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To: boatbums

What I’ve noticed is that Catholics tend to post threads that promote Catholicism and keep people abreast on the happenings within the Catholic church. They strongly contend for people joining the Catholic church, even as far as claiming they are not saved for not doing so.

The thread s posted by non-Catholic Christians are the prayer threads, the devotional threads, Bible study threads, the threads that encourage right relationship with Christ, and don’t ever, that I can ever recall seeing, try to encourage or bully or threaten people with hell-fire for NOT joining their own denomination.

I have almost no idea of where most of the other non-Catholic Christians who post on this forum attend church, or what their denominational affiliation is and it doesn’t matter!

I. DON’T. CARE.

If they have come to Christ in faith for forgiveness and are born again/born from above, that’s good enough for me, whether I agree with them on everything or not.

It sure is interesting, though, to notice the focus of the Catholics vs the non-Catholics.

One is on a church. The other is on Christ.


527 posted on 08/23/2016 6:37:47 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom
So true! Another thing I find curious is the many times there have been threads that dispute historic Christian doctrines (i.e.; deity of Jesus Christ) and the RCs rarely join in to defend the doctrine. It's almost like they aren't interested in arguing FOR basic Christian doctrine with other non-Catholic Christians against real heresy. Why is that?

That there is consensus among us on the basic tenets of the faith regardless of denomination shows that we agree AND defend the truth even without this "decider" that supposedly guarantees unity on the rule of faith. It's a smokescreen to conclude different denominations means we all differ on the basics or that "everyone" has their own private interpretation of Scripture means there are 20,000 different ways to see the same doctrine (a ludicrous idea). It says something that we agree on those doctrines that are key to the Christian faith - like we have the SAME Holy Spirit leading us into all truth.

564 posted on 08/23/2016 4:17:44 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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