Posted on 10/31/2022 5:45:07 AM PDT by tanstaafl.72555
“to recover the Gospel of Grace and set His Word free,”
Glad you said “REcover”, since ML did exactly that. The Gospel of Grace existed before charlatans hijacked the Christian religion, and King brought it back to its roots.
Thank you Mary!!
9.I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
Should one require Purgatorial cleansing after death, Our Lady will make a special effort to obtain our release from Purgatory through Her intercession as Advocate.
Reminder: these promises mean that, by faithfully and devoutly praying the Rosary,
Our Lady will obtain for us the necessary Graces to obtain said promises.
It is still up to each individual soul to respond to those Graces in order to obtain salvation.
King?
Not King ... Luther.
I know. LOL! My cup of covfefe hasn’t kicked in yet. Brain fog.
“Thank you Mary!!”
Un-tier of knots. 🙄
🤪😆😂👍
Are these called signal graces? Even when I was a Catholic, I didn’t ever remember hearing that term. I haven’t recited the rosary, since sometime back in the last century. 🤪🤗🤭 Actually, well back into the last century. 🤭😆
The church in Acts 2 was visible, had a visible leadership (hint: they gave a sermon to people), and therefore had, and was, an organization, albeit one with a very simple structure.
Why don't you try answering the question, instead of casting aspersions on the person asking it?
Scripture is special revelation delivered by God through his prophets. Jesus and all the Apostles were the NT prophets. Thus everything they taught and preached was scripture. Once John died the only scripture left was the writings of the Apostle’s preaching, either first or second hand. Each book of the New Testament was taught and preached in one or more churches from it’s inception. When these books were being written Christianity had spread to at least 3 continents, thus not every congregation was familiar with each book of scripture. But the NT as we know it today has existed from the time each book was written. It took a while for the widespread church to become familiar with each book and convinced of its provenance.
Superb, Elsie!
The average EVANGELICAL church today spends OVER 90% of its budget on staff salary and maintenance/expansion of its physical plant.
Who is getting scammed?
We recently found a church that has a membership of under 200 but a staff of six. All these guys are bivocational... professors, plumbers, window washers, etc. I have never been so happy in a congregation in my 50 years as a believer. I joyfully give to this outfit.
This thread was not meant to be an uncovering of the wars of the reformation. It is high time the church as a whole says “we are not the good guys here. Jesus is the only good guy.”
The most strident, anti papal, vitriolic condemnation of the papacy were from men who LOVED THE ROMAN CHURCH BECAUSE IT CONTAINED (and contains) GOD’S PEOPLE.
This comes from a guy who once wrote out the “anathemas” in the council of Trent and in place of the “whoever” wrote my name, as in “I Tanstaafl.72555 do affirm that....(whichever part of the gospel Trent damned forever)” I gave them to a friend who was leaving the Reformed church for the Roman church. It upset her in the extreme, but them’s the ways it is.
I believe this girl (and an ex elder in a PCA church where I gave the homily at their wedding) are God’s own. All this is to say that deliberate shutting of one’s mind to clear scriptural teaching is not the exclusive province of the unregenerate.
I believe MANY people in the Roman Church are and will be saved. However they are saved DESPITE the antichrist teachings about the pope, tradition, the mass, and Mariolatry.
It is good to remind myself that if they can be blinded, then so can I.
Again, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Knox and the lot pronounced imprecations on the papal leadership, not the church as a whole. I would affirm they are antichrist, so long as they hold to the wicked counsels of Trent (and every pope since them affirms them). Not trying to be harsh, but there it is.
Charles Martel was THE MAN! Thank you for that.
Also, a group of people in Eastern Europe (can’t recall the details right now). Saw themselves as “saviors of the gospel” against the muslim hordes and fought a terrible battle to stop the advance. You are correct if only in that alone.... .not to mention the fact that the Church was the preserver of learning, general humanity, and decency for centuries where people impaled and ate folks for fun.
“The average EVANGELICAL church today spends OVER 90% of its budget on staff salary and maintenance/expansion of its physical plant.”
I’ve attended EVANGELICAL churches since I was four days old — my dad’s, my uncles’, my cousins’, and my Seminary friends’ churches.
All had/have zero paid staff except for the pastor himself. All others were volunteers, right down to those who cleaned the churches. I expect there are some mega churches who claim to be evangelical (but aren’t) who pay the staff, but I don’t know any of them.
The question is a deceit. I don’t go down those tunnels within tunnels. That’s such a Catholicism run ...
Well I’m so glad the roman sect was there to help Jesus out. He was so worried how to establish His Church without a Pope to tell Him what to do.
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