Posted on 06/02/2014 3:21:30 PM PDT by NYer
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Thank you very much for sharing that priest’s inspiration on this thread!! God bless you and the priest.
Where did I pretend anything. I told you straight out Catholics read the WHOLE Bible. We understand the entire plan for salvation.
“Where did I pretend anything. I told you straight out Catholics read the WHOLE Bible. We understand the entire plan for salvation.”
You took one verse out of context in order to make it appear it supported your position and added Matthew 28 as if it said the same thing.
1. It is a rare Roman who reads the entire Scriptures.
2. I believe they understand much of the plan of salvation. They get to third base, but that is obscured by the rest of the non-Biblical stuff.
Despite all those obstacles, there are many Romans who are truly saved.
It is real, because Spirit is real. It is not symbolic.
Not at all. We know protestants are trained to deny the words of Scripture and make up their own language --
"This is my body" means 'this represents my body'
"You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone.” Means you are saved by faith alone.
Hard to have an intelligent discussion with someone who thinks 'IS" means 'Represents', and "not by faith alone" means "by faith alone"
You deny the clear words of Scripture. You make up your own religion.
You have satan on your side
Who, but the devil, has granted such license of wresting the words of the holy Scripture? Who ever read in the Scriptures, that my body is the same as the sign of my body? or, that is is the same as it signifies? What language in the world ever spoke so? It is only then the devil, that imposes upon us by these fanatical men. Not one of the Fathers of the Church, though so numerous, ever spoke as the Sacramentarians:not one of them ever said, It is only bread and wine; or, the body and blood of Christ is not there present.
Surely, it is not credible, nor possible, since they often speak, and repeat their sentiments, that they should never (if they thought so) not so much as once, say, or let slip these words: It is bread only; or the body of Christ is not there, especially it being of great importance, that men should not be deceived. Certainly, in so many Fathers, and in so many writings, the negative might at least be found in one of them, had they thought the body and blood of Christ were not really present: but they are all of them unanimous.” –Luther’s Collected Works, Wittenburg Edition, no. 7 p, 391
So Judas sold Jesus out - he abandoned Him.
Did not Peter do the same?
Scripture does not record what Judas 'believed'; merely what he DID.
Peter wept bitterly - Judas hanged himself.
We have NO idea if Judas' last words were similar to the penitent thief or like the other one.
The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to their works.
Many???
How 'bout 100%!!!
Well; all those who DO all the things that Rome teaches are required to gain salvation.
--Catholic_Wannabe_Dude(Hail Mary!)
Samaritans are dogs means...
If you eat my bread you'll never be a hungry Catholic...
Litany of Humility
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val (1865-1930),
Secretary of State for Pope Saint Pius X
O Jesus! meek and humble of heart, Hear me.
From the desire of being esteemed,
Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being loved...
From the desire of being extolled ...
From the desire of being honored ...
From the desire of being praised ...
From the desire of being preferred to others...
From the desire of being consulted ...
From the desire of being approved ...
From the fear of being humiliated ...
From the fear of being despised...
From the fear of suffering rebukes ...
From the fear of being calumniated ...
From the fear of being forgotten ...
From the fear of being ridiculed ...
From the fear of being wronged ...
From the fear of being suspected ...
That others may be loved more than I,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be esteemed more than I ...
That, in the opinion of the world,
others may increase and I may decrease ...
That others may be chosen and I set aside ...
That others may be praised and I unnoticed ...
That others may be preferred to me in everything...
