Posted on 03/30/2019 8:12:59 AM PDT by Salvation
“If you had taken the time to look at, and explore the link that Salvation provided, you would have discovered over a thousand conversion stories documented there, and that itself is just the very tip of the iceberg.“
Eh.
Hundreds of millions in a South America alone.
Lots of them leave the Catholic Church in the Philippines 🇵🇭 too. I was at a Gideons meeting some time ago. There were about 30 people there. I asked one the Filipino men, how many of them were ex Catholics. He said he thought about half of them. It’s a beautiful thing, to see these people enjoy assurance of salvation, something I NEVER had when I was a catholic. 👍 I doubt you had any assurance either, at that time in your life.
LOL. Good one BB.
Eh. Your question conflates things that are not equal to avoid acknowledging (I’d guess) that Rome is bleeding members like crazy.
Elsie might be able to identify which specific form of disinformation that is...
I only wish that every member who leaves Rome would come to saving faith in Christ. Too many become atheists.
Heck, I wish every member of Rome would come to saving faith in Christ.
Nice article boatbums. Thanks for posting.
“One of three people who were raised Catholic no longer identifies as Catholic.”
👊👍🏼
I went to a catholic high school. At our last reunion, I figured about 50% or more, had left the Catholic Church. As far as I could tell, only 3 of us got born again. The rest of them just left. I don’t know for sure why, but many of those, were pro abortion and Hillary supporters.
Right now, there are less than 1 billion Protestants in the world, and about 1.8 billion Muslims. If numbers really mean that much to you, aMorePerfectUnion, you'd better get your butt down there, and join those Muslims, pronto!
If you say so, if you say so.
We could use more Roman Catholics with a sense of humor on these threads.
So you agree that faith is assurance of salvation and that we’re saved by grace through faith and not saved by works?
It’s what Scripture says after all.
“What counts is the Truth, and the quality of the teaching”
In regards to truth, Rome is like a huge John Deere tractor with every accessory, cruising up and down the field... but with no cutting blade - the Gospel of Grace..
The teaching is abysmal, the priests are poorly taught regarding Bible, and few listen to what Rome says. They watch what Rome does.
Rome officially sanctions gays in the ministry, gays in the Vatican, and has covered up sexual abuse against children under at least 4 popes.
Rome has little of the truth that matters, and what truth it has, is obscured with paganism.
So what is the import of the Matthew 25:31-46 quotation in your foolish note to Elsie?My question here was to narrow down the portion of your scripture selection for the purpose of getting your explicit assumptions which I implicitly took to be on effect, judging the tone of your answer to Elsie. Specifically, what I wanted was a simple answer to each of the three aspects of the passage quoted, to see if your mind regarding it was the same as the mind of the Author quoted; and the aspects to which the nature of my putative ensuing response would address.
These critical aspects were, as stated:
o To whom was this passage addressed,Now, my approach was to establish your point of view beyond the shadow of a doubt, so that my reply to you would be based on your claims, not on the questionable grounds of presuming to know what you were thinking as you wrote #610.
o about whom was it written, and
o what is the context in which the judgment takes place?
So now I have another question line that I want answered:
o On what basis was your Post #610 pulled?
o Did you ask the Moderator to pull it?
o If so, was it because in it you conferred the actions as a fool upon yourself, and wanted that blotted out?
o Or did another forum participant ask for its withdrawal, and why?
o Or, did the Moderator insist on its removal, and if so, why? There is too much mystery here, for by it I feel blocked from countering your implied (and wrong) argument that:
Songcraft: You say by your questions that you do not understand my post, but you call it foolish anyway. (In other words, you don't get it, but it must be foolish.)
Actually, I believe that I do understand quite well the topic you were talking about in Post #610 and in this Post #811, but you clearly do not. However, it will take a clear concise answer to my above queries to proceed on a reasonable basis. I think that it is very likely that your position fits that of the "natural" (ψυχικος psoo-kee-kawss) man, or at best a carnal (σαρκικοις sar-kee-kawss) man, and certainly not that of a spiritual (πνευματικοις pnoo-ma-tee-kawss) one.
So please help me out on this by clarifying your position regarding the selected passage. Eh?<>
Regeneration with its following confession of sole uncancellable ownership by the Savior through total trust in Him alone is, a matter which your lineup of characters does not seem to clearly indicate.
I guess Jesus was born again when John baptized Him; too.
Act2 19:2-4
...and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?”
“No,” they answered, “we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
“Into what, then, were you baptized?” Paul asked. “The baptism of John,” they replied.
Paul explained: “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the One coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”
Though I now wonder what Jesus had to repent from??
I hear there is a certain group of believers that have done a REALLY good job of remaking His mother!!
Good one!
You spotted the excluded middle!
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