Belonging to more than one church?

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Sublime_Prince said:
nope the bible doesn’t say so. The bible just commands us to recieve the body of Christ so I do what the bible tells me.
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Those are definitely words of a protestant.

“I disagree with what the Church says cause my Bible says such and such.” :rolleyes:

You are NOT ready to become Catholic. That is for sure. You have a long ways to go yet.

The Church isn’t a shopping list of Doctrines for your own choosing. Each time you partake in the Holy Eucharist you are committing Sacrilege with the Body and Blood of Christ so you best take a good look at what you’re doing cause it needs changing.
 
Tsuzuki said:
*"Although I was going to say I am not a Universalist, but I am, and I am also a Presbyterian, and a Roman Catholic, and a Methodist, in short, I believe in every true principle that is imbibed by any person or sect, and reject the false. If there is any truth in heaven, earth, or hell, I want to embrace it, I care not what shape it comes in to me, who brings it, or who believes in it, whether it is popular or unpopular. Truth, eternal truth, I wish to float in and enjoy.

Now I come to us, ‘Mormons.’ We are the only true Church, so we say. We have got the only true faith, so we say and believe. I believe we have got many great and true principles revealed from the heavens. I will tell you how I feel about it, and what I have said many times when I have been abroad among the priests, people, and philosophers. If any man under the heavens can show me one principle of error that I have entertained, I will lay it aside forthwith, and be thankful for the information. On the other hand if any man has got any principle of truth, whether moral, religious, philosophical, or of any other kind, that is calculated to benefit mankind, I promise him I will embrace it, but I will not partake of his errors along with it. If a man should say, I am in possession of one piece of truth, and, because I have got that, I must be right, am I to believe him? Certainly not. It does not follow that he has not many errors."*

- John Taylor, (3rd president of the LDS church)​
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Great. So we can add theological relativism to the list of errors and false teaching propogated by the LDS?
 
Tsuzuki said:
Oh, great. Now people are going to think I’m trying to recruit for the Mormon church. I would rather you became Catholic (officially, with baptism and confirmation). The Catholic Church needs more people like us.
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Ya that sounds like a plan I will become a Catholic first. Ya the catholic church definitely needs more members that are more open minded.
 
Tsuzuki said:
Historically, “ba’al” was a generic term meaning “god”, and could also be applied to the God of Israel.
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Context, context. You know how it was used in the Old Testament. Your attempt at sophistry aside…the two deities were mutually exclusive.
 
Tsuzuki said:

“Yeah, one didn’t exist.”

Then said:

“…or maybe he did. Does anyone know where I can find a “Book of Ba’al” or something like it?”

Notsmart asks:
Which one did not exist?

Book of Ba’al? hard to come up with that, since God had nothing to do with that group. God would have insured that something would have, if they were doing his will. Right? I mean, other spiritual religions had books, but none that told of Christs true life until the Catholic Bible.

Just like he would have told us about gold plates in the bible.
 
Tsuzuki said:
Oh, great. Now people are going to think I’m trying to recruit for the Mormon church. I would rather you became Catholic (officially, with baptism and confirmation). The Catholic Church needs more people like us.
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We don’t need people that will cause confusion and divisiveness in the Church - we need people who are willing to stand firm in believing all that there is in the Catholic faith and are not wishy-washy in proclaiming it!

Acknowledging some of the truths in non-Catholic religions can be good - if we recognize them as the same truths held in the Catholic Church. But to inject some foreign teaching that doesn’t even bear the resemblance of orthodox Christianity does nothing good for those who want to stick to the Truth.
 
Becoming Catholic, or being Catholic, is like getting married. You are supposed to forsake all others. No one would say “It is ok to cheat if she was beautiful” or “It wasn’t adultery if he said that you made him feel special.”

If you are a member of the Catholic Church and another church at the same time, you are no different than an adulterer. You have a vow and you chose to break it.

