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To: CynicalBear
Doing so is not lack of charity.

Agreed; but sometimes the way one does it can be uncharitable in itself. Yes, Jesus, in His Authority spoke so to the Pharisees at times, but didn't He also show kindness to sinners, even sadness at their disbelief? The Pharisees used the letter of the Law to their own purposes; Jesus simply said to love God and love one's neighbor.

You asked why I was here. I want to hear what it was that brought people to God; things He has done in their lives; how they worship and praise Him! I'm not here to mock and criticize, nor did I expect to be in return; I wanted to better understand fellow Christians in a great nation that is unfortunately losing the Judeo-Christian principles it was founded upon. As God is being more and more put aside in the public arena, we need to find our common ground of love and praise for Him.

1,524 posted on 12/17/2014 4:36:28 PM PST by Grateful2God (preastat fides supplementum sensuum defectui)
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To: Grateful2God
>>we need to find our common ground of love and praise for Him.<<

Common ground cannot be established with those who contradict the word of God. When Paul was teaching how to deal with people who persisted in error and taught things contrary to what they teach he instructed that we were not to associate with them. Read the letters to the seven churches in Revelation.

One of the things you will see in those letters is that God hates the Nicolaitans. If you look in Strong's concordance #3531 you will see that the word Nocolaitans is made up of three Greek words which together means "one who is victorious over the people". That is what the "hierarchy" of the Catholic Church is. It's basically the Pharisees of the Old Testament. There is an article here which goes into detail. That is only one of the ways the Catholic Church has violated the word of God.

1,542 posted on 12/17/2014 5:29:55 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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