The Pope: We are Christians because we belong to the Church, "can't love God outside of the Church"

http://www.asianews.it ^ | June 25, 2014 | The Vatican

[narses]

Ah that famous "Church of One", you get to define and decide it all.

[NKP_Vet]

“Heretics bring sentence upon themselves since they by their own choice withdraw from the Church, a withdrawal which, since they are aware of it, constitutes damnation. Between heresy and schism there is this difference: that heresy involves perverse doctrine, while schism separates one from the Church on account of disagreement with the bishop. Nevertheless, there is no schism which does not trump up a heresy to justify its departure from the Church” (Commentary on Titus 3:10–11 [A.D. 386]). ~ St. Jerome

[csmusaret]

The word Church does not appear in John 3:16.

[Karl Spooner]

Are you sane? Or are you speaking for Satan? There is a difference.

[CynicalBear]

Catholics have fallen for the corrupted concept of what the New Testament writers called the “assembly” of believers. No where in the New Testament is the Catholic Concept of “church” found.

[narses]

1 - Are you Christian?

2 - What denomination teaches these things you seem to recall?

3 - Do you celebrate Easter and Christmas?

[Karl Spooner]

Are you and do you?

[GeronL]

bump

[narses]

Are you sane? Or are you speaking for Satan? There is a difference.

[Last Dakotan]

If you are a Catholic you already did.

Proudly!

[Salvation]

** No where in the New Testament is the Catholic Concept of “church” found.**

So wrong.

Christ’s words:

“Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you” (Jn 6:53).

Too bad that you reject Christ’s words.

[narses]

[Karl Spooner]

I’ll just write you off as a screwball. God does make allowances for that in your favor.

[2nd amendment mama]

Man's word....NOT GOD'S

[CynicalBear]

>> Proudly!<<

How odd. That’s what Muslims and Mormons say also.

Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.<<

I humbly praise God for His grace and mercy for saving a wretch like me.

[Salvation]

[Karl Spooner]

I humbly praise God for His grace and mercy for saving a wretch like me.

If anybody goes against that here, they will get in big trouble.

[Karl Spooner]

I humbly praise God for His grace and mercy for saving a wretch like me.

If anybody goes against that here, they will get in big trouble.

[CynicalBear]

First off, why change the subject? John 6 has nothing to do with the term “church”? Are you that lacking in knowledge of scripture?

Secondly, Christ Himself explained that it wasn’t actually the flesh in that same conversation.

John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

[NKP_Vet]

Catholics wrote the Bible, and canonized the Bible. The Catholic Curch came before the NT. Without the Catholic Church you would have never heard of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Catholic Church brought the Word of God to all believers.