OK. Let’s say that this is true.
Because you belong to a faith that is a breakaway of a breakaway of a breakaway from the Church, not the reverse.
We don’t go to Mass to be entertained. We go to worship God and receive him in the Eucharist. We go to listen to the word. I don’t think the multitude around the altar in Revelations were too concerned with being entertained by the preaching. Nope, they were/are worshiping God.
OSAS…seems very straight forward and easily understood, and is what you believe…So what do we not understand about your denomination?
Even if that were true, that wasn’t the question.
It does answer the question. Catholics here feel compelled to judge your denomination because Christianity was never meant to have “denominations”. The fact that John Smith created the Baptist movement in the 17th century is an illustration of what can happen when one breaks from the Church. John Smith was breaking away from the Anglicans. The Anglicans broke from Catholicism; none of this separating into denominations is biblical.
Wasn’t Moses filled with God’s spirit, and didn’t he stutter so badly that Aaron had to go with him to Pharoah? And when Jesus was in front of Pilate and Herod was he not several times SILENT and not saying anything? I have seen and been to a number of non-Catholic services and yes, they are good speakers, but so is every politician. If they live the Word as well as they preach it then I have no objections to their doing so, but preaching is NOT all that Christian leaders are commanded to do.
Alot of what’s going on in this thread are basically disagreement between Protestant and Catholic. I don’t know what you mean by judgement on your denom cuz I skim thru it rather than reading it thoroughly.
Hi, i just joined Catholic Forum a couple days ago. I am no expert, but I do have an opinion. If one is looking at a church that is apostolistic, one would find that the Catholic Church is the only apostolistic one. There are actually 4 marks to find out which chuch is the true church and the counterfeit one: 1. Unity, of government, of worship, of doctrine. 2. Holiness, in its founder, its sacraments, its members, and its miracles. 3.Universal, in time and place. 4.** Apostolistic** In doctrine, and succesion of rulers. Does the Orthrodox Church have all these qualities? Please let me know.
Who do you think you are?
We’re not talking about whether or not my religion is right, but what gives you the right to judge my religion as wrong when you’re not familiar with it?
And we are a part of that church.
We don’t believe that Christ’s teachings have been “scattered, torn and shredded”. Far from it, we believe that they’re being preached right now.
I don’t see a “mass of confusion”. I see one church. I see unity between many different denominations of Protestants and Baptists and then I see Roman Catholics telling us all that we’re going to Hell.
So then, you don’t believe God’s word that He has given us the Holy Spirit so that each man is now a priest and king, able to know the truth for himself and able to come before God without a priest to mediate?
I think I’m somebody who wonders why Eden won’t answer the question.
You are the one who came to a Catholic website to challenge our beliefs. The burden of proof that your church is biblical and that the Catholic Church is in error falls on you. In order for anyone here to respond to your posts, they must point out where you are in error. You cannot come to this site, set out your beliefs and decide that we must be fully informed about you. Remember, you came here. We’re not on a Baptist site.
O.K. You are a Baptist preacher and pre-Baptism teacher who was once educated in Catholic schools and CCD because your stepfather was Catholic. Your mother is Methodist. You considered becoming Catholic five years ago but decided the Church was teaching grave errors. You came here because you wanted to teach us why our Church is in error. But instead you have been receiving post after post as to why the Church is the Church established by Christ. You believe you were saved when you said the Jesus prayer and were brought into the Baptist faith with a symbolic baptism and you believe that you are now guaranteed salvation. That would be how I would summarize what I have learned about you.
Where is the unity of belief?
Where do you see this?
) and the catholic faith seems so alien still to me. Does it mean that the catholic faith is a cult or that they are demon worshippers? OF COURSE NOT. I believe what I believe because God has brought me here to this point in my life and has not led me to the catholic church as of yet. I don’t see it in the future but I do see God working in me to fight for Christian Unity. Non-catholic? Yes. Anti-catholic? NO. 
If Catholicism has the fullness of truth, and there is only ONE truth, need I be familiar with any other religion to know that they can’t be totally right?
What church? Your church is Baptist, not Catholic.
What I mean is there should be a unity in faith but you know it’s not. You can preach all you want but the teachings are not unified.
One church? Let’s see…you’re a Baptist, and there’s Lutheran, a Presbyterian, a 7th Day Adventist, a Methodist, an Episcopalian, a LDS, a Jehovah…and thousands more.
Oh God gives us the Holy Spirit alright, but not in the way you interpreted. Why do you keep saying each man is able to know the truth for himself? Ya’ll read the same bible, but why ya’ll come to a different conclusion ???
Maybe because, they also believe the truth in their own churches…
I think this is part of the reason why some people do not convert. In some parts of the world, there is a real sense of ethnicity being tied to which Church you belong to. For example, I know someone who came from the Netherlands, where there is a large Dutch Reformed population. She said she would never even consider leaving, because it’s not just a system of beliefs, it’s a whole family history as well. There are some people who come from a long line of people practicing a certain faith, and would find leaving it to almost go against their families. I personally come from a long line of Anglicans, and I know many of them would not consider leaving, because it seems like it’s been in our family forever (even though we were all Catholic before there was an Anglican Church). For some people, you don’t question which faith you practice, you just do what has been in your family the longes. I agree that it’s not a really good reason to not convert, but at the same time, there can be a lot of pressure to stay within a certain faith, and maybe not everybody is ready or able to make the decision to go against what their family is doing.