Posted on 03/18/2015 6:21:18 AM PDT by RnMomof7
If you would have spent 1/2 the time, while you were still a practicing Catholic, defending your true religion, as you now do trying to justify your VERY poor decision to leave her....you would be close to sainthood.
So, for 2,000+ years, the Holy Spirit has chosen to speak only to a handful of "elect" rather than the organized Catholic church which has encompassed BILLIONS of faithful Christians. That would be a mighty poor way of spreadingtheword of God.....just saying. .
Nope...Catholic doctrinal housee is in good order...there are, however, some misinterpretations of it...pay little attention to those...stick with what the Catholic church teaches based on YOUR thorough study of them......we're waiting!!!
They don't so there goes that whole idea.
You take a direct quote from the bible and somehow twist it to mean that YOU decide what is truth.......AMAZING
ANOTHER ONE??? one isn't enough for you???Sheeesh
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And that in direct opposition to God's commands.
Deuteronomy 12:30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. 31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God:
Neither one of them differ on what is required for salvation.
That wasn't a direct quote from scripture. No where does it say "the church has the authority of binding and loosing". Trying to inject a meaning that isn't there is what is ....AMAZING.
You haven't shown where the apostles taught the assumption of Mary.
Biblical Sainthood=repent and believe
Roman Catholic “sainthood”=work hard to live an especially outwardly pious life and if enough people take notice maybe, just maybe, you will be nominated for the title “saint.”
Thanks for reading it.
They differ greatly in their doctrines of grace and salvation and election and redemption and atonement and...
The subject is sola scriptura. My point is it doesn’t work in practice. If “Holy Scripture is sufficient of itself to be the final authority of Christian doctrine” and Holy Scripture is self-authenticating, perspicuous and its own interpreter - then the resulting doctrine would be virtually identical.
If you start with the same resource and apply the identical method/process, the results should be identical. If not something else is involved - it’s not sola - and/or your assumptions are false.
Who says? Those differences are not affecting salvation. It's only the Catholic Church that ties beliefs to salvation not found in scripture. Whether someone believes once saved always saved or not does not affect what is required for salvation. That's why I asked you to show a difference that did but you couldn't.
False and, perhaps, malicious, statement; the fact remains that the Orthodox, Jews and Christians, pray for the dead from ancient times until now.
I am a saint.. made one by the work of JESUS CHRIST
Not sanctioned by God they didn't. God has rejected and set aside those who go beyond or pervert His word. Saying they have done it "from ancient times" means nothing.
If you start with the same resource and apply the identical method/process, the results should be identical. If not something else is involved - it’s not sola - and/or your assumptions are false.
The differences go beyond OSAS..
Those differences are not affecting salvation.
Who is saved, who Christ died for, who is given God's grace.. It is inaccurate to say this does not affect salvation.
According to Arminianism: Salvation is accomplished through the combined efforts ofGod (who takes the initiative) and man(who must respond)—man’s response being the determining factor. God has provided salvation for everyone, but His provision becomes effective only for those who, of their own free will, “choose” to cooperate with Him and accept His offer of grace…Whether they fit one's definition of 'affecting salvation', the differences are significant, certainly enough to not result in "one Lord, one faith, one baptism."According to Calvinism: Salvation is accomplished by the almighty power of the Triune God. The Father chose a people, the Son died for them, the Holy Spirit makes Christ’s death effective by bringing the elect to faith and repentance, thereby causing them to willingly obey the gospel…
>>the differences are significant, certainly enough to not result in "one Lord, one faith, one baptism."<<
Not in the least. They both have one Lord, on Faith in that Lord, and one baptism.
Once again, you fail to show how their differences affect salvation.
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