Strategies for Returning to the [Catholic] Church

CE.com ^ | 01-11-18 | James Day

[Elsie]

Why are you so anti-Catholic? The vitriol in your remarks about Catholicism, may be preventing you from understanding the Truth of God.

Really?

Why are you so anti-Protestant? The vitriol in your remarks about ProtestantISM, may be preventing you from understanding the Excesses of CatholicISM.

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[Elsie]

I recommend you do a word search on "It is written" and "write". The study would do you good.

Is that a dog whistle off in the distance??

[Elsie]

We see what you are trying to do!!

We worship Jesus because He was sinless.

And now, just because Mary was sinless; too; you're trying to say we worship her!

--Catholic_Wannabe_Dude(Hail Mary: whom we DON'T worship!!)

[Elsie]

Actually, it's a Biblical understanding of His authority. Roman Catholicism undermines His authority with its insistence on the worship of Mary and equating her as co-redemptrix, advocatrix, etc.

HERETIC!

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Matthew 12:46-47 plus some that OBVIOUSLY got lost in translation...

 

While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, His mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to Him.
Someone told Him, “Look, Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to You.”

But Jesus replied, “When I'm gone; check with Mom over at John's house.  She'll be handling requests on Earth in my absense.

She will bundle all your requests and send them to me on the Overnight Angelic Express.  I'll then deal with the one's she deems worthy.

 

[ealgeone]

You’re onto me!

[Elsie]

Most believers in Christ would accept the invitation from Jesus to eat His Body and Blood for our eternal salvation that we would do so.

And yet Doubting Thomas did not lick his fingers.

Go figger...

[Elsie]

We believe in the Resurrection and expect to gain everlasting life with God upon our earthly death.

So just where do you Catholics 'go' when you die?

Purgatory?
Heaven??
Somewhere else???

[Elsie]

My Queen and my Mother, I give myself entirely to you...

Isaiah 42:8

"I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.
(Except for that virgin that has been prophesied to come.)

[Elsie]

I’ll need a bigger brain.

Mine is full.

Every time I learn something new; and old memory goes away...

[ADSUM]

Protestantism (16th Century)

Protestant groups display a wide variety of different doctrines. However, virtually all claim to believe in the teachings of sola scriptura (”by Scripture alone”—the idea that we must use only the Bible when forming our theology) and sola fide (”by faith alone”— the idea that we are justified by faith only).

The great diversity of Protestant doctrines stems from the doctrine of private judgment, which denies the infallible authority of the Church and claims that each individual is to interpret Scripture for himself. This idea is rejected in 2 Peter 1:20, where we are told the first rule of Bible interpretation: “First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation.” A significant feature of this heresy is the attempt to pit the Church “against” the Bible, denying that the magisterium has any infallible authority to teach and interpret Scripture.

The doctrine of private judgment has resulted in an enormous number of different denominations. According to The Christian Sourcebook, there are approximately 20-30,000 denominations, with 270 new ones being formed each year. Virtually all of these are Protestant.

file:///E:/CATHOLIC/The%20Great%20Heresies%20_%20Catholic%20Answers.html

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“by Scripture alone”—the idea that we must use only the Bible when forming our theology”

Actually, it means that the inspired Scriptures are the final/highest authority in all matters of faith and practice.

[Mark17]

+1

[Mark17]

Check with your local priest, or Imam...

Who needs a priest or imam, when I have YOPIOS? 😀😆😄

[ealgeone]

Ok....provide the verse by verse exegesis of each verse of the New Testamemt that has been produced by the Roman Catholic Church.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“The doctrine of private judgment has resulted in an enormous number of different denominations. ”

Millions of Roman Catholic ones alone!

Each man or woman does what is right in his own eyes...

Including the gay Vatican and the Pope!

[Luircin]

*Yawn*

So in other words, you have no arguments other than the argument by age fallacy and calling people heretics.

Moloch worship is older than Catholicism; does that mean that Moloch worship is better?

[ADSUM]

Perhaps your religion gives you false hope. Are you basing your expectations on a man-made doctrine?

But then many ignore these words of Jesus: “Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. 54Whoever eats* my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.”

We are all expected to learn God’s Truth and live according to His will.

God’s peace be with you.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“This idea is rejected in 2 Peter 1:20, where we are told the first rule of Bible interpretation: “First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation.”

It doesn’t teach believers cannot interpret Scripture. It teaches that *prophecy* did not come from the writer’s opinions - but from God.

Rome twists that to ignore the actual words of the text.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

But then many ignore these words of Jesus:

John 3:16

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

[af_vet_1981]

"Cephas" written in the English and Latin alphabets, and כּף in the Aramaic alphabet, and transliterated to Κηφᾶς in the Greek alphabet, is interpretively translated as Πέτρος in the Koine Greek language penned by the Holy Spirit in the precisely, infallibly, and inerrantly guided mind and hand of he Beloved Apostle John, and defined in a Greek-English lexicon as "Stone" in English; ...

and defined by Strong's as "rock" here:

Definition: Definition: Cephas (Aramaic for rock), the new name given to Simon Peter, the apostle.

The Messiah is not only referred to as a Rock, but is also referred to as "stone", using אֶ֭בֶן (Hebrew) in the Psalm and Λίθον (Greek) in the Gospel :

The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.

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Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?

Psalms, Catholic chapter one hundred eighteen, Protestant verse twenty two,
Matthew, Catholic chapter twenty one, Protestant verse forty two,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James