I have notice an increase amount of threads bashing Roman Catholicism. I just want to point out that there are people who are Catholic and of other religions (christian or not) are satisfied with their spiritual path. I do however personally believe that there is no such thing as a "false or wrong religion" just as long as they are not harming others. In my mind, the only right religion is the one that fits them (just like a pair of shoes) and I do think bashing someone's religion is wrong is contrary to love and respect. You do not have to agree but please do respect their decision (as it is their legal right to adopt the religion of their choice). Loving your neighbor means to love them even if they refuse to convert to your faith.
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I find Roman catholicism to be extemely unbiblical, and I understand that you'd be upset since that's what you follow, but how do other religions fit into this question??? To say that every religion is right if it "fits" that person and doesn't "harm" anyone, is as much as saying the truth doesn't matter. Every religion can't be right. There are absolutes. Jesus said "I am the way and the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me." There is no room there for other ways to God. There is a difference between respect and agreeing with everyone. I may, for example, disagree with a hindu and would try to share the gospel of Jesus with him, but if he doesn't want to listen than I must respect that. But to just pass him by without sharing the truth of Jesus with him isn't loving and respecting him at all, it's harming him!!!!
We must never compromise the truth for the sake of getting along.
God bless.
Tom
We must never compromise the truth for the sake of getting along.
God bless.
Tom
Roman Catholics and many other people religions do not preach their doctrine to you in fact I believe everyone is their own person and has a right to their own individuality. A true loving person will respect their individuality and accept them as they are. They will not condemn, shun, or berate that person just for being themselves. You do however have a right not to agree but you have no right to disrespect someone of a different faith.
Roman Catholics and many other people religions do not preach their doctrine to you in fact I believe everyone is their own person and has a right to their own individuality. A true loving person will respect their individuality and accept them as they are. They will not condemn, shun, or berate that person just for being themselves. You do however have a right not to agree but you have no right to disrespect or condemn someone of a different faith.
There are ways to talk about other denomintions without bashing them though.
A Christian has the right to oppose error — wherever it may be. We would respectfully suggest, however, that it is not a reflection of maturity and balance to virtually consume one’s time in monitoring the problems of other congregations. When one virtually makes a career of “policing” the brotherhood, he reveals that he does not have a responsible view of what Christianity is about.
A Christian has the right to oppose error — wherever it may be. We would respectfully suggest, however, that it is not a reflection of maturity and balance to virtually consume one’s time in monitoring the problems of other congregations. When one virtually makes a career of “policing” the brotherhood, he reveals that he does not have a responsible view of what Christianity is about.
T
Jesus is the one who commanded us to "go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." He didn't tell us to leave everyone alone and let them research this for themselves. Of course after sharing Christ with someone, then they will most certainly go and search it out to see if what you told them is true, just like the bereans in the book of Acts did when Paul shared the gospel with them.
God bless.
Tom
God bless.
Tom
This is how the God see and respond to false religions........ and you be the judge of God..............
GALATIANS 1....
6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
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.
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.
1 Corinthians 10:19-21
19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
1 Timothy 4:1
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
Revelation 9:20
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Isaiah 5:20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
GALATIANS 1....
6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
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.
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.
1 Corinthians 10:19-21
19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
1 Timothy 4:1
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
Revelation 9:20
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Isaiah 5:20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
MATTHEWS 23....
13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
16Woe unto you, ye BLIND GUIDES , which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
17 Ye FOOLS and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
1 9Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
20Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,HYPOCRITES! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
33 Ye SERPENTS, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
THE MAN OF LOVE, OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST................ NOW TELL US PLEASE, WHAT PART OF WHAT HE SAID TO THIS PEOPLE WHO CHOSE THEIR RELIGION OUT SIDE OF THE TRUTH...............SOUND LIKE THE LOVE YOU SPEAK OF???