That others may become holier than I, provided that I may become as holy as I should…
You left some off your list or maybe they were captured in “m.”:
Catholicism - 1.2 billion[edit]
A map of Catholicism by population percentage.Catholic Church - 1,166 million[1] Latin Church - 1,149 million
Eastern Catholic Churches - 17 million Alexandrian Rite Ethiopian Catholic Church - 0.2 million[2]
Coptic Catholic Church - 0.2 million[2]
Antiochene Rite Maronite Catholic Church - 3.1 million[2]
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church - 0.4 million[2]
Syriac Catholic Church - 0.1 million[2]
Armenian Rite Armenian Catholic Church - 0.4 million[2]
Chaldean Rite Syro-Malabar Catholic Church - 3.8 million[2]
Chaldean Catholic Church - 0.4 million[2]
Byzantine Rite Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church - 4.3 million[2]
Melkite Greek Catholic Church - 1.3 million[2]
Romanian Catholic Church - 0.7 million[2]
Ruthenian Catholic Church - 0.5 million[2]
Hungarian Greek Catholic Church - 0.3 million[2]
Slovak Greek Catholic Church - 0.2 million[2]
Italo-Albanian Catholic Church - 0.1 million[2]
Belarusian Greek Catholic Church - 0.1 million[2]
Georgian Byzantine Catholic Church - 0.01 million[3]
Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church - 0.01 million[2]
Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church - 0.01 million[2]
Croatian Greek Catholic Church - 0.01 million[2]
Greek Byzantine Catholic Church - 0.01 million[2]
Macedonian Greek Catholic Church - 0.01 million[2]
Russian Greek Catholic Church - 0.01 million[2]
Breakaway Catholic Churches - 25 million
Gnome-searchtool.svg This section’s factual accuracy is disputed. (November 2012)
Philippine Independent Church - 6 million[4]
Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association - 5 million[5]
Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church - 5 million[6]
Apostolic Catholic Church - 5 million
Old Catholic Church - 0.6 million
Society of St. Pius X - 0.5 million
Polish National Catholic Church - 0.025 million
Protestantism - 800 million[edit]
A map of Protestantism (including Anglicanism) by population percentage.
Estimates of the total number of Protestants are very uncertain, partly because of the difficulty in determining which denominations should be placed in the category. It seems however clear that Protestantism is the second largest major group of Christians after Catholicism by number of followers. Often that number is put at 800 million.[7] Some sources, which put the number at 800 million, include also Anglicanism (see below) within Protestantism.[8][9] However, Protestant denominations in the world differ vastly to slightly theologically and do not form a single communion.
Historical Protestantism - 330 million Baptist churches - 100 million[10] Southern Baptist Convention - 16.3 million[11]
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. - 8.5 million[12]
National Baptist Convention of America, Inc. - 3.1 million[12]
Nigerian Baptist Convention - 2.5 million[12]
Progressive National Baptist Convention - 2.5 million[12]
Baptist General Convention of Texas - 2.3 million[12]
Baptist Union of Uganda - 1.5 million[12]
American Baptist Churches USA - 1.4 million[12]
Brazilian Baptist Convention - 1.3 million[12]
Baptist Bible Fellowship International - 1.2 million[13]
Baptist Community of the Congo River - 1 million[12]
National Primitive Baptist Convention of the U.S.A. - 1 million[13]
National Missionary Baptist Convention of America - 1 million
Myanmar Baptist Convention - 0.9 million[12]
Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches - 0.8 million[14]
Korea Baptist Convention - 0.8 million[12]
Baptist Convention of Kenya - 0.8 million[12]
Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India - 0.6 million[15]
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship - 0.5 million[12]
Nagaland Baptist Church Council - 0.5 million[12]
Baptist Convention in Tanzania - 0.5 million[12]
Orissa Evangelical Baptist Crusade - 0.5 million[12]
Baptist General Association of Virginia - 0.5 million[12]
National Baptist Convention (Brazil) - 0.4 million[12]
Church of Christ in Congo–Baptist Community of Congo - 0.4 million[16]
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches - 0.3[12]
American Baptist Association - 0.3 million[17]
Union of Baptist Churches in Rwanda - 0.3 million[12]
Association of Baptist Churches in Rwanda - 0.3 million[12]
Garo Baptist Convention - 0.2 million[12]
Baptist Community of Western Congo - 0.2 million[12]
Baptist Missionary Association of America - 0.2 million[18]
Conservative Baptist Association of America - 0.2 million[19]
National Association of Free Will Baptists - 0.2 million[20]
Canadian Baptist Ministries - 0.2 million[12]
National Baptist Convention of Mexico - 0.2 million[12]
