Leaving Catholicism

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The new testament appeared to the masses long after the death and resurrection of Christ… Just as I stated above. Give or take a decade. I agree, we must have different versions of the bible. But NOWHERE in the bible yours and mine does it illustrate the Bible is the ONLY source of Truth.

I live in small town America. My phone book illustrates countless different “Christian Churches”. Why so many different views ? There is only 1 truth. Are we to believe when Christ handed the keys to the kingdom of Heaven to Peter, he intended the keys be buried for 1500 years ? No. Christ instructed his living contemporary Apostles, not directly to write a book, but to teach all he and the Holy spirit had taught them.
 
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I am then certain you never read anything from the Teaching Authority of the church. Clearly you have no need.
Shall we call you Saint Memory Chunkmonk.
When were you named a doctor of the church?
 
Hello.

Have you asked God what He’d like you to do, then sought & waited for the answer? Sometimes it’s better to do His will and not our own will.

Just a thought/my two cents.
 
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We have also called our Masses a Church service. Memorial “services” are appropriate to go to so far as I know. Yet, I did miss one at another Church being battered down by several consecutive losses. Prayed for those circumstances and they who lost their life to remedy the matter.
 
Padre Pio. Look in to the miracles of Saint Padre Pio.
 
dgamboau518 said:
English is not my first language so I apologize if i wasn’t clear about the question.
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I think the clarity was able to emerge.
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. I never said Catholics aren’t Christians, I don’t know why y all thought I meant that. I go to a non denominational church, but the friends that I have in the Catholic church told me I was considered “Christian/protestant” so I thought y all were going to understand that as what my “tittle” is.
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That Cathollic vs Christian distinction is often made by fundamentalists, some of whom do not consider Catholics to be Christians. “Bible Christians” who cannot see many practices of the CC in the Bible believe the CC made things up or that Paganism crept into the Church. Some believe Catholics cannot be “saved” and unless they become Christian and leave the Church.

There is really no such thing as a “non-denominational” Church. The lack of affiliation of an ecclesial community with a formal Protestant tradition does not preclude it from being rooted in one of those traditions. All present non- Catholic Christians are “denominated” from Catholisism, and are rooted int eh protestant Reformation. They all contain doctrines invented during the Reformation (the most common being sola Scriptura).

So, if you are not Catholic and you participate in a Christian ecclesial community then you are a Protestant, even if you claim you are not “protesting anything”…
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I thought y all were going to understand that as what my “tittle” is.
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I want to commend you for participating here though English is not your first language. I am not sure I could do it! But you are right, I did not understand your thread title.
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I ran into an amazing church where I have seen amazing things and grown very much in my faith. I just want to understand more about the church that I grew up in since I wasn’t properly taught I guess.
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I am glad that you found a supportive Christian community that helps you grow in your faith. I am also glad that you want to better understand the differences between what you have been taught, and the faith that was handed down to us from the Apostles.
 
You made a good point: Jesus left a church, and that same Catholic Church gave Christians a bible. It’s somewhat ironic that protestants criticize Catholics for not accepting only the Bible, they claim sole faithfulness to a book that would not exist were it not for the Catholic Church and use it to attack the church that created that book. No disrespect for protestants, I’m no one to judge, just trying to argue my point as meekly as possible.
 
Proof of that is that Luther preferred to follow Jewish tradition to catholic traidition by taking out books from the Bible like Sirach
 
I’ve posted this recently in another thread, but the necessity of belonging to the Catholic Church and receiving the sacraments is straight out of the Bible:

We must be baptized (John 3:3) into the one Body in the one Spirit (1 Cor. 12:13), partake of the one Bread as one Body (1 Cor. 10:17), and profess the One Lord, one faith, one Baptism (Eph 4:4-5). Like Noah’s ark, you have to be on board to be saved–as the Bible says, like Noah’s ark in the flood, Baptism now saves (1 Peter 3:20-21), and as I just said, we are baptized into that one Body–so the ark and the Body have the same significance in this regard.

In addition, to have fellowship or communion with Christ in His Body, you must have fellowship with those who have fellowship with Him (1 John 1:3). We are forbidden, therefore, from schisms and dissensions and must be united in belief (1 Cor. 1:10).

Furthermore, while Christ is the head of the Church, He has also willed that the Church be led by men (Acts 20:28). He put St. Peter in charge of His flock (John 21:15-17)–therefore, to be a member of Christ’s flock is to be a member of the flock tended by Peter and his successors.

Our sins are to be forgiven through the ministry of the Church (John 20:21-22) and the faith is to be taught by those with succession from the Apostles–those who have been sent (Rom 10:15). Going out without being sent, on the other hand, is harmful to souls (Acts 15:24).

So to sum up, we should not be members of those communities that went out without being sent from the Church Christ founded, do not have their sins forgiven through the Apostolic ministers, do not partake of the one Bread, are not of one belief with the Church they left, do not acknowledge their authorized shepherds, etc.
 
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