Are there any ex-catholics on this forum?

Who is the mediator between us and God?

 

Jesus is the mediator between us and God.

 

I find that theologically ignorant Protestants so poorly understand their Bibles as to embrace anything claiming to be virtuous. Thus protestants who move to the Roman church just don't know any better, but their feelings tell them they like the way of the liturgy.
America has a culturally christian society that is mostly biblically ignorant. It is a sad thing and seeker friendly churches do nothing to help out the cause.

 

It's not a matter of want.

All humanity is in a dead on sprint toward hell. God just chooses to stop a few of the masses from plunging themselves into the abyss.

I don't know if God loves you enough to refrain you from jumping into the abyss. Has God chosen to adopt you, make you his child and spare you from the effects of your own sin, utilyan?

 

I could not go to hell even without God's help. I am not the creator.

I know God loves you. He declares every time you sin that is NOT what he WANTS you to do.

If he didn't love you, he wouldn't bother mentioning you were a sinner.

 

Again, why would they want to even stay in a church that defines the Gospel in a different fashion from the scriptures themselves!

 

The truth is that the prophets/Jesus/Apostles ALL agreed and stated that the scriptures ALONE are a true revelation from God!

 

Do you accept That Jesus ALONE can save you, and that salvation is a free gift from God, and that Goid requires nothing else by you except faith in jesus to save you?

 

show me where?

 

All of us???....then why doesnt that happen?

BTW you guys are moving off point of this thread & you arent helping answer the OP question.

 

Because I like the liturgical worship of the Catholic Church. But I also like the non liturgical worship of that Baptist Church.

 

The best way to get Catholics to leave Catholicism is to LIE about what Catholics believe.

Vilify the catholic and present teachings that are not catholic as catholic.

Example: Catholics worship Mary, Catholics are pagans, the Catholic is in league with the devil. the Catholic worships people and saints, the catholic teach salvation by works, Catholics don't believe in the bible.


The only way to defeat Catholics is if we make up what they believe and present it as something they actually believe.


What you don't want to do is admit what they believe what they actually teach, stay away from church history. Make sure from the moment Jesus dies poof the church disappears and teleport it to 1500.

Do not study anything between 1500-33 ad.

Don’t Read Scott Hahn

Don’t Read Church History

Don’t Read the Early Church Fathers

Don’t Meet Any practicing Catholics

Don't pick up a rosary or pray about it.

Don't let a nun pray for you. The Penguins got a strange knack for getting what they pray for. They will actually spend hours praying to a Eucharist bread.

Folks often mistake the church structure hierarchy thinking some pastor or pope is the top dog. Its the Saint who you have to look out for. They are not always obvious like a Mother Theresa. These loose cannons are like catholic jedi. They transcend titles.


Don't run into the devil. When stuff really goes down and you need exorcist, Catholic holy water actually works against vampires.

A question often asked is How are Catholics able to perform Exorcisms if their beliefs are unbiblical.

Folks will be very reluctant to get Catholics till things get REAL Often this is followed with the only reason catholic can exorcise demons is we are on the same side, same accusation Jesus would get for doing the same thing.

 

Well if God asked why should he let me in heaven, I would not credit my faith nor would I credit my works but because Jesus died on the cross for me.

I can have all faith as to move mountains that doesn't qualify me.

I can know all scripture backwards and fowards that doesn't qualify me.

1 Corinthians 13
2If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

 

I was born, raised and educated Roman Catholic. By the time I graduated from a Catholic high school I was pretty much an atheist. I went back after my children were born, got sucked into the whole Marian apparitions thing, etc. However, it always seemed that I was trying to "prove" to God that I was good enough to love...as I followed Catholicism's demands on me. Daily Mass, Rosary, Adoration, etc. Every flipping day. Yet, I still never, ever felt God. Fast forward a few years...I finally READ the bible...and honestly couldn't find Catholicism in it. Virtually no mention of Mary, yet there was Jeremiah 17:2 (which is also why I won't put up a Christmas tree), I argued that it was in a "protestant bible" yet there was the same thing in my Catholic bible. As I read and studied more and more, I realized that I had to leave Catholicism. 1 Timothy 3:2 gives the lie to priestly celibacy. There are many examples but those are just a few of them. With careful research, one can find many, many scriptures that directly contradict Catholic beliefs.

 

"For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." ~ESV

No need for a priest to bring confession when we can go to the High Priest who is our mediator.

 

Does God love you, utilyan? Has He reached down and stopped you from jumping into the abyss?

 

Can light have fellowship with darkness? And the Great Whore of religion, whom could well be the RCC in the end days, God calls us to get out of there!

 

Evewn though the RCC worships in vain?