If you aren't Catholic, you are not fully Christian

[lighthouse99]

yeh, the Catholic Church used to teach this kind of thing, but the Catholics are about as liberal these days as... anyone else

what a shame.

But nevertheless, the Catholic Church still stands. As a priest once said to Napoleon after N threatened to destroy the Church, "If Catholics have not managed to destroy it, what makes you think you can?"

anyway, i have other thngs to say about all this but... later

 

[ok doser]

where do i sign up?

and how do i go about buying indulgences? :banana:

 

[Robert Pate]

yeh, the Catholic Church used