Posted on 06/27/2015 6:34:38 PM PDT by Morgana
First of all, Baptists are not protestants. They did not protest against the Roman Catholic Church and its hierarchy. They were already an organized denomination long before the reformers came along.
Because it seems to me that these numerous posts like this one aim to “prove” that Roman Catholicism is the only faith and that protestants are heathens worse than animists.
Of course you think it is wrong. It disagrees with your personal indoctrination and does nothing to advance the Roman Catholic cult.
BTW, how much does one get paid to post the incessant repostings of reposts we se daily, with incessant lengthy replies by that some poster?
I think it is wrong and confrontational to those of us Christians who think it is all wrong and is loosely based on cultic traditions with an occasional reference to Scripture (usually out of context)!!
It does nothing to advance the Gospel of Christ, and that is the obligation of Christianity God never told Christians to support some manmade cult called Roman Catholicism. The only true church is made up of all those who have given their hearts and should to Jesus Christ through faith.
Peter was NEVER given any special position by Christ. Indeed, he was called Satan just after Christ spoke His words about Christ being the Rock on which we base our faith. Peter was an apostle to the Jews. Are Roman Catholics Jewish?
Anyone is welcome to follow the leader into the pit. The leader of the Roman Catholic cult is older than their religion, and is a fallen angel. Lucifer is happy with all the Roman Catholics working though their belief in their cults dictates. He appreciates all the idolatry and demonic sympathy spread through the misinformation campaign he started years ago.
Job 42: 1 Then Job replied to the Lord:
2 “I know that you can do all things;
no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3 You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’
Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know.
4 “You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.’
5 My ears had heard of you
but now my eyes have seen you.
6 Therefore I despise myself
and repent in dust and ashes.”
Epilogue
7 After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has. 8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.” 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the Lord told them; and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.
10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before. 11 All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
12 The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys. 13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch. 15 Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.
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Luke 6: 46 “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? 47 As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like. 48 They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built. 49 But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete.”
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Romans 8: ... 7 Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? 2 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. 3 So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.
4 So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. 6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
“You know I like you a lot, but what is the purpose of such a post?”I can only assume it’s satire... a collection of cliches and poor Biblical interpretation dressed up like reasons.
Preaching to the choir. Same old stuff we've seen hundreds of times before. I find none of it compelling.
(Some of the responses from what is nominally "our side" I find equally clueless.)
Because you support the majority of the Supreme Court that ruled in favor of gay marriage (and is made up of NO Protestants)?
Ouch! :-)
Wow!
“Because it seems to me that these numerous posts like this one aim to “prove” that Roman Catholicism is the only faith and that protestants are heathens worse than animists.”
Well, your understanding is wrong. Proving that the Catholic faith is true, does not make Protestants “heathens worse than animists.”
If someone proved that China was the wellspring of Asian culture, that wouldn’t make the Japanese hispanics. That’s basically what your understanding seems to suggest.
I’m not seeing Apostolic Succession in my Bible. Is it in yours?
and don’t get me started on Apostolic Traditions either.
You should, instead, emulate your pope: “who am I to judge?”
Exactly.
Watch what a Romanist does, not what he says.
You should, instead, emulate your pope: “who am I to judge?”
Above his pay grade?
I will help with the scripture passages, if you want to look more deeply than following the Vatican down the wide road toward the broad gate.
With what’s been happening over the past few days, you sure picked a fine time to start sowing discord among Christians by flaming Protestants.
You don’t really want to run down that alley, FRiend. Focus upon being born from above and tell me if you know when you were born from above, if you know.
I'd think that while the government is slowly boiling all the Christians without regard for such matters and apparently without distracting those who are being boiled from their fate, that we could at least have a clear schedule of when it's appropriate to whack each other with clubs.
No, I’m asking you to focus upon the important point of being born from above. We can assume you are already born of water from your mother’s womb. Unless you are a computer program designed to formulate questions, only questions.
John 3:18 He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not believe, is already judged : because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 3:19 And this is the judgment : because the light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light : for their works were evil.
Right there it is from Christ Himself, if their deeds are evil they have not come to the light.
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