You are entitled to believe what you want. While I do not know what protestant version you follow, it was not established by Jesus Christ but by man as a protest to the Catholic faith or split from another protestant version.
However God wants you to seek His Truth and not man made opinion.
I am not trying to change you. I want God to change you.
Why do you not agree with doctrines that Christ’s Catholic Church has given us? Is it the Mass? the Sacraments? the Pope? Salvation? The Blessed Mother? Purgatory? Christ’s Morality?
Are you really comfortable?
Peace.
Your salutation of *Peace* is belied by your trolling these threads.
Nobody is rejecting Christ.
We are rejecting the corrupt, immoral, religious organization known as ROMAN Catholicism and it’s claims of being the only One True Church, which it’s not. It can’t even claim to be a church anymore based on how it’s run and what it allows. It forfeited that right centuries ago.
The Orthodox do not have this power trip they are on that demands all submit to it or go to hell.
You want to convince someone to join your group? Clean house.
And not this *We’re trying* nonsense. DO or do not. There is no *try*.
Y’all have had over a thousand years to clean the filth out of your religion and have not done it yet.
Get back to us when it’s DONE, not *tried*. Then you MIGHT have some basis for talking to others about how much better your religion is than others.
But no way will I put myself under the authority of a homosexual infiltrated, pedophile protecting, islam loving religion. That is the work of the devil, not God.
Because they are man fabricated fairy tales.
God's Truth is found in Jesus Christ and His Word.
Read the Bible and you'll find all the truth you need for salvation and growth in Christ WITHOUT being encumbered by Romanism all its addendums.
Catholic faith is meaningless. Faith in Catholicism saves no one. Faith in Jesus Christ saves anyone.
Yes, I am EXTREMELY comfortable with my faith. I have assurance of salvation. Some may consider that to be the sin of presumption. I can’t help what people think, but that is why I am comfortable. Assurance of salvation is a beautiful thing. Everyone should experience it.
Look, we have been through this a thousand times. Things are not going to change. I just don’t agree with your doctrines and interpretations. I am comfortable with that. We will just have to agree to disagree. 🥳🤗
Yo!
Another *FORMER* Catholic chiming in.
The RCC lied to me about many things, but the one thing that made me leave without even a second thought was their lies about Salvation.
It took a Protestant to point it out to me in black & white in The Bible (you can’t argue God’s Holy Word).
It is my belief that the RCC has sent billions of souls to hell over the centuries for these lies.
God made it so simple that most of humanity ridicules His Word and Truth about Heaven & His Kingdom.
Acts 16:31
John 6:29
John 14:6
Romans 10:9-13
1 John 4:15
I trust The Bible (Sola Scriptura) over man made religion - which is all denominations actually, especially the Constantine crafted RCC.
Would you rather trust God’s Word or your “church” organization about your Eternal Destiny?
-your religion teaches and believe you can eat the body and blood and divinity and get God into your flesh;
-your cult worships a female known to all as the Mother of Jesus, calling her the 'mother of God' and praying to her statues for aid and deliverance, believing she can save your soul (one of the list of titles given to this statuary is 'co-redemtrix, or co-mediatrix;
-your religion began teaching the false doctrine of purgatory with pope innocent, teaching poor souls that Jesus did not destroy ALL the sins of the world on His Cross so your adherents must go through a soulish (that's the flesh) cleansing in a mythical purgatory;
-your religion (that 'other religion' Paul referred to as anathema) teaches that an infant baptized by one of your priesthood become a saved person, but like a yo=yo religion that same baby can lose and regain salvation as they age and submit to your ORG (rhymes with Borg, appropriately);
-your religion denies that a human before the age of knowing right and wrong is destined for Hell unless they are baptized by one of your empowerment crazed priests (Jesus indicated that those little ones are in His heart and with Him should they die before the age of accountability)';
-your cult religion has asserted that one can buy their way our of time in the mythical purgatory; as if your ORG can buy and sell sanctification)';
-your religious ORG has made alterations to the Word of God rendering passages to have opposite meaning to the Greek and Hebrew texts (I will cite examples for you if you are ignorant of them, starting in Genesis and 'she will bruise your -satan's- heel);
-your cult has taken demonic visitiations with visual displays as 'the mother of god' commanding the rosary, etc (see the great lie of Fatima Portugal, where even a UFO silver disc was photographed in the sky over the crowd gathered who witnessed it and even wrote of it but have had their eye witness testimonies hidden away from public view);
-your pagan cult religion murdered thousands during its brutal campaign to murder all opposed to Rome and torture people into vowing fealty to Rome, as if your bloody murderers were god's handymen rather than the demonically directed fiends for satan's empowerment;
ADSUM you are a false mouthpiece, ignorant of what born again in the spirit means and pushing the Nicolaitan brand of 'work work work, follow perfectly the sacramental trail ushered by your dead soul priesthood, to obtain eternal life'. The Lord Rebuke you, Romanish cultist.
Because the Catholic doctrines are built upon those things Jesus condemned...
We need to seek God’s Truth with reason and logic and not follow false teachers because it is easier or more comfortable.
Col_2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
1Co 3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
1Co 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
The Catholic's reason and logic are human philosophy...God says to avoid those like the plague...We are to seek and trust God's wisdom and knowledge...
Because, as a former RC, raised devout and a weekly Mass and HDOB RC in my late do's, after becoming manifestly born again thru deep repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus to save me as a damned and destitute sinner, i increasingly realized both the over spiritual dead nature of Catholicism and its contrast with what we read of the NT church in Scripture. And as God answered pious prayer, he led me out in evangelical fellowship, thanks be to God.
May God peradventure grant you "repentance to the acknowledging of the truth." (2 Timothy 2:25)
OK...
When therefore we read in the writings of Saint Bernard, Saint Bernardine, Saint Bonaventure, and others that all in heaven and on earth, even God himself, is subject to the Blessed Virgin, they mean that the authority which God was pleased to give her is so great that she seems to have the same power as God. Her prayers and requests are so powerful with him that he accepts them as commands in the sense that he never resists his dear mother’s prayer because it is always humble and conformed to his will.... St. Louis de Montfort, in Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, #27, 246.
http://www.ewtn.com/library/Montfort/TRUEDEVO.HTM
“Why do you not agree with doctrines that Christ’s Catholic Church has given us?”
Because the Scripture and the Catholic Church are in frequent and obvious conflict. I choose the Word of God, which the Catholic Church has spent a big part of its history attacking.
Peace.