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To: daniel1212

Yes, the Catholic Church admits many errors and scandals over the years. However, the Catholic Church has kept the Truth of God over the centuries. Even though there are many sinners in the Catholic Church, including leaders that follow evil ways, the Catholic faith does not condone the sinfulness or evil ways. Each Catholic will be judged by Jesus. Hopefully they will change their ways and seek forgiveness before their death.

One should not leave the Catholic Church or God’s Truth to follow man-made false teachings. By our Baptism, we are made part of the Body of Christ - His Church and we have a faith responsibility to know and love God including all His revealed truths.We are taught in Matthew 18:15-20 how to handle a brothers’ sins. We are not taught to have multiple churches or multiple doctrines.

“I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom oh Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven.” Matthew 16:16-19

For our salvation, each of us needs to seek God’s Truth and accept it and live it.

https://www.catholic.com/video/what-does-the-church-teach-about-salvation-for-protestants


88 posted on 11/28/2020 1:01:56 PM PST by ADSUM ( )
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To: ADSUM
Yes, the Catholic Church admits many errors and scandals over the years. However, the Catholic Church has kept the Truth of God over the centuries....One should not leave the Catholic Church or God’s Truth to follow man-made false teachings. By our Baptism, we are made part of the Body of Christ

Do you realize how intellectually repulsive your practice of parroting the same propaganda that has been refuted is, as if that drone-like recourse somehow makes it true?! One might as well as arguing with a disciple of the Moon. As said, your argumentation is an argument for not being a Catholic.

Even though there are many sinners in the Catholic Church, including leaders that follow evil ways, the Catholic faith does not condone the sinfulness or evil ways.

It does indeed implicitly condone it, since in Scripture what you believe is manifest by what you do, (James 2:18)and the hearers of the word look for its interpretation by how the preachers of it translate it into their own lives. And by manifestly affirming even proabortion, prohomosexal public figures as members in life and in death - replete with ecclesiastical funerals for such Ted Kennedy Catholics - then the Vatican is effectually showing its interpretation of its teaching, including canon law.

One should not leave the Catholic Church or God’s Truth to follow man-made false teachings.

Which response borders on insolence after being shown that distinctive Catholic teachings are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels).

By our Baptism, we are made part of the Body of Christ

Likewise this prevaricating parroting after being shown that it is the penitent heart-purifying regenerating faith that is expressed in baptism (Acts 10:43-47; 15:7-9) that is imputed for righteousness, (Romans 4:5) whereby the redeemed soul is "accepted in the Beloved." (Ephesians 1:6) And the same will go to be with the Lord at death or at His return (Luke 23:43 [cf. 2 Cor. 12:4; Rv. 2:7]; Phil 1:23; 2Cor. 5:8 [“we”]; 1Cor. 15:51ff; 1Thess. 4:17 ) if they have preserved in faith. (Heb. 3:9-14; 10:25-39; Gal. 5:1-4) Glory and thanks be to God.

“I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom oh Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven.” Matthew 16:16-19

And which is another abuse of Scripture, for 1. as said and ignored, the one true church which the Lord promised to overcome the gates of Hell was and is the body of Christ that the Spirit baptizes every believer into, (1Co. 12:13) and to which He is married, (Eph. 5:25) for it uniquely only and always consists 100% of true believers, while organic fellowships in which they express their faith inevitably become admixtures of wheat and tares, with Catholicism and liberal Protestantism being mostly the latter.

Secondly, Peter is not the Rock upon whom the church is built, Nowhere interpretive of Mt. 16:18 is Peter called or described as the Rock upon which the church was built. Instead, that the LORD Jesus is the Rock (“petra”) or "stone" (“lithos,” and which denotes a large rock in Mk. 16:4) upon which the church is built is one of the most abundantly confirmed doctrines in the Bible (petra: Rm. 9:33; 1Cor. 10:4; 1Pet. 2:8; cf. Lk. 6:48; 1Cor. 3:11; lithos: Mat. 21:42; Mk.12:10-11; Lk. 20:17-18; Act. 4:11; Rm. 9:33; Eph. 2:20; cf. Dt. 32:4, Is. 28:16) including by Peter himself. (1Pt. 2:4-8) Third, the power of binding and loosing is nowhere shown to belong to one leader alone or leadership alone, but as shown you and ignored, judicially this power of both binding and loosing is exercised by leadership in union with the church assenting, and spiritually to all the church.

For our salvation, each of us needs to seek God’s Truth and accept it and live it.

Each Catholic will be judged by Jesus. Hopefully they will change their ways and seek forgiveness before their death.

Indeed. Finally two true statements. May you and all lost Catholics and everyone forsake their accursed gospels and come to God as souls as sinners knowing their desperate need of salvation, and not as souls saved by their works or church affiliation, but as destitute of any means or merit whereby they may escape their just judgment and gain eternal life. And with contrite hearts place all their faith in the Divine Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who died for our sins and is risen to reign in glory, (1 Peter 2:24; 328,22) and declare this living faith in baptism and following their Lord with humble hearts, (Acts 8:36,37; 10:43–47; 15:7–9) and repent when convicted in heart of not doing so. (Psalm 34:218) Thanks be to God.

89 posted on 11/29/2020 11:33:59 AM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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