Jesus calls people not very nice things..

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I’m afraid I don’t see the problem in calling protestantism heresy. It is. I guess the context must have been insulting, otherwise there would be no reason for modifying the post, but the fact that heresy is not a very nice word (or a very nice thing to be) doesn’t mean it isn’t an accurate description of a doctrine and those who hold it.
 
Alvarillo said:
I’m afraid I don’t see the problem in calling protestantism heresy. It is. I guess the context must have been insulting, otherwise there would be no reason for modifying the post, but the fact that heresy is not a very nice word (or a very nice thing to be) doesn’t mean it isn’t an accurate description of a doctrine and those who hold it.
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True Protestantism follows the same written Word of God as Catholics. Be careful that you haven’t judged your own faith.

I follow the Bible. I care very little about Calvinism, Lutheranism, or any other “ism”. I simply do not ‘add’ anything to the Bible. I leave it as it is written. 🙂
 
He may have called others dogs… or swine… or vipers…
Yet He prayed that, “all may be one”!:D:D
 
Thorwald said:
I follow the Bible. I care very little about Calvinism, Lutheranism, or any other “ism”. I simply do not ‘add’ anything to the Bible. I leave it as it is written. 🙂
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The thing about heresy is that those who follow it will claim to be orthodox. Arrians thought they were right and those who believed in Christ’s divinity wrong, unitarians believe that trinitarians are the heretics. To take Tradition and to consider it a human addition to the Word of God is heresy in that it fails to make a distinction between human tradition and apostolic tradition. scripturecatholic.com/oral_tradition.html

This doesn’t mean that there isn’t an honest attempt to be close to God, saying someone is a heretic is not an insult, it is a description, and an invitation to examine their beliefs and return to communion with Christ and his Church.
 
Alvarillo said:
The thing about heresy is that those who follow it will claim to be orthodox. Arrians thought they were right and those who believed in Christ’s divinity wrong, unitarians believe that trinitarians are the heretics. To take Tradition and to consider it a human addition to the Word of God is heresy in that it fails to make a distinction between human tradition and apostolic tradition. scripturecatholic.com/oral_tradition.html

This doesn’t mean that there isn’t an honest attempt to be close to God, saying someone is a heretic is not an insult, it is a description, and an invitation to examine their beliefs and return to communion with Christ and his Church.
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I could swallow that one a whole lot better if the church tradition regarding heresy and heretics were not something more physical than 'an invitation to examine their beliefs and regurn to communion with Christ and his Church." It’s a little difficult to do that if you are, after all, dead.
 
I have so far killed no one for heresy… I don’t plan to either
 
dianaiad said:
Well, I guess the problem with all this is that we aren’t He. Christ can say anything He wants to; His justice is always right on target.

The rest of us?

Not so much. We should be far more careful. WE, after all, could be wrong.
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i need an example of wht you are referring to… about “WE” being wrong? in calling anyone a name?

i don’t advocate calling anyone a name… but on the other hand… sometimes we christians are reluctant to tell people the truth… and the truth is what is going to set people free…
 
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