Good fruits without the Catholic faith?

[TonyBS]

You see it everywhere. God making a difference. We can dispute all day who has authority…we will never agree.

God has the authority does He not?

So what is the dispute, but one man has made for himself?

Regards Tony

 

[Techno2000]

I’ve been thinking a lot about our separated brethren, those Christians that do not share in the fullness of our Catholic faith. I have a hard time understanding how they can be so on fire for the Lord without the truths of the faith. Many of them seem to be doing much more for God’s kingdom than some Catholics.

For example I stumbled upon a Youtube video of a man that attends a Church of Christ church in the south. He was a hardened sinner that almost destroyed his family but was converted forty years ago and still to this day is extremely active in his church. He preaches about Jesus and loving Him and loving your neighbor, and baptizing people into Christ, and all of those things. I have a hard time condemning these people or even thinking they are doing wrong.

How can something that produces good fruit (drunkards and adulterers and other sinners give up their sin and coming to God) be bad. Is it? How can we be so divided and have the same goal? Someone help me out here. Thanks and God bless you.

Even Gentiles, who do not have God’s written law, show that they know his law when they instinctively obey it, even without having heard it. They demonstrate that God’s law is written in their hearts, for their own conscience and thoughts either accuse them or tell them they are doing right.

Romans 2-14

 

[TonyBS]

This is a trend the world is starting to see more and more as the Fruits of God are forgotten more and more

“A professor at an evangelical university near Chicago who got in trouble for saying Muslims and Christians worship the same God will leave the school, according to a joint statement released by Wheaton College”.

abc.net.au/news/2016-02-08/professor-who-said-christians-muslims-worship-same-god-to-leave/7147324

Regards Tony

 

[Tommy999]

I’ve been thinking a lot about our separated brethren, those Christians that do not share in the fullness of our Catholic faith. I have a hard time understanding how they can be so on fire for the Lord without the truths of the faith. Many of them seem to be doing much more for God’s kingdom than some Catholics.

For example I stumbled upon a Youtube video of a man that attends a Church of Christ church in the south. He was a hardened sinner that almost destroyed his family but was converted forty years ago and still to this day is extremely active in his church. He preaches about Jesus and loving Him and loving your neighbor, and baptizing people into Christ, and all of those things. I have a hard time condemning these people or even thinking they are doing wrong.

How can something that produces good fruit (drunkards and adulterers and other sinners give up their sin and coming to God) be bad. Is it? How can we be so divided and have the same goal? Someone help me out here. Thanks and God bless you.

Sounds to me like the guy is putting into practice what our Lord said in Matthew 22:37-39:
"37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself"

To me, many outside the Catholic Church know, serve, and love God and have a real and personal relationship with Him that is very spiritually efficacious in their lives.

I think the mistake that some make is to believe that the Christian faith is mainly just a set of rules of “do’s and don’ts” and following certain rituals in a perfunctory manner. It is much more than that, although I would agree with those who believe God uses the sacraments as a means of imparting grace.

Many non-Catholic Christians I know have a deep and abiding personal relationship with Jesus Christ but lack the spiritual discipline that comes from the Catholic sacraments.

In my view, those Catholics who have had a personal transforming spiritual awakening experience with Christ – like the man in Slewis’ example – and who also partake of the Catholic sacraments have the best of both worlds, but that is just my opinion.