Posted on 09/13/2013 7:17:47 PM PDT by jodyel
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CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH
In this regular feature Dave and Tom respond to questions from listeners and readers of The Berean Call. Here is this week’s question:
Dear Dave and Tom: I have friends who are conservative Roman Catholics, and they just went through the experience of seeing their daughter become a Roman Catholic Buddhist. I know that sounds like a contradiction in terms but it’s literally true. Since you both know a lot about Roman Catholicism, I wondered if you could give me some insights that I could share with them because they are quite shaken over their daughter’s conversion. This may be an opportunity to share the gospel with them as they are truly questioning their faith. Thank you for your help.
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Because the object of following the Five Fold Way is to achieve Nirvana, which is NOT the same as the Beatific Vision but something one might call “the great Silence.” Or you might call it the “Big Freeze,” because it represents the end of all motion. God is not there, Nothing is there. There is no there.
>> God is not there, Nothing is there. There is no there.
Sounds a lot like the “outer darkness”.
I don’t want to be there. I want to spend eternity in the Light.
Also keep in mind Taiwan’s Tzu Chi Foundation, a charitable Buddhist organization based on the founder’s interaction with Catholic nuns. They do remarkable work, and readily acknowledge their debt to their Christian model.
Yep, good thing protestants showed up in the 1600s and founded Christianity many centuries after Christ.
Sorry, I just felt a BIG “gosh-golly antiCathoic bigotry” coming on and had to let it go.
Exhale....let it go...there now...all better.
Till the next time. :)
Nah, Christ and the apostles started the whole thing. The RCC corrupted the teachings and tried to kill off the true Christians but Jesus promised they would survive and they did. Luther et el tried to go Catholic light but God saw fit to use that to make His word available to those He called to be His. God also promised to preserve His word for us and He did. Jesus promised the Holy Spirit would guide us and He has. So here we are with the admonition to rebuke and we do!
The problem with that analogy, ye...whatever your username is....is that there is only one way to salvation and by adopting all these “good ideas” as you call them from this religion or that religion, Catholicism has become corrupted beyond recognizability as true Christianity.
They have, in fact, done just the opposite of your acupuncture analogy by incorporating pagan and mystical ideas into Catholic worship.
And they are dragging gullible non-Catholics into this mess with them
See:
[url}http://www.thebereancall.org/content/evangelical-mysticism[/url]
So, no....insofar as salvation goes, there is only one idea and one way...belief in Christ and that is it.
I guess they need the money.
Protestants didn’t invade the all powerful Catholic organization from the outside, they broke away from it as Christians, for their faith, from the inside, they were Catholics, forced to be perhaps, but Catholics.
They left that denomination, just as so many American Catholics do today, to pursue their Christian faith which they feel isn’t happening within the Catholic denomination.
This shouldn’t cause such darkly negative reactions from the Christians of the Catholic denomination, they are getting plenty of replacements from Mexico, the Philippines, and the other major Catholic countries of the world and Latin America.
You just cratered your own argument.
You’ve incorporated facets of other religions right into your Catholicism.
I think my point has been made.
Go on with your bad self then, Gluteus! lol
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Good answer. Could one be a Catholic Confucian? I think so.
Preaching to the choir, Tick. :)
I should add that many Christian mystics came to a similar place. So, I’m not so sure you couldn’t have something like “the Tao that can be spoken isn’t the eternal Tao” generally reconciling with Christian mysticism.
And the “good works” is most likely the tie that binds them together.
Isn’t that like a Corporal-Captain?
But they don’t like us telling anyone about it.
More like a Catholic Confusion! LOL
Or Captain Corelli’s mandolin?
Wait, what?!
And when did happen? The only "Christians" that the RCC wiped out before Protestantism were those teaching heresy, such as heretics from the first seven ecumenical councils who argued falsehoods like the idea that Jesus was purely divine and not human, or that Jesus wasn't born God and later "received" his Godhood. Thanks to the RCC wiping out that brand of "Christianity", we have true Christian doctrines today like the correct canon of the Bible and the Nicene Creed. You can thank us later.
>> but Jesus promised they would survive and they did. <<
Who survived? It certainly wasn't YOUR brand of Christianity, since it didn't exist yet. Unless you're going to claim to be an Orthodox Christian or from the Assyrian Church of the East, as they could make a legitimate claim to be exist independently of the RCC for centuries. All other Christians movements developed much later.
>> Luther et el tried to go Catholic light <<
E.G., Luther still believed in those nasty Catholic doctrines like venerating the Virgin Mary and observing various feast days. Then your brand of Christianity came even later, and by the 1800s or so, we had "true" Christianity, a mere eighteen hundred years after Christ walked the earth. Good thing your denomination, whatever it is, showed up to restore it after all that time.
>> God also promised to preserve His word for us and He did. Jesus promised the Holy Spirit would guide us and He has. <<
Yes, which is why the Catholic Church can trace its lineage back 2000 years to the original apostles, through an unbroken chain, unlike all those other Christian churches that claim they "restored" the "original Church" centuries later.
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