[quote=process_architect;492264]How dare Catholics call themselves "Christian"! A better term would be "Maryians" or "Popians".
Catholics/Satan's deceived, answer me this:
You call the pope "Father" when Christ himself said "call no man father but me" - Matt 23:9? Why?
You pray to Mary and confess sins to the pope for forgiveness when Christ said "no man comes to the Father but through me" - John 14:6? Why?
Let's look at this through the eyes of Satan for a second. You are the angel of light and the ultimate deceiver. You can take things that seem so innocent and make them so bad. So if you hated God what would be the best way to spite him? To take His words and twist them to make them seem so good, when in reality they are so far from the truth.
Open your eyes.[/quote]
Friends, Open your hearts to God! Amen.
So, Protestants call themselves Lutherans, Calvinists, Wesleyans, Arminians, showing they follow men. Catholics also follow one man, the pope of Rome. No single individual has in Eastern Orthodoxy the place the Reformers have in Protestantism, and the Roman popes have in Catholicism. Orthodoxy is in the 7 Councils of the Church, the Scriptures, the Holy Traditions of the Apostolic, Apostolic Succession of Bishops, the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Moscow, and the other Orthodox Patriarchs. No Patriarch is regarded as infallible or a vicar of Jesus Christ. Only the Holy Spirit has the infallible role and Presence in the One Holy Orthodox Catholic Church.
The Apostolic Church. No Orthodox Christian views himself/herself, as "the way, the truth, and the life." The popes of Rome, some of them, called themselves, "the way, the truth and the life." The Protestants as Reformers also view themselves as keepers of "the way, the truth, and the life", and you must believe in their Reformation "solas" in order to be "saved", or to be "true Christians". According to Martin Luther alone, the doctrine (Protestant doctrine/"Lutheran" (sic) doctrine of "justification by faith alone" is the doctrine upon which "the church" (that is, Martin Luther himself as the church), "stands or falls." Go figure. So much emphasis upon just one man: the pope of Rome, Luther, Calvin, Wesley, Arminius, etc. Go figure. In Erie PA USA Scott R. Harrington