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Hey, you guys on the Mormon thread...guess how long it took me to start THIS thread...? About 30 seconds! Please, continue to share your knowledge...it really is interesting.
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I have a more detailed thread about Catholicism......It is very saturated with evil and wickedness....The Word of God clearly condemns it! I dont claim to have perfect knowledge of these type of religions(not even close), but I do know false doctrine when it doesn't stack up with the Word of God!
"To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Isaiah 8:20
"To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Isaiah 8:20
I never was Catholic, but my mother was rasised in the Catholic Church. (She is mexican & spanish)
To this day#EWshe is unable to go into a church of any demonation without the horrible memories of her childhood coming back to haunt her.
I'm not kidding!! She is ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED of the Catholic church most of all. And after seeing all the damage that was done to her, I have no desire to become Catholic.
rk, You might not realize it; but what you said can also be applied to the mormon church. I was a member of thier organization for several years, so i speak from experience. But you already said it all and I see no point in repeating your words. I'm referring to what you said about knowing false doctrine when it doesn't stack up to God's words.
Blessings,
Terry
Snowmen come from heaven unassembled
To this day#EWshe is unable to go into a church of any demonation without the horrible memories of her childhood coming back to haunt her.
I'm not kidding!! She is ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED of the Catholic church most of all. And after seeing all the damage that was done to her, I have no desire to become Catholic.
rk, You might not realize it; but what you said can also be applied to the mormon church. I was a member of thier organization for several years, so i speak from experience. But you already said it all and I see no point in repeating your words. I'm referring to what you said about knowing false doctrine when it doesn't stack up to God's words.
Blessings,
Terry
Snowmen come from heaven unassembled
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Hey Terry, yeah I agree......The mormon church has many faulty theologies too, so do many other belief systems....When it comes to ANY belief system out there in the world, just shine the light of Scripture to it...That is my final authority.
"To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Isaiah 8:20
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" 2 Timothy 3:16
"To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Isaiah 8:20
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" 2 Timothy 3:16
the word catholic was widely used among christians before christianaty was adopted by the Romen empire, Catholic means universal, Arias of Antioch taught that Jesus wasnt God and seems quite credible when looking over the evidence that it is believable that in his day it was a new teaching. I dont believe what he taught, to me it seems quite clear from the scriptures that the apostles atributed non-transferable qualities of God to Jesus, I dont think that the Trinaty is something that the Romen Catholic church made up, the Nicean creed is an atempt against the beliefs of Arianism,
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I am sorry that people have seemed to have a bad experience in the Catholic Church, but "personal experience" doesn't really say much about the truth within the Catholic Church. We don't worship Mary, their is no historical evidence to suggest we "came on the scene in the 4th century" actually to the contrary the writings of the later NT period (Later Pauline literature like Timothy, the general epistles) and the period immediately following the NT period (Didache, Clement's letters, Ignatios' letters, Polycarp, etc) all disprove that myth.
312 AD ( 4th centery ) The Emperor Constantine is one of the major figures of christian history. After his conversion Christianaty moved swiftly from the seclusion of the catacombs to the prestige of palaces. christianaty entered the fourth centery as a pesacuted minoraty and at the end of that centery it was the established religion of the empire. (this is documented History) Thus, the christian church was joined to the power of the state and assumed a moral responsabilaty for the whole sociaty. to serve the state it refined its doctrine and developed its structure. this is the religion that used the word Catholic (universal) even before the 4th centery and kept it right through the Holy Romen Catholic church times and to this verry day, the word catholic has remained now only as a name to the distinked denomination from which many broke away from because of its missuse of the scriptures and the crule way this religion ruled with its power. begining the age of the reformation of the church and the rise of manny denominations over the years since. those who used the word Catholic before the 4th cantery were not refering to the same form of christianaty that is called Catholic in our days or from the 4th century onwards
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The Catholic Church of the early centuries did not look like the Latin church today , this is true, but was much more like the Eastern(like the Byzantine,Coptic, Maronite, Syriac, Assyrian, etc) churches in its structure. There are several abuses within the Latin church, but none imo that make it heretical.
I do look at the post of porphrios and it actually suggest to me he is a devoted catholic.
I would like to ask the catholics who are in this forum, DO YOU BELIEVE THAT THOSE MATYRS KILLED BY CATHOLIC CHURCH in between 600 AD - 1500 AD went to heaven?
If they did do you expect to share the same eternaty with them seeing the book of revelation 2:21 says that, catholic church was given a space to repent and they refused?
Then if peter the apostles stated catholic system as it is claimed, why did u divert from his teaching seeing even he was married?
This Religion is HELL BOUND!!!!
I would like to ask the catholics who are in this forum, DO YOU BELIEVE THAT THOSE MATYRS KILLED BY CATHOLIC CHURCH in between 600 AD - 1500 AD went to heaven?
If they did do you expect to share the same eternaty with them seeing the book of revelation 2:21 says that, catholic church was given a space to repent and they refused?
Then if peter the apostles stated catholic system as it is claimed, why did u divert from his teaching seeing even he was married?
This Religion is HELL BOUND!!!!
@pagie yes i think that is important. There are Christians here from catholic churches, who are really serious about there faith. I would really like to have respect towards the catholics.
A lot of people currently do not know how it is in those churches at this very moment.
I am not a catholic btw. I do not agree with the catholic church, but i will not condemn the people of that church. Because that is what people might think when they read your messages.
A lot of people currently do not know how it is in those churches at this very moment.
I am not a catholic btw. I do not agree with the catholic church, but i will not condemn the people of that church. Because that is what people might think when they read your messages.
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There weren't really any "martyrs" to be killed between that time period, since all the Christians were either Catholic/Orthodox, Oriental non-chacledonians, or Assyrian church of the East Christians. All of them were and are today Apostolic and I am sure most people here wouldn't even realize that they aren't all one faith since we are all very similar to each other. Unless you mean by martyrs, the Apostolic christians killed by the Arian Germans, the pagen persians, or the Muslim arabs. Peter didn't "start" the Catholic Church, Jesus Christ did. The rules on clerical marraige vary time period to time period because they are not universal truthes, but only culturual and based on the time period and culture. For instance, eastern churches all have married priests , but our Bishops are taken from the monastic (celibate) clergy.
K
i think like the catholic church and many others are steeped in false teachings...to list a few the celebration of christmas, easter(which have pagen influences)....and lets not forget idolism...which is strongly condemed...how many churches have you been to where there are not images of worship...eg pictures of mary,jesus...the cross(which is also pagan)...lets look for the truth in what the bible says....not what we're led to believe....let us find the truth.
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