Come now estesbob, I was olny joking.
Denominations; it is a sad thing that we all have seperated. But let’s just focus on trying to re-unite, that would be beautiful! 
Just sit down with it and read it. Put down all your other bookls for about 6 months Use a text only version with no notes. Highlight all of the verses that teach you something about God himself.
) Luke, Acts. This is the spine of the bible.
its comments like these that put me off from converting.
I wonder if this is based on Catholic teaching. If so, then the complaint of Works Based Salvation in the Catholic Church is true. I believe one of the decrees from Trent says otherwise, so I doubt this is an authentic application of Catholic ideology. But it is a common attitude I have seen among some of the fervently Catholic faithful.
Im not really talking about refusing entry to sinners, thats really a whole different story.
The Catholic Church is more than four times as large as all of non-Catholic Christianity combined. Since 1950 the Church in the United States has had 109,694 priests. During that time period of over fifty years, 4392 (as reported in February 2004) were accused of molesting minors, or about four percent. Remember, that number is the total number of those charged and not the number of those found guilty. We can not be so naive as to ignore the fact that many of those are false charges and were brought about by greed in hopes of gaining a monetary settlement. We remember the person who falsely accused the Archbishop of Chicago and who later dropped the charge, saying that he had lied. Keep in mind that those allegedly charged with pedophilia are a small minority of the total charged.
hello departed light, sounds like you have heard a bit about Catholic practice a very little bit. I would challenge you into searching deep into her spirituality. Like starting at the very beginning of the Church after Jesus went to the Father and the Apostles received the out pouring of the Holy Spirit in the upper room at Pentecost. We are an Apostolic Church with Christ as our head, from beginning to end. May I suggest reading the early Church Fathers also, A good book for a start would be ‘Four Witnesses’ by Rod Bennett.God’s blessings
CarlanI don’t blame you, sounds more like what a protestant would say.
Please do not deflect. As far as my own personal Scripture studies are concerned, I rely on the Navarre Bible coupled with the Catechism of the Catholic Church for sure guidance. No Protestant hit and miss, thank you very much.Just sit down with it and read it. Put down all your other bookls for about 6 months Use a text only version with no notes. Highlight all of the verses that teach you something about God himself.
Start like this:
Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, 1&2 Samuel, 1 &2 Kings, Ezra, Nehemiah, (insert 1 Maccabees here if you must
From here you can branch out in various directions according to subject and chronology. There is poetry, literature, prophecy, gospels, law, and some more history left.
When you have read the entire thing look back at our notes and the things you have highlighted. You will have learned that God is absolutley sovereign amoung many other things.
I can tell you lack real education! For one Catholics only pray to the trinity. second they ask mary and saints so on to pray for them to Christ, third Peter started the catholic church which is contradicting to your protestant beliefs, fourth you have no idea if Mary is or is not sinless and the only one that would have the best chance of knowing is the catholic church which existed during her life. I have noticed on another post that you believe in the Bible alone yet it was catholic Bishops that gave you the Bible and not only that, Luther took books away and changed translations to fit his opinion on the matter! Give up your vein uneducated opinions and get a real college education on christian history and the languages of those times and even then you are not worthy enough to have an opinion! I am so sad and disapointed how foolish protestants are!Well,
I believe that praying to anything other than God is wrong. I don’t believe in transubstantiation. I don’t believe we should make images of Christ and bow down to statues. I believe in sola scriptura. I don’t believe in apostolic succession as defined by the RCC. I don’t believe the pope is the successor of Peter. I don’t believe a priest can forgive or retain sins. I believe all Christians who have been regenerated are priests. I don’t believe in indulgences. I don’t believe in purgatory. I don’t believe Mary was sinless, assumed into heaven, co-mediatrix or co-redemptrix. I don’t believe Mary has anything to do with the Church today at all. I think she is in heaven awaiting the resurrection like all the other souls. I don’t believe that the RCC as it is today is the original church Christ founded. I don’t believe works contribute to salvation at all. I think the RCC needs to reform.
So…
I don’t really fit in.
Three generally wrong reformers who were substantially less wrong than the RCC at interpreting the infallible word of God.
Breath…
Any one that will say the Cathloic Church is a denomination is a fool or is this plain ingnort
So what insight was given to Calvin that had escaped all those who went before him? i guess, however, if one beleives in predestination it does not matter what errors were taught in the 1,500 years before God revealed the truth to you.Three generally wrong reformers who were substantially less wrong than the RCC at interpreting the infallible word of God.
Calvin was less wrong than everyone though.
Good… I never did that…
After reading more of her posts, I believe you’re right.