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To: Tell It Right

You can lump in Methodist, Presbyterians and many Baptist congregations in that statement.

The Adversary has made great strides in the last 70 years in the corruption of men.

I can’t think of any Christian sect that has not suffered corruption.

The Adversary does not take vacations, does not take breaks and does not sleep in his efforts to destroy mankind.


13 posted on 02/13/2024 10:34:56 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac
Please see https://freerepublic.com/focus/religion/4217096/posts?page=21#21 in which I mention the recent change in many Methodist churches. That's what I want for Catholics.

The reason the Methodists were able to leave the hedonist UMC general conference is the same reason the Baptists were able to fire their president. There are enough good, sincere Christians in those churches to tell their leaders that they're sticking to Jesus like glue and if the leaders keep getting in the way then the leaders have to go. The Baptists handled it by firing their president. The Methodists were unable to ditch the leaders in their general conference; so entire Methodist churches left the general conference.

That's how important that righteousness is to the Christians in those churches. My prayer is that there's enough Catholics with that same dedication to Jesus more than denomination. Can the good Catholics tell their commie "pope" and the other hedonists leaders in the RCC that either they go or the good guys are leaving the RCC?

The Baptists who did that and won the argument didn't quit being Baptist (i.e. protestants believing in calvinism, which I disagree with but it doesn't matter). The Methodists that did that didn't quit being Methodists (i.e. protestants believing in arminianism). Can't Catholics do the same? Can't Catholics still believe in transubstantiation during the eucharist without requiring a member of the hedonist clique RCC clergy being there to bless the elements? Does a Catholic's belief in purgatory and remission of sins allow the remission of sin without a RCC clergy to be there to bless the sin away?

If the answer is "no", that good Catholics can't be Catholic without their hedonist clergy then the good Catholics have lost the battle. As long as the control-freak leaders know that you think you need them, they can get away with bastardizing the gospel.

But if the Catholics can cross the step of telling their leaders they no longer believe in "apostolic secession" to be the absolute thing they've been told over and over it is, and that the leaders (clergy) need the lay folks more than the lay folks need the clergy, and that you're going to quit using terms like "clergy" and "laity" because the RCC leaders have abused that kind of social status fake distinctions way too much ... then there's a chance the RCC can be rescued.

Notice not once am I saying that Catholics need to be Protestant like me. I'm not talking about the 5 solas or anything like that. But what is required is that the good guys in the RCC tell the "clergy" that you're sticking to Jesus like glue and if the clergy gets in the way then the clergy has to go.

15 posted on 02/13/2024 11:01:53 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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