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There's only one God.All depends on WHO you are calling God...
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There's only one God.All depends on WHO you are calling God...
Same here. In fact, though having been baptized and confirmed Catholic, I was an atheist who had a "born again" experience and became a committed evangelical protestant. I only became a believing Catholic recently due to an in-depth study of church history, a subject that, if pursued, will demolish the confident posturing of most protestants.My faith is in the person, Jesus Christ.
God did not write a book and drop it out of the sky and say "read it!". The Eternal Word became a man, showed us the way, died and rose again conquering death and invited all mankind to become "partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4)". He chose twelve ordinary guys to be his disciples and founded his Church on them. That church is the universal sacrament of salvation, which guards the authentic faith "once and for all delivered to the saints (Jude 1:3)" and possesses the Holy Mysteries, chief among them being the Eucharist, the body and blood of Christ (1 Corinthians 10:16). Through the sacraments/mysteries Christ engrafts us into his body and brings us into greater and greater communion with himself making us, as I mentioned above, partakers of the divine nature. Through the church we come to share in the blessed life of the Holy Trinity and, in dramatic reversal of the calamity of the Fall, we come to bear the image of God in the likeness of God.If He did not provide His will in written form that is reliable, then it would be unjust for Him to expect anything from man seeing He would be bringing confusion by allowing all these extra biblical voices to all be claiming things that contradict one another and contradict what He put in His Word.
Confession without contrition and repentance renders the sacrament invalid. The behavior of some Catholics has no bearing on the actual content of the faith, of which you seem to be incredibly ignorant.If that's the case, we should all go get drunk which I understand many catholics like to do since they can swing by to see their priest who will wipe away their sin.
Back in my party days, I had several friends who were catholic and they did all kinds of bad stuff and it was OK cause they would just go to confession and all would be well between them and God, or so they were told by their priest.
God did not write a book
Since when is extra-biblical a bad thing? What's bad is anti-Biblical, and there's nothing in the teachings of Catholicism that is anti-Biblical.In the end we'll see how your extra biblical information works out...
Ditto, and in the entire body of his teaching, such as John 6.My faith is in the person, Jesus Christ.
Did Jesus say "Write this in memory of me"? No, he said DO. The Bible, though is the basis of our faith. It is the most important leg of a three-legged stool-Scripture, Tradition, and Magisterium. Without one leg or two legs, the stool doesn't work.If He did not provide His will in written form that is reliable, then it would be unjust for Him to expect anything from man seeing He would be bringing confusion by allowing all these extra biblical voices to all be claiming things that contradict one another and contradict what He put in His Word.
Nobody says the Bible is inaccurate, but when you see how lack of authority creates thousands of Christian denominations, none of which teach the same thing, that's when you know that the Catholic Church got it right.If God is incapable of putting His Will down on paper accurately for us today... then He is weak, and unjust!
This is a misunderstanding, by you and by those Catholics. You cannot go get drunk on purpose, and then just go to confession. You must repent. Without repentance there is no forgiveness. Secondly, it is not the priest who wipes away our sins.If that's the case, we should all go get drunk which I understand many catholics like to do since they can swing by to see their priest who will wipe away their sin.
Again, I love how Protestants criticize the Catholic Church because some or many of its 'members' do not act their faith...Back in my party days, I had several friends who were catholic and they did all kinds of bad stuff and it was OK cause they would just go to confession and all would be well between them and God, or so they were told by their priest.
As I said, if they knew their faith, listened to what was taught them in CCD, they would know that this is wrong.This is nothing more than enabling people to live in sin and telling them it's all good... in the end, we'll see if it's all good or not.
If the Church dropped every word that was misunderstood, we'd have no faith left. Look at how Pope Francis is misquoted all over the place, how Vatican II was erroneously implemented, and so on.I think the Catholic Church should simply drop the word "infallible" all-together. It would do a great deal of good, because the whole notion is incredibly misunderstood. We can speak of the Church as being "authoritative" and of preserving the authentic Apostolic faith, but I personally would like to see the whole Vatican 1 notion of infallibility absolutely scrapped. I know that's not gonna happen, but a man can dream. Now let me address the last post, because I can't resist.
How does "inspiration" translate to "authored"?2 Timothy 3:16
ALL scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness
Congrats, you are wrong and God is RIGHT!
If God cannot control what goes in to His Book... He's weak and pathetic.
Since when is extra-biblical a bad thing?
Since things are taught as being what God said to do... when He never said it such as idolatry and works based salvation, both of which cause people to burn in hell for all eternity.
Hey, we can run an eternal experiment... you practice the teachings of catholicism for your salvation, and I'll continue to follow what God actually said in His Word (He has placed His Word above His Name! - see Psalm 138:2), and we'll see who ends up where!
Well, I guess you'd have to prove that the Church teaches that we practice idolatry, and that the Church teaches that we believe in works based salvation...both of which are false.Since things are taught as being what God said to do... when He never said it such as idolatry and works based salvation, both of which cause people to burn in hell for all eternity.
Hey, we can run an eternal experiment... you practice the teachings of catholicism for your salvation, and I'll continue to follow what God actually said in His Word (He has placed His Word above His Name! - see Psalm 138:2), and we'll see who ends up where!
I will practice the teachings of Catholicism as perfectly as I can
They're one and the same.You should be doing the teachings of Jesus Christ, not what some religion teaches.
God alone will judge
Have you read the early church fathers?