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Mat 18:15 But if thy brother sin against thee, go, reprove him between thee and him alone. If he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
Mat 18:16 But if he do not hear thee , take with thee one or two besides, that every matter may stand upon the word of two witnesses or of three.
Mat 18:17 But if he will not listen to them, tell it to the assembly; and if also he will not listen to the assembly, let him be to thee as one of the nations and a tax-gatherer.
Mat 18:18 Verily I say to you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on the earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever ye shall loose on the earth shall be loosed in heaven.

This is never practiced by the RCC. What happens to the pedophiles and other sex-offender of the RCC? If they are ever disciplined it is only by the Pope directly, never by the local assembly. I have never seen a Catholic assembly take any kind of action on any kind of sinner at all. The policy is not as above stated in the Scripture. Here is the local policy of the RCC:
Confess your sins to a priest.
Do your penance.
Live like the devil the rest of the week.
That is not what is says in Matthew 18, so why even bring it up?

What does this passage say, which I have never witnessed the RCC practice?
If a brother, (a member of a local assembly) offend you (fall into sin) go to him, and tell him of his offence. If he repents you have gained a brother.

If he does not repent then take one or two others with you. Perhaps he will listen in the presence of others. Also in the presence of two or three, every word will be established (not just your word against his).

If he does not repent then his actions must be brought before the assembly, the local church. This would be a business meeting especially called for this purpose. If he does not come or does not repent, then he must be excommunicated--that is treated as a heathen and a publican (tax-collector). These were the most despised and hated people of society. The Jews would not eat or socialize with such people.

The next verse refers to their decision.
Mat 18:18 Verily I say to you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on the earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever ye shall loose on the earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Mat 18:19 Again I say to you, that if two of you shall agree on the earth concerning any matter, whatsoever it may be that they shall ask, it shall come to them from my Father who is in the heavens.
Mat 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together unto my name, there am I in the midst of them.

--Whatever decision they made on earth is binding, so binding that it is as if it were made in heaven.
Then Christ reinforces it saying that even if the turnout for this meeting had only two or three members, still Christ was in the midst of this decision.
--This kind of discipline can only be carried out by a local church as ours and has nothing to do with the RCC who has nothing to do with such discipline, but rather flaunts it.

There is no denomination in view here, only an assembly, a local church.

 

a heretick after the second or third admonition reject.

 

Another gospel of salvation by works

The Rcc is a false religion preaching a false gospel, that understanding was derived from scripture, not History. Here is evidence from their very own official encyclopedia.



The Roman Catholic cult in their Catechism teaches that we can merit grace necessary for salvation and that eternal life is attained by baptism, sacraments, and keeping the commandments.
1. CCC 2010, "...Moved by the Holy Spirit and by charity, we can then merit for ourselves and for others the graces needed for our sanctification, for the increase of grace and charity, and for the attainment of eternal life."
2. CCC 2027, "Moved by the Holy Spirit, we can merit for ourselves and for others all the graces needed to attain eternal life, as well as necessary temporal goods."
3. CCC 2068, "The Council of Trent teaches that the Ten Commandments are obligatory for Christians and that the justified man is still bound to keep them;28 the Second Vatican Council confirms: "The bishops, successors of the apostles, receive from the Lord . . . the mission of teaching all peoples, and of preaching the Gospel to every creature, so that all men may attain salvation through faith, Baptism and the observance of the Commandments."
This obviously faulty teaching in the CCC is hugely problematic since it contradicts Scripture.
1. Rom. 3:28-30, "For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law. 29Or is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 30since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith is one."
2. Rom. 4:3, "For what does the Scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness."
3. Rom. 4:5, "But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness,"
4. Rom. 5:1, "therefore having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."
5. Rom. 11:6, "But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace."
6. Gal. 2:16, "nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified."
We have to ask questions.
1. Why is the RCC teaching that you attain salvation through observing the commandments when the Bible says we are saved apart from the works of the Law (Rom. 3:28-30; 4:5; Gal. 2:16)?
2. Why would the Roman Catholic Church teach that you merit for yourself the grace needed for eternal life when that clearly contradicts Rom 11:6? See also Matt 7:21-23.
There is a great deal wrong with what the RCC teaches. We must look to God's word and not to what the RCC says we must do to be saved. Our salvation is not merited by our keeping the commandments! The Roman Catholic Church needs to repent.

 

The problem is that the Rcc does not teach the gospel of scripture, they teach another gospel and are cursed.

Gal 1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
Gal 1:7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Gal 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Gal 1:9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Gal 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Gal 1:11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
Gal 1:12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

 

The sacraments are a source of the works of men. The are man's invention.
They are works. They are not a means of grace.
Salvation is by grace through faith.
In fact salvation is in Christ alone, by grace alone, through faith alone.
There are no works involved; no sacraments involved; never was.
You put the works of man over the the words of Christ.

 

The Rcc sacraments are blasphemous, anybody who participates in it spits in Jesus face and says your Atonement was not good enough.

 

So, how did the church save anyone there?

 

Puke A re sacrifice is a disgrace to Jesus.

 

Then the RCC came along with its LATERAN IV command to "exterminate" and went to formal declared war with that church.

Thankfully some Catholics began to "protest" and there was born the Protestant Reformation trying to reform the "exterminate" oriented RCC.

in Christ,

Bob

 

Walk us through how it was that a "Baptist" decided to pray to the dead and to "imagine" purgatory??

in Christ,

Bob

 

If you believe that you are eating your god, then you must realise that you are also pooping your god down the toilet, right? Think man think!

 

Protestant means to protest the Rcc, how could the early Apostles protest the Rcc when it did not even exist? Or as you say, when the Rcc was not on the radar.