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To: rwa265; ealgeone; daniel1212; imardmd1; metmom; Iscool; HossB86; Salvation; Alamo-Girl
You posted the following as testament of what you were taught as a young catholic:

"Question: What must we do to save our souls? First, you cannot save your soul, that's why God took for Himself a body, Jesus, and fulfilled the law and went to the cross as the Lamb of God, perfect for the ultimate sacrifice to save your soul.

Catholic Answer: To save our souls we must worship God by faith, hope, and charity; that is, we must believe in Him, hope in Him, and love Him with all our heart. And this is what muslims do in their worship of the god of Islam, which your organization claims is the same god of catholiciism. JESUS, GOD with us, said that we must believe, faithe on the One Whom GOD sent for our salvation, and thus be born from above. This allows GOD to immediately save the believer, as illustrated perfectly on the Day of Pentecost when more than 3000 were added to the body of believers, and in the House of Cornelius where people believed even before Peter finished his sermon, people who are SAVED because they believed in the One Whom God had sent to save them, immediately, when they faithe in Him.

This 'believe and immediately be born from above' (as Jesus explained to Nicodemus) is a subtle difference from what you were taught to memorize. But satan is brilliant at making holes in minds into which he pours his blasphemies. So the Catholic organization started feeding you slippage from the TRUTH in what they required you to memorize.

Eventually, they, the catholiciism hierarchy, doing satan's bidding, slipped in many more things which were pure heresy and some even blasphemous (like teaching you to believe --by twisting scripture, by isolating the chosen phrases, to say what the hierarchy commanded in order to empower their priestly class --you are taught that in the catholic Mass you are literally eating God, body, blood, soul and DIVINITY to get God-life in you.

The catholic Mass is pure blasphemy, a pagan ritual which mocks God on the Cross pouring out His perfect life's blood for our redemption. READ the Old Testament; the blood of the sin offering was NEVER imbibed, the Law which GOD gave to the Hebrews forbade it! The was poured out upon the ground, just as Abel's blood poured out upon the ground. And Jesus illustrated this when He poured out the last cup of WINE at the Passover with His disciples. God is not offering JESUS for your priest to feed to you. The Lord's Table was instituted by JESUS, God with us, as a remembrance of His Body slain as the sacrifice for our sins and His blood poured out for our redemption from sin, not a pagan rite of eating food sacrificed by priests for eating the object of worship.

Catholicism is not Christianity. It is a demonically inspired look-alike that will point to anything to gain your fealty, except the One Whom God has sent for your salvation. You cannot strive your way to salvation, trying to earn enough points with God in order to be owed eternal life. That is a lie, albeit one of satan's most camouflaged lies, and he started using variations of that lie all the way back with the first family.

What is the Gospel of Salvation? And where can someone find it in The Word of God? Answer that, then place that simplest of all revelations of GOD's Grace beside the complex system of worship promulgated as a 'striving way' to salvation by the catholic institution.

And know this Rich, your religion's leadership has said that even Muslims are saved because 'they believe in the same god as catholics', but you and I know that they do not faithe in Jesus, WHO is the ONLY means of Salvation. And the state of their spiritual deadness is manifest in their murderous jihadis who are of course NOT anathema to faithful muslims.

152 posted on 04/28/2016 9:49:01 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
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To: MHGinTN

The book of Galatians is the perfect answer to Catholicism.

It addresses the saved by faith, kept by works religiosity of Catholicism.


153 posted on 04/28/2016 10:02:23 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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