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Those who are able to marry across divisions in the church, gain freedom from dualistic thinking of I'm right and your lost out there; bringing judgment on themselves by judging others out of their fear and absence of Love. "Perfect Love delivers us from all fear." The fruit of the knowledge of good and evil is rebellion: to think we can do better than God (and others) to establish our own righteousnes. Until we learn of the Lord: to Love as God Loves, we are trapped as religious achievers. No one is exempt to think they are better. Even our view of salvation would be to get better, when Jesus calls us to die with Him and Stay on the cross. "Keep yourself in the Love of God." For Jesus to apear we are to disappear. Everyone wants to go to heaven but few will die with Him. "If we suffer with Him, we shall rule with Him."
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I agree. I said to my SDA friends who were concerned that I was marrying Tourist who was raised Catholic, what more does he need to do if he has given his life to God and has accepted Jesus as his Savior? Doctrines don't save us Jesus saves and if you repent and believe that Jesus has saved you then the extras don't matter.
There aren't going to be church subdivisions in heaven. No Baptist section, Catholic section, Jewish section. There will only be saved believers as nonbelievers won't be there.
So yes, this saved Seventh-Day -Adventist married a saved Catholic. We are both saved by the blood of Jesus.
There aren't going to be church subdivisions in heaven. No Baptist section, Catholic section, Jewish section. There will only be saved believers as nonbelievers won't be there.
So yes, this saved Seventh-Day -Adventist married a saved Catholic. We are both saved by the blood of Jesus.
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The Bible I said the final authority on what we do/ don't do. Loving others can come in the form of telling them the Truth from God's Word. If God says do not be unequally yoked then that is what we do. If He says do not worship idols then we don't. If He says , You will know them by their fruits' and the fruits are that they are worshipping idols and doing a whole load of stuff that the Bible tells them not to do then we have to take that into account and yes we try and help them, and pray for them. If they don't want to listen we leave it, as the Bible says.
The true worshippers will worship in spirit and in truth. If we tell people the truth it does not mean that we are judging them, rather we care, and are trying to help them as the Bible says it is useful for exhorting, reproving, rebuking one another. And indeed, 'The Truth will set us free.
Marrying across divisions of Christianity and Catholicism is asking for trouble and is not a true marriage of agreement.
Dualistic thinking is necessary if we are to walk in the truth, there ARE people who are lost, and thankfully we ARE saved, and so we do all we can to help others find Christ and escape deception.
The division is there because Catholicism is not Christianity it is a false doctrine. I care enough about those people to warn them. And I have to be very honest with myself about who I marry and whether my conscience is clear before Him.
The true worshippers will worship in spirit and in truth. If we tell people the truth it does not mean that we are judging them, rather we care, and are trying to help them as the Bible says it is useful for exhorting, reproving, rebuking one another. And indeed, 'The Truth will set us free.
Marrying across divisions of Christianity and Catholicism is asking for trouble and is not a true marriage of agreement.
Dualistic thinking is necessary if we are to walk in the truth, there ARE people who are lost, and thankfully we ARE saved, and so we do all we can to help others find Christ and escape deception.
The division is there because Catholicism is not Christianity it is a false doctrine. I care enough about those people to warn them. And I have to be very honest with myself about who I marry and whether my conscience is clear before Him.
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Do not judge, or you too will be judged.
Matthew 7:1
A person may think their own ways are right, but the Lord weighs the heart.
Proverbs 21:2
Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister.
Romans 14:13
But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.
Matthew 12:36
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?”
Matthew 7:3
Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
Luke 6:37
Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.
Romans 14:4
“No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the Lord.
Isaiah 54:17
You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.
Romans 2:1
Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
Hebrews 13:4
The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.
Romans 14:3
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
John 3:17
Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
Colossians 2:16-17
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:1-2
Matthew 7:1
A person may think their own ways are right, but the Lord weighs the heart.
Proverbs 21:2
Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister.
Romans 14:13
But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.
Matthew 12:36
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?”
Matthew 7:3
Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
Luke 6:37
Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.
Romans 14:4
“No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the Lord.
Isaiah 54:17
You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.
Romans 2:1
Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
Hebrews 13:4
The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.
Romans 14:3
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
John 3:17
Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
Colossians 2:16-17
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:1-2
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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."
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."
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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.
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