Don’t sweat it … I’ve been called worse.
Does it? Where in scripture are the justifications listed for splitting the Church that Jesus began?
Does it? Where in scripture are the justifications listed for splitting the Church that Jesus began?
Im surprised you didn’t just quote the scriptures that absolutely speak against it.If I’m being forced to believe in burning heretics which goes against Christ’s teachings then I have every right to leave and follow a Church that does no such thing. Wouldn’t you?Does it? Where in scripture are the justifications listed for splitting the Church that Jesus began?
Christ protects his Church on the teaching of faith and morals, not from the sinful lives of it’s members. No… I would not leave the Church that Christ established, and leave the life saving benefits of the seven sacraments that Christ instituted to give us his grace, including the Eucharist where he says that unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.
That’s just silly
What about the Puritan’s who burned witches
Are you also not familiar with the Protestsnt Wars and the great evils Protestants inflicted on Catholics during the reformation?
And I don’t believe killing over different beliefs is okay.
Burning heritics is wrong. If a pope condoned this…then he is wrong. The Church is filled with scrondrels and sinners. If you are looking for perfect people…good luck.
So if Pope Leo X said burning heretics is not against the will of the Spirit, and I as a Protestant was a heretic would you condone any order that I should be burned or turned over to be burned? If you were threatened with excommunication for disagreeing what would you do?
You cannot be excommunicated by disagreeing with a Pope’s personal opinion, him being Pope notwithstanding. Nor that would be the reason to leave the Church. Of course there are people who would but really, that is not the reason. There are far more important things in the Church that we still need to fulfill and do which we have to as Christians. And these are to be found in the Church and they are far more important than whatever a Pope’s opinion is.
I didn’t say that, but I try to judge through the light of the time they were in not my modern lens.
Good point.I, along with the Catholic Church, am pretty outspoken about removing the death penalty from our modern western society.
Even though the death penalty is allowed “ … if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives against the unjust aggressor.” (CCC2267), Popes in recent years have been vocal in calling for the end to death penalty in their prayers and exaltations. This is not to mention the teaching of the Church against abortion and Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Pro-life Evangelium Vitae has been the bulwark in voicing this in the global arena. While others have changed their mind with regard to pro-life, the Church has been unequivocal on its preservation.Find me a Church without sinners and I will join today.
One should never condone wrong doing or commit wrong doing…even under the threat of penalty.
I like to point out that indulgences are a spiritual truth that has been abused. Yes. But there is another spiritual truth that is frequently abused by protestants, isn’t there?
Yes, and I would point out that indulgences were abused by some of the clergy, but not all.