Peter is REALLY Satan
Pharisees are REALLY serpents
Mary REALLY did have another son - John
Samaritans are REALLY dogs
Posted on 11/19/2013 6:10:28 AM PST by Gamecock
Security of the believer
John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 10:25-30 Jesus answered them, I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name bear witness about me, but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are one.
Ephesians 1:13-14 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
Ephesians 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Colossians 1:13-14 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 3:3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
2 Corinthians 1:21-22 And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
2 Corinthians 5:4-8 For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdenednot that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
Too many brethren joining the Catholic Church - eh?
Hardly. Too many Roman Catholics high fiving when one does.
If they leave they never were one of us. Besides, numbers don’t prove the truth. The path is narrow after all.
I don’t understand anybody who swims the Tiber for reasons other than theological and ecclesiological, unless he had a vision or somesuch.
So, that is the problem you have with this?
Rome maintains nothing of the sort. Why do you guys have to keep making up nonsense like this?
The meritorious cause of our justification is the righteousness of Jesus Christ. I'm going to say that again, louder.
The meritorious cause of our justification is the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS CHRIST !
The effect of our justification is that that righteousness is truly communicated to us and inhabits our soul, it is not merely "imputed" to our "account" as some sort of legal fiction, as Luther wrongly taught.
Anyone who is seeking to be justified by his own "inherent righteousness" (what is that?) will be damned.
It's one thing to object to what Catholicism actually teaches, but to slander us with strawman garbage like this is really inexcusable.
The Most Reverend David R. Choby
Bishop of Nashville
The Catholic Center
2400 Twenty-first Avenue South
Nashville, TN. 37212
I'll PM you my name and parish, and you can write a letter to the bishop explaining my "heresy" in the preceding post.
I would say he'd laugh in your face, but he's too nice a man for that.
Not so. For my wife and me, our Tiber swim took place 19 years ago to be with Him, not give Him up. The author cites two of the four classic Protestant barriers to Rome; the role of Mary and the authority of the pope. Those two, along with the role of the saints and the meaning of the Eucharist, are the primary obstacles. But once the last of these, the meaning of the Eucharist, was literally understood in terms of John Chapter 6, the swim became a necessity. It was no longer an option to stay with the "dog and pony show". We had to be with Jesus.
That's illogical.
HMMMmmm...
Jesus answered, The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.
Also love Bob Dylan's version of v. 28:
Do you ever wonder just what God requires?
You think He's just an errand boy to satisfy your wandering desires?
When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?
"When You Gonna Wake Up?, Slow Train Comin' album, 1978
Believe Him by saying He lied web He said, "This is my body", lied when He told the thief on the cross, "Today you will be with me in Paradise", and sent the Holy Spirit to guide us but didn't give the Holy Spirit power to protect His Word from the inclusion of error.
If someone believes Christ they don't preach and teach doctrines that are only correct if Christ is a liar.
He also said...
Get thee behind me SATAN.
"You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
"First let the children eat all they want," he told her, "for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs."
You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, Woman, here is your son, 27 and to the disciple, Here is your mother. From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.
Then it follows logically that...
Peter is REALLY Satan
I copied and pasted from the article. Those were not my words. I didn’t make anything up.
You mean like the Bible teaches?
What? Paul was wrong as well?
Paul teaches grace without merit and imputed righteousness without merit.
We can't do anything to earn, or merit, if you will, the righteousness God offers us as a free gift by grace through faith in Christ.
Gifts are NOT earned.
Colossians 2:13-14 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
Romans 4:1-25 What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.
Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works: Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.
Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness. How then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised. He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well, and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.
That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspringnot only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, as it is written, I have made you the father of many nationsin the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, So shall your offspring be. He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb. No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.
That is why his faith was counted to him as righteousness. But the words it was counted to him were not written for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
How do you reconcile the teaching of the Catholic church that the flesh gives life in light of Jesus comment in John 6 that It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
The SPIRIT gives life.
The flesh is no help at all.
So what, according to Catholicism, gives life? The Spirit, like Jesus said, or the flesh like the RCC says?
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