Manipur Baptist Convention - 0.2 million[12]
Convention of Baptist Churches of the Northern Circars - 0.2 million[12]
Baptist Community in Central Africa - 0.2 million[12]
Baptist Convention of Malawi - 0.2 million[12]
Lutheranism - 75 million[21] Evangelical Church in Germany - 24.5 million[22]
Church of Sweden - 6.7 million[23]
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania - 5.6 million[23]
Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus - 5.3 million[23]
United Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India - 4.5 million[24]
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America - 4.5 million[23]
Church of Denmark - 4.5 million[23]
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland - 4.4 million[23]
Batak Christian Protestant Church - 4.2 million[23]
Church of Norway - 4.0 million[23]
Christian Protestant Church in Indonesia - 3.6 million[23]
Malagasy Lutheran Church - 3.0 million[23]
Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod - 2.5 million[25]
The Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria - 1.9 million[23]
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea - 0.9 million[23]
Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil - 0.7 million[23]
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia - 0.7 million[23]
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa - 0.6 million[23]
Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Namibia - 0.4 million[23]
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod - 0.4 million[26]
Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia - 0.4 million[23]
The Indonesian Protestant Church - 0.4 million[23]
The Protestant Christian Church - 0.4 million[23]
Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria - 0.3 million[23]
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cameroon - 0.2 million[23]
Church of Iceland - 0.2 million[23]
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil - 0.2 million[27]
Simalungun Protestant Christian Church - 0.2 million[23]
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe - 0.2 million[23]
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia - 0.2 million[23]
Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Hungary - 0.2 million[23]
Protestant Church of Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine - 0.2 million[23]
The Lutheran Council of Great Britain - 0.2 million[23]
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church - 0.2 million[23]
Methodism - 75 million United Methodist Church - 12 million[28]
African Methodist Episcopal Church - 2.5 million[29]
Methodist Church Nigeria - 2 million[30]
Church of the Nazarene - 2 million[31]
Methodist Church of Southern Africa - 1.7 million[32]
Korean Methodist Church - 1.5 million[33]
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church - 1.5 million[34]
The Salvation Army - 1.4 million [35]
United Methodist Church of Ivory Coast - 1 million[36]
Free Methodist Church - 0.9 million[37]
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church - 0.9 million[38]
Methodist Church Ghana - 0.8 million[39]
Methodist Church in India - 0.6 million[40]
Methodist Church in Kenya - 0.5 million[41]
Wesleyan Church - 0.4 million[42]
Evangelical Free Church of America - 0.4 million[43]
Methodist Church of Great Britain - 0.3 million[44]
Methodist Church in Brazil - 0.2 million[45]
Reformed churches - 75 million Presbyterianism - 40 million Presbyterian Church of East Africa - 4.0 million[46]
Presbyterian Church of Africa - 3.4 million[47]
United Church of Canada - 2.8 million[48]
Church of Christ in Congo–Presbyterian Community of Congo - 2.5 million[49]
Presbyterian Church of Korea - 2.4 million[50]
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) - 1.8 million[51]
Presbyterian Church of Cameroon - 1.8 million[52]
Church of Central Africa, Presbyterian - 1.3 million[53]
Church of Scotland - 1.1 million[54]
Presbyterian Church of the Sudan - 1.0 million[55]
Presbyterian Church in Cameroon - 0.7 million[56]
Presbyterian Church of Brazil - 0.7 million [57]
Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana - 0.6 million[58]
United Church of Christ in the Philippines - 0.5 million[59]
Presbyterian Church of Nigeria - 0.5 million[60]
Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa - 0.5 million[61]
Presbyterian Church of Pakistan - 0.4 million[62]
Presbyterian Church in Ireland - 0.3 million
Uniting Church in Australia - 0.3 million[63]
Presbyterian Church in America - 0.3 million[64]
Presbyterian Church of Korea - 0.3 million[65]
Presbyterian Church in Rwanda - 0.3 million[66]
Presbyterian Church in Taiwan - 0.3 million[67]
Continental Reformed churches - 30 million Church of Jesus Christ in Madagascar - 3.5 million[68]
United Church of Zambia - 3.0 million[69]
Protestant Church in the Netherlands - 2.5 million[70]
