Posted on 04/01/2016 12:41:08 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
I am letting you be among the first to know. It is true. I am leaving the Catholic Church. I want you to know that this has not been a decision made in haste or without serious and intense research and consideration. But I can no longer remain in a church that I no longer believe in.
Let me explain.
I will be writing more about this soon, but for now let me just say there are five main reasons why I am leaving the Catholic Church:
1. I believe the sole rule of faith for Christians has to be Scripture. The Holy Bible is the only unchanging and definitive word of God that a Christian can build his or her life upon. Everything else, including the Catholic claims to authority, in the end, amount to ever-changing and ultimately sinking sand.
2. I believe works or any sense of salvific cooperation with God’s grace as constitutive to a Christian’s eternal life is unbiblical. “… not of works” (cf. Eph. 2:8-9) means not of works.
3. The idea of Mary and the saints being involved in the salvation of a Christian is tantamount to a denial of the sufficiency of Christ’s redeeming work on Calvary’s cross.
4. #3 can also be said of Purgatory, the “sacrifice” of the Mass, the Catholic view of salvation/justification, and more. These and more of the elements of Catholic teaching result in a denial of the sufficiency of the sacrifice of Christ. More to follow in a more detailed post.
5. What Catholics call the “veneration” of Mary and the saints is actually idolatry.
These are just for starters here. Many of you know that for the last 28 years I have defended the above teachings and more from the Catholic Church. I can no longer do so in clear conscience.
And by the way, just so you know…
April fools!
But since Scripture tells us that Jesus died, was buried, rose again, and is seated at the right hand of the Father, then His work of atonement is DONE.
Therefore, if the priest is offering Him us as a sacrifice, it MUST be a new one because the first one is done and is no longer continuing.
Catholic minds cannot see that the blasphemy is testament of just how evil satan is, how inveigling his methods, how spiritually deadly is human pride. You see, at the heart of 'doing this ritual', eating the sacrifice, is human pride. The 'works' catholics are taught they must perform to earn, strive for, and be worthy of deliverance from their sin nature are pride based, just as satan tempted Eve by appealing to her pride, that she could be like God!.
As I've said before and catholicism continues to prove it....it's gotta come through Mary in some way.
Houston, we have a problem. Catholicism disagrees with itself.
The quote from Msgr Knox which you supplied:
But the priest, in this interval of drama, doesn't pretend that somebody is there who isn't there. Jesus Christ is really there; there's no pretending about it. He is really there, not merely in the sacred Host, but also in the person of the priest. We mustn't say that the priest is Jesus Christ; that would be blasphemy and nonsense. No, but the priest has become a kind of dummy through which, here and now, Jesus Christ is consecrating the Sacrament, just as he did, but in his own person, nineteen hundred years ago.
The quote from O'Brien
When the priest pronounces the tremendous words of consecration, he reaches up into the heavens, brings Christ down from His throne, and places Him upon our alter to be offered up again as the Victim for the sins of man.....The priest speaks and lo! Christ, the eternal and omnipotent God, bows his head in humble obedience to the priest’s command.
Which one is the priest now?
It really doesn't matter as all of this false teaching is contradictory to Hebrews 7:27 to which no catholic so far has been able to offer an explanation.
who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. Henrews 7:27 NASB
The blasphemous teachings of catholicsm continue to be displayed.
You might be surprised how much I know. Tim Staples was invited to my wedding and although he did not attend, his brother did.
After a two year long effort to prove that the Catholic Church was wrong, he came to the realization that the Catholic Church was right.
Although my wife knew Tim longer than I did, we both attended adult Bible studies with Tim. Long before his conversion to Catholicism, neither of us were impressed by his understanding of Scripture. Although he might have claimed to be devout, he seemed quite misguided.
Here here. I could live with that. It's better than whatever else I have seen here. 😆😀😃
You know, when I was a Catholic, I believed that the priest celebrated the unbloody sacrifice of the cross at the mass. Being as I am an ex catholic now, I no longer accept it.
If a Christian, Baptism is necessary, Moses wasn't a Christian but chances are pretty good that he is saved.
While we’re waiting, a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCZtUSSNW1M>HERE’S a John MacArthur video that answers many questions regarding Roman Catholicism</a> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCZtUSSNW1M
Oh yeah, I forgot sola scriptura......sigh
Do you suppose that Judas made it to Heaven???
How did you come to that conclusion based on my statement???
pretty good chances he was saved???
Six days later Jesus *took with Him Peter and [a]James and John his brother, and *led them up on a high mountain by themselves. 2 And He was transfigured before them; and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as light. 3 And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him. Matt 17:1-3
TC....do you even read the text before you post??
See post 421..
Papal infallibility is indeed backed up by scripture and it is on this basis that the Immaculate Conception and Assumption were declared dogmas of the church.
Your second comment is meaningless, Mary isn't the center of Catholicism, Christ is, and has always been.
This is great another 500 posts fighting over what has been fought over for 500 years.
You guys are like Shiite and Sunni.
You argue over the details. You are missing the key point: Love thy neighbor as yourself. Wasn’t that the most important commandment?
Mary isn’t the center of Roman Catholicism??? You could’ve fooled me.
We are to love our neighbor. One of the best ways to love your neighbor is to tell them the truth. That’s what we’re doing. Sharing the Gospel for those who are willing to listen.
Read my post, I was discussing the fact that while Christians need Baptism for salvation, others did not and I used Moses as an obvious example....pay attention.
apparently that's not too hard.
You said pretty good he was saved. The text says he is. There is a difference.
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