How do Catholics feel about this...?

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I feel like it’s baptists more than any other Protestant denomination who seem, generally, to have a poor understanding of the Catholic doctrine of salvation.
 
Typical Baptist garbage.

Perhaps they are the ones in need of reading their bible and studying history. Especially studying history. They may actually find that what John Smyth taught in Amsterdam in a.d.1605 is not what Jesus taught in a.d. 33.
 
It is preached to their audience and there is nothing much we can do about it. It is their belief and they are pretty free to believe and do as they like. Catholics should not be troubled by it but given a chance we can always rebut the statement.
 
I’ve heard postings from them before. They have a mistaken idea of what Catholicism really is, and attack a fictional church they have named “Roman Catholic.”

We should pray for them as we would anyone (and would hope people would pray for us), and hope that they will someday be open to education about what the Catholic Church really stands for. They would find that we really aren’t that different in what we believe about faith and grace, and that we both deeply love our Savior. 😦
 
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Oh to be as strong as you!! :D:thumbsup:
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Where I often fail and become upset is when Catholic brothers and sisters don’t know, understand, or chose to ignore those things about the Church that they disagree with. Outsiders don’t bother me but I truly wish those on the “inside” were on the same page. 😦
 
I recently retired in the South and began to experience firsthand some of the misconceptions held by the Baptists. In fact, some of my in-laws are Fundamentalist Baptists. Spending more time with them has led to many very interesting and enlightening discussions. While some were, at first, very anti-Catholic, most have now realized that I am a Christian, I do read, know and share my faith with them in a Bible based manner which is the only way they can arrive at some level of understanding . Last Christmas, six of my Southern Baptist relatives went to Mass with me and we had a very good discussion afterward over pie and coffee.

So, pray for those who don’t know what they don’t know. Many were born into that faith tradition and just have never questioned their beliefs or tried to educate themselves about what they believe and why. God works in mysterious ways and loves us all, regardless. The Jews villified Jesus and worked to have him killed so that they could preserve their own positions of power within their occupation by the Romans. Some denominations seem especially harsh in their detraction of the Catholic Church to try to hold onto their followers and even scare them away from investigating it.
 
Tietjen said:
Where I often fail and become upset is when Catholic brothers and sisters don’t know, understand, or chose to ignore those things about the Church that they disagree with. Outsiders don’t bother me but I truly wish those on the “inside” were on the same page. 😦
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I can understand that, as it is a frustration I commonly share. But I choose to look at being Catholic as a process. You know, “Work our your own salvation with fear and trembling.”

It’s like what I am learning as an educator. We all are learning to love and serve God and some of us “get it” quicker than others. I admit, there are many things that are puzzling and confusing to me. I see them as places where I am working out my own salvation, and others are working out their own. Just as you would expect students not to berate the others who are a little slower in learning their multiplication tables, you wouldn’t want to see Catholics berating those who are slower at working out other aspects of their salvation than you have. shrugs
 
Most people who follow any faith tradition do so from how they were instructed as children. Most also do not question or research the whys and wherefores of that particular belief.
I was raised a Lutheran and so raised my own children. God finally got through to me about 12 years ago and after studying what many different religions believed (Lutherans, in particular) and why, I jumped the Tiber and have lived ecstatically ever after in The One True Holy Catholic Faith!!!
However, when I attempted to expain to my daughter the basics of Lutheranism and Martin Luther, she was appalled and did not want to hear it.
I truly believe that if we seek, we shall find and if we knock it will be opened unto us. But we have to make the first step which is the WHY of why do we claim to be a “…”, fill in the blank.
Sadly, many people never question.
 
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I’m not in communion with Rome, but I think this kind of message is a con game.

The only folks who think that salvation is disconnected from what you do are universalists. (That may be a bit of a caricature even of most universalists, but you get the point.)

Calvinists can also make this case, somewhat less cogently (Universalist Calvinists are the ones who could make it most strongly, of course!). Even in Calvinism, there are things that must be done in order for a person to be saved–it’s just that Calvinists believe that the elect and only the elect will do those things.

But to say “you don’t have to do anything, just believe in Jesus” is a disingenuous game with language. Especially when, as most serious evangelicals do, you add back in the expectation that a “true believer” will behave in certain ways and not others.

Edwin
 
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It’s anti-Catholic rhetoric and it has no place in society except to dupe others into becoming even more anti-Catholic.

I’d like to add that this statement also includes anti- my previous faith in the churches of Christ.
 
I wouldn’t be too hard on Baptists. They are certainly not all anti-Catholic, either individually or organizationally (Houston Baptist University has sponsored talks from several of our bishops recently).

There are some, maybe many, who are simply misinformed. There are a small number who are purposely hostile (but may also be genuinely misinformed).
 
shark76z said:
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I’m not sure that this properly reflects what Catholics actually believe. My sense is that it doesn’t. I as a Lutheran know that “following a creed, keeping sacraments, moral living, or doing good things” are important parts of sanctification. And unless I am willling to respond to grace in these ways, how long is my faith a real, living, saving faith?

Jon
 
They’re just cranky because they’re located just 50 miles from Mother Angelica and EWTN.

Mother Angelica is in Irondale, AL, and this bunch is in Hanceville, AL.

You’d think they would know better being so close. You would think they’d visit or something.

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twopekinguys said:
They’re just cranky because they’re located just 50 miles from Mother Angelica and EWTN.

Mother Angelica is in Irondale, AL, and this bunch is in Hanceville, AL.

You’d think they would know better being so close. You would think they’d visit or something.

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What baptists think about the Catholic Church is based on half-truths and lies.

The baptist church as a whole has an incorrect, fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible.

So to answer your question, I could care less what some hillbilly baptist/southern baptist congregation thinks about the Church that Jesus personally founded almost 2000 years ago.
 
Eh, you know, it doesn’t bother me. I kind of wish they would take the time to educate themselves, but what can you do?
 
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