Posted on 06/06/2016 8:31:02 AM PDT by ebb tide
Yes.
My post wasn't speaking to that specific a point though but more to the implication of the article you posted, that the broad application of the TLM would somehow solve all our modernist woes. It won't by itself. That's what the article seems to imply to me at least.
My post was like saying, considering the person that doesn't appreciate beauty in art, (or in other words someone analogous to someone without a receptive heart, although of course an appreciation for art isn't the same as a heart open to Christ but still the analogy holds) you can sit them down in front of the great works in the Vatican, and then in front of a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon and they won't see the difference, both will be the same to such a person.
Yes and it is the ekklesia....not the roman Catholic Church which continually sacrifices Christ again and again and teaches one is drinking blood during the mass nor is it the one with idols of “Mary” they kneel before and pray to.
So which protestant religion is the truth? Y’all have quite differing beliefs amongst yourselves; and it seems the only thing you guys have in common is that y’all hate the Catholic Church.
Should a catholic follow Vatican I or Vatican II?
Traditional catholic?
Sedevacantists?
Should a catholic even follow the current pope?
Seems the only thing you guys have in common is you worship Mary.
Let’s get down to details. What is your religion and why have you picked that one?
I’m a Christian.....a follower of Christ. He offers through the cross the forgiveness of my sins through faith in Him.
Chicken. Why won’t you reveal your “religion” and what “church” you attend?
Let’s get down to details. What is your religion and why have you picked that one?
Which I answered and now you resort to name calling??
Chicken. Why won’t you reveal your “religion” and what “church” you attend?
Again....I'm a Christian.
I know catholics identify more with an organization rather than the Savior so this may be difficult for some to understand.
I am a Roman Catholic. Anybody who claims to be a “christian” but is not Catholic is simply a heretic.
Do you go to a “church” on Sundays? If so, what is the denomination of said “church”.
And there in is the difference. You identify with an organization.
I identify with the Savior.
I've already identified as a Christian. I do attend church on Sunday. That's as much info as you're going to get on this one.
I don't ask which catholic church you go to....and don't tell me they're all the same unless the priest gets his message/homily straight from the Vatican every Sunday or that every Bible study group is getting their lesson from the Vatican.
I. am. a. Christian.
Why is that? Do you fear your fellow prot's on this forum will critique your particular flavor?
Sorry to disappoint you, but anybody who claims to be “christian” yet rejects Christ’s One, Holy, Catholic and apostolic Church is not a christian. I don’t care if you’re a protestant, a holy roller or a mormon.
Jesus did not say, come, be a member of a church....He said,
24“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. John 5:24
If one has done that you are a member of the ekklesia...the body of believers....the church.
Prot...what's that?
Catholics are the only ones on this board that seem to be interested in denominations.
I believe you already know what that is; because you have already denied being one of them.
You're not a prot, nor a Catholic, yet you continuously attack the Catholic Church from your little secret sect.
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