lyn wrote:
GG--you posted-Teacher, what must I do to be saved...'Keep the commandments'". Do you believe you can keep all the commandments of the law? It is impossible to do so, the commandments were given so that we may see how miserably short we come to God's standard of perfection. John the Baptist preached on repentance, Christ preached on repentance {Matt. 4:17, Luke 13:3}, and being born again {John 3:3}. Seeing yourself as a man who has sinned against God and has no hope apart from His grace is the open door for the new birth. It's the baptism Christ gives that is essential in the new birth, 'Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.' Head knowledge is useless unless the heart beats solely for Christ. "They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me"

Michael Hranek wrote:
Well actually it is impossible for anyone holding to Roman Catholic False Belief to be a saint.
A saint in the true Biblical sense of the word as God Himself uses it of believers in the New Testament is a person who is changed by God and for God in the new birth in the Holy Ghost.
Something our Roman Catholic 'friends' are don't believe is even necessary for them. But something Jesus knows we desperately need as He Himself told us.
"Ye must be born again!"

GG wrote:
PreacherJonD:
1. If I am being lied to, why won't God give me a "Damascus Moment" and show me the truth?
2. Could it me that you believe that I was created for destruction...by a loving God?
3. If I am being lied to, as you say you were, where is my sin? I am acting in good faith.
4. I alway pray that God show me his actual truth regardless of denomination. Do you pray the same way?

GG wrote:
"RC communion is blasphemous idolatry and a false belief by eating a piece of bread"
GG: Greek Orthodox, Greek Uniate, Roman Catholic, and some Lutheran and Anglicans agree that Jesus is present, many more than agree with you. Keeping John 6 in mind, shouldn't you agree that at least good Christians have an honest difference of opinion rather that falsely accusing them of blasphemy?
"He truly isn't in the life of any holding to your false relgion."

This argument has been going on for 500 years, for the sake of the 'Prince of Peace', can't we at least not make rash accusations?

Unless you repent and be born again, you will suffer the wrath of God against you forever. I don't want this to happen to you GG!! I was lied to for 25yrs in the RCC about salvation, and GG you are being lied to also!

John Yurich wrote:
I do not care one iota what the Catholic Catechism states about anything. I just believe in the Bible.

GG wrote:
"Now if you will just believe that your religion is contrary to the written Word of God, you might be saved from sure eternal death."
MyResp: Just exactly where in your KJV did you pull that little nugget from? Or is this the 'personal interpretation' crapo that St Peter warned us about? Sounds like it to moi!

Lance Eccles wrote:
The RCC is the guardian of scripture. It is impossible for it to contradict the written Word of God. Those who claim it does must be falsely interpreting scripture.
But then, if you think you have a right to make your personal interpretation of scripture, then of course there will be much that is false in your interpretation.

badhorsie777 wrote:
John 6:44
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
And that's a "tip" of the iceberg verse, guys. I wish I knew why God saw fit to allow this blindness (if it be me or you arminian folk)... it's bumming me out lately.

Lance Eccles wrote:
Well, I would, for one. Those who reject the written Word of God are rejecting salvation.

JD wrote:
Yes, that is exactly what I mean and it is what the Scriptures mean.
One of the 4 prophetic themes of the Bible is the 'kingdom". It is what was to be established through Adam. He was given dominion over the earth until the fall. At that time Satan usurped his dominion and established his own kingdom under his own principles. These principles are all against the character of God.
Since that time, God has been preparing for his kingdom when he will eliminate all opposition and establish Jesus Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords and he will be king over all the earth and heaven. This is a spiritual kingdom with the angels and the church and it is a physical kingdom with Israel and the nations on the earth and everything and everyone in perfect harmony and governed under the principle of divine love.
Everyone, including the angels, will have made a concious choice to be in that kingdom. The angels were tested in times past and 1/3 of them decided against it. The 2/3 will never be tested again and are sealed in righteousness. Men who are in it must be born again to enter into it. This is a choice whether you like it or not.

