom]

Metmon knows the Catholic Church.

Now the cat is out of the bag.

First I was *poorly catechized*.

Now there's the admission that I wasn't.

She was born and raised Catholic. That means she’s a lapsed Catholic and any time she wants to start going back to Mass she only needs to go to Confession.

I have been crucified in Christ and I no longer live but Christ lives in me. The life I live I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.

The metmom who was baptized and raised Catholic, died in Christ and no longer exists.

There is no * still Catholic*, no *indelible mark on the soul*.

There is nothing that the blood of Jesus can't address and that includes any claims to ownership of my soul by anyone but HIM.

If there ever had been a mark, which there isn't anyway because there's no Scriptural substantiation for it, it cannot withstand the power of Jesus to deliver it and set it free and erase that alleged mark.

I belong to HIM and the only seal on me is the seal of the Holy Spirit as promised to all who believe in Him and receive Him for salvation.

[metmom]

I’m not worried about my soul.

It has been saved by Jesus and sealed with the Holy Spirit.

And you’re spending time here doing what exactly?

[SampleMan]

You are skirting and running from the clear implication of the question I posed. And again I refer you back to my original summation of the dilemma that puts you in.

[Resettozero]

I have been crucified in Christ and I no longer live but Christ lives in me. The life I live I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Anyone else here fully agree with this statement and could have made it yourself...? Besides me.

Who does and who doesn't?

[Gamecock]

Aye.

[terycarl]

Personal attack aside I am not fond of any organization that allow priests to molest children and does nothing but protect the priests. Sleeping well at night?

you are really hung up on the gay priest thing and you seem to know nothing about the settlements in the relatively few cases that there were....and public schools, scouts, protestant denomination clerics ALL surpass Catholic clergy in those kind of offenses....that excuses none of them, just puts them in perspective...

[CynicalBear]

I most certainly do and have the seal of the Holy Spirit.

[CynicalBear]

>>and public schools, scouts, protestant denomination clerics ALL surpass Catholic clergy in those kind of offenses<<

Not one of them purports to be the vicar of Christ.

[Gamecock]

I could care less about gay priests.

What I do care about is the fact that a supposed church moved these predators from one unsuspecting parish to another.

[metmom]

What dilemma?

I’m saved and it isn’t the Catholic church that did it.

It’s Jesus.

My soul is secure in Him.