Would you marry a Catholic?

Hey BF - what is required of a person in order to have salvation, then? According to the Bible.

Do you think any Catholics will be in heaven?

The Lord has a diferent judgment than we do, and should be obvious. "ALL manner os sin shall be forgiven to man but rejecting the Holy Spirit shall not be forgiven to man." Not obeying the New comandmant "To Love one another as I have have Loved you; that you also Love one another." "If anyone comes to me, I will not turn them away (no matter what)." I had an idol of women most of my life and could not have a healthy relationship. The Lord did not abandon me there and spoke to me with compassion during that time: come to My house, I'm coming to My house. Now. I have a healty relationship with a woman from the Philippines who is in the charismatic Catholic renewal. That also happens to be where I received the Holy Spirit over 40 years ago, when at the time I was in a foursquare Pentecostal church. But would go on Friday evening to the charismatic renewal because I wanted more and was not judgmental then. I did fall in the trap of dualistic thinking later.
Another word the Lord told me 36 years ago: Behold.I am with you in a time of trouble such as never was and shall never be again, for it is coming upon all people as amtestimony against them.
The time of trouble is because Faith works by Love and appart from the Holy Spirit faith is dead.
The renewal of the Holy Spirit is welcomed in the Catholic church and has been for years, more than such as Baptist church. And those who preach not by woks are the worst at judging one another. I am to wirdraw miself from trying to help here. I knew this for years, yet felt I should try to warn them. While the Lord had already told me: I don't need your help. You don't know that the Judgment will begin with the US do you. And it's likely where you live. People are lukewarm and don't care and think they are right. Yes there are saints there who will rise to God in the time of trouble. But what about the foolish who will not invest their whole heart in Christ and preach not by works and spend there time quarreling and judging one another. Can you see Why we are to withdraw from them that walk disorderly? I have been coming here for a few years on and off and the quarels are getting worse: those who think they are right are in the worst danger. "There is none Righteous." The revival is more welcomed in places like the Catholic church because they know their need. I have been called as an evangelist and wondered if the Lord was sending me to the Catholic church since He gave me a wife from there. He said: I am sending you to all churches. I have noticed that that those who have judgment against other churches and think they are right, can't hear me, especially those who preach not by works; istorting the Word and turnimg it upside down. A word that was ment to say: not by our work (in pride of achievment), witch we done but Grace alone; agreement with the work of God: to influence our hearts to be joined to the Holy Spirit; to do the work of God, to follow Jesus in His death and Resurrection, that we may go on to perfection, and not stay as we are in dead works. "Let us not judge one another, but judge this that no one ause another to stumble.
I have been thought like you for years that Catholics were idol worshipers, but I was the one who could not get past an idol of woman: bearing my own judgment. The church is divided because we think like men in the flesh. "There are divisions among you... are you not behaving like men in the flesh."

Do you think any Catholics will be in heaven?

