Posted on 04/28/2014 8:25:07 PM PDT by DaveMSmith
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Some times I need help decoding... thanks
“GOD gave us Scripture under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit”
Let me edit that for those wanting the truth. GOD gave the Catholic Church scripture under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Not pentacostals, not baptists, not mormans, not methodists, not 7th day adventists, not calvinists, not lutherans, or any of the alphabet protestant communities that that have popped up since the German’s drunkard monk named Luther tried his best to destroy God’s Church. He gave CATHOLICS, the inspiration to compile the Holy Bible and determine what was divinely inspired and what was not. And that includes the OT, which protestants all but ignore.
The “Catholic Church” is all believers in Christ, universal, not just the ones who follow the bishop in Rome. I hope that you, indeed, are able to stand before the Father, and He can admit you to His kingdom because of what Christ did for you on the cross. THAT is what brings salvation, not adherence to any number of man-created doctrines...and that goes for Protestant man-made doctrines, too.
“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves”
Unless you start participating in and believing those words above you will not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. Why do protestants not believe the words of Jesus Christ?
Protestants broke away from the Catholic Church during the Reformation. So no protestants are not members of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is not a body of invisible Christian believers, some who never walk in the front door of church. Your deny the truth at your own peril.
Yes, that is what he means — Catholic subsidiarity specifically points out the waste generated by government trying to take over the charitable role performed by individuals.
That's what we've been saying all along. The TRUE body of Christ is not a religion or denomination.
Time for Catholicism to start teaching the truths found in the Bible instead of what it's leaders dreamed up over the centuries and imagines and claimed was from God. When Catholics start putting their faith in Christ instead of their church, then they can be sure of getting to heaven as well.
HMMMmmm...
Infallible or not?
HMMMmmm...
A darned good reason to NOT believe the Bible is the final word...
1 Timothy 6:10 (kjv)
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
HMMMmmm...
nice qualifier...
GOD; you got some 'splainin' to do about that Babel thing!
Poorly catechized...
ALL the time?
Who elects them?
And it has worked SO well...
Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.
HMMMmmm...
Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
HMMMmmm...
5 Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to keep the law of Moses.”
6 The apostles and elders met to consider this question. 7 After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: “Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe. 8 God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. 9 He did not discriminate between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith. 10 Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear? 11 No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.”
12 The whole assembly became silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul telling about the signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them. 13 When they finished, James spoke up. “Brothers,” he said, “listen to me. 14 Simon[a] has described to us how God first intervened to choose a people for his name from the Gentiles. 15 The words of the prophets are in agreement with this, as it is written:
16 “‘After this I will return
and rebuild David’s fallen tent.
Its ruins I will rebuild,
and I will restore it,
17 that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord,
even all the Gentiles who bear my name,
says the Lord, who does these things’[b]—
18 things known from long ago.[c]
19 “It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. 20 Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. 21 For the law of Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”
The apostles and elders, your brothers,
To the Gentile believers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia:
Greetings.
24 We have heard that some went out from us without our authorization and disturbed you, troubling your minds by what they said. 25 So we all agreed to choose some men and send them to you with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul— 26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 27 Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas to confirm by word of mouth what we are writing. 28 It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: 29 You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.
Farewell.
30 So the men were sent off and went down to Antioch, where they gathered the church together and delivered the letter. 31 The people read it and were glad for its encouraging message. 32 Judas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, said much to encourage and strengthen the believers. 33 After spending some time there, they were sent off by the believers with the blessing of peace to return to those who had sent them. [34] [d] 35 But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, where they and many others taught and preached the word of the Lord.
Mary did NOT die!
She's in Heaven right now; handling her son's mail!
Did he make it an Ex Cathedra statement?
Did you read "Heaven is for Real"?
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