Posted on 03/07/2014 10:14:06 AM PST by matthewrobertolson
Only trusting the Bible without the Church would be like loving "Romeo & Juliet" and hating Shakespeare's explanation of it.
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Non-Catholics throw out unsupported man-made tradition in favor of the Word of God.
It’s not a tough choice.
The Catholic Church is the steward of scripture. God started one church, the Catholic Church.
AMEN, brother.
Wow....
You know the mind of God and what He’s doing in heaven?
I don’t think so........
Yeah, Jesus talked of it, the Catholic church is the third steward. Matt 24:13-30. He hid his charge in the ground as well, preferring instead his ideas.
Catholics, having no clue at all what the true church is, will NEVER understand it.
As long as they think of the church as an organization or denomination, they will remain clueless about it.
Thanks for demonstrating that.
So true. Will they come back?
They can claim it all they want. It proves nothing. There is not one reference in all of Scripture telling us that the Catholic church is the one true church.
They wrote the OT, thousands of years before the Catholic church even existed.
That's pretty impressive.
What gall to take credit for itself the work of God.
We have the Bible. Say *Thanks Holy Spirit*.
And Christ knew he was going to ascend into heaven so he told the Apostles that he would be with them always. He founded the Church on the Apostles to carry on his work. At Pentecost they were blessed with the Holy Spirit (Acts) and went forth to build Christ’s Church.
He assigned them the task of preaching the gospel and making disciples.
HE has the authority and HE sent them out with that job.
So what do Catholics believe that the Holy Spirit was given for since they take credit for themselves for the work of the Holy Spirit. What's the Holy Spirit there for anyway, according to Catholics?
Yup.
Ever since Frank was elected Pope we see every FRoman Catholic telling us what HE really said. How many little Popes do we have on FR?? How many folks are on your ping list. That is a good start.
Each one with his or her own interpretation of Frank’s words; 1.2 billion different interpretations of them.
What!? That is a mere assertion, and not at all an answer to the question which your assertion requires to be answered. This is the third time, so either answer it or admit you cannot give an actual answer, and thus the often repeated we-gave-you-the-Bible assertion has no real weight.
For if it is to have any real import, it seems to be arguing that being an instrument and steward of Scripture makes such the infallible authority on it, so that those who dissent from these stewards are rebels against God. If not, then why invoke? Affirm or deny?
You would rather have this drunk deciding what is divinely inspired?
(Letter to Melanchthon, August 1, 1521, American Edition, Luther’s Works, vol. 48, pp. 281-82).
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“If we allow them - the Commandments - any influence in our conscience, they become the cloak of all evil, heresies and blasphemies”
(Comm. ad Galat, p.310).
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“Moses must ever be looked upon with suspicion, even as upon a heretic, excommunicated, damned, worse than the Pope and the devil”
(Commentary on Galatians).
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“I will not have Moses with his Law, for he is the enemy of the Lord Christ”
(Tischreden (Table Talk), L.C.12.s.17).
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“When the devil comes to tempt and harass you . . . indulge some sin in hatred of the evil spirit and to torment him . . . otherwise we are beaten if we are too nervously sensitive about guarding against sin . . . I tell you, we must put all the Ten Commandments, with which the devil tempts and plagues us so greatly, out of sight and out of mind.”
He demonstrates his authority in recounting the need for him to publicly reprove Peter.
Matthew 18:15-17
Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
Paul actually told the whole world, which shows that no one is perfect, not the apostles including Paul, taking his word that he was an apostle.
However our only hope is in the Gospel and resurrection of Jesus and this was recorded so that we will not have to take any one elses word for what he said.
Not Mary of Rome - instead Blessed Mary - Mother of God:
References to the Virgin Mary as being blessed in found in the Holy Bible. The first instance is in Luke 1:28 when the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary to announce to her that she would be the mother of the Lord Jesus.
“And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: BLESSED art thou among women.” [Lk. 1:28]
The next instance is when Elizabeth was with the Holy Spirit, she stated that Mary was blessed.
“And she cried out with a loud voice, and said: BLESSED art thou among women, and BLESSED is the fruit of thy womb.” [Lk. 1:42]
Then there is when Mary sang the Magnificat that is found in Luke 1:46-55.
“Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid; for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me BLESSED.” [Lk. 1:48] (all generations except for protestants)
Finally, there is another reference during the ministry of Jesus when a woman raised her voice in the crowd and said, “BLESSED is the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you!”
“And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: BLESSED is the womb that bore thee, and the paps that gave thee suck.” [Lk. 11:27]
To Catholics she is Blessed Mary, Mother of God - I personally don’t give a rat’s butt what you think about her or our Church.
as I said all generations will call Mary Blessed - but yours.
Ad majoram Dei Gloriam
We can know without any religious organization what those keys consist. The keys now claimed to be Peter's keys have been cut and re-cut so many times there is not semblances of recognition of what was actually given.
One must need to at least have a primers understanding of the Gospel to have faith in it. Christ came in the volume of the Book, from Genesis to Revelation. In Revelation to one of the unblemished churches holds the key to David, in which: ‘These things saith He That is Holy, He That is True, He That hath the key of David, He That openeth, and no man shutteth, and shutteth, and no man openeth;
Key(s) makes for an interesting study.
John 2:1 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
John 2:3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”
Acts 1:14 All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
Scripture is clear in calling Mary *the mother of Jesus*.
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