The Lord has a diferent judgment than we do, and should be obvious. "ALL manner os sin shall be forgiven to man but rejecting the Holy Spirit shall not be forgiven to man." Not obeying the New comandmant "To Love one another as I have have Loved you; that you also Love one another." "If anyone comes to me, I will not turn them away (no matter what)." I had an idol of women most of my life and could not have a healthy relationship. The Lord did not abandon me there and spoke to me with compassion during that time: come to My house, I'm coming to My house. Now. I have a healty relationship with a woman from the Philippines who is in the charismatic Catholic renewal. That also happens to be where I received the Holy Spirit over 40 years ago, when at the time I was in a foursquare Pentecostal church. But would go on Friday evening to the charismatic renewal because I wanted more and was not judgmental then. I did fall in the trap of dualistic thinking later.
Another word the Lord told me 36 years ago: Behold.I am with you in a time of trouble such as never was and shall never be again, for it is coming upon all people as amtestimony against them.
The time of trouble is because Faith works by Love and appart from the Holy Spirit faith is dead.
The renewal of the Holy Spirit is welcomed in the Catholic church and has been for years, more than such as Baptist church. And those who preach not by woks are the worst at judging one another. I am to wirdraw miself from trying to help here. I knew this for years, yet felt I should try to warn them. While the Lord had already told me: I don't need your help. You don't know that the Judgment will begin with the US do you. And it's likely where you live. People are lukewarm and don't care and think they are right. Yes there are saints there who will rise to God in the time of trouble. But what about the foolish who will not invest their whole heart in Christ and preach not by works and spend there time quarreling and judging one another. Can you see Why we are to withdraw from them that walk disorderly? I have been coming here for a few years on and off and the quarels are getting worse: those who think they are right are in the worst danger. "There is none Righteous." The revival is more welcomed in places like the Catholic church because they know their need. I have been called as an evangelist and wondered if the Lord was sending me to the Catholic church since He gave me a wife from there. He said: I am sending you to all churches. I have noticed that that those who have judgment against other churches and think they are right, can't hear me, especially those who preach not by works; istorting the Word and turnimg it upside down. A word that was ment to say: not by our work (in pride of achievment), witch we done but Grace alone; agreement with the work of God: to influence our hearts to be joined to the Holy Spirit; to do the work of God, to follow Jesus in His death and Resurrection, that we may go on to perfection, and not stay as we are in dead works. "Let us not judge one another, but judge this that no one ause another to stumble.
I have been thought like you for years that Catholics were idol worshipers, but I was the one who could not get past an idol of woman: bearing my own judgment. The church is divided because we think like men in the flesh. "There are divisions among you... are you not behaving like men in the flesh."

My .02¢
A lot of people call themselves " christians" that ARE NOT!

If he wanted to bread the word daily with me,have heart prayer,be open,receptive,caring towards others and myself and I completely trusted him..........Catholic is just a label....IMO

They Just need explained that divisions on both sides were made by people desiring to be in charge of the work of God. "They parted My garments among them and cast lots for My Vesture." The Vesture was a seamless garment woven throughout, representing the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will not be divised. Neither should we, otherwise we are gambling our opportunity for wholeness, and He will not take sides.

The commandment is to raise up according to scripture. But it is not a promise they will be formed in Christ like with Paul and Timothy.

Paul suffered as in pains of birth until Christ gave Timothy a new heart and willing spirit. Timothy is typified as a chaste virgin bride looking ahead to our new incorruptible bodies.

We can plant the spiritual born again seed(Christ) and water it with the doctrines of God. But he alone can cause growth if any.

He must do the first works of His faithfulness.

We walk by faith the eternal not seen and not of them of the number who compare the things seen to the same things seen the temporal .
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.... if I got in the looking mood

I don't know too much about Catholicism vs Protestantism but I find Catholics to be Christians. They believe in the main doctrines (Trinity, meaning of Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, etc.). They don't pray to the saints, but they ask for the saints to pray for them (if I understand correctly). To me, this seems to be similar if I ask someone else like a friend to pray me (I'm not praying directly to God in this sense, but asking someone else to pray for me). The biggest distinctions are that Protestants believe in faith alone, and scripture alone, whereas Catholics believe in both faith and works, and scripture plus tradition.

Protestantism is only about 500-600 years old, and is fairly new. Personally, I've questioned the credibility of Martin Luther (founder of Protestantism) after I learned that he wanted to remove a few additional books from the New Testament such as Hebrews, James, and Revelation. He had concerns over these books because they supported faith plus works-based salvation. So, sometimes I think we should just rely on the original (Catholic) Bible that has all the books.

A big reason due to the different beliefs is that we are using different books.

The books themselves are a small part of the problem. The Catholic "church" holds the papal decrees and declarations above Scripture (including the Catholic canon). If you investigate the decrees, you'll understand the divide more clearly.

Me too! I knew at the time I was not following the word of God, but my own desires. I should have been more patient until she became a believer. She got saved in our first year of marriage, praise the Lord. We’ve been married now for 26 years, and she is an unbelievable follower of Christ.

My .02¢
A lot of people call themselves " christians" that ARE NOT!