Portuguese Cardinal declares acceptance of communion for adulterously remarried couples

LifeSite News ^ | February 14, 2018 | Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

[Jim W N]

God accepts them even if the Catholic Church does not (John 6:37).

[Cicero]

“in some circumstances” = if they offer to put enough in the collection plate.

[robroys woman]

God accepts them even if the Catholic Church does not (John 6:37).

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^^this^^

[Buckeye McFrog]

“in some circumstances” = if they offer to put enough in the collection plate.

Bingo! THAT'S what this is all about! With divorce rates skyrocketing too many remarried and became ex-Catholics, joining big Evangelical Megachurches where they TITHE!

The screams of jealousy can be heard all the way from Rome.

[DoodleDawg]

God accepts them even if the Catholic Church does not (John 6:37).

Perhaps. But the Catholic Church recognizes the union for what it is (Mark 10:7-12).

[DoodleDawg]

Bingo! THAT'S what this is all about! With divorce rates skyrocketing too many remarried and became ex-Catholics, joining big Evangelical Megachurches where they TITHE!

The screams of jealousy can be heard all the way from Rome.

So then what you are saying is that the Megachurches care more about the money than the written words of Jesus Christ?

[Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey]

Ummm ...

Matthew 7:21

[ebb tide]

God accepts them even if the Catholic Church does not (John 6:37).

Do you believe Hell is empty?

[DoodleDawg]

Ummm ...
Matthew 7:21

Ummm...
Matthew 19:9

[ealgeone]

Under Roman Catholicism King David and Bathsheba would not have their marriage recognized nor could they receive Communion.

[CodeToad]

If the church protect pedophiles as priests then all morality from the organization is hypocrisy.

[Jim W N]

Do you believe Hell is empty?

Sadly and unfortunately, no, but certainly not populated with those that come to Jesus (John 6:37).

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

John 3:16-18.

Jesus Christ is THE issue for time and eternity. God executed the full condemnation and punishment for the sins of the whole world on the body of his beloved Son in Christ's perfect sacrifice on the cross (1 John 2:2). Man was tangled up hopelessly in sin utterly unable to extricate himself. Thus God in his great mercy decidedly dealt with the sins of the whole world 2000 years ago on the cross.

The only issue that remains is Christ. Christ is the determining factor for our time and eternity. What sends people to Heaven is their receiving Christ. What sends people to Hell is their sad and unnecessary decision to reject the Christ and his free gift of forgiveness and salvation thus dying in their sins.

[ebb tide]

Why do you think God destroyed Sodom?

[Jim W N]

Under Roman Catholicism King David and Bathsheba would not have their marriage recognized nor could they receive Communion.

Right, and Christ is in their lineage. I'll go with the grace of God and his word and leave unscriptural Catholic doctrine to others.

[DoodleDawg]

Under Roman Catholicism King David and Bathsheba would not have their marriage recognized nor could they receive Communion.

I suppose it's a good think that David and Bathsheba weren't Catholic then, isn't it?

[Jim W N]

Sodom was before the grace of Christ which since the cross has appeared to all men (Titus 2:11). If you read closely, even then, God was not on a sin hunt, he was on a righteousness hunt.

But now

God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and has committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

2 Cor 5:19.

[ebb tide]

David and Bathsheba preceded Jesus Christ, the Church He founde, His New and Everlasting Covenant with it and His Institution of the Sacrament of Holy Communion.

So you're argument is juvenile. It's like arguing that Moses is in Hell because he was never baptized in the name of the Holy Trinity.

[ebb tide]

Jesus Condemned Sodomy And Homosexuality in The Strongest Terms

[Clutch Martin]

What does the New Testament say about divorce?

Something about being unequally yoked with a non-believer?