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To: Dutchboy88

Why so much anger and hate? This anger and hate is not from God. Be happy and rejoice, people are coming to faith in Christ and are becoming Chiristians.


29 posted on 03/30/2010 2:13:05 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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To: Biggirl; fish hawk; Dr. Eckleburg; Graybeard58; Forest Keeper; marshmallow
"Why so much anger and hate? This anger and hate is not from God. Be happy and rejoice, people are coming to faith in Christ and are becoming Chiristians."

Please do not project what you might feel upon my words. I would be very happy to see or hear another man/woman coming to Christ alone. Problem...the Roman monstrosity has overlain the beauty of simple faith in Jesus with ten thousand ceremonies, superstitions and traditions of men. Their contraption does not qualify as Christian.

When they are willing to repent, turn their backs on sacerdotalism, indulgences, sacraments, pointy hats, popemobiles, gold, absolution of sin, hail marios, our fathers, genuflecting, and all of the other baggage that wrongly implies/states that grace can be conferred by men, then we will be willing to sit down. Until then, we stand and say, you wrongly believe they teach the Gospel.

Sometime read the first 9 chapters of the letter to the Romans from Paul. Therein you will find that grace is not a business transaction from which a man can derive the wages of faith. Rather, the only thing we really deserve as "wages" is death. But, when God determines the time is right, His Spirit breathes life into certain chosen souls dead from sin. Those men/women begin to live and realize that God has placed saving faith into their undeserving hearts, washed them clean and adopted them as children. It is a "once and for all time" event. We cry, "Abba, Daddy". We have been transported from the domain of darkness to His realm of light.

It is nothing we do, nothing we say, nothing we think that got us there. But, we have been rescued as Paul was on the road to Damascus. He did not say words, perform ceremonies, think, act, believe...he just stood there and was captured by the Son of God.

The Catholic Church has so wrongly lead its people to believe joining, doing, chanting, performing, sacramenting (is that a word?), or some other things which the leadership imposes will provide the rescue of that man/woman's soul. This creates a man-centered gospel. We are here to set that record straight. If you have been laid hold of, the way Paul describes, then you have been granted faith and you are a Christian. If you believe salvation is found following the prescriptions of Rome, you have been shut up into a dark room of self-generated religion. You may despise this message, but it is true.

For this reason we call on Rome to repent of her atrocities and darkness...if she can.

35 posted on 03/30/2010 2:43:38 PM PDT by Dutchboy88
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