There is no way to intergrate Mormon thought into Catholic faith. You cannot borrow from this and that like a fat man at a buffet. I can say that, I am overweight 😉 . You cannot be Catholic and Baptist. You cannot be Baptist and Methodist. You can try to eat peanut butter and cast iron on asbestos, but it will not work.
 
ralphinal said:
Becoming Catholic, or being Catholic, is like getting married. You are supposed to forsake all others. No one would say “It is ok to cheat if she was beautiful” or “It wasn’t adultery if he said that you made him feel special.”

If you are a member of the Catholic Church and another church at the same time, you are no different than an adulterer. You have a vow and you chose to break it.

There is no way to intergrate Mormon thought into Catholic faith. You cannot borrow from this and that like a fat man at a buffet. I can say that, I am overweight 😉 . You cannot be Catholic and Baptist. You cannot be Baptist and Methodist. You can try to eat peanut butter and cast iron on asbestos, but it will not work.
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Well watch me I am going to do it anyway 👍
 
I recommend that Tsuzuki read G. K. Chesterton’s “Orthodoxy”, and then “Heretics”.

Sublime Prince should read Chesterton’s “Heretics”, and then “Orthodoxy”.

Both should then read “The Everlasting Man.”

Then, and only then, should they come back to continue this conversation.

Most of us are neither as clear, nor as witty, as Chesterton. I find myself often either quoting him, or paraphrasing him, or looking up what he had to say on subjects such as this one–and yes, he ‘dealt with it’ and pretty much anything else one could possibly imagine–and he did it so well that there really hasn’t been anybody to touch him since. He did it so well that most libraries and most educational institutions and (sadly) many Catholic educational institutions and programs as well have suppressed him for decades, because he is so clear and so reasonable–and so prophetic-- that studying him makes the average Catholic not only knowledgeable but actively practicing in the faith, instead of unknowing, passive, and content to accept whatever the latest ‘fad’ or ‘report’ or ‘study’ says about Catholics and Catholicism.
 
i sit here and think why do people come here and ask question that they do not want the answer to? Then I realize that they are trying to get a rise out of us and see if they can trap us in to un-christian behavior. Sublime prince and Tsuzuki you both if you have spent any time truly in study of Catholic doctrine as well as scripture know that one if you belong to one Christian faith you can not belong to another. Also that every thing taught by the Catholic church is supported by Scripture. I pray the you 2 young men wise up and stop this self destructive behavior. Sublime Prince if you are receiving the Eucharist without coming into full communion with the catholic faith and with out making confession to absolve you of sin so that you are properly disposed you are as St Paul has stated ( and I paraphrase) in I believe the first letter to the Corinthians that you are bring death on your self.
 
notsmart,

It is good and a blessing to here you take a stand to come into Holy Catholic church the right way. May God bless you on your journey to Him, His Son, and his Holy Church. I would suggest that you say on the other forums and not the non catholic one. for a time till you have a firm hold things…

God Bless.
 
oneGODoneCHURCH said:
Sublime Prince if you are receiving the Eucharist without coming into full communion with the catholic faith and with out making confession to absolve you of sin so that you are properly disposed you are as St Paul has stated ( and I paraphrase) in I believe the first letter to the Corinthians that you are bring death on your self.
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That is a gross misinterpretation of scripture. No where does it say in the bible one must be catholic to receive communion. Show me in scripture where it says what you claim then.
 
Sublime_Prince said:
That is a gross misinterpretation of scripture. No where does it say in the bible one must be catholic to receive communion. Show me in scripture where it says what you claim then.
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Show us the word “Communion” in the Bible.
 
RobHom said:
Show us the word “Communion” in the Bible.
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that is hardly much of a defense now is it? How does that support at all catholics claim that only they have the right to receive the blood and bread of christ. Jesus meant for all who believed in him to come to him and receive his body and blood.
 
RobHom said:
Show us the word “Communion” in the Bible.
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No where as far as I have read it.

It was more like this:

This is my body…

Then, it seemed many left him over this. Convieniently, Judas at that same time left him.
 
Sublime_Prince said:
that is hardly much of a defense now is it? How does that support at all catholics claim that only they have the right to receive the blood and bread of christ. Jesus meant for all who believed in him to come to him and receive his body and blood.
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Jesus did not say, here is a symbol that you can remember me with when you choose to.

He said, do this in memory of me.

Some have short memories.🤷
 
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