Swiss Reformed Church - 2.4 million[71]
Evangelical Church of Cameroon - 2.0 million[72]
Protestant Evangelical Church in Timor - 2.0 million[73]
Dutch Reformed Church - 1.1 million
Christian Evangelical Church in Minahasa - 0.7 million[74]
United Church in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands - 0.6 million[75]
Protestant Church in Western Indonesia - 0.6 million[76]
Evangelical Christian Church in Tanah Papua - 0.6 million[77]
Protestant Church in the Moluccas - 0.6 million[78]
Reformed Church in Hungary - 0.6 million[79]
Reformed Church in Romania - 0.6 million[80]
Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa - 0.5 million[81]
Toraja Church - 0.4 million[82]
Reformed Church of France - 0.4 million[83]
Lesotho Evangelical Church - 0.3 million[84]
Evangelical Christian Church in Halmahera - 0.3 million[85]
Christian Church of Sumba - 0.3 million[86]
Karo Batak Protestant Church - 0.3 million[87]
Reformed Church in America - 0.3 million[88]
Christian Reformed Church in North America - 0.3 million[89]
Christian Reformed Church of Nigeria - 0.3 million[90]
Reformed Church in Zambia - 0.3 million[91]
Kalimantan Evangelical Church - 0.2 million[92]
Javanese Christian Churches - 0.2 million[93]
Indonesia Christian Church - 0.2 million[94]
Church of Christ in the Sudan Among the Tiv - 0.2 million[95]
Church of Lippe - 0.2 million[96]
Evangelical Church of Congo - 0.2 million[97]
Evangelical Church of Gabon - 0.2 million[98]
Christian Evangelical Church of Sangihe Talaud - 0.2 million[99]
Central Sulawesi Christian Church - 0.2 million[100]
Evangelical Reformed Church in Bavaria and Northwestern Germany - 0.2 million[101]
Congregationalism - 5 million United Church of Christ - 1.2 million[102]
Evangelical Congregational Church in Angola - 0.9 million[103]
United Congregational Church of Southern Africa - 0.5 million[104]
Anabaptism and Schwarzenau Brethren - 3.5 million Schwarzenau Brethren/German Baptist groups - 1.5 million[105]
Mennonites - 1.7 million
Amish - 0.25 million
Hutterites - 0.05 million
Hussites - 1 million Moravians - 0.825 million
Czechoslovak Hussite Church - 0.14 million
Unity of the Brethren - 0.035 million
Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) - 0.4 million
Modern Protestantism - 464 million Pentecostalism - 279 million[106] Assemblies of God - 65 million[107]
Fangcheng Fellowship - 12 million
International Circle of Faith - 11 million[108]
China Gospel Fellowship - 10 million
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) - 9 million
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel - 8 million
Church of God in Christ - 6.5 million[109]
Apostolic Church - 6 million
Jesus is Lord Church - 6 million
International Pentecostal Holiness Church - 4 million
United Pentecostal Church International - 4 million
The Pentecostal Mission - 2.5 million
Christian Congregation of Brazil - 2.5 million
True Jesus Church - 2.5 million
Church of Pentecost - 2.1 million
Universal Church of the Kingdom of God - 2 million
Pentecostal Assemblies of the World - 1.5 million
Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa - 1.2 million
Church of God of Prophecy - 1.5 million
Association of Pentecostal Churches of Rwanda - 1 million
God is Love Pentecostal Church - 0.8 million
Nondenominational evangelicalism - 80 million Calvary Chapel - 25 million
Born Again Movement - 20 million
Association of Vineyard Churches - 15 million
Christian and Missionary Alliance - 4 million[110]
True Jesus Church - 2.5 million
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) - 1.2 million
African initiated Protestant churches - 60 million [111] Zion Christian Church - 15 million
Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim - 10 million
Kimbanguist Church - 5.5 million
Church of the Lord (Aladura) - 3.6 million[112]
Council of African Instituted Churches - 3 million[113]
Church of Christ Light of the Holy Spirit - 1.4 million[114]
African Church of the Holy Spirit - 0.7 million[115]
African Israel Church Nineveh - 0.5 million[116]
Seventh-day Adventist Church - 17 million
New Apostolic Church - 10 million[117]
Chinese-originated and Chinese Independent Churches – 10 million Local Churches – between 1 and 10 million
Eastern Lightning – 1 million
The Shouters – unknown, probably less than 1 million
Note: Groups listed have origins in the Lord’s Recovery movement associated with Watchman Nee and Witness Lee. The Shouters are an offshoot of the Local Churches considered a dangerous sect by the Chinese government; due to the extremely decentralized nature of both groups, there is controversy over which house churches should be actually considered part of each. Eastern Lightning, which is in turn an offshoot of The Shouters, is very hierarchical (in contrast to its predecessors) and teaches that Christ has already returned as a woman named Lightning Deng.