BECAUSE THE LOVE OF THE BIBLE THAT GOD TALKS ABOUT; LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF........ DO NOT SIN AGAINST MAN IF YOU DO NOT WANT THEM TO SIN AGAINST YOU......... ROMANS 13:8-10..... GOD SAID THIS SHOULD BE THE ONLY THING WE OWE MAN............
SINCE WHEN DID GOD EVER ONE TIME IN THE BIBLE SAY, I RESPECT YOU WORSHIPING FALSE gods.......... AND I WILL NOT JUDGE YOU, I WILL RESPECT YOUR DECISION AND NEVER TELL YOU THE TRUTH THAT IF YOU DO NOT STOP....... YOU WILL GO TO HELL........ GOD NEVER SAID THAT, HE DID THE OPPOSITE, HE TOLD THE TRUTH, THEN HE SENT THE TRUTH, IF A MAN CHOOSE TO IGNORE THE TRUTH WE ARE TOLD TO SHAKE THE DUST OFF OUR FEET AND LET OUR PEACE RETURN TO US, THERE SIN WILL UPON THEIR OWN HEAD.
THIS IS WHAT GOD THINK ABOUT US RESPECTING OTHER'S FALSE RELIGION........
10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
1 1For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.........WE CAN'T EVEN TELL THEM GOD BLESS YOU, OR WE WILL BE PART OF THE EVIL THEY ARE COMMITTING BY WHAT THEY ARE TEACHING.........................
NOW WHAT DO YOU TELL GOD ABOUT WHAT HE HAVE IN HIS WORD??????????
13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
16Woe unto you, ye BLIND GUIDES , which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
17 Ye FOOLS and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
1 9Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
20Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,HYPOCRITES! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
33 Ye SERPENTS, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
THE MAN OF LOVE, OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST................ NOW TELL US PLEASE, WHAT PART OF WHAT HE SAID TO THIS PEOPLE WHO CHOSE THEIR RELIGION OUT SIDE OF THE TRUTH...............SOUND LIKE THE LOVE YOU SPEAK OF???
BECAUSE THE LOVE OF THE BIBLE THAT GOD TALKS ABOUT; LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF........ DO NOT SIN AGAINST MAN IF YOU DO NOT WANT THEM TO SIN AGAINST YOU......... ROMANS 13:8-10..... GOD SAID THIS SHOULD BE THE ONLY THING WE OWE MAN............
SINCE WHEN DID GOD EVER ONE TIME IN THE BIBLE SAY, I RESPECT YOU WORSHIPING FALSE gods.......... AND I WILL NOT JUDGE YOU, I WILL RESPECT YOUR DECISION AND NEVER TELL YOU THE TRUTH THAT IF YOU DO NOT STOP....... YOU WILL GO TO HELL........ GOD NEVER SAID THAT, HE DID THE OPPOSITE, HE TOLD THE TRUTH, THEN HE SENT THE TRUTH, IF A MAN CHOOSE TO IGNORE THE TRUTH WE ARE TOLD TO SHAKE THE DUST OFF OUR FEET AND LET OUR PEACE RETURN TO US, THERE SIN WILL UPON THEIR OWN HEAD.
THIS IS WHAT GOD THINK ABOUT US RESPECTING OTHER'S FALSE RELIGION........
10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
1 1For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.........WE CAN'T EVEN TELL THEM GOD BLESS YOU, OR WE WILL BE PART OF THE EVIL THEY ARE COMMITTING BY WHAT THEY ARE TEACHING.........................
NOW WHAT DO YOU TELL GOD ABOUT WHAT HE HAVE IN HIS WORD??????????
Our Lord Jesus Christ sat and ate with sinners, but I can truly believe that they were not teaching him their religion, or preaching false scriptures.............
