Repentance

My Utmost For His Higest ^ | Dec.7,2014 | Oswald Chambers

[Elsie]

Luke 18:11"The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: 'God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Elsie 8:19 "The Catholic stood and was praying this to himself: 'God, I thank You that I am not like other people: Protestants, Lutherans, Muslims, or even like this jerk on FR!

[Elsie]

The Pharisees and Sadducees had it and so does anyone that believes in OSAS.

Romans 8:38-39
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

[Mark17]

Yes, well it is not hard for us to understand, but it seems like there are others who can not comprehend it. I wonder why? Elementary my friend Watson, elementary. The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness.🔥 But then there are the rest of us who get it. 😇👌👍 Ain't life grand?

[Mark17]

That looks like a WWE wrestler. 😀

[CynicalBear]

Well said! They claim faith in Christ but then deny the sufficiency.

[lupie]

Christ instituted a sacrament covering this subject...The sacrament of reconciliation or penance brings Catholics back to a state of grace after forgiving their sins when they confess those sins and show true repentance for them

True repentance is coming to that point where you see your puny self up next to the Almighty, Omnipotent, Holy, and Just God and realize you have offended Him, have caused Him pain, have broken His commands, and realize how sinful and filthy you are compared to His perfection, and you despair of that knowing there is no way of fixing the relationship you have broken with Him because of your sin, yet wanting desperately to. You get to the point where you realize there is nothing, not one thing you can do or think or say that can help you. You get to the point where you realize that God alone is the only solution. That He is God, and you are not, and can never be.

Then, and only then, God pours out His grace to you through the finished and victorious work of Christ' death and resurrection.

If you try in any way to think, say, or do anything to bring you back into God's graces, to cause God to pour out His grace, to come into a state of grace, then it is no longer only God's finished work, but your own. And that is sin. And if that is sin, then there was never any true repentance because you have elevated yourself into God's holy position.

[CynicalBear]

Whenever I see that passage being quoted it reminds me of the importance of context. Without context we don't know who it was that was producing the quarrels.

1 Timothy 2:23 But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels.

[Mark17]

That's some verse, that Elsie 8:19. 😎🙏 It really unlocks the scriptures 🔓 and sheds some light on them. 🔦 The blood of Christ cleanses us from sin 🛀🚿 Let's all sing to the Lord 🎤

[Resettozero]

True repentance is coming to that point where you see your puny self up next to the Almighty, Omnipotent, Holy, and Just God and realize you have offended Him, have caused Him pain, have broken His commands, and realize how sinful and filthy you are compared to His perfection, and you despair of that knowing there is no way of fixing the relationship you have broken with Him because of your sin, yet wanting desperately to. You get to the point where you realize there is nothing, not one thing you can do or think or say that can help you. You get to the point where you realize that God alone is the only solution.

Either that...or driving high-speed wrong-way on the Interstate, a choice more lost souls are making these years.

[CynicalBear]

>>Matthew 5:26 "Truly I say to you, you will not come out of there until you have paid up the last cent."<<

And Christ's sacrifice on that cross paid every last cent owed.

[Resettozero]

And Christ's sacrifice on that cross paid every last cent owed.

Evidenced by the Father in Heaven's approval by raising Him from the dead, and by His promise, us with Him.

[CynicalBear]

1 Corinthians 1:8 ..our Lord Jesus Christ, who will sustain you to the end..

And yet so many come in here and deny those words claiming man has to do the sustaining.

[Mark17]

1 Corinthians 1:8 ..our Lord Jesus Christ, who will sustain you to the end..

And yet so many come in here and deny those words claiming man has to do the sustaining.

The utter audacity, the pride of people to think they have what it takes to do God's work for Him. 👎 That is what a works based religion is, in a nut shell, 🌰 and the end is death 💀😱

[daniel1212]

I guess the rule of the day for RC's is..... *The less evidence there is to support it, the more true it has to be.*

And the more it must be promoted. Consider the Assumption, and the claim to remember, using a misappropriated text.

Ratzinger writes (emp. mine), Before Mary's bodily Assumption into heaven was defined, all theological faculties in the world were consulted for their opinion. Our teachers' answer was emphatically negative . What here became evident was the one-sidedness, not only of the historical, but of the historicist method in theology. “Tradition” was identified with what could be proved on the basis of texts. Altaner, the patrologist from Wurzburg…had proven in a scientifically persuasive manner that the doctrine of Mary’s bodily Assumption into heaven was unknown before the 5C; this doctrine, therefore, he argued, could not belong to the “apostolic tradition. And this was his conclusion, which my teachers at Munich shared.

But,

subsequent “remembering” (cf. Jn 16:4, for instance) can come to recognize what it has not caught sight of previously [meaning the needed evidence was absent] and was already handed down in the original Word” [via amorphous oral tradition] - J. Ratzinger, Milestones (Ignatius, n.d.), 58-59.

[verga]

And Christ's sacrifice on that cross paid every last cent owed.

So you are saying the Bible is wrong, or didn't Jesus and Matthew get the memo?

[Resettozero]

So you are saying the Bible is wrong, or didn't Jesus and Matthew get the memo?

Not humorous.

[Elsie]

close!

He wants to wrestle me to be the Alpha of the herd every day!

His collar; badly worn; says...

Bad To The Bone

[CynicalBear]

>>So you are saying the Bible is wrong, or didn't Jesus and Matthew get the memo?<<

1 John 2:2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

Scripture is right every time. It's the corrupted Catholic Church interpretation that's wrong.

[verga]

Wasn’t meant to be, I am pointing out the corner you all have painted yourselves into. Matthew very clearly states that there is atonement to be made after Christ’s death and Resurrection.