Jesus Christ was born in order to found the Catholic Church, which exists to dispense his grace to mankind through the ordinary means of his sacraments.
The summit of the sacraments is the Eucharist, in which we consume the body and blood of Jesus Christ. The principal effect of the sacrament is the strengthening of charity. Charity is the very Form or Nature of God. I.e., by receiving the Eucharist we become divinized, sharing in the divine nature.
One man’s opinion...
No.
Christ didn’t come here to found a heretical cult. He came to pay the price for our sins — to save us — to save sinners.
The Roman Catholic Cult wasn’t founded until around 300 AD anyway, so, it seems your math is a little off.
Nice try though.
Hoss
And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said “All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them”
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIssqxixYp0
Scripture tells us otherwise, which is what Paul states.
Why don't you believe God breathed, Holy Spirit inspired Scripture?
For God so loved the world that He didn't send a committee, even if it is called the *magisterium* by the RCC.
Catholicism has made salvation FAR too complicated.
It has corrupted the beautiful simplicity of the gospel message and buried it under an avalanche of man made traditions, rules, rituals, sacraments, creeds, catechisms, and other nonsense that keeps men from being able to reach out and find God in genuine and simple faith and trust.
Arthur that answer is so sad.
“Jesus Christ was born in order to found the Catholic Church, which exists to dispense his grace to mankind through the ordinary means of his sacraments.”
That statement is grossly ignorant of what the Holy Scriptures reveal.
Sorry but no cigar, again...Jesus himself hands out his own grace...And not by adhering to the sacraments of some cult, but FREELY, TO ALL MEN/WOMEN...
Do you know how Christians know that??? Because the scripture specifically tells us so...That means your Church is lying when it spews that nonsense...
Joh 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Tit_2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
That's ALL MEN, not just those who have membership in your religion...
Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Joh 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
Jesus dispenses grace...NOT Mary...NOT your religion...
The summit of the sacraments is the Eucharist, in which we consume the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
Act_15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
The principal effect of the sacrament is the strengthening of charity. Charity is the very Form or Nature of God.
I.e., by receiving the Eucharist we become divinized, sharing in the divine nature.
HaHaHa...You eat the divine nature and then become the divine nature...You are what you eat, eh???
Hmmmm...you would think Jesus would have SAID all that as long as He was here and all. Funny how He didn’t.
I love the smell of brimstone in the morning!!
Jesus doesn't *dispense* His grace in stingy little parcels as the hands of men.
Ephesians 1:3-10 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
Romans 5:1-2 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
John 1:14-17 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”) For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.