Posted on 02/12/2014 7:34:09 AM PST by GonzoII
Good reference.
Just one? Keep My Shabbat, keep it holy, through all your generations.
Luther reduced nothing. The ones instituted by God have a visible element to which God has joined His Word of promise and offers gives and seals forgiveness of sin that was earned by Christ.
Beautiful! Just 10 do’s and don’ts on stone tablets no less. Kind of makes man made Catechisms on endless pages of parchment look silly.
So Protestantism is a work of Satan. Agreed.
Luther got rid of four of the Sacraments and kept three. Please show me your evidence that contradicts history.
God didn’t have seven sacraments in the Bible. Where is forgiveness of sins in marriage? Catholics had them by accretion.
Please read the link at post # 16.
Had already read it, where is the scriptural proof of forgiveness of sin?
You are ignoring Tradition and for that we have no more to talk about.
And for the sake of Tradition, you ignore scripture Matt 15:9.
Baptism
Acts 2:38-39; Acts 16:15, 16:33, 18:8; 1 Cor 1:16 ... suggests baptism of all, incl. children. Jn 3:5; Rom 6:4; Mk 16:16 ... necessity of baptism. Col 2:11-12 ... circumcision (normally performed on infants c.f. Lk 2:21; Gen 17:12) replaced by baptism. Acts 22:16 ... baptism removes sin. 1 Pet 3:21 ... baptism saves by water.
Eucharist
Mt 26:26-27; Mk 14:22,24; Lk 22:19-20; 1 Cor 11:24-25 ... this is my body ... this is my blood. 1 Cor 11:26-30 ... sinning against the body and blood. Jn 6:32-58 ... long discourse on Eucharist. Gen 14:18; Ps 110:4; Heb 7:1-17 ... Melchizedek. Acts 2:42 ... breaking of bread. Ps 14:4; Ps 53:4; Is 9:18-20; Is 49:26; Micah 3:2-3; Rev 17:6,16 ... symbolic interpretation of Jn 6 inappropriate. Ex 12:8,46 ... paschal lamb has to be eaten. Jn 1:29; 1 Cor 5:7 ... Jesus is lamb of God, paschal lamb. Jn 4:31-34; Mt 16:5-12 ... Jesus speaks symbolically of food.
Forgiveness of Sins
Jn 20:22-23 ... “if you forgive ... they are forgiven.” Mt 18:18 ... binding on earth and heaven. 2 Cor 5:18 ... ministry of reconciliation. Jas 5:14-16 ... forgiveness of sins, anointing of the sick, confession.
Priesthood
Acts 1:15-26; 2 Tim 2:2; Tit 1:5 ...unbroken succession. Acts 15:6,23; Acts 14:23; 1 Tim 4:14, 5:22; 1 Tim 5:17; Jas 5:13-15 ... presbyters/elders (priests) were ordained, preached and taught the flock, administered sacraments. Jn 8:56; Lk 16:24; Rom 4:1,16-18; 1 Cor 4:14-15; Acts 7:2; 1 Thess 2:11; 1 Jn 2:13-14 ... “call no one father”? 1 Cor 7:7-9 ... Paul unmarried. Mt 19:12; 1 Cor 7:32-33, 1 Tim 4:11-12 ... celibacy. Gen 14:18; Ps 110:4; Heb 7:1-17 ... Melchizedek. 1 Cor 12 ... different roles of members of body.
Your list shows priesthood as a sacrament?
Haven’t you ever heard of the Sacrament of Holy Orders?
Three steps in it.
Deacon
Priest
Episcopate (Bishop)
There is no forgiveness of sin that incurs by becoming a priest. Not a biblical sacrament. The other three you listed are sacraments.
Christ breathed on the apostles and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit, whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.”
That power is passed on the each and every priest when they are ordained by a Bishop.
Straight from the Bible. Why don’t you believe it?
I believe that the clergy has the right and the duty to forgive sins in the stead and by the command of Jesus. Thre question is does being a priest incur for the priest forgiveness of sin? If not, then it is no sacrament.
Pfft. The truth is that the Catholic Church has no exclusive authority to distribute/interpret the Word of God. To say otherwise (as this author clearly did) establishes a barrier to salvation. All of these writings of/from the Catholic Church do is to reinforce that point.
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