Posted on 09/19/2013 2:18:47 PM PDT by NYer
My goodness, my oh my!
Nothing new under the sun at all.
Hallelujah for you, jagusafr!!
What part of being born again (converted) once is so difficult to understand? No wonder there is so much error in the Catholic church if even the most important point is not clear to you.
It is just as jagusafr said. It does not take a scholar to see this and know this, but it does take being born again. Mlizzy and I have already done this dance. :)
Here we go again, salvation.
No one will get this till they are born again and filled with the Spirit.
Yes, life is ongoing, sanctification is ongoing, but conversion is not.
You are converted once, you are made holy over time (sanctification).
And none of us is made perfectly holy and perfectly sinless till we are with Jesus. Never happens while we live on earth.
Nah, they are not.
But thanks for playing. :)
Gotta love salvation and his/her myriad of Catholic talking point links.
Which, back to the point, is sanctification, not conversion.
Much of Catholicism has no basis in scripture. Catholics seem to think it is as important to go through motions and rituals as it is to accept Christ as lord as savior.
All of the trappings of Catholicism are meaningless if you do not accept Jesus Christ as your sole lord and savior, and your sole conduit to reach God.
I saw one freeper say she prays to recently deceased relatives because they “are closer to God”. No, they are dead humans and they are awaiting judgement day- same as we are. Dead mortal humans cannot answer your prayers or perform miracles for you.
The more and more I read these articles the more alien the Catholic religion sounds from Christianity.
Yep, trust the local Priests to read the Bible for you, they would never lead you awry. Those English translations are a sin!
Maybe some people get tired of seeing thread after thread after thread attacking non-Catholic Christians?
Can you condense the message of all those links to thirty words or less? Do you feel compelled to post those oh so many links and if so . . for what purpose?
bump!!
Because the eucharist ritual is a human construct.
Maybe some people have an innate need for a church like that because the members can’t function without it? They cannot fathom that a stark pew and a Bible can suffice, surely we need rituals, 10,000 saints, feast days and a human leader who is claimed to have the ear of God.
Surely mortal humans cannot have that same access to God?
Of course we do. No one is “closer to God” than anyone else, if we are being truthful. Christians are supposed to pray to God through Jesus. It is the ONLY WAY.
I do believe he was being facetious, salvation.
The Life Application Study Bible lists Mark’s occupation as missionary-in-training, Gospel writer, traveling companion.
It also states he was a young man (Mark’s own words about himself), so it is possible he had not yet chosen or begun a profession out in the world before he met the other disciples and decided to join them.
But the majority of the disciples were indeed fishermen.
Btw, this is a wonderful bible. The profiles on biblical people, the chapter notes, and the index at the back are invaluable. Highly recommended!
All I can say is WHEW!!! lol
Preaching to the choir when you are telling me, GeronL, but thanks nevertheless. :)
I’ve always thought that Mark was the man that ran off naked as Christ was arrested. Don’t remember where I read that explanation.
**Because the eucharist ritual is a human construct.**
I don’t know if I will ever understand how non-Catholics take the Bible SO literally, and yet they do not believe the words of Jesus Christ at the Last Supper.
“This is my Body.”
“This is my Blood. Don this in remembrance of me.”
I actually feel very sad that you do not believe Christ’s words!
and you do that how often?
“Don this” could mean to wear it. How often are “we” supposed to do this? There was only one “Last Supper” after all.
Don't be sad. Spiritual things are spiritually discerned.
My typo
“Do this in remembrance of me.”
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