Posted on 01/06/2013 3:56:49 PM PST by NYer
...it is ChristNow if it makes you more comfortable to go throuh one of your priests for forgivness of sins, no problem. God will honor the sincerity of that venue.acting through the priestthat mediates our forgiveness with the God the Father.
Non Catholic Christians take God at his word that we can go directly to Jesus.
Attempting to convert Christians from their personal relationship with Jesus through being born again to the zigs and zags of unnecessary rituials is not going to produce the desired results.
"And the polemic behind it, as showed (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2975555/posts?page=1222#1222), essentially invalidates the church."
I especially liked the phrase "effectively nuked the church" in that post.
...are you sure about that?...
Exactly, that is why we have the Magisterium and not a Googlesterium.
;^) The CHURch doesn’t judge...
Once again, the little man is on the stairs...
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.
Mighty bold talk from a one-eyed fat man.
Acts 9
15 But the Lord said to Ananias, “Go! This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel. 16 I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.”
Mary was sinless...
Mary is in Heaven now...
Mary can deliver our prayers to Jesus...
HE will do what his Mother (pbuh) will tell Him to do...
Oh just SHUT up!
A verbis Deus non est recedendum.
Pax et Bonum
Seems like having SEX with your spouse is somehow VERY close to SINNING!!!
ROME says to us, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Authority of ROME nor the power of the Papacy?
Tery says we use Engkish here...
Hmmm I may have been wrong.
I must listen to the still small voice...
I should have added “but to be sure, go directly to Jesus”
Nahhh... I've been reading and catching up...
Ephesians 3:14 ... For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
I have heard Catholics argue that Mary could not have had sex with Joseph because she was sinless.
Never could figure out the connection there, but it’s obviously made in the Catholic mind somehow, somewhere.
Ah ha, now that is what I call progress!
Vaya con (la Palabra) de Dios
Translation:
Vade cum verbum Dei
In keeping with the rules of the RF, translation:
Go with the word of God
no He isn't, but it is clear to all that He chose the Catholic church to carry His message to the world!!
how many times are you going to repost that inane “bad Popes list”????
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