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Maria1993
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Hello all. I had a flow of words tonight, and decided to make it into a script for a video on Faith and Works.
As I am still learning, I wanted to know if anything I said goes against church teaching?
What else should I add?
Forgive me if my spelling is bad, it is almost 2 am.
Please. This is not a thread for debates or sarcastic comments. Please and thank you.
Many people leave the Church because of something they do not understand. Sometimes something they did that they are trying to run away from because it disagrees with church teaching. But I tell you this: You can leave the Catholic Religion, the TRUE church, and go to a congregation that is ātolerantā, but the true God and the same one you offended, does not change. His laws do not change. You can go to a congregation where the scriptures are interpreted and twisted and made āto fitā and fluffed and used to be
tolerantā to everything, but the scriptures will not change. God will not change, he is just, but merciful. He is the same, forever and always. Sometimes, the truth hurts, and that hurt breaks our hearts, because that might be the only way the Good Lord can enter our hardened hearts. We must REPENT and ask God to change us! We cannot claim to be āsavedā and keep wallowing in our ways, we must BARE FRUIT! What good is a fruit tree that does not bare fruit? What if people were dependent on the fruit of that tree to feed them and nourish them? It is the same WITH US! What good is it to call ourselves āCatholicsā and āChristiansā and not bare the fruit of our faith, and change? What if someone were depending on the works of our faith for a meal,a donation, the unbornās right to life? When we let Christ take over our lives, it is his works of mercy through our faith! We must be the hands and feet of Jesus, NOW! He entrusted us to care for the least of them, which represent him, are we doing that? Jesus is God, and is omnipotent, but he has not come in all his glory yet. Which is why it is important to entrust ourselves to God for guidance, and ask Jesus to let us be more like him, and less like us. Jesus was the servant of ALL, the same should come from us.
Keeping the commandments are necesary works of love. Can we be saved if we break the commandments? If we love God, we do the act of keeping his commandments.This is a relationship after all. Let us not take him for granted.
Now do not get me wrong, I am not saying our works alone will save us. Notice I said the fruit, the works, OF OUR FAITH. WHICH COME FROM OUR FAITH. IF THERE IS NO FAITH, ALL OUR WORKS ARE NOTHING. Works alone will not save us. What good are all the works in the world, without love and faith? They are nothing. But what good would we be claiming to be Christians, the hands and feet of Jesus which ALL CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE, when we do not extend to help others?
We must also be careful to not boast and make a show out of our works. Our works will come as a result of our faith, because it is no longer us, it is the Lord working through us, we are being his hands and feet. We have surrendered to him. Let there be more of him, and less of us.
As I am still learning, I wanted to know if anything I said goes against church teaching?
What else should I add?
Forgive me if my spelling is bad, it is almost 2 am.
Please. This is not a thread for debates or sarcastic comments. Please and thank you.
Many people leave the Church because of something they do not understand. Sometimes something they did that they are trying to run away from because it disagrees with church teaching. But I tell you this: You can leave the Catholic Religion, the TRUE church, and go to a congregation that is ātolerantā, but the true God and the same one you offended, does not change. His laws do not change. You can go to a congregation where the scriptures are interpreted and twisted and made āto fitā and fluffed and used to be
tolerantā to everything, but the scriptures will not change. God will not change, he is just, but merciful. He is the same, forever and always. Sometimes, the truth hurts, and that hurt breaks our hearts, because that might be the only way the Good Lord can enter our hardened hearts. We must REPENT and ask God to change us! We cannot claim to be āsavedā and keep wallowing in our ways, we must BARE FRUIT! What good is a fruit tree that does not bare fruit? What if people were dependent on the fruit of that tree to feed them and nourish them? It is the same WITH US! What good is it to call ourselves āCatholicsā and āChristiansā and not bare the fruit of our faith, and change? What if someone were depending on the works of our faith for a meal,a donation, the unbornās right to life? When we let Christ take over our lives, it is his works of mercy through our faith! We must be the hands and feet of Jesus, NOW! He entrusted us to care for the least of them, which represent him, are we doing that? Jesus is God, and is omnipotent, but he has not come in all his glory yet. Which is why it is important to entrust ourselves to God for guidance, and ask Jesus to let us be more like him, and less like us. Jesus was the servant of ALL, the same should come from us.
Keeping the commandments are necesary works of love. Can we be saved if we break the commandments? If we love God, we do the act of keeping his commandments.This is a relationship after all. Let us not take him for granted.
Now do not get me wrong, I am not saying our works alone will save us. Notice I said the fruit, the works, OF OUR FAITH. WHICH COME FROM OUR FAITH. IF THERE IS NO FAITH, ALL OUR WORKS ARE NOTHING. Works alone will not save us. What good are all the works in the world, without love and faith? They are nothing. But what good would we be claiming to be Christians, the hands and feet of Jesus which ALL CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE, when we do not extend to help others?
We must also be careful to not boast and make a show out of our works. Our works will come as a result of our faith, because it is no longer us, it is the Lord working through us, we are being his hands and feet. We have surrendered to him. Let there be more of him, and less of us.