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Posted on 02/08/2011 7:12:21 AM PST by Gamecock
Me three.
bttt for your post
What religion or cult do you belong too?
So how can you criticize Catholics for doing the same unless you believe that the Magisterium is inherently evil or less credible than the authors of your commentaries and study aids.
"If any teaching CONTRADICTS Scripture it is TO BE REJECTED as Scripture is the FINAL AUTHORITY on truth from error."
On that we are in complete agreement, however Catholics do not accept that 100% of the revealed Word is contained in Scripture.
"When HINDUISM is MINGLED with the GOSPEL - IT IS heresy..."
The Catechism begins with the the following:
"1 God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church."
When words of any origin confirm the desire to seek and know God they are to be embraced.
We go directly to the original author of Scripture, God Himself.
GOD kept Scripture alive for 2,000 years in spite of the Catholic church, not because of it.
No you don't unless you are having regular apparitions and visions. You got your Bible from the magisterium of the Catholic Church.
I criticize Catholics for not rejecting their 'resources' when their 'resources' are teaching heresy. Instead, catholics defend the 'resources'. If one of my 'resources' begins to contradict Scripture, I throw it out, I don't defend it!
however Catholics do not accept that 100% of the revealed Word is contained in Scripture.
And that is why Catholics can no longer discern what is truth and what is error, and why Hinduism and Islam is now being merged into the faith as 'another pathway to God'.
The Catechism.....blah blah blah...
841 - The Church's relationship with the Muslims. "The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind's judge on the last day.
If you can't see the error, blasphemy, and heresy of uniting Christ with Allah........there's no help for you. Good luck on judgment day - you're going to need it.
Nope. The Bible was inspired by God and recognized as Scripture long before the Catholic church came into existence.
God, not Catholicism, is the author of Scripture.
And all the claims to the contrary, that the Catholic church WROTE the Bible have been proved to be bogus time and again.
We go through the Spirit of God by whom we are sealed until the day of redemption.
My going directly to God does not result in MY having visions and apparitions.
You've got that backwards.
No, that's Catholic territory, claiming special revelation.
Don't for get that Satan can appear as an angel of light if it suits his purposes.
2 Corinthians 1:14-15 1 And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
Catholics lack a great deal of discernment considering what they so readily believe.
Some of the sources which Catholics cling to so desperately to justify their doctrines, have produced works that they also condemn as heresy.
The criteria of whether the writings of a particular man are considered heresy or not depend on whether those particular writings support some pet doctrine.
I’ve seen the *Yeah, we know that some of his writings are heretical, but in this case......* argument.
How disingenuous.
That is so sad. Sounds like my ‘frogs in the pot’ syndrome is spot on.
Everyone who has lived on this earth either has died or will die. Of course they’re dead.
And of course it applies to prohibiting contacting those whom the Catholic church has labeled as saints, because when the Bible refers to the dead, it refers to those whose physical bodies have died.
Everyone who has died here on earth is alive somewhere. So that argument falls flat.
Those whose physical bodies have died here on earth are the ones who we are prohibited from trying to contact and God has not changed.
It never ceases to amaze me how Catholics try to justify their disobedience to God with that kind of semantics and hair splitting.
Aside from little details like the fact that SCRIPTURE gives no indication that anyone who has died can even hear us, that we are prohibited from contacting the dead, that we are commanded to pray to God the Father and have not been commanded to pray to anyone else, that SCRIPTURE gives NO indication of any dead person’s ability to answer our prayer, that there is no procedure spelled out in Scripture for the office of saint and the canonization process, the whole practice is fabricated and idolatrous to the core.
Time spent in prayer to someone besides God is time robbed from prayer to God.
Time spend worshiping (or “venerating” or “honoring” or whatever synonym of worship Catholics choose to use) anyone besides God is robbing God of His rightful worship and the honor due Him and Him alone.
The lengths to which Catholics will go in redefining terms and playing word games is clear enough indication that they KNOW deep down inside that it’s wrong and they are trying to do their best to justify it any way they can.
They don’t obey God’s Word nor take IT as The Final Authority. So in that rebellious state they call on the spirit world.
First, they are making an assumption that saint is in heaven. They still have to rely that the saint that the RCC/man said is truly a saint is correct. And we know what the RCC calls good.
Then the assumption a saint who is ‘supposedly’ in heaven can hear or even respond.
They are calling on the spirit world, so all their assumptions need to take another leap - that the spirit is not evil but really the ‘supposed’ good one they are praying to.
Lots of assumptions, along with their disobedience and they still do it anyway.
No wonder the RCC is getting darker, lots of demonic activity being welcomed in by praying to spirits. Rebellion is witchcraft that we are warned about. Disobedience has consequences.
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