What does it mean to be a Bible Believing Church?

[sparkle]

Duh------aren’t most Christians “Bible Believing”? I hope so.

Recently I had someone tell me I wasn’t going to a “Bible Believing Church” and therefore I’m really missing out.

Come On!

“Don’t cast pearls before swine” ----this is a hard lesson to learn!!! at least it is for me. I so want to tell EVERYONE how wonderful the True Catholic Church and faith is!!! Many are just incapable of understanding anything!!! Sad------

 

[Panis_Angelicas]

WhiteDove:

It means it’s a low-brow, intellectually challenged, litugically lacking ‘church’, call me a snob. The pastor tends to quote small snippits of scripture in his long-winded sermons. They all have ‘accepted Jesus into their hearts’, even though that phrase is totally not in the Bible.

:yup: I’m with the snob.

 

[Little_Mary]

MGEISING,

I’d like to hear from some “bible-believing” church goers (non Catholic ones, that is) wouldn’t you? Or maybe they are still scratching their heads?

 

[MGEISING]

Little Mary:

MGEISING,

I’d like to hear from some “bible-believing” church goers (non Catholic ones, that is) wouldn’t you? Or maybe they are still scratching their heads?

Hi Little Mary:

I sure would. I really resent that term, as you tell by my thread. My guess is that is means a lot of things to different people … don’t you think?

My inlaws are Baptist – and all you hear from them and their congregation is you need to be Bible Believing … Does that Mean Sola Scriptora? Because if it does, it is totally against what scripture teaches!

 

[Little_Mary]

MGEISING:

Hi Little Mary:

I sure would. I really resent that term, as you tell by my thread. My guess is that is means a lot of things to different people … don’t you think?

My inlaws are Baptist – and all you hear from them and their congregation is you need to be Bible Believing … Does that Mean Sola Scriptora? Because if it does, it is totally against what scripture teaches!

Yes, BUT protestants are very good at ignoring the strongest, scripture supported arguments if it contradicts what they believe. Or, they come back at you with a bunch of nonsense.

bible-believing might mean different things to different people yes. To me it has always meant “not Catholic”

My in laws are all baptist as well but religion has never been a discussion betweem me and them. Only once I sent a tract by Jimmy Akin about the left behind books and two brothers-in-law pounced on me saying Jimmy had a problem with the basic concept of christianity :whacky: :bigyikes: Crazy stuff. They’ll say anything to perpetuate the argument.

I want to send them all info on these forums but I’m waiting for my square to turn green or else, believe me, they’ll be all over me for that, too. Maybe not everybod would, but these people would!

Pax Christi

 

[MGEISING]

Little Mary:

I want to send them all info on these forums but I’m waiting for my square to turn green or else, believe me, they’ll be all over me for that, too. Maybe not everybod would, but these people would!

Pax Christi

Your square is green isn’t it? Anyway, I gave you reputation points! I like you and what you have to say!

 

[Little_Mary]

MGEISING:

Your square is green isn’t it? Anyway, I gave you reputation points! I like you and what you have to say!

Thank you! and right back atchya!!

We certainly both know what it’s like to live with baptists who don’t want to even discuss the truth!!



PS - My square is green but is still says that “apologetical motor” thing when you rest your cursor on it. Notwithstanding - I DO have a lot to learn yet!!

 

[MGEISING]

Little Mary:

Thank you! and right back atchya!!

We certainly both know what it’s like to live with baptists who don’t want to even discuss the truth!!



PS - My square is green but is still says that “apologetical motor” thing when you rest your cursor on it. Notwithstanding - I DO have a lot to learn yet!!

It is both a blessing and a curse - if you know what I mean. Can you shoot over to my poll question under family on Vacation Bible School at Fundamentalist Anti-Catholic Baptist church - sure would love your (name removed by moderator)ut!

Have a blessed day!

 

[Little_Mary]

Little Mary:

Yes, BUT protestants are very good at ignoring the strongest, scripture supported arguments

OK, maybe I shoul d say some, or most protestants. Sorry if it sounds arrogant, but I am talking from experience.

My apologies if I have offended anyone.

 

[Trish]

You are right. The Bible is clear that we are to hold to the tradiditons handed down. However, there are some Protestant groups that believe that once the Bible was written, that verbal tradition ceased to be of importance and that it was only a temporary measure. The Church doesn’t hold to that, but it is a common Protestant opinion.

MGEISING:

But isn’t SCRIPTURE very clear that you need more than the WRITTEN WORD? Anyone care to comment - to help me understand???

 

[Trish]

Tirian:

Indeed. Jesus said that we were not to live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

I used to belong to a number of these “Bible-believing” churches (Church of God, Anderson, IN and the Wesleyan Church). These are for the most part good, honest, sincere people who really think they are paying God the highest honor by trusting in his written word alone. Generations of Christians in these groups have grown up with this as an unspoken tradition.

With some of them it is still a way of maintaining their identity. Whatever they are, they wish it to be clearly understood what they are not, and they are not Catholic.

Sola scriptura is a way of setting themselves apart from the Catholic Church and clearly shunning those “pitiful, man-made tradtions” that Catholics trust in.

Of course we had our own traditions–sola scriptura being one of them–but we never looked at them that way. To us they were all firmly grounded in Scripture, so firmly in fact that we never questioned them. They were just taken as axiomatic.

Well put. I grew up a Baptist and when I was 12 and preparing for baptism, I asked the pastor how we knew we were right and everyone else was wrong. He was ready not to baptize me, wondering if I belonged somewhere else. He didn’t see our denomination as the final word, apparently. But in retrospect, he ought to have been able to answer the question of a 12 year old, if there was an answer. Eventually, I found out. He couldn’t answer my question.

 

[MGEISING]

Trish:

What (if) brought you into the Catholic Church?
Thanks!