The differences I have with the RC denomination are not minor The RC puts many man made and in my opinion blasphemous barriers between the believer and Christ and blurs and obscures the simplicity of the Gospel Go on thinking you are the one true Church if you want but you are in for a surprise
You need to take that up with the Christ who gave Peter (the man) the keys to the kingdom of heaven.
Yep. Sounds like the Pharisees of old.
I am not a Catholic, nor could I ever be, but I do not think that this post deserves to be attacked with such vitriol. The time for this kind of arguing is over.
The die has been cast and churches and Christians must take sides. Morgana isn’t the problem here.
The battle is not between Catholics and protestants.
There are now two sides. Only TWO.
The side that rejects the world and the side that embraces it and all its sins.
If a church believes abortion is okay, open borders is no problem, if it thinks “climate change” is real and man-made, if it attacks capitalism (freedom) and calls for socialism then it has obviously embraced the world and its values. If it calls for world wide collective power to run the world economy then it is wanting the beast to arise.
This does NOT mean that all of the members of that church embrace the world and its sins. It is the people and their hearts and souls that are to be saved, not the institutions, not ANY institution.
There is no human institution that will survive. Revelation tells us that even most churches will join the anti-Christ before the end comes.
Denominations, all of them, are human creations. Church bureaucracies are human creations.
Christians who bow to God through Jesus and pray in Jesus name (exclusively) are the “one true church”. They do not need buildings with signs on them, they do not need to go by the same name or be part of the same clubs.
This is my belief.
But the time to argue about all of this is over.
Yes, over.
Those of us who reject the world must now sell our cloaks and buy swords. We must defend ourselves and our families from the beast that has arisen. Not all who call themselves Christian will join us, more likely MOST of them will fall away under the threats and temptations of the beast.
The institutions and denominations and bureaucracies are no longer relevant. They cannot save your soul. They are human edifices and they will ALL fall. Every one of them is going to either embrace the beast or be destroyed by it.
It won’t matter. Do not let their defections and destruction sway you. Be strong as this comes to pass.
The protestant churches will fall to the world or be destroyed and the same with the Catholic Church. It does not matter. The vast majority of “Christians” will embrace the new world order run by the beast. Do not let this certainty scare you, do not let it sway you.
The few of us that are left who stay strong and refuse to surrender, yes FEW, are the “true church”. The real church is not one of buildings and signs or symbols but of souls and hearts and minds.
It is you and me that Jesus came to save. We are His church.
Jesus is the way, the truth and the light and no one will enter heaven except through Him.
There are no Saints, there is no intercession, there are no human authority figures, no bureaucracy between you and salvation. You do not need them, you do not need their assistance. They are all superfluous.
There are no Catholics, no Baptists, no Presbyterians, no Lutherans, no anything.
There is you and Jesus and the written guide to Salvation.
So stop fighting about things that no longer matter. This is like arguing about the deck chairs beneath an erupting Vesuvius. A distraction. A useless and needless sideshow.
The beast has arisen.
Stop fighting each other.