The Reformation is over. Catholics 0, Protestants 1

triablogue ^ | April 13, 2015 | Jerry Walls

[BlueDragon]

BTW I’m HERE on FREE REPUBLIC...and this SUB-FORUM forum is becoming a cancer I will not ignore.

Aw, cut it out.

Yer killin' me, doc.

[antidisestablishment]

Good post, if a little timid. Allowing altar girls and supporting PP defines two distinct spectrums easily. I find issues like divorce and birth control a bit harder to define—at least from our American perspective.

There is a third choice—in this case the American way—cowardice. We just won’t address it. After all, we wouldn’t want to offend some of our most generous pew-warmers. Seeker-friendly churches are the epitome of this ungodly synchretism.

As a protestant, I find much to disagree with our Catholic brethren, but I find just as much on the Protestant side of the aisle without resorting to snake-handling. All of them are filled with sinners.

[WVKayaker]

1 Corinthians 2: 6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 However, as it is written:
“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
the things God has prepared for those who love him—

10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for,
“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”
But we have the mind of Christ.

[Crim]

LOL...good one!

[BlueDragon]

thank you for having a sense of humor.

but what to do with this forum -- I dunno.

[Crim]

It breaks my heart to see my fellow conservatives and my fellow christians at each others throats.

There is a storm coming....and it’s pure evil.

[HarleyD]

"We are compelled to concede to the Papists that they have the Word of God, ...

Many of today's Catholic teachings no longer shows up in the Word of God. As many of our Catholic friends here have point out to us, these new teachings come from "traditions"-not from scripture.

As John Calvin pointed out...

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain

[Biggirl]

Catholics 1, Protestants 1.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Our neighbors have both the white and the pink dogwoods. Seeing dogwoods with a background of brilliant blue sky, or with a red Japanese maple behind them: exquisite!

But even the humble dandelion pleases me, and the little violets. It rained a LOT last night, so there’ll be even more today. Thank you Lord!

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks -— yours are words of wisdom. Like I said, so much to think about.

[CynicalBear]

Oh come now. Your short changing the Catholic Church. Some of those written beliefs go back a lot farther than 1900 years. That “queen of heaven” concept was spoken of way back in Jeremiah’s day.

[metmom]

The issue here is that Salvation has only posted half of Luther's quote. (And I have pointed that out to Salvation at least three times on other threads.)

From that point in the quote Luther goes on to launch one of his accurate, blistering indictments on Rome.

Do you care to share the entire quote Salvation, or only the part that is convinient to you and you fellow adherents?

They do it with Scripture so why not everything else?

[metmom]

Yup.

[metmom]

Context is only important when Prots are claiming something.

Then Catholics demand it and it’s essential.

When it’s Catholics doing the claiming, who needs any stinkin’ context?

[caww]

Maybe they would do well putting up one of their Popes quote’s to oppose Luther’s rather than argue over Luther. After all both are just men , then compare what they’re saying to what God says in His Word.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Where do we go to find infallible Protestant doctrine?

Why should we follow Luther? He's not mentioned in the Bible. And the Bible warns us of following traditions of men.

[metmom]

Hey, it’s YOUR church that makes that claim.

[metmom]

And yet here you are, spreading love and understanding with your endearing post.....

[metmom]

Is God giving us a theology test to get into heaven?

[metmom]

No, we follow no man.

Born again believers follow Christ, not man, a concept that, it seems, no Catholics can simply wrap their mind around.