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Three Words Catholics Do Not Understand
Proclaiming the Gospel ^
| March 18,2015
| Mike Gendron
Posted on 03/18/2015 6:21:18 AM PDT by RnMomof7
1/14/2015 8:04:57 AM
Three Words Catholics Do Not Understand
It Is Finished - Three Words Catholics Do Not Understand
The perfect, all-sufficient sacrifice of Christ that satisfied divine justice for all believers was accomplished 2000 years ago. Jesus cried out in victory - "It is finished." The work of salvation is done. The eternal debt for sin has been paid in full. No more offerings, no more sacrifices, no more priests! The Lord Jesus willingly died for mans sins to pay the debt that we could never pay. He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness: by His wounds you have been healed" (1 Peter 2:24). Yet Catholics instead choose to trust in the sacrifice of the Mass, a blasphemous representation of a eucharistic Christ on an altar. They would rather trust the Sacrifice of the Mass as a sin offering to God rather than trusting in the one-time, all-sufficient, sacrifice of Christ.
Jesus appeared to take away sins once for all" by His sacrifice" (Hebrews 9:26). Through His blood God made Him the means of expiation (of sin) for all who believe" (Romans 3:25). Vatican II denies these sacred Scriptures by teaching: Sins must be expiated...on this earth through the sorrows, miseries and trials of this life and, a above all, through death. Otherwise the expiation must be made in the next life through fire and torments or purifying punishments (Vatican Council II). What a terrible deception to impose on faithful Roman Catholics who look to their church for the truth! The very reason and purpose Christ became man and suffered such an excruciating death was to expiate sin, once and for all, by His perfect sacrifice. How can any church, which claims to follow Christ, withhold this truth from its people and create in its place doctrines that nullify the Savior's finished work?
Roman Catholic teachings also nullify another accomplishment of Christ, the purification of sins. The writer of the book of Hebrews declared that "when He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high" (Heb. 1:3). The apostle John also proclaimed that those who trust Christ are purified from all sin, by His blood (1 John 1:7). Vatican Council II states that purgatory is where "those
who have not made satisfaction with adequate penance for their sins and omissions are cleansed after death with punishments designed to purge away their debt. Jesus reconciled the world to God, changing its relationship with God from hostility to harmony. The sinner is reconciled to God when he trusts in Christ as his Savior. "It is in Christ and through His blood that we have been redeemed and our sins are forgiven" (Eph. 1:7). Being reconciled to God is difficult for Catholics to comprehend, for they have been taught the only way to made peace with God is through a life long journey of works--receiving the sacraments, going to Mass and doing penance. The only response to the accomplishments of Christ that will reconcile anyone to God is repentance and faith.
TOPICS: Apologetics; Evangelical Christian; Mainline Protestant; Theology
KEYWORDS: cross; expiation; purification; salvation
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
I think it is possible to be both a Catholic and a Bible believing Christian.Of course! It is ignorant protestants who have made a distinction, not us. What are the authorities of the Church? The Deposit of Faith (big "T" Tradition), Scripture, and the Magisterial teaching through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Without the Bible, there is no Church. Without the Church, we would not have the Canon of Scripture. We are Bible-believing people.
I answered your other challenges on another thread. I invite you to my comments there rather than repeating myself here.
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posted on
03/18/2015 7:27:01 AM PDT
by
pgyanke
(Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
To: Resettozero
No I mean the “the”. I’m not proposing you be strung up for it, I think people write the way they do for a reason so I’m curious about why you drop the “the”.
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posted on
03/18/2015 7:27:18 AM PDT
by
Legatus
(Either way, we're screwed.)
To: pgyanke
Thanks. Also I neglected one other Catholic practice I disagree with: While the Bible does state you must confess your sins, I have never found any requirement that you must confess only to a priest.
To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
I think it is possible to be both a Catholic and a Bible believing Christian. Im sure many will disagree. Too bad. Im staying put!
Yes, but only until the point of decision is reached, and it HAS to come for a Bible-believing Christian.
Ultimately, one must choose between their love of the Catholic Church (or any organization on planet Earth) or their love for the Lord Jesus Christ alone, instead of mixing the two together and adding other ingredients to the stew.
To: Legatus
I answered your question. Please read my reply again.
To: RnMomof7
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posted on
03/18/2015 7:30:58 AM PDT
by
safeasthebanks
("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)
To: pgyanke; RnMomof7
>>our adoption into God's Family through participation with Christ's Bride, the Church.<<
There's just one more example of the Catholic Church usurping for power. We aren't adopted into God's family "through participation with the church". We are adopted as a child of God by faith in Christ. It's through that adoption that we become part of the ekklesia of Christ.
