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"Catholics Will Have to Decide Whether They Guard the Faith Over Papolatry"
Gloria TV ^ | July 17, 2017 | Gloria TV

Posted on 07/17/2017 8:08:32 AM PDT by ebb tide

“Francis is more interested in leftwing politics than in Catholic theology”, George Neumayr, contributing editor of The American Spectator, states talking to Tom Woods on July 14th on tomwoods.com. Woods describes Francis as a result of John Paul II who - as he puts it - appointed "absolutely terrible people" as bishops: "Catholics have suffered under Bergoglios for decades now”.

Neumayr agrees that a lot of the liberal bishops were appointed by John Paul II and Benedict XVI. He sees Francis as the “culmination of a century” of liberalism and modernism in the Church.

For him it is "highly unlikely" that Francis, who in his theology is “more a Protestant than a Catholic” will convert to Catholicism. Instead, the realistic scenario is that Francis will produce division and chaos, "Catholics will have to decide whether they guard the faith over papolatry.”

And: “The Cardinals have to declare that Francis is a bad pope who must be resisted.”


TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Moral Issues
KEYWORDS: francischurch; protestants
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To: editor-surveyor
You exemplify the spirit of antichrist. For you Isaiah wrote something pertinent:

Isaiah 5:20(KJV)
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

1,221 posted on 07/31/2017 10:01:03 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MHGinTN

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Enough of your sick and utterly unfounded assertions.

You must be losing your faculties.


1,222 posted on 07/31/2017 3:08:47 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Still haven’t seen your answers to the questions you claimed you answered.

Where are they?


1,223 posted on 07/31/2017 5:06:20 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: editor-surveyor; Elsie; aMorePerfectUnion
Is your reading comprehension really that weak? Allowing salvation at all requires the Grace of Yehova, but the grace is not what is doing the saving. It is the continuation in Torah, the “Righteousness of Yehova” that is required for entry to the wedding feast. The “Garment.” No Garment, no salvation. “He who endures to the end; the same shall be saved.”

Is yours? You can wear your own righteousness as "the" wedding garment - but you will be cast out wearing the filthy rags of self-righteousness. Hint: The BRIDE is not the same as a guest. The BRIDE is automatically there at the wedding. Here is the TRUE meaning and purpose of the wedding feast parable from Matthew 22:

    The wedding garment represents God’s righteousness. This is a concept explained on several occasions in both the Old and New Testaments. Isaiah described our righteousness as filthy rags (Isa 64:6) and God’s righteousness as “garments of salvation” and “robes of righteousness” (Isa 61:10) where the acquisition of these qualities is likened to clothing given us at a wedding.

      I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God.  For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels (Isa 61:10).

    In Revelation 19 the church has been prepared as a bride having been clothed in white linen, representing our righteousness.  But as in Isaiah 61:10, the righteousness symbolized by the clothing is given to the bride, not purchased or earned.  Paul said that ours is a righteousness that comes to us through faith (Romans 3:21-22).

    The fact that a guest is thrown out into the darkness for not wearing wedding clothes indicates these last minute guests are required to be clothed in “garments of salvation” as well.   Rev. 16:15 tells us Tribulation believers will have to “keep their clothes with them.” In other words they’ll be responsible for maintaining the righteousness they will have been given by obeying God’s commandments and remaining faithful to Jesus (Rev. 14:12).  Only the Church has been promised the gift of eternal security.

    Therefore the guest who was escorted out had been a Tribulation believer who was now trying to gain entrance to the banquet in his own clothing, having lost or discarded the “garment of salvation” he’d been given.  He was hoping to gain entrance to the kingdom in his own righteousness, which as Isaiah said, is like filthy rags in God’s sight. This is another slant on the parable of the 10 bridesmaids (Matt. 25:1-13). The setting there is also the time of the 2nd Coming.  And again, the Church is not a bridesmaid.  

    The Church is the bride and could not be refused admittance to her own wedding banquet.   The five who were excluded were tribulation believers who had lost their salvation either by not obeying God’s commandments or by not remaining faithful to Jesus or both.  This is indicated by their lack of sufficient oil, which is symbolic of the Holy Spirit.  Since the Holy Spirit is sealed within the Church as a deposit guaranteeing our salvation (Eph 1:13-14), the bridesmaids who were excluded from the banquet have to represent a post rapture group from whom the Holy Spirit had departed after a lapse of faith.

    Many are invited, but few are chosen (Matt 22:1-14).  God doesn’t desire that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9). But whether it’s the Bride or the wedding guests, the only righteousness that gains us admission into His presence is that which is given us as a gift and accepted in faith (Rom 3:21-22). All of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ (Gal 3:27). For God made Him Who had no sin to become sin for us, that in Him we might become the righteousness of God (2 Cor 5:21).https://gracethrufaith.com/topical-studies/parables/the-parable-of-the-wedding-banquet/

The ONLY way we can be saved is because of God's grace - we can never deserve it, earn it, work for it or merit it. That is WHY it's grace! We receive the grace of God that brings salvation through faith and NOT by works. Those who try to justified by their works are fallen from grace.

Keep ignoring the REAL questions - is does not go unnoticed.

1,224 posted on 07/31/2017 5:22:38 PM PDT by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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To: editor-surveyor
You appear to be trying hard to become a joke.

 


Aw...  shucks...
 


 

1,225 posted on 07/31/2017 6:16:59 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: editor-surveyor
We need for everyone to avoid posting trouble.

I think that the meme of 'The Emperor has no Clothes' is in the public domain.

1,226 posted on 07/31/2017 6:18:15 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: boatbums

Haven’t you figured him out YET?

He’s like a Politician that says, “I’m glad you asked that question!” and then wanders off to babble about whatever he wants; totally ignoring anything you might want to discuss; while calling you Stupid, Evil and Ignorant in the process.

Quit wasting your time: the pig LIKES it!


1,227 posted on 07/31/2017 6:21:14 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Yeah, I figured him out years ago! I’m mainly talking to anyone that might be reading along.


1,228 posted on 07/31/2017 6:56:42 PM PDT by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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To: Elsie

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I have no idea what you’re talking about, do you?
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1,229 posted on 08/01/2017 7:36:34 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: boatbums

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>> “ You can wear your own righteousness as “the” wedding garment...” <<

Or I can wear the Garment called “The righteousness of Yehova,” which is the continuance in faith (which is life long yielding to the commandments of Yehova)

You need to familiarize your self with John’s first epistle to understand ‘belief’ and ‘righteousness’ as defined by Yeshua, and practiced by his disciples and apostles.

Your idea about the meaning of Yeshua’s parable is miles off from the words of Yeshua, and his apostles.

“Seek ye first the Kingdom of Yehova, and his righteousness...”

Matthew 7:21-23 defines where your idea will take you.
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1,230 posted on 08/01/2017 7:51:22 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: boatbums

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You’re talking to fools that embrace the “inherited lies... wherein there is no profit” cited by Jeremiah.

A wonderful celebration in a sealed room, wherein no reality enters.
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1,231 posted on 08/01/2017 7:55:59 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor
hmmm... why do I feel I've met this guy around here...?

Even has a #fakebeard

I think we have a winner!

1,232 posted on 08/01/2017 8:00:01 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

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You met him in the mirror!

Your cartoon describes you completely.
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1,233 posted on 08/01/2017 8:13:33 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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