What Does It Mean to Be an Enemy of the Cross?

Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 02-22-16 | Msgr. Charles Pope

[af_vet_1981]

Do you think you are part of the commonwealth of Israel ?

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you. Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed. And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

Exodus, Catholic chapter thirty one, Protestant verses twelve to eighteen,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James

[boatbums]

They don’t? There are quite a few. Read:

http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/ortho_cath.html

http://christianityinview.com/comparison.html

[MHGinTN]

Were there not similar rituals in some of the mystery religions?

Your post is most instructive, as usual. Thank you. The Born from above are the Body Of Christ. It appears that catholiciism is today unable to discern the Body of Christ, having presumed they can lead Him down from Heaven every minute to be continually sacrificed on their catholic altars for ingestion to the alimentary tract.

[boatbums]

https://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=”The+scriptures”&t=KJV#s=s_primary_0_1

[MHGinTN]

Catholic forgiveness?

Two little brothers fought and bickered all day long. Every time their mother turned around, these boys were at each other, bickering. Came bedtime and the youngest was bathed and put to bed. As the older brother was getting his bath, his mother worked on his conscience, asking how he would feel if he went to bed without making up and forgiving his brother and in the night his brother died? The oldest boy thought about it while the bath continued, then when mother was toweling him off he responded: "Okay. All right, I'll forgive him ... But if he's alive in the morning ..."

That's the way most of us forgive. I'm so glad God 'remembers no more' our sin when we come to Him for forgiveness. He's had a lot to forget with me. ;^)

The Blood of The Lamb of God covers the box with the laws inside, so that when God looks down from the Mercy seat, toward the law satan keeps referring to as he accuses we newborns, all God sees is The Cleansing Blood of The Lamb.

[boatbums]

You’re free to have that opinion though it is a wrong and elitist one.

[af_vet_1981]

"Thus sayeth the Scriptures ..." is not in there so the quotations are in error.

[boatbums]

Truth be told, even Catholics have to admit that they are not drinking real, human blood or eating real human flesh. They have faith that this is a mystery somehow. That piece of cracker/wafer/whatever doesn’t magically turn into anything. It remains what it started out as and all this talk of substance and accidents and transubstance was thought up over centuries to try to make sense of a literal meaning to what Jesus taught in a figure - an object lesson that even the simplest peasant could grasp. Bread was life. For most people of that time bread and water was their main sustenance. Rome only made it harder to understand.

[Mark17]

We could ask God, but He has said He remembers them ‘no more’. [See my profile page ...] Thanks be to God, to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. The day after the Rapture is going to be very interesting. Glad I won’t have to winess it.

Roger that bro. My point about this, is to counter those who say they think getting saved, means we can get saved and then go sin to our heart's content. That is, of course, garbage, but many seem to think that way.

Yes, the rapture is coming. Glad I would have to see the tribulation either. I want to put into my will, that in case of rapture, I want to leave all my worldly possessions to the poor saps left behind.
You know, someone should make a movie called "Left Behind"

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[MHGinTN]

I’ve made the offer to some I know are Catholics. I won’t need the stuff I accumulated. Been fiving ‘things’ to family members, too. Perhaps those left behind will have enough time to thinkl it through and call out to Jesus for deliverance. It is sure gonna be a mess! But we have God’s word that there will come out of the Tribulation so many tribulation saints that no man could number them ... yet the Revelation has 200,000,000 used to number so we know the number has to be bigger than that!

[Mark17]

No. I was a Catholic until the Holy Spirit shined the light of the gospel to my heart. Once I saw how badly I had been taught of what God really said, I knew I’d be a hypocrite to stay. I’ve never regretted it. Catholicism told me I couldn’t know I was going to heaven when I died. Scripture told me I could

That about describes me to a T
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[MHGinTN]

Oh look, old eyes have made another typo (for your amusement? Naw, just a missed key by tired old fingers stiff with arthritis): ‘fiving’ isn’t a word I am familiar with, but giving is ...

[imardmd1]

GOOD GRIEF MA'AM, you and others say it all the time....just believe and everything is O.K......faith alone is enough...etc.etc.

This is an interesting point, and one I can support. If you look at the Baptist/Evangelical spectrum, you will find out that Lewis Sperry Chafer (founder of Dallas Theological Seminary) and Earl Rademacher (professor of theology, writer, voice of evangelicals), and Charles Ryrie (Ryrie Study Bible) hold to the "Free Grace" model (click here) in which the explicit preaching of Biblical repentance is not a part of the Gospel they present to the hearer, nor insist on in their soteriology, AFIK.

This seems to be a message that many evangelical assemblies are holding to, and which their numbers are convemirntly increased.

TC, that is not an approach which I can accept or recommend, and I warn. They preach "Only believe!" holding that "belief" includes repentance, and therefore need not be emphasized, or even mentioned. I believe thast is wrong.

(And by that same token, so is the false doctrine of salvation of infants by "baptism," only vaguely simulating the immersion of repentant, believing, spiritually alive rsponsibly, accountable adults.)

Just an observation, not a distraction.

[metmom]

You have to “excel in good works” (Titus 3:8).

OK, so in order to inherit eternal life, I have to “excel in good works”. that then is a works based salvation I see.

Thank you for the admission of that.

Specifically, which good works and what level of commitment to them qualifies as *excelling*?

Titus 3:8 It is a faithful saying: and these things I will have thee affirm constantly: that they, who believe in God, may be careful to excel in good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

Titus 3:8 in CONTEXT does NOT say that one must excel in good works to be saved, to inherit eternal life.

It simply says that it is good and profitable for me to do so.

Lifting a phrase out of context to support an opinion is NOT equivalent to Scriptural support for a doctrine.

You could start by apologizing for saying that I don’t substantiate my position, when I both post the relevant scripture and explain why my opponents contradict it.

Chapter and verse?

[metmom]

GOOD GRIEF MA'AM, you and others say it all the time....just believe and everything is O.K......faith alone is enough...etc.etc.

Faith alone IS all that's needed, but what that is has been explained to you before in the past and it was never explained as "for one fleet second, that is one believes that Jesus is the savior...." (Your post 413)

Even the demons know who Jesus is. Simply acknowledging that with mental assent is not the kind of faith that saves.

It has been explained over and over again to RC's on this forum.

[imardmd1]

Rome NEVER LIES....ever

Because the Magisterium, and not the Bible, defines what "truth" is?

[metmom]

Just an off hand statement...you say that and Chapter and verse please, constantly....but you NEVER provide the same for your illogical statements.

Well, you are undeniably, unequivocally WRONG.

On this very thread, this post to YOU. Perhaps you didn't read it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3400726/posts?page=488#488

Look for any other posts of mine in red or blue.

[metmom]

ealgeone:The shed blood of Christ is more than sufficient to cover any sin we commit. If it's not, then we have a problem.

tc: It certainly does.....but only if we REPENT and acknowledge our guilt, and vow not to re-offend...otherwise what's the point???

God does not demand that of us.

Why do you? Or why does the Catholic church?

[knarf]

That's it in a nutshell, tericarl

Mark obviously cares for you, and I join him in praying you allow the Holy Spirit to illuminate your heart and mind and receive Jesus as you savior ... by faith only .... 'cause that's not on all that's necessary .... that's all there is

[metmom]

Your argument falls apart.

He also said He was a door, a vine, and bread.

Does that mean He is also made of wood, has green leaves, looks like the Pillsbury Dough Boy?

Or was He misleading us?

Then again, which one is it?

If the bread is really Jesus because of what He said and it’s NOT a metaphor, then Jesus is really a physical, literal door, vine, and bread, composed of those substances.