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To: MHGinTN
How quickly you have forgotten your own posts on this thraed, where you tried to call into question the scriptures in order to empower your false religion of popery.

I did question the Scriptures but the reason you accept them as Scripture. Mark and Luke were not written by apostles, why should they be considered Scripture? Hebrews does not claim to be written by Paul, why should it be considered Scripture? The canonical status of Hebrews, James 2 Peter, 2 John, 3 John, Jude and Revelation was disputed in the early church. Why should we accept them now? The canonical status of the Deuterocanonical/Apocrahphal books were also disputed in the early church. On what basis do we accept or reject them? On what basis do we reject the claims of the Apocryphal/Pseudepigraphal books to be Scripture?

I have an answer to these questions. I accept those books accepted by the Catholic Church because the bishops of the church are the rightful pastors established be Jesus Christ. On what grounds do you answer these questions? A response of "I know what is Scripture because I know what is Scripture" is not rational. Nor is "God tells us what is Scripture" without answering by what means has God done so.

By the way, I have noticed your tendency to avoid responding to the points that I have made and your attempts to redirect the discussion to other areas. Clearly this is an indication of the weakness of your position.

164 posted on 06/30/2015 8:26:30 AM PDT by Petrosius
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To: Petrosius
That should have read "I did not question the Scriptures…"
167 posted on 06/30/2015 9:49:08 AM PDT by Petrosius
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To: Petrosius; Salvation; Chicory; Campion; terycarl; imardmd1; HossB86; CynicalBear; ...
No, I'm being kind to you. When false doctrine is presented that contradicts the Gospel it should be publicly rebuked, as Paul did with your Roman catholic supposed first pope who was not infallible when teaching on faith and morals.

When a catholic teaching cannot be made to line up equally between scripture and traditions of the RCC, then the 'magicsteeringthem', the total of all bishops of the RCC, is elevated to superiority, to twist either the tradition or the scriptures so the two line up equally.

If I spent time refuting the foolery posted by RCCs to support their false religion, I would not get to present the True Gospel to stand in sharp contrast. So here is the Truth Gospel as the Bible reveals it, from the Upper Room discourse to the Revelation of John:

* There is ONLY one Way to God, Jesus Christ The Righteous
*There is ONLY ONE way to obtain His Deliverance for you, believe He is the One God sent for that Deliverance
*There is only One Way for God's Life to be indwelling you, by God placing His Life in you
*There is only one moment of being Born from Above and God draws each to it and accomplishes it Himself in you by His Holy Spirit
*There is only His Way and it is not offered in the Roman Catholic Church

The RCC teaches that salvation is on the installment plan. That's false teaching, may it be anathema.

God declares in His Word that Salvation thus Justification is an immediate event, a reality in the present of belief and by His Promise can never be stumbled out of through 'venial' sins.

The RCC teaches sacrament worship as a means to salvation in the installment plan. That is false teaching and even goes further to indoctrinate adherents that they consume the literal body, blood, soul and spirit of Jesus Christ in the catholic wafer eucharist.

The RCC teaches adherents that they are Justified with water baptism BUT they can fall from this Justification with venial sins and moral sins so they have to come to the RCC opriesthood to confess sin and be re-justified. This is anathema because it at once declares there are sins which the Blood of Jesus could not cover once for all, forever.

The RCC teaches that their popes go in unbroken succession back to Peter, and that ALL popes are infaliible and have been infallible when teaching on faith and morals. But Peter is rebuked by Paul for teaching, through his actions, hypocrisy and even leading Barnabus astray in this same hypocrisy.

When we on these threads ignore the constant drone of blind subservience to the traditions of RCC we are doing the droner a favor, because the exposure of the heresies which are the hallmark of RCC stand condemned by God in His Word.

There are several on these threads trying to sound the alarm for catholics who stand condemned by their rejection of Salvation/Justification by faithe alone and the immediate presence of God's life in them. That is the Gospel of the New Covenant, Justification by Faithe alone and God's Life in you by His power and His Promise that you have eternal assurance as an adopted member of His Jesus family.

Catholicism apologists purposely conflate the Justification with the sanctification, because it empowers the nicolaitan priesthood to work catholics back into a state of grace, as if they can deal out God's Grace by their magic.

The 53 beads of the Rosary are a sneaky 'indulgence' teaching that repeating these 53 prayers to the mary of Catholicism will reduce time in purgatory, paying the penalty that the blood of Christ was not able to cover.

The brown scalpula is another subtle indulgence scam, teaching catholics that wearing it will at the moment of death enjoin their mary to bring you from purgatory the first Saturday after your death, and that kissing this thing will reduce the punishments in purgatory!

The catholic church has added all sorts of 'traditions' which are not found in the first century church which was established by Apostolic teaching and writing.

168 posted on 06/30/2015 10:29:22 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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