Why do some think they need keys?

[GreenEyedLady]

But doesn't catholicism say that a person has to agree that the catholic church is the one true church and has all authority on earth (the magisteriim) in order to be saved? Christians who do not acknowledge the magisterium of the catholic church cannot be saved. They agree that some of us are being saved, but only those who agree to catholicism's terms.

Yes the catecism would agree with this statment but some Catholics would deny it.

Christ is the Door. And what greater security has the church of God than that the Lord Jesus is between it and all its enemies? He is a door open for passage and communication. Here are plain directions how to come into the fold; we must come in by Jesus Christ as the Door. By faith in him as the great Mediator between God and man. Also, we have precious promises to those that observe this direction. Christ has all that care of his church, and every believer, which a good shepherd has of his flock; and he expects the church, and every believer, to wait on him, and to keep in his pasture.
~Matthew Henry Commentary

Yes, my point is that we have the door, why would we need keys?

 

[Miss Shelby]

Yes the catecism would agree with this statment but some Catholics would deny it.

The Catechism is similar to the Bible in that it has very frequently been taken out of context and presented in misrepresntative ways.

I am not lying about what the Church teaches, and I resent the implication.

Michelle

 

[Gold Dragon]

Yes the catecism would agree with this statment but some Catholics would deny it.

If we are really interested in why other Christians think a certain way, like it is stated in the thread title, the best thing to do is ask them. Maybe we'll discover that they actually don't think the way we thought they do.

 

[RED that's ME]

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