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Mathew 7:13-14 NIV
The Narrow and Wide Gates
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Mathew 7:13-14 KJV
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
The Narrow Gate
Mathew 7:13-14 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy,[a] that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Most Catholics and most people for that matter, are entering through the wide gate. They think they are on the right way, but are headed for destruction.
But those who find the narrow gate are “few”. That isn't very many. This is stated as a FACT. It HAPPENS! Described as a percentage, what is a “few”? 50%?, no that's half. 25%?. No that's still a quarter. 10%? Well, maybe but I think more like 5% or less.
I would say if you follow any of the above mentioned “religions”, your chances are nil.
Yet, you refuse to listen to reason. You refuse to read God's word for yourself. You worship men, idols, statues, gold, buildings, property, etc.
You are on the broad way, hell bent for destruction. We can hope and pray that a “few” of you will see the light and turn from your wicked ways and be saved, but “many” of you will not.
I’m Catholic—and I bet I own more Bibles than you—and I bet more of them are in need of rebinding from use than yours are. To begin with, in Hebrew I have two copies of the British and Foreign Bible Society OT, the JPS Hebrew-English, Zondervan’s Hebrew-Greek, the Stuttgartensia, Owens, and Howard’s Hebrew Matthew. Volume I of Owens, along with my BDB need rebinding, though not nearly as badly as my RSV or my fourth edition of the Nestle-Aland.
As for not speaking ill of our religion—how about Pope Pius VI’s line to Napoleon: You silly little man, if we and our priests can’t destroy the Church in 18 centuries, what makes you think that you can?
” You worship men, idols, statues, gold, buildings, property, etc.”
Mind reading, eh?
So what denomination do you belong to?
This is something no religion has a monopoly one. Protestant, catholic, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Confucian, Shinto, you name it and you will find a lot of its supposed devotes worshiping the trappings of the faith not the message. Unfortunately far to many Muslims do worship the message of Mo.
faucetman to NYer: “You are on the broad way, hell bent for destruction”
Are the Protestant churches and private interpreters of Scripture who see nothing wrong with the use of abortifacient contraceptives on the broad path or the narrow path? I admit that 80-90% of my fellow Catholics in the pews on Sunday have been involved with contraception, but the Church has stood firm on that truth and not caved. Anyone who unrepentantly uses contraception is an idolater, worshipping his own fallen flesh and refusing to crucify it with its desires as the apostle Paul said. Is the reason this truth about contraception is ignored by most outside the church because without the Holy Eucharist and Confession, they don’t receive the heroic grace necessary to live the natural law which forbids the use of contraception? I wish Pope Francis would speak the old Council teaching that it is virtually impossible for a Christian to live the fullness of truth the way Christ wants him or her to, to stay in the state of Grace, without the Holy Eucharist. Christ wants us to shun even lustful thoughts. What mortification, what Grace this requires. What path are the churches and individual believers on who have ridiculously broad excuses for divorce, the broad one or the narrow one? What path are the churches and believers on who defend evils like in-vitro fertilization? So many good Christians are Pro-Life, but they seem to have no clue that trying to stop abortion while defending the use of artificial contraception is like trying to put out a fire with kereosene. They’re evils of the same poisonous tree, one leading to other. Or is it a coincidence that our Supreme Court legalized contraception in 65 and then abortion in 73? If sex is only or foremost for pleasure, what is the argument against so-called gay marriage? I think the private interpretation of Scripture is largely reponsible for the relativism that is destroying everything today. The relativism in which every man is a god onto himself. It’s the first temptation all over again: “and ye will be as gods who know good and evil.” Because Pope Paul VI stood up against all the pressure trying to get the Catholic Church to cave in on birth control, my faith is even stronger that I am a member of the One True Church which the gates of Hell will never prevail against as they prevail against virtually ever other institution at this point.