Americans losing grip on most basic tenets of Christian faith: survey

Christian Post ^ | 04/25/2020 | Brandon Showalter

[Salvation]

**You are so lacking in discernment.**

Christ founded the Catholic Church on the apostles, the first Bishops. Please check your Bible again.

[Salvation]

Gospel Jn 20:19-31

On the evening of that first day of the week,
when the doors were locked, where the disciples were,
for fear of the Jews,
Jesus came and stood in their midst
and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you.
As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”
And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,
“Receive the Holy Spirit.
Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them,
and whose sins you retain are retained.”
Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve,
was not with them when Jesus came.
So the other disciples said to him, “We have seen the Lord.”
But he said to them,
“Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands
and put my finger into the nailmarks
and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
Now a week later his disciples were again inside
and Thomas was with them.
Jesus came, although the doors were locked,
and stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.”
Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands,
and bring your hand and put it into my side,
and do not be unbelieving, but believe.”
Thomas answered and said to him, “My Lord and my God!”
Jesus said to him, “Have you come to believe because you have seen me?
Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.”
Now, Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples
that are not written in this book.
But these are written that you may come to believe
that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,
and that through this belief you may have life in his name.

[Salvation]

Note these words:

Christ gives the apostles the ability to forgive and retain sin.

**“Receive the Holy Spirit.
Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them,
and whose sins you retain are retained.”**

[Old Yeller]

Satan’s greatest work of deception was the Catholic Church.

[Old Yeller]

Saved or Self-Deceived - Part 1

Saved or Self-Deceived - Part 2

[Salvation]

Do you expect me to believe John MacArthur? Afraid not. He tells only his part of the story, not the Catholic truth.

[Texas_Guy]

Wow. Do you know any history? Your sect didn’t even exist until 1500 years after Christ’s birth. To sit there and curse the Catholic Church is pretty arrogant.

Even Luther acknowledged that we gave y’all the Bible. Apparently you think Protestantism exists in a vacuum.

[af_vet_1981]

We have our work cut out for us.

As it is written, every good word and work:

• Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
• That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
• Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
• Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
• Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
• And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
• For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
• And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
• Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
• And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
• And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
• That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
• But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
• Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
• Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
• Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

Second Thessalonians, Catholic chapter two, Protestant verses one to seventeen,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James

[ducttape45]

These are a couple of articles that I had bookmarked

Dr. David Jeremiah endorses Jesus Calling

Dr David Jeremiah – A Sheep In Wolves Clothing

Anyone that endorses TBN, and stands alongside people who preach heretical teachings, is not doing as commanded in the Bible to stay away from such folks. The Book of James speaks to this, as does Paul the Apostle in Acts 20:29-31.

[ducttape45]

Perhaps you should read the Book of James, as it speaks to this subject. Mark 9:38-41 does not.

As for my preference for the King James, your comments just show how little you really know about it, and I'll not comment any further on your points because they're foolish speculations coming from the uninformed.

Of bible translations I will say this, however, in that every single Bible that has been published since the KJV is:

1. either just a paraphrase of a man's interpretations, or

2. is based on the Westcott-Hort translation of the Vaticanius and Sinaiticus into modern english, both of which are not true translations of any Godly manuscripts.

[BereanBrain]

fare well. I do not agree.