Are We Really Catholic Bashing?

reachingcatholics.org ^ | Unknown | Mike Gendron

[jodyel]

Then go to it, Brian.

Thanks for posting,
jodyel

[jodyel]

Thanks for posting, Blackie.

[jodyel]

Sure, WXRGina, thanks for your support.

I appreciate it.

God bless,
jodyel

[jodyel]

You had a question? Sorry, will get right on it. :)

[Legatus]

It has been our heart’s desire to see Roman Catholics embrace the Lord Jesus Christ as their all-sufficient Savior and enjoy the salvation He sovereignly secured for all who trust Him alone.

OK, then we're done here. What's the point of the rest of the article? Faithful Catholics already believe this.

[jodyel]

It is meant for those that the Lord draws here. Those that He has convicted of the need for Him.

So you won’t find me arguing with anyone anymore. But I am happy to hear from those who are truly seeking salvation in Christ.

And I will post more and not just on Catholicism. I like Mike Gendron and the articles he writes.

Thanks,
jodyel

[jodyel]

Then go your way, Legatus.

Thanks for posting,
jodyel

[Legatus]

This is an open thread in the free republic religion forum (in case that has escaped your attention), OPs don’t get to tell people to buzz off.

[delchiante]

Catholics and Protestants in large numbers claim to worship Jesus, a greek transliteration of His Aramaic/hebrew name, on a day (Sunday) ordained by the catholic church admittedly. . How different are they really?

When I discovered His name was translated into English as Joshua (Israeli General) that was when I wondered about organized religion and translations/transliterations and the entire traditions in churchianity- catholic and protestant and their doctrines together...
Joshua loves me doesn’t roll off the tongue in the song as well... :)

Yeshua/Yahshua even more foreign to these churches.. When He revealed His calendar, month and His Sabbath- whoa.... just a blessed journey using His calendar and refusing man made calendar! Can’t have five day work week in this Babylon with His calendar.... His Grace and Mercy is needed more than people realize.... even the very elect...

[jodyel]

I did not say buzz off....I said go your way. If what you want is your religion, then I will not stop you. Go to it.

Thanks for posting,
jodyel

[smvoice]

I haven’t seen one time that jodyel has attacked His Church, the Body of Christ. You must have her confused with someone else.

[mlizzy]

Christ knew that doubting didn't begin and end with Thomas, so He has provided us with many [Eucharistic] miracles, the one in Lanciano probably the most well known, but there are many: http://www.catholicdoors.com/misc/eucharisticmiracles.htm

[Brian Kopp DPM]

I haven’t seen one time that jodyel has attacked His Church, the Body of Christ.

You must not have read the OP.

Dear RM,

I see you are still running interference for the anti-Catholic bigots here.

So be it.

[MacNaughton]

18 Anyway, St. Peter was the first Bishop of Rome. The first Pope.

I see this posted a lot, but was it not in reality, proclaimed after the fact, i.e., after his crucifixion? Weren't there bishops sitting in other Middle East/Mediterranean cities at the same time?, e.g., Jerusalem, Damascus, Alexandria, Byzantium, etc?

There clearly was the East-West Schism of 1053 between Rome and Constantinople. I was always under the impression that the bishops in the Eastern cities considered themselves equals. It was the Rome See that saw itself as 1st among equals and eventually supreme to all others.

The Catholic Church may well have had the Shroud of Turin which may well be authentic.

While I have been following the story of the SoT with great interest since the late 1970s, as well as the search for Noah's Ark, I have netted out in my thinking that God would not allow any such physical proof (with the obvious exemption of The Bible to survive, i.e., belief must be an act of faith.

[mlizzy]

True missionaries seek out those who have never believed and teach them the Gospel...They do not cozen people who already stand up in church every Sunday and pray the Lord's Prayer into joining a new sect.

This is a very good point, jodyel. I could not have said it any better! Thanks wideawake!

[smvoice]

I’m confused with your post, Brian Kopp DPM. Are you saying that the Catholic Church is not part of the Church the Body of Christ? Hardly a reason to ping the RM..

[verga]

Them weren’t pearls and we ain’t swine...

Keep telling yourself that.

[mlizzy]

So you won’t find me arguing with anyone anymore.

Lots of luck with that jodyel. When any Catholic-bash type article gets posted on Free Republic, at least a few of the forum's Catholics will respond, defending the faith. And once the defense goes into play, the offense can't just sit there or you'll be pushed back over the line.

[Legatus]

My religion tells me this, and I quote from what I heard last Sunday:

We must pray for courage and perseverance to preach the Word in season and out of season, not cowtowing to human respect, and not keeping silence before evil just because someone might get mad or ridicule us. We do not have the right to judge people wrongly, indiscriminately, from a place of sin. But we do have a duty to root out sin from our lives, cling to Christ, and bear each others burdens.

For if we listen to the voice of God in our rightly formed conscience, if we turn away from sin and to Him, then Jesus’ words, If you are my friends, you will do what I command you, will come as a word of light and life. We will be judged, and found worthy. One day we will stand before Him as Judge, and nobody else, and He will ask us, What have you done with My Love? What will your answer be?

I pray my answer won't be "misrepresented the faith of millions and led people into sects and divisions".