Posted on 01/03/2012 3:30:48 PM PST by Gamecock
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Great article; how inspiring!!! It’s my hope and prayer that the Roman Catholics on this site will experience the same joy and blessing as he and we enjoy through God’s grace!
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Thats gonna leave a mark. Catholic “copy and paste” flood of church laws/rules/traditions disputing what this former seminarian says in 3-2-1,,,,
The rosary is unscriptural...yet the first part is taken straight from the bible...in the angels salutation to mary....however did the church grow for 400 years without the bible...martin luther reincarnate
The rosary is unscriptural...yet the first part is taken straight from the bible...in the angels salutation to mary....however did the church grow for 400 years without the bible...martin luther reincarnate
The rosary is unscriptural...yet the first part is taken straight from the bible...in the angels salutation to mary....however did the church grow for 400 years without the bible...martin luther reincarnate
“It’s my hope and prayer that the Roman Catholics on this site will experience the same joy and blessing as he and we enjoy through God’s grace!”
Thank you ...and may HE bless you with his choicest gifts. As a Catholic of Irish heritage, I grew up in the Catholic Church and had a very intimate relationship with God even as a young girl. His grace has been amazing in all aspects of my life. Each day, despite even this crisis and all of the world upheaval, is joyful and full of blessing. I find that I am richly nourished by my Church and I most assuredly love my brothers and sisters in Christ who do not attend the Catholic Church. Let us strive to build up and encourage one another in Christ.
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I’ve heard testimonies like this so often.
What a wonderful story and testimony.
Praise the Lord.
Amen & Amen!
“Let everything that hath breath praise the LORD, Praise ye the Lord.” (Psalm 150:6)
“For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.” (John 3:17)
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconcilation.” (2 Corinthians 17-19)
“For He[God] hath made Him[Jesus] to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” (2 Corinthians 5:21)
I had a similar situation. I was a cradle Catholic, converted to the Baptist faith in my 20’s and had a similar experience. After a really long study of 8 years trying to save my family from the Roman Church, I found myself reverting back to her.
I had the similar notion of all those works and rituals until I realized in my study, that the Catholic Church teaches one thing and one thing only
We are saved by grace, through faith, and evidence of this is our works. Any other order prescribed by any one in the faith is in error on the teachings of the Catholic church. Works are important as we are Jesus’s hands and feet on this earth and we are to do as He would do while on it. Jesus’s life was lived in action- living the corporal and spiritual works of mercy, as we are called to do.
Just as there are not so great, or even horrible examples of every faith out there, that does not negate the fact that a devout christian, Catholic or other wise will absolutely say when asked, that we are wretched sinners, in need of salvation, and that we are saved by grace through faith and the evidence of this is our works, which are comprised of our imitation of Christ’s example to us while He walked the earth both proclaiming and doing the word and works of God. Let anyone who tells you otherwise be treated as suspect, as they do not know what the Catholic Church teaches regarding salvation. They are going by hearsay from some disgruntled or misinformed Catholic in name only and believe me, we have some doozies-I was one of them.
Oy Vey, you really have the spirit of the New Year, Protest-—ant. / sarcasm
The fact of the matter is some people are too stupid to be Catholic. Catholic theology is far beyond their 80 IQs.
“The fact of the matter is some people are too stupid to be Catholic.”
Actually, that is not Catholic teaching.
I will state categorically that this person is a bald-faced liar. There is no way on Earth that a seminarian wouldn't learn about absolution, since he is required to communicate it.
As to the plainly ridiculous claim that he didn't get any scripture studies: A quick check on the Maynooth curriculum confirms that students learn in their first year alone:
Revelation and Faith ("Revelation" is how Catholics will sometime refer to entire corpus of scripture.)
Introduction to Biblical Greek
Introduction to Biblical Hebrew
Introduction to Ecclesiastical Latin
Scripture Studies 1: Eden to Exile
Scripture Studies 2: New Testament
Plus, they are required to perform the Holy Offices, which are scripture readings every three hours. Not to mention, of course, the fact that their theology courses are biblical as well.
Why do Calvinists feel they must slander Catholicism?
There’s a total of twelve courses on scripture alone in the Maynooth divinity curriculum.... plus of course the rest of the theology courses are based on scripture.
http://maynoothcollege.ie/courses/undergrad/documents/CoursesforBD.pdf
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