The apparitions tell people to pray unbiblical prayers to her and look to her for salvation, not at the Lord Jesus Christ. Any "messenger" who does not point to Christ is antichrist and a demonic impersonator.

Pastor Mike wrote:
This is an example of natural selection at work!

terry evans wrote:
I have a ?
The comment made by kevin
whose comments I question
and his last being the same, questionable.
Was it excellent
because you know the rcc teaches heresy
or
was it nothing more than adding fuel
to an already burning fire on this site?

And as far as "fueling the fire", I don't have this mindset, and as long as we proclaim the truth against rome and expose its wickedness, this is going to happen--I've been cussed right to my face for sharing my testimony as nicely and as politely as I could of how God led me out of the roman religion, and if cussing were allowed on here, there would be some who would do it again.

brother Michael wrote:
Amen and amen. And in this light, I ask all "Protestants" who have taken the title of "Reverend" and all its variants like "Right Reverend", etc. to get the plank out of their eye, drop this blasphemous title, and take the lower seat.
How such a title can be taken by the "protesters" of Rome is truly amazing as the Scriptures reveal it is the LORD alone who is to be revered. "He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name." (Psa 111:9)
I will revere no man nor address him as such. The church too often follows the ways of the world where men feel they need to have a title or wear special clothing to be set apart from the laity, the common people. Yet the Lord says we are all to be brethren, no titles or special clothes, just different parts of the same body whereby more honor is supposed to be to given unto the weaker part. But so often the opposite is what happens.

kevin wrote:
Let me give some history.
In the early 1940's, the I.G. Farbin Chemical Company employed a Polish salesman who sold cyanide to the Nazis for use in Auschwitz. The same salesman also worked as a chemist in the manufacture of the poison gas. This same cyanide gas along with Zyklon B and malathion was used to exterminate millions of Jews and other groups. Their bodies were then burned to ashes in the ovens. After the war the salesman, fearing for his life, joined the CC and was ordained a priest in 1946. The salesman was ordained Poland's youngest bishop in 1958. After a 30 day reign his predecessor was assassinated and our ex-cyanide gas salesman assumed the papacy.
His name? Karl Wojtyla. Other words know us Pope John Paul II.
Kevin

Jack I would like to add to my comment about Abraham. The illustration that I gave shows that the justice and holiness of God demands death as the punishment for sin as His word says.

Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death;..."

Ezekiel 18:4 "Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die."

But it also shows God's incredible mercy and love and shows how God made a way for us to escape eternal death in hell through the substitution of His Son Jesus Christ. Heres the rest of Romans 6:23..."but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

Romans 5:8 "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

Jack all who will place their faith and trust in Jesus Christ and His substitutionary work shall be saved, and all who will not, shall pay for their own sin. AS the verse said earlier the wages of sin is death. That death is eternal in a lake of fire.

Jack wrote:
True. I really am just curious about the Abraham story & its implications. Can God order someone to perform an act that God has already deemed a sin?
I realize chronologically the ten commandments were delivered to Moses after the Abraham story , but the ban on killing must be eternal.

God placed Jesus on that cross. God crushed him, God smote Him, the Bible says "it pleased the Lord to bruise him", "that when he is made an offering for sin the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand", and "He shall see the travail of His soul and shall be SATISFIED"(Isaiah 53)

A born again, believer is crucified with Christ and now walks in the newness of life in Christ, and baptism by immersion is a picture and public profession of what has taken place within them. They "die" and are "buried" to sin and self by going down into water, and are "ressurrected" to new life in Jesus Christ coming up out of the water.

Therefore only born again believers should be baptised and infant baptism has no purpose and should not be practiced.

Christian Raas wrote:
Even a broken clock ticks right twice a day! The pope may be right on the importance to defend the traditional family but that does not justify the myriad of false doctrines he also promotes all over the globe.