Posted on 04/28/2015 8:36:56 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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I read ‘inflatable’... I was like... no, but my girlfriend is...
No, but my teenaged daughter is, as she never fails to remind me.
There must be something about Catholicism that protestants covet. They sure do dwell on us.
Kay is!!!!
Did I say that right?
This clown is looking for an excuse to make it up as he goes along.
Ha! Comment of the day!
Phooey. Who wants to follow a fake religion when we have the real deal? The posters just want everyone to see the light. Jesus is the answer and the Bible is our guide book.
The only guy that was, was crucified in 33 AD, although there's a muzzie moron in the white hut who fancies himself so.
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
And if you send the PTL Club $29.95, they’ll send you a personally autographed John the Baptist swimming goggles for maximum immersion comfort!!!!
Because Christ told us so.
There can only be one Truth. But the men of the Protestant reformation breaking away after 1,500 years from the Church Christ established discovered a new truth and introduced false teachings.
Paul warned us about those introducing false teachings, "For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths." (2 Tim. 4:34).
The protestant reformation is simply not Biblical:
I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought. My brothers, some from Chloe's household have informed me that there are quarrels among you. What I mean is this: One of you says, "I follow Paul"; another, "I follow Apollos"; another, "I follow Cephas"; still another, "I follow Christ."
Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into the name of Paul? I am thankful that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, so no one can say that you were baptized into my name. (Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I don't remember if I baptized anyone else.) For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospelnot with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. 1Cor 1:10-17
You could easily read the above as One of you says, "I follow Luther"; another, "I follow Calvin"; another, "I follow Wesley"; still another, "I follow Christ."
Christians cannot be perfectly united in mind and thought when they have different beliefs on, say, the necessity of water baptism, while others believe This is my Body means This is a cookie
There can be only one Truth Christ is THE way, THE truth, THE life. One, not many.
And what if you have a disagreement with a brother as to what is The Truth? Where do you go to resolve your issue? Scripture tells us what to do:
"If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that 'every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.' If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the Church; and if he refuses to listen even to the Church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
Right the Church.
But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth. 1Tim 3:15
God bless in your journey to the truth.
Not according to the Apostle John who explicitly wrote, These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name?
But since nobody is infallible, how do you know that's really true? How do you know the Apostle John really "explicitly wrote" it, anyway? How do you know there was an "Apostle John"? How do you "know" what "to know" means?
Reminds me of the Thirty-Nine Articles, which blithely assert that "Popes and Councils hath erred, blah, blah, blah". How do we know the Thirty-Nine Articles "hath not erred"? How do we know they hath not erred in the very act of telling us that "Popes and Councils hath erred"?
The Catholic Church is the work of Divine Providence, achieved through the prophecies of the prophets, through the Incarnation and the teaching of Christ, through the journeys of the Apostles, through the suffering, the crosses, the blood and the death of the martyrs, through the admirable lives of the saints. When, then, we see so much help on God's part, so much progress and so much fruit, shall we hesitate to bury ourselves in the bosom of that Church? For starting from the Apostolic Chair down through successions of bishops, even unto the open confession of all mankind, it has possessed the crown of teaching authority." -- St. Augustine of Hippo, Advantage of Believing, ca. AD 391
History, tradition, structure, numbers, a direct connection to the Lord Jesus through the first pope, Peter upon which the Lord built his church.....
Pick one.
I trust the founder, Jesus Christ’s words in Scripture. Thou art Cephas(Peter) (rock) and on this rock I build my Church. Gates of Hell will not prevail against you. Whatever you bind on earth, will be bound in Heaven.
I do not trust words of Luther, king Henry, Calvin and all their splinters who claim to rely on Scripture and history yet deny that.
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