Posted on 05/26/2014 4:13:56 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne
I was a Catholic for 50 years, until I began to read and study my Bible. That intense study led me away from all religion and now empowered by the Holy Spirit I now worship Christ in total freedom.
Anyone who truly takes time to read and absorb the book of Galations would want to immediately run away from all religion, and live life instead in absolute freedom in Christ.
As for Catholicism, it is bondage....as are all religions. Some are just worse than others.
We’ll have to agree to disagree. God bless!
We’re supposed to be on the same team. Why post such a devisive article.
Who made you Pope?
Which is what the "evidence" at the link says. Its rather different that Calvinism, where some people are damned before all eternity, apparently in order to make those who aren't feel extra special.
That seems to be a trend around here with FRotestants.
ROFLMBO! This is like a Huffington/DU statistic: As we know 93% of conservatives are so afraid of black people they never even talk to them.
"Fact check" what the priests are teaching? You are so, so, so incredibly stupid in your "knowledge" I don't know where to begin. But why bother; you "know" it all. This whole thread is simply a flamethrowing exercise for the anti-Catholic bigots, plain as day.
Are the saints in heaven more or less alive than we are?
Are the saints in heaven members of the Body of Christ?
Is the Body of Christ divided?
...and if they pray to dead people isn’t it because they believe dead people have the same or similar powers as Jesus Christ?
No.
There is confusion regarding the Catholic practice of "praying to the saints" because Catholics and non-Catholics use the term "pray" differently, at least in the English speaking world.
Catholics use the word in its archaic form, meaning "to ask." We simply ask the glorified saints in heaven to pray to God for us, just as we would ask saints on earth to pray for us. We are all members of the One Body of Christ.
The term "pray," in modern usage, connotes worship; hence the confusion.
I’m LCMS, and I don’t care for the arrogant Papist types gratuitously bashing Luther or Lutheranism, or Protestantism in general; however, I’m not fond of the Protestant chauvinists slamming Catholicism either. In all the most important areas-there being one G*d, that G*d is a Triune deity consisting of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirt, that the Son was born of a virgin human woman, that He grew up, was crucified, died and three days later rose from the dead, there isn’t a baby’s hair’s worth of differences between Catholicism and Protestantism. We’re ALL followers of G*d and Christ. The Thirty Years War is over, and such petty infighting could only benefit Satan.
He is just as ignorant of Catholic dogma as he is of the creation of the universe.
The church is open to criticism on various grounds, as is any human institution. The problem with people like MacArthur is that their biases are based on false premises.
If for some reason you want to mount a credible attack on Catholicism, you will have to do better than to heave up this anachronistic palooka.
You were a Catholic for 50 years and never read anything in the Bible? did you never use a missalette which has the printed scriptures for every daily Mass?
A Mass included intercessory prayers, a reading from the Old Testament, a reading from the Epistles, and a reading from the Gospel. Then a short sermon follows, and then the Consecration - which is a reenactment of the Lord’s supper. The Acts of the Apostles describes the first gatherings of the Christians in such a manner when after they read from their scriptures, they discuss Jesus and his Gospel, and then they share in the ‘breaking of the bread’.
Apparently you don’t believe in the omnipotence of God.
Placemarker—
It’s been over 5 minutes since anyone posted... Did I miss the Rapture?
LOL
The Bible is very clear that the dead are dead. Why do you think they’re in heaven? Many times throughout the Bible, it talks about David, Abraham, Isaac, etc., still being in the grave. If they’re still in the grave why would others be in heaven? Why would anyone be in Heaven if the day of judgement has not yet come?
And that justifies it, how? All it tells me is that you and your buddies have been telling and snickering at sick, perverted rape jokes for 50 years.
That doesn’t explain why there are tens of thousands of Protestant groups.
Bible study does not exist in the Catholic institution. It is absolutely nowhere to be found. Even my children made the remark to me in the last year how their Catechism classes never revolved around Bible study.
And BTW, no thanks to using a misalette as you point out. I’m sticking to the Word of God, the Holy Bible. It has set me free!
Please. Spare me the waterworks. Your laziness is no virtue, Pope Boanarges.
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