Posted on 12/27/2019 4:31:57 PM PST by ebb tide
“ The Bible is front and center at EVERY Mass, both Old and New Testaments. ”
That isn’t the Gospel, which isn’t presented at any “mass”.
The Gospel is read directly from the Bible, with references so anyone who wishes can follow up.
What is NOT presented is the fantasy invented by the Protestants.
See Post 62.
Oh! Okay.
< /sarc>
You haven’t been to a mass then! There is a reading from the gospel every mass, and there is normally a mass every day and twice on Sunday.
LOL!
15 years of masses, served as altar boy, countless marriages and funerals.
Reading from the Gospels is not presenting the Gospel that leads to salvation.
Your assumption in the statement I quoted indicates you are talking about something different - simply reading the Scripture.
As a Christian, I'm not sure what you refer to.
I'm talking only about the Scriptures - the words of Christ and the Apostles.
The high point of the Liturgy of the Word is the reading of the Gospel. Because the Gospels tell of the life, ministry, and preaching of Christ, it receives several special signs of honor and reverence. The gathered assembly stands to hear the Gospel and it is introduced by an acclamation of praise. Apart from Lent, that acclamation is "Alleluia," derived from a Hebrew phrase meaning "Praise the Lord!" A deacon (or, if no deacon is present, a priest) reads the Gospel.
Your ERROR is confusing the "Gospel" with the four "gospels" ("...the life, ministry, and preaching of Christ"). It's okay to be confused. It's not okay to hear the truth and walk away.
Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance : that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve.
1 Cor 15:1-6 (NIV)
We all celebrate Christmas on December 25th even though that date isn't in the Bible; the Catholic Church teaches us that this the day that the Messiah was born.
We don't celebrate Easter the day after Passover (which is when the Bible tells us the first Easter Sunday was); we celebrate it on the first Sunday that follows the first full moon after the vernal equinox, because this is the day the Catholic Church declares Easter Sunday to be.
We don't take our day of rest on the Jewish Sabbath (which was the day of rest in the Bible); we take it on Sunday, because the Catholic Church has moved it to Sunday (and declared it so at the Council of Laodicea in 360).
(If you're taking your day of rest on Sunday, you're doing this without any biblical basis. In fact, you're following a Catholic practice of using either Sacred Tradition as your source.)
“Try to stay focused on the subject at hand.”
a little humor.
No, you're talking about a pastiche of Bible verses taken out of context and stitched together and/or reinterpreted according to various Protestant "influencers".
Note...I WAS Protestant, until I started actually studying what Catholics REALLY teach, and not what Protestants "say" they teach.
And it is wrong to pluck a single verse out of the whole Bible as the entirety of the teaching. Protestants do this constantly.
Do you realize how dumb that is?
First, it’s six, not just one verse. Second, look at the Gospel Wheel earlier in the thread for even MORE SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCE of God’s plan for you. Third, think before you write.
If only it were true, Captain.
You are bragging that the RCC is not “handcuffed to the Bible”?? And then you brag about WHY you celebrate Christmas and Easter when you do? Because “THAT’S WHAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TEACHES!?? And THAT my friend is exactly WHY the RCC is the queen of apostacy. Traditions and Doctrines of men. NOT biblically based. Founded on paganism and sustained by those who will not STUDY their Bible (2 Tim.2:15), but choose instead to read a view verses here and there while DEPENDING ON THEIR CHURCH to give them their man made “ meaning” of what the scriptures say.
THIS is how you end up with the False Prophet as your current pope.
Please STUDY 2nd Timothy, the whole letter. It was written for just these times.
There were decades between the Resurrection and the Bible. Were the Christians of that time all damned because they had no Sacred Scripture to read? (Really?)
(For most of recorded history, most of mankind was illiterate. Does it really stand to reason that the first requirement for salvation is literacy?)
Are you being facetious here? Eyewitness testimony, the Apostles with miracles, signs and wonders to prove that their mission was God given. Do you not think God was in charge?? He sent His Son to die FOR US, then just left us in the dark about WHY??!
And if miracles provide sufficient proof for you, consider the miracle of the sun at Fatima in 1917, performed by Our Lady for the benefit of 70,000 eyewitnesses. Or Juan Diego's tilma in Mexico City, or those healed at Lourdes. (Because if you're going to turn to miracles as a sign of proof, then you have to turn to all of them.)
Not at all dumb...it's what Protestants DO, all the time. One verse, six verses....irrelevant. Unless a Church embraces THE WHOLE BIBLE, it is erroneous. And NO Protestant Church actually does that..they ALL ignore critical pieces (or whole books).
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