Restoration Movement - 7 million Churches of Christ - 5 million
Christian churches and churches of Christ - 1.1 million[13]
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) - 0.7 million[118]
Plymouth Brethren - 1 million[119]
Eastern Orthodoxy - 225–300 million[edit]
A map of Eastern Orthodoxy by population percentage.
The most common estimates of the number of Orthodox Christians worldwide are approximately 225–300 million.[120] These are the adherents of the recognized Orthodox jurisdictions (autocephalous and autonomous churches) that are in full communion with each other. In addition, there are some Orthodox splinter groups and non-universally recognized churches.
Autocephalous churches - 240 million Russian Orthodox Church - 150 million
Romanian Orthodox Church - 23 million
Church of Greece - 15 million
Serbian Orthodox Church - 11.5 million
Bulgarian Orthodox Church - 10 million
Georgian Orthodox Church - 3.5 million
Greek Orthodox Church of Constantinople - 3.5 million
Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch - 2.5 million
Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria - 1.5 million
Orthodox Church in America - 1.2 million
Polish Orthodox Church - 1 million
Albanian Orthodox Church - 0.8 million
Church of Cyprus - 0.7 million
Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem - 0.14 million
Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church - 0.07 million
Autonomous churches - 12 million Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) - 7.2 million[121]
Moldovan Orthodox Church - 3.2 million
Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia - 1.25 million
Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia - 0.62 million
Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric - 0.34 million[citation needed]
Estonian Orthodox Church - 0.3 million
Patriarchal Exarchate in Western Europe - 0.15 million
Finnish Orthodox Church - 0.08 million
Chinese Orthodox Church - 0.03 million
Japanese Orthodox Church - 0.02 million
Latvian Orthodox Church - 0.02 million
Non-universally recognized churches - 11 million Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate) - 5.5 million[121]
Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church - 3.8 million
Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church - 2.4 million
Macedonian Orthodox Church - 2 million
Orthodox Church of Greece (Holy Synod in Resistance) - 0.75 million
Old Calendar Romanian Orthodox Church - 0.50 million
Old Calendar Bulgarian Orthodox Church - 0.45 million
Orthodox Church in Italy - 0.12 million
Montenegrin Orthodox Church - 0.05 million
Other separated Orthodox groups - 10 million Old Believers - 5.5 million
Greek Old Calendarists - 0.86 million
True Orthodox Church - 0.85 million
Oriental Orthodoxy - 86 million[edit]
A map of Oriental Orthodoxy by population percentage.Autocephalous churches in communion Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church - 48 million[122]
Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria - 15.5 million
Armenian Apostolic Church - 8 million
Syriac Orthodox Church - 6.6 million[123][124][125]
Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church - 2.5 million
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church - 2 million[126]
Armenian Orthodox Church of Cilicia - 1.5 million
Autonomous churches in communion Jacobite Syrian Christian Church - 1.2 million[127]
Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople - 0.42 million
Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem - 0.34 million
French Coptic Orthodox Church - 0.01 million
British Orthodox Church - 0.01 million
Churches not in communion Mar Thoma Syrian Church - 1.1 million[128]
Malabar Independent Syrian Church - 0.06 million
Anglicanism - 85 million[edit]
Anglican Communion - 80 million[129] Church of England - 25.0 million[130]
Church of Nigeria - 18.0 million[131]
Church of Uganda - 8.1 million[132]
Anglican Church of Kenya - 5.0 million[133]
Episcopal Church of Sudan - 4.5 million[134]
Church of South India - 4 million[135]
Anglican Church of Australia - 3.9 million[136]
Anglican Church of Southern Africa - 2.3 million[137]
Episcopal Church in the United States - 2.1 million[138]
Anglican Church of Tanzania - 2.0 million[139]
Anglican Church of Canada - 2.0 million[140]
Church of North India - 1.5 million[141]
Anglican Church of Rwanda - 1.0 million[142]
Church of the Province of Central Africa - 0.9 million[143]
Anglican Church of Burundi - 0.8 million[144]
Church in the Province of the West Indies - 0.8 million[145]
Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean - 0.5 million[146]
Church of Christ in Congo–Anglican Community of Congo - 0.5 million[147]