>>In this offering, we offer the only acceptable sacrifice, participation in the once-for-all sacrifice of Christ.<<
There now remains no more "offering". Christ offered "once for all" not to be repeated or "participated in". The mass is nothing more than a denial if the "once for all" sufficiency of the sacrifice of Christ.
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posted on
03/18/2015 7:32:13 AM PDT
by
CynicalBear
(For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
To: safeasthebanks
She’s had SEVEN kids and you tell her to get a life?
To: Resettozero
I answered your question. Please read my reply again. I've read it again, I still don't understand what you're trying to communicate. Please elaborate.
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posted on
03/18/2015 7:33:24 AM PDT
by
Legatus
(Either way, we're screwed.)
To: Resettozero
My phrasing is my phrasing.
To be Roman Catholic IS to follow Christ and no other.
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posted on
03/18/2015 7:33:49 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
To: Resettozero
Uh, it’s just an expression, sweetie pie. One that probably applies to you as well.
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posted on
03/18/2015 7:34:23 AM PDT
by
safeasthebanks
("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)
To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
Also I neglected one other Catholic practice I disagree with: While the Bible does state you must confess your sins, I have never found any requirement that you must confess only to a priest. Answered.
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posted on
03/18/2015 7:35:28 AM PDT
by
pgyanke
(Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
To: pgyanke
“You simply stop up your ears and refuse to engage the conversation with anything but condescension.”
Yet in terms of making an argument you restate as a fact”Some sins will be atoned in the life to come before our entrance to the banquet”what the author argues is unbelief in the finished work of Christ.
Your ears are just as closed, you heard nothing from him or Rnmomof7 that would dent your own conception of salvation as still needing completion (vs. being “finished”).
We ALL stop up our ears in this sense, pgyanke. I agree with the author, but in a comment above I level the charge of unbelief at Protestants as well. Salvation is free and easy because God offers it for free and delights in the finished work of His Son. The flesh HATES this and will not abide it, and creates costly complexity to replace it.
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posted on
03/18/2015 7:35:41 AM PDT
by
avenir
(I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
To: G Larry
>>No confession of sins,<<
At least not to some paedophile claiming to be a priest.
>>No praying for the dead,<<
Praying for the dead is a pagan practice.
>>No motivation for good works,<<
That's one more example of Catholics not understanding the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
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posted on
03/18/2015 7:36:26 AM PDT
by
CynicalBear
(For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
To: CynicalBear
We are adopted as a child of God by faith in Christ. It's through that adoption that we become part of the ekklesia of Christ.Please tell me how this process of adoption works.
The mass is nothing more than a denial if the "once for all" sufficiency of the sacrifice of Christ.
So says Pope CynicalBear I. After all, it must be so just because you say it is so.
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posted on
03/18/2015 7:38:51 AM PDT
by
pgyanke
(Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
To: Daffy
It’s the Catholic Church and it’s apologists who readily admit they have incorporated paganism.
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posted on
03/18/2015 7:39:11 AM PDT
by
CynicalBear
(For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
To: pgyanke
I read all of those passages. And no where did I find anything in there which requires you confess exclusively to a priest. Please show me just ONE passage which has this requirement.
To: pgyanke
What was finished? History? Salvation?
Good questions we seem to have an answer for:
Hebrews 10:
5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:
Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me. 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. 7 Then I said, Behold, I have come In the volume of the book it is written of Me To do Your will, O God.
8 Previously saying, Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them (which are offered according to the law), 9 then He said, Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God. He takes away the first that He may establish the second. 10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, 13 from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. 14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
15 But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before, 16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them, 17 then He adds, Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more. 18 Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
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posted on
03/18/2015 7:41:40 AM PDT
by
redleghunter
(In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Gen. 1:1))
To: avenir
Yet in terms of making an argument you restate as a factSome sins will be atoned in the life to come before our entrance to the banquetwhat the author argues is unbelief in the finished work of Christ.I did quote Scripture for my position in Matt 12:32. It wasn't just my own opinion.
Salvation is free and easy...
Tell that to the martyrs...
... because God offers it for free and delights in the finished work of His Son.
Yet we are the Body of Christ and our work is not finished. It could be that another answer is needed.
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posted on
03/18/2015 7:42:27 AM PDT
by
pgyanke
(Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
To: G Larry
>>To be Roman Catholic IS to follow Christ and no other.<<
ROFL! And Mary, and the Church, and the Pope!
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posted on
03/18/2015 7:46:03 AM PDT
by
CynicalBear
(For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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