HE WOULD SIT WITH THEM TO TEACH THEM THE TRUTH, AS HE DID THE 5000, THE 3000, IN THE TEMPLE COURTS, THE SYNAGOGUE ........ WHEN HE SAT ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, WHEN HE WALKED THE STREETS OF ISRAEL........... THE BIBLE SAY HE WENT ABOUT PREACHING AND TEACHING T HE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD. REMEMBER ALSO WHAT HE SAID ABOUT BETHSADA, AND JERUSALEM...... AND THE TOWNS THAT WOULD NOT RECEIVE HIM AFTER THE MIRACLES HE PERFORMED IN THEM........................ IT WOULD BE BETTER IN THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT FOR SODOM AND GOMORRAH THEN IT WILL BE FOR THEM. DO THIS SOUND LIKE YOUR KIND OF LOVE, COMING FROM THE LORD HIMSELF...............
.THIS LOVE PEOPLE KEEP THROWING AROUND IS A SICK ATTEMPT OF THE DEVIL TO KEEP GOD'S CHILDREN FROM SPEAKING THE TRUTH, REMEBER NOT ONLY WAS OUR LORD JESUS HATED FOR THE TRUTH, AND FALSELY ACCURSED AND KILLED ALL FOR SPEAKING THE TRUTH, EVEN TODAY PEOPLE ARE DYING FOR PREACHING THE TRUE GOSPEL................. I TO AM WILLING TO DIE FOR IT AS WELL ,,,,,,EVEN IF THE DEATH IS ONLY TOWARD THE PEOPLE WHO KILL ME IN THEIR HEARTS........................ GOD BLESS ALL WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH UNTO SALVATION..............
HE WOULD SIT WITH THEM TO TEACH THEM THE TRUTH, AS HE DID THE 5000, THE 3000, IN THE TEMPLE COURTS, THE SYNAGOGUE ........ WHEN HE SAT ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, WHEN HE WALKED THE STREETS OF ISRAEL........... THE BIBLE SAY HE WENT ABOUT PREACHING AND TEACHING T HE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD. REMEMBER ALSO WHAT HE SAID ABOUT BETHSADA, AND JERUSALEM...... AND THE TOWNS THAT WOULD NOT RECEIVE HIM AFTER THE MIRACLES HE PERFORMED IN THEM........................ IT WOULD BE BETTER IN THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT FOR SODOM AND GOMORRAH THEN IT WILL BE FOR THEM. DO THIS SOUND LIKE YOUR KIND OF LOVE, COMING FROM THE LORD HIMSELF...............
.THIS LOVE PEOPLE KEEP THROWING AROUND IS A SICK ATTEMPT OF THE DEVIL TO KEEP GOD'S CHILDREN FROM SPEAKING THE TRUTH, REMEBER NOT ONLY WAS OUR LORD JESUS HATED FOR THE TRUTH, AND FALSELY ACCURSED AND KILLED ALL FOR SPEAKING THE TRUTH, EVEN TODAY PEOPLE ARE DYING FOR PREACHING THE TRUE GOSPEL................. I TO AM WILLING TO DIE FOR IT AS WELL ,,,,,,EVEN IF THE DEATH IS ONLY TOWARD THE PEOPLE WHO KILL ME IN THEIR HEARTS........................ GOD BLESS ALL WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH UNTO SALVATION..............
Are you serious? Religion is a farse, and as for having a legal right to choose your own is also a delusion. There is only ONE GOD, and that is YHVH, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The creator of all the heavens and earth and all that is in them. Everything else is a false blasphemous condemned practice that will be met with going to hell along with everyone who followed it. Your profile says you're a christian. What are you a christian of? Because it can't possibly be of Messiah when you make statements such as you have above. Loving your neighbor has nothing to do with telling them they follow satan if they don't follow GOD. Because that is the cold hard truth of all that matters. If you don't follow YHVH and haven't received Yeshua in your heart, then you follow satan. Scripture says so, " you either love the one and despise the other, or you hate the one and keep the other," (paraphrasing) You can't have it both ways. I would encourage you to stand up for Yeshua, and the faith of the only true walk. I have to ask, do you believe in Messiah? Do you believe in the Bible? Or do you follow something else?