Church of Pakistan - 0.5 million[148]
Church of Ireland - 0.4 million[149]
Church of the Province of West Africa - 0.3 million[150]
Church of the Province of Melanesia - 0.2 million[151]
Continuing Anglican movement and independent Anglican churches - 1.5 million Traditional Anglican Communion - 0.4 million[152]
Church of England in South Africa - 0.1 million[153]
Restorationism and Non-Trinitarianism - 41 million[edit]
Latter Day Saint movement - 15.2 million The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) - 15 million[154]
Community of Christ - 0.2 million[155]
Iglesia ni Cristo - 10 million[156][157]
Jehovah’s Witnesses - 7.65 million [158][159]
Oneness Pentecostalism - 6 million United Pentecostal Church International - 4 million
Pentecostal Assemblies of the World - 1.5 million
La Luz del Mundo - between 1 and 7 million
Unitarian Universalism - 0.6 million Unitarian Universalist Association - 0.2 million[160]
Note: Unitarian Universalism, which counts 0.6 million adherents,[161] developed out of Christian traditions but no longer identifies as a Christian denomination.
Church of Christ, Scientist - 0.4 million
Friends of Man - 0.07 million
Christadelphians - 0.06 million
Church of the East - 0.6 million[edit]
Assyrian Church of the East - 0.5 million
Ancient Church of the East - 0.1 million
"No Replies"
Imagine that.......
I would advise any Catholic (or non Catholic) to follow the teachings of Jesus as directed by Jesus to Peter and the Catholic Church.(Matthew 16:18-20)
I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.
I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins
and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead
and the life of the world to come. Amen.
While I do not know the religious beliefs or practices of your church, I do feel that most other Christian churches were established by man and do not follow all the teachings of Jesus or the Catholic Church. I am sure that the intentions are good and that they attempt to follow Jesus. I hope that there will be unity as promised by Christ and that the many will join Jesus in Heaven.
I am more concerned with all the bad things that people do to each other (whether reported in the news or not). I do believe that people of Faith can move mountains if we do so with God’s help.
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Preach it, sister......
Weak answers, all.
Iscool asked some very good questions which deserved better answers than being blown off.
I have accepted the sacrifice that Jesus made of His body on the cross in order to heal my sin sick vessel; as well as the redemption He provided in the shedding of HIs blood (His life on the cross). To believe this verse defines the literal drinking of His blood, and the literal eating of His body is what He said, is to violate every interpretive rule of the word of God in executing proper exegesis. I daily experience His presence, His peace, His joy, and His righteousness in this life I have surrendered unto Him. Jesus also said, “if you eye offend you, pluck it out, and if you hand offend you, cut it off.” Should we take that literally by ripping our eyeballs out, and cutting off our hands? I partake of the bread and the cup on a regulard basis with His exhortation to “Do This In Remembrance Of Me,” understanding what He truly meant when He said, “This is may body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me......this is the cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood” (Luke22:19-20). This was before His crucifixion, before His death, and before His resurrection. Were they literally drinking His blood and eating His flesh prior to His death? Did Jesus literally eat His own body, and drink His own blood? This is nothing more than Cultic Religion, following an apostate Christianity which has twisted and wrangled the Scriptures as a means of making men captive to their twisted interpretations and dictates.
Such cultic twisting of the word of God must nauseate Him.
“While I do not know the religious beliefs or practices of your church, I do feel that most other Christian churches were established by man and do not follow all the teachings of Jesus or the Catholic Church. “
“Feelings! Nothing more than feelings...”
Peter just denied him out of weakness, and later repented; he didn’t follow him for a year and a half with the intention of selling him to the highest bidder.
Judas fell on his sword, which was the standard way of dying when one was dishonored. That is what “hanging” meant at that time. That does not necessarily mean he repented, just that he could no longer live with himself.
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