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Thanks, but why are they "white on the outside, and dead on the inside?" What makes them so?

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Yo, In a debate on another forum I posed the question to my "opponent" about faith alone. The debate centered around James 2 and his explanation of faith and works and how they go together. Obviously, that's the Catholic view. His view is that James was making a distinction between dead faith...

And behold, another Protestant church is born! My favorite line from the above post: "I can't be deceived, and I can't be tossed."

Every time I visit this Web site, I realize how lost and confused so-called "Bible Christians" are. It's so sad. "Don't be a Pharisee" almost always means "Don't interfere with my license to do what ever I want." Ugh. To the OP: Be pure. If you wonder whether something is impure or not, it...

All good non-Catholic, non-Orthodox Christians should reject religious relativism and squishy, new-New Age thinking like this. Don't judge, but make distinctions. Two contradictory assertions can't both be true, and there IS Truth.

See you, Dave. I completely understand. This place is toxic. If you want to come to a place where there's good conversation without all the ignorance and bile, come over to the site me and some buddies created: www.thesophiahouse.com. We're all refugees from another site that went down. We've...

Why Catholic? Go here for the definitive answer: http://www.cin.org/users/james/files/Why_Be_Catholic.htm Or if you're sick of hearing the same old garbage on this site, come visit our new site at www.thesophiahouse.com. We don't tolerate religious relativists or ignorant zealots--just...

Faith without works is dead. Can dead faith save you? No. Any attempt to get around this is extra-biblical commentary easily traceable to late-millenial religious revolutionaries pitching a new gospel. Wake up, kids. Get real. Your salvation is at stake.

Ah, sola scriptura, you're always the life of the party!

I thought a little context would be helpful when going back in time to look at the ancient practice of infant baptism. Placing various quotes in a timeline going backward help to illustrate it. In the year 215 AD, the Church Father St. Hippolytus of Rome writes: "And they shall Baptize the...

This is part of a debate I'm having on this same topic from another forum. We've basically come to the end and we're just repeating ourselves, and this is what I posted that sort of sums up our disagreements. It's a list of the things a non-Catholic anti-infant-baptism person would have to prove...

(Accidentally put this in the other forum on the topic) 1. Evangelical 2. Jehovah's Witness 3. Unitarian OH NO!!!!! j/k. I've taken this before. Comes out Catholic every time. I wonder if anyone is ever really surprised at the results...

1. Evangelical 2. Jehovah's Witness 3. Unitarian OH NO!!!!! j/k. I've taken this before. Comes out Catholic every time. I wonder if anyone is ever really surprised at the results...

PS. Maybe that's what I need to do with you CJ: get some pizza and beer. Heh. In person is so much better than through this distorting medium.

The problem is that few Catholics worth their salt think this way. It's a reductionist mindset that makes a mockery of our beliefs. Your interpretation is your own interpretation, and that's fine (as I always say) but it's a simplistic understanding of Catholic theology and thought. We'll get...

"Unfortunately" there isn't a proof-text for everything, and the Bible was never intended to be a "user's manual" or "Everything Book." People who grew up in a culture where it's treated as such are sadly too often ill-equipped to deal with moral questions. For example, most, (although it...

Mormons also can't trace their beliefs back to the earliest days of Christianity, so this line of reasoning is completely moot. I suggest you drop it because it's wildly beside the point. One could even call it a red herring.

Ruzz, I didn't know you were 45! Our relationship now feels somewhat odd...Lol. Here's the extremely abbreviated Catholic position: The faith of others was sufficient to forgive the sins of other people, and it was also sufficient to heal some. Faith IS a requirement for baptism, but since the...

Heh. "Sola Ecclesia" as defined by CJ and James White is easily shown to be a slur: If we believed in "Church alone" in their sense, there would be no Scripture, no Tradition. We would simply take the Church's word for it because hey, "Church alone."