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Being Catholic will not save you if you engage in persistent lying..Well… he hates the Catholic Church as much as you do.
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Being Catholic will not save you if you engage in persistent lying..Well… he hates the Catholic Church as much as you do.
If you ever study Catholicism (and since it's the Church Christ founded, everyone should..) remember that the Vatican was taken over by anti-Christs in the 60s and they have kept their fake popes (non-Catholic popes) there ever since. That sect (now called the Francis sect by Sedevacantists) began teaching that all religions save and we shouldn't try to convert anyone to Christ.I am Christian, baptised Anglican. I wasn't always religious growing up but ironically a Muslim co-worker keep talking to me about God and miracles of the universe etc. His comment to me that all three major religions believed in Jesus, but it was a matter of what role they viewed him in.
That statement just floored me and I had to learn more. So I reread the New Testament and listened to an audio book of the Old Testament, listened to Ravi Zacharias the most, he really inspired me to go forward in believing in Jesus, his testimonies are superb.
Remember, people of all Faiths have paid for their lives for their beliefs, they used to light Christian on fire while live and use them to light the streets, hanging lamposts. Just awful.
Right back at ya, fella.Being Catholic will not save you if you engage in persistent lying..
It's Christ's church, not the pope's or Catholics. O law', ding gonna hate that.Do you know how much of my day is spent focused on Pope Francis? The same as for any other Pope. Zilch. The Pope's duty is to run the Church by being a servant to the servants of Christ. My focus--and the focus of most other Catholics--is on Christ and on their local parish.
Our religious faith/denomination--or even lack thereof--is sacred to each of us and is the holy ground in each of our lives. It is our love for God.
Some turn away from religion/faith because they cannot reconcile their own understanding of the Bible with the holiness of God. They prefer no belief to a belief that God destroys.
Those of us who choose to practice a religion do so because it draws us to the holiness of God and into His love.
The thesis for this thread: We can, through our love of God, talk about our own beliefs/religion without trampling on the religion/faith/beliefs with respect and with care for the beliefs of others.
I am Catholic, and I credit the Catholic Church (and Little Golden Books) for dropping me at the feet of the Almighty God. I can also respect that others may have had the same experience as a Jew, Muslim, or any one of the other thousands of Christian denomination.
The last way I introduce Jesus to Jew or Muslim would be my belief of his Oneness with God when Jesus best introduces himself through his teachings of how to relate to the Father and to one another--via the Beatitudes for example, or through his life as a Jew.
Jews can introduce Isaiah and other prophets without tearing into Christians on their interpretation and fusion with what these prophets said to those of the Jewish faith.
I love God and believe God loves each of us. What is your story? What do you like best about your denomination and what do you value sharing?
Both are. Someday you'll understand that. Until then, Simon Magus is laughingYou are not following Him. You are following the fallen, highjacked church (the Vatican) that once belonged to Him
So you believe God is less than the physical creationMembers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints do not believe that God creates out of nothing but that he uses things that are eternal in nature to create things
chURch. "You Are" the church.It's Christ's church, not the pope's or Catholics.
For me, the best answer came from studying Genesis from the Jewish perspective. Their insights make sense as well.The instructor of the course while speaking of God brought up the idea that if God is all powerful, all knowing, and an all benevolent God, then why didn't He simply create us all to be perfect like himself? Why put us through a life filled with evil and pain and suffering and eventually death, when he could simply have created us with all knowledge and understanding and immortality and love just as He himself has? If he is all powerful, all knowing and all loving, surely he had the power to do so and surely he had the knowledge of how to do it, and as a loving being, surely he would have spared us all the suffering, pain, and death of this world and simply made us perfect like himself. This was the presentation that I needed an answer to from God that my philosophy of religion instructor presented.
I understand...faith based on logic and reasoning. It still stands that that it is all shrouded in mystery and supposition.According to church doctrine, there is a part of man, the intelligent part of man, that was never created or made and neither indeed can be. In other words, there is a part of us that is self-existent and has always existed. That part of us is called an intelligence or sometimes referred to as spirit. Also matter itself is eternal and has always existed. Basically we believe that God took certain intelligences that were highly advanced and through the process of procreation combined those intelligences with spirit matter to form the spirit children of God. Later these spirit children were sent down to earth to receive an even greater physical body made of a more coarse matter.
Doubtful. He was dismissed by Peter (and therefore the Church) about two thousand years ago. Most never heard of him, while all have heard of Peter. Simon Magus was Gnostic, but I know little of Gnosticism then, and even less about today's Gnosticism, so I don't know if Simon's views are still being supported. Simon had a talent for magic acts and sorcery, but little spirituality. He chose attention to self over service to others.Until then, Simon Magus is laughing
Where do you find this in SCRIPTURE. It was not put there as a temptation.
5. The reason God forbade them to eat of the tree was because its fruit was not yet ripe. Eve and Adam jumped the gun and ate the fruit before it was ready, with the reported results
And this is probably my biggest concern with the RCC influenced Christianity that has spilled over into the majority of all "Christian" faiths.Our religious faith/denomination--or even lack thereof--is sacred to each of us and is the holy ground in each of our lives. It is our love for God.
Some turn away from religion/faith because they cannot reconcile their own understanding of the Bible with the holiness of God.
I don't. As noted my points came from studying Rabbi commentary and Jewish traditions as they relate to Genesis. I noted in another thread where some Orthodox Jews still follow the tradition of not eating the fruit that a young tree first produces in remembrance of eating too soon of the fruit of knowledge.Where do you find this in SCRIPTURE
He said he was giving the "Jewish" perspective. It's how they have interpreted and understood what Moses wrote. Where the inspiration for the knowledge came from would be interesting.Where do you find this in SCRIPTURE
Perhaps overlooked is the constant refrain of Jesus in the Gospels: Sins are forgiven. Also, obedience to God, which he took to heart so much it ended with his crucifixion. "Discern the will of God and follow it" was proclaimed as well.Consider that Jesus never required a belief in anything other than himself and that he was the Messiah and the propitiation for mankind.
The Apostles followed Jesus' example. He spent time speaking to the people, Reading was not all that common among the poor in Jesus' and the Apostles' time. We still stand to hear the Gospel readings (although some do follow along in their books).The first century church believed by "Hearing" not reading. The first century church didn't have a Bible, they had the pentateuch because they were Jews and spent time reconciling the Pentateuch to Christ.
But, but, to address my first point, Christians are not required to reconcile any written document with their faith, God, Christ, etc., Agree or disagree?The Apostles followed Jesus' example. He spent time speaking to the people, Reading was not all that common among the poor in Jesus' and the Apostles' time. We still stand to hear the Gospel readings (although some do follow along in their books).
On the contrary, I believe that God himself has an immortal body of flesh and bones just a Jesus has and all of us will receive. Our realm does go through a temporary death, but this earth and all those on it will be immortalized and become eternal eventually.So you believe God is less than the physical creation
Nothing about our realm is "eternal " It is ALL God's creation
Why do you believe God has an immortal body of flesh and bones?On the contrary, I believe that God himself has an immortal body of flesh and bones just a Jesus has and all of us will receive. Our realm does go through a temporary death, but this earth and all those on it will be immortalized and become eternal eventually.