Posted on 07/18/2010 6:04:05 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
AMEN! It is also enough for God our Father in heaven because He has accepted the sacrifice of His Son for all the sins of His flock and He will remember those sins no more.
Our perfect advocate has pleaded our case and won our redemption.
The Lord's Supper is a moment when the congregation draws closer to Christ by remembering His sacrifice.
It is not superstitious magick. Christ is in heaven, not on a gilded altar in Peoria, brought down to earth by some shaman "alter Christus."
One has to wonder just how anti-Semitic Rome really is.
On the contrary, all it does, especially for those of us who have left, is show us that nothing has changed about it and reinforce our decision to leave in the first place.
There's a website called "Adherents.com" and on it they have a section of FAMOUS CATHOLICS
Hilariously, many of the names there are no longer Roman Catholic. But even worse than that is the way some are portrayed.
Case in point: actor Stephen Baldwin, Alex's brother who left Catholicism and is now a fervent and well-known born-again Evangelical.
But when you highlight his name on the website, here's Baldwin's description...
STEPHEN BALDWIN is a Catholic and identifies himself as a "born-again Christian."
LOL. According to Rome, he's still a "Catholic" who merely misnames himself. Temporarily, no doubt.
That kind of hubris is why Rome is bleeding membership.
It's like telling an ex-democrat, now Republican, that he is really still a democrat.
No, he's not. Men change. Often for the better, God willing.
And often the Scriptural passages are just snippets. It’s very rare for a RC sermon to be centered on Scripture.
Unless the Church officially disowns you. They are in charge, not you.
Hilarious testimony of supposedly biblical Christians, fighting on trivia night over the number of psalms. Yer crackin me up.
The destruction of a person’s reality at an early age is the beginning of psychosis. Their reality must be destroyed in order to maintain the dominating parent’s construct.
They are being reached. It’s just that things of the spirit are invisible.
That kind of search of unconnected words proves absolutely nothing. Bush chimpanzee (without quote marks) gets two and a half million results.
It doesn’t fail only those who leave it. It fails those who remain—and that is worse. Many go through life never knowing the true Christian spirit.
But is doesn’t have to keep going on that way. I think by my change of heart and witness I have challenged my Catholic friends and made them think about the essentials more than they would have without that.
Not that I do it myself. “Just be yourself” were the final inspirational words of my favorite pastor—that’s if you are saved, of course—at the end of a long talk on evangelizing others. He found God’s voice at the very end of the talk. Brilliant, inspired words. You don’t have to connive and plan. Be your own saved self and He will do the rest.
Great truth filled article.
He is one of the few with Catholic background who get the basic facts right.
Once a Catholic always a Catholic or so we are told. so it does not matter if a "Catholic" goes to mass every Sunday or knows or understands the doctrine of the church..they are still Catholics and are counted as catholics by the church which loves to put out its membership
Pelosi is considered a catholic by her Bishop.. and she does have that indelible mark
What is that RCC? Among the ridiculous assertions that overflow the RF, folks, we have a new blue ribbon winner, right there. Of course, I am open to consider the evidence that backs up the statement.
but Protestants are anathematized.
My knowledge of anathema is confined to the seven ecumenical council. Of course, there were no Protestants (by that name) then. The councils determined that certain beliefs that were being taught by self identified Christians were, in fact, not compatible with the true faith. The anathema simply marks wrong belief as wrong belief.
An interesting aspect to consider about heresy is that heretics claim theirs is the true faith. They have scripture and arguments. They get a bunch of followers. They bring in confusion that must be dealt with. So it was, all the way back to Acts 15. Consider that the Apostles, taught by Christ Himself, has disagreement and look at how it was resolved.
I'm certain the actual Catholic teaching on separated brethren has been presented (and ignored) many times on this forum.
If it looks like panic, and smells like panic it is panic . One man leaves the priesthood and the catholic armies come out.. sorta like they did with Luther
” He is married ... “
Breaking his formal VOW to God. So very sad.
Yes- very sad- because as we all know- having a heterosexual relationship in the bonds of marriage with an adult could scandalize the priesthood.
Will Wallace
Not "mysterious". I know the definition of the words. And there's nothing to be gained by "feeling." There was a desire to know the truth. Actually, it was more than desire - desperate need is better.
Here was a man, taught by the Apostle John, telling me something about the belief that he held. A man who would soon die for his faith. I thought his testimony worthy of further investigation.
In fact, finding out about Ignatius and Polycarp and many other opened a new world to me. I got to learn for myself what my sola teachers would not and could not teach me. The more I learned, the more I saw the misrepresentation of church history that I had believed all my life.
It was hard. I have never prayed as much as I did in those days.
“Desperate need” is known to lead people onto paths they might not under normal curcumstances take...oftentimes it is the wrong path. Again anyone is free to believe writers from days of old over the scriptures all that they want. But if what they believe does not stand up to the authority of the scriptures truth they would be mistaken in their belief.
The scriptures are the final authority to judge truth and falsehood. More will be deceived as these last days come and the deceptions multiplied. MAny were deceived in the past....the enemy of mens souls tactics remain in play to this day.
Example....a Christian man now believes in New age beliefs because the gurus of old convinced Him of reincarnation and what they have written. The more he learned the more he found that Christianity misrepresents the status of men and has not given the eastern religions their rightful place among men. It was hard for him as well.....and yet he now believes.
We'll accomplish more than that...There are lurkers out there sitting on the fence...I am here to counter your false religion in public with God's Holy Scripture so those lurkers can make an informed decision to turn to Biblical Christianity as opposed to the Catholic religion...
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