We’ve moved on and most Roman Catholics have moved on with us. If you want to stay in the 14th or 15th century then that’s up to you.
“Moved On”??? Out of Christianity and into … WHAT? I am very happy being a Christian. I am overwhelmingly happy and filled with joy to be able to worship God with peace of mind knowing that the faith I have is the same faith taught to the holy apostles by Jesus himself. I know that my actions are helping to make a better world and that this is the will of my Lord. I know that I can pray to God, I can worship God and I know the difference. I read scripture in Latin, Greek and Aramaic and really don’t see the need to switch to English no matter how many KJV people try to give me a bible. I have a full and complete collection of Scripture with an old testament that Jesus himself used. I certainly acknowledge that some other traditions may used different languages then me, like say the Coptics and the Slavs with their ancient and venerable traditions but I don’t see the same with English KJV which has saught to break with Christianity and destroy all that the Church ever taught. Remember, when Paul wrote to the Corinthians he hold them to hold fast to the Word of God that was preached to them. He didn’t tell them to look it up in the Bible, he told them to remember the traditions that were taught to them and equated them with the Word of God.
I don’t want to “MOVE ON” because that is not what God wants of me and that is exactly what satan wants. He wants us to reject the Church so that every manner of lie and heresy can come in and destroy the faith so that the so called christians have no life in them.
We are called to make the world a better place. {This is a direct command from Jesus. When I was naked you clothed me, when I was hungry you feed me, when I was in prison you visited me. }
The Catholic Church is the only church that is giving the faithfull, Christifides, the means to actually make the world a better place, both personally and in community. The Catholic church is the only church that offers to the faithful a way, established by Christ, to make amends for the sins that are forgiven. We are forgiven directly by Christ, then when we place ourselves into his service, we reduce the amount of punishment the world will recieve. Only the Catholic church offers this. If protestants knew the great blessing that this is they would not be attacking indulgences, they would be running to help build up the church and the people of God to remitt the great punishments that God has in store for mankind. All of these modern day problems are due to man not giving God his proper place as King and Master of all. Man has forgotten about God and no longer seek to be blessed by God. They think that a simple, silent “sorry” will completely make up for their lifetime of habitual sins. This is the direct trajedy of the protestant errors. People go about all day, sin after sin, and saying “sorry” only in their minds but not really meaning it and then commit the same sins all over again with no correction. It is up to God to forgive them or not but the real heartbreak is the fact that they are bringing down more and more suffering from God. The whole of the world is suffering under the burden of sins, and why would we test God to see how much he will forgive. Why do we test him to see the limits of his mercy? We should listen to Jesus when he says “STOP SINNING” and we should ignore Luther when he said “you have to sin”. God is willing to forgive and remit all sins and punishment for them if we would all just convert our hearts and turn to him. Especially now, with the annaversary of the Resurrection approching. Let us all do penance so that we can win favor in the sight of God. Let us put ourselves into his mercy and do as he commands of us. Let us show him our faith in action and not as a dead thing that lives not.
Indulgences can be gained by:
Calling out to God in earnest prayer.
Raising our mind to Him, even as we perform our everday actions
Doing as Jesus commanded and helping the needy
Denying ourselves and our wants in the spirit of penence
Reading the scriptures (nice size bits not just one verse at a time)
Using the words of scripture for our own prayers when our own words fail us. (Magnificat, Pater Noster, De Profundis)
When we seek to make ourselves pure in the sight of God, though we can not complete this work, God will bless us and cleans us and make us pure. We must put in the work and not be lazy spiritually. We must help to make a world that is ready to recieve Jesus when he comes down to rule his kingdom directly.
If you are a protestant you need to take a good look at indulgences, look at the history of the Ecclesia, Get a REAL Bible and pray constantly. Protestant theology is morally bankrupt and brings shame and scandal to all christians. Don’t take this as an attack, this is the sad truth. No Christian should dare think that it is ok to Move ON to another religion like Islam or some pagan ritual off in the woods or at uncle bob’s behind the barn “christian” congregation. We should move in to the Christian faith and never think to MOVE ON. We should MOVE IN and get settled. We should count ourselves gratefull to be considered worthy to be a Christian.
Protestants mock what they don’t understand but then when it is offered to them they reject it without ever seeing it for what it is. I offer to anyone here to look at the Enchiridion of Indulgences. There is no reason why after looking at the truth any protestant would not want to come to the ONE TRUE FAITH, which is the Lord Jesus, Son of God the Father, Concieved of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. The Catholic Church has her doors open, but will you step in and be recieved as one of the people of God?
