Posted on 02/16/2012 6:39:24 AM PST by NYer
Dont think protestants like to do that rw....they still adhere to ‘me, my bible, and Jesus is all i need’.....until their minister says something they dont like then they go searching for the next ‘bible filled’ church.....etc, etc...
That last paragraph really nails things.
“Perhaps I should study and think a bit more about the place of the Virgin Mary in the economy of salvation.” And what will come of that?
What would compel a person to ignore; to reject the command of God to study the scriptures and be conned into thinking the the commentary called the catechism of the Catholic religion would have more authority???
2Ti 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
On the other hand, I guess I did demote the denomination from “church” to “ecclesial community,” the ministers from “fathers and brothers” to “separated brethren,” and Protestantism in general from “many expressions of the Body of Christ” to “a bunch of sects in imperfect communion with the Body of Christ.”
This guy ought to do some serious self examination...Wonder who he figures put him in the Protestant religion, leading a bunch of sinners to, where??? To whom???
All those years teaching untruth...It certainly wasn't God who lead him to the Protestant religion and then the Catholic religion...
Obviously he didn't find God in the scriptures so he's moved on to your religion to continue his search...If God is even what he's looking for...
Exactly...He did mention Mary and her role in salvation tho...
But looking at the bright side, since he has no apparent connection to Jesus, it's good that he left the church he was in...Maybe God was leading him after all...
You don't have it down in your head and your heart where you can just say it (type it)??? You have to read it???
a link to one priest, as opposed to what is the actual catholic teaching since the church was formed....tend to be a bit different...im surprised you would put up such a strawman.
he was a presbyterian minister, he attended a seminary and graduated, he also used scripture alone, faith alone, scripture to interpret scripture, etc, etc. just like all protestant theological seminaries teach...and just like you seem to be asking...
he did, and finally saw the truth back home to the roman church.
“The author was not discussing his relationship with Jesus. He was discussing the intellectual objections others have to his conversion, or their own.”
My argument still applies.
Any conversion that fails to highlight Jesus is utterly empty - and may likely be nothing more than an intellectual switch akin to trading Plato for Socrates.
But he was not discussing much about his own conversion experience, or what he heard from Christ in those silent moments of prayer. This is not an intimate portrait of his conversion. It is a discussion of the arguments of the intellect made by others.
You cannot see into the man’s soul; you can’t know what his relationship with Christ is like. It sounds a bit as though you think people have to qualify by using the Name of the Lord every x many words, or they just aren’t up to snuff. But I can’t find a place in Scripture where it says, “You must say or write ‘Jesus’ every three sentences or you aren’t a real Christian.”
Please. We've spent years explaining the Catholic faith in our own words, to you and numerous others on this forum. Get serious.
The poster was asking for information concerning Catholicism.
I provided it. In a comprehensive, articulate and most importantly, highly accurate form.
Sincere posters will appreciate that.
Time-wasters on the other hand.............
Jesus has more than one name. I guess you missed the part where he referred to Protestantism as being in imperfect union with the Body of Christ.
Endorsements of Jim Tonkowich as Christian speaker and writer
“You cannot see into the man’s soul; you can’t know what his relationship with Christ is like.”
I can read what he chose to write.
“It sounds a bit as though you think people have to qualify by using the Name of the Lord every x many words, or they just aren’t up to snuff.”
No. But a conversion story without a single reference to Jesus is incomprehensible.
“I guess you missed the part where he referred to Protestantism as being in imperfect union with the Body of Christ.”
No, I caught it.
The “Body of Christ” is a reference to the Church.
“Yours is a distinctly minority view. Here are various highly respected and internationally prominent lights of the Protestant faith who endorse the author. “
I’m sure there are a great many people who would endorse him. No doubt he’s probably a really nice guy.
I’m addressing a gaping hole in his article.
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