[Cronos]

Interesting statement The problem I began to see, however, was that my church had no authority for how it interpreted Scriptures. We claimed to be sola scriptura, and yet to hold office in the church you had to subscribe also to the full truth of the Westminster Confession of Faith

[DManA]

We protestants love you.

[pgkdan]

bump...

[Biggirl]

A sign that the Protestant are coming home.

[BipolarBob]

and forgive you.

[mlizzy]

Bryan Kemper is a great guy. I would read his entries on Stand True, and think to myself, he sounds so Catholic in everything he says and does; why is this guy not a Catholic? So this was very good news. Now on to Jill Stanek; another pro-life jewel that is not [yet] a Catholic.

There is no stopping abortion without an ocean of grace from Jesus Christ. No way will human means stop abortion. The principal source of this grace is the Holy Eucharist. --Fr. John A. Hardon

[MeganC]

We protestants also pray for you.

[Biggirl]

We pray for the full unity of all Christian believers just as Christ prayed.

[taxcontrol]

What I find interesting is that this person did not want to subscribe to the Westminster Confession, but rather chose a far more restrictive set of confessions in the form of the catechisms. Futher, the author does not go into which articles of the Westminster Confession they have a disagreement or find incorrect.

[Joann37]

I have a question for your Catholics:

A 20 year old boy/man has a baby out of wedlock with his girlfriend. They go to the Catholic church to get the baby baptized, but the church makes him first go through/perform/whatever a sacrament - Confirmation! Yes, that’s right, he missed being confirmed as a kid, now they’re making him do so now. OK, fine.

But who cares about that when the real sacrament at hand, marriage, is totally ignored! The kid and his baby mama are still sleeping together, living together on and off, passing the kid around from relative to relative for baby sitting, etc. There is absoltely no committment to a family or the parents to each other. While marriage does not ensure that such a commitment will actually play out, at least it’s a step in the right direction, and signifies that such a commitment SHOULD exist. It would have at least been a good start!

So what on earth did “confirmation” do to enhance this family? And to what was the kid confirming? Certainly not his Christian faith, because I believe even Catholics feel that fornication is still wrong (although my argument with people here a few weeks ago did not give me that impression).

Any justification for why this would occur would be appreciated.

[markomalley]

I finally started looking past the Reformation only to find a huge part of history that I was ignoring; it was like a light suddenly switched on and I saw past the 1500s and the Reformation. I started to look at Church authority; there had to be one true authority that Christ established on earth to keep the teaching of his Church throughout time.

Where have we heard that line before???

[RitaOK]

Gee it’s good to have you back posting!

Kemper as all protestants do, turns over questions on theology and Sacred Scripture that can never be answered where in places history is wiped out, then stunted, then revised, by first the heretics, followed by the Reformed Church of Individual Interpretation, which by necessity actually has to become the faith. Naturally it spreads but then divides, coughing up the various sects located on every corner. Decades of “been there” has brought so many of us Home, no longer a trickle but a flow.

[RobRoy]

I watched Kingdom of Heaven again last night. Interesting take on religion vs Christianity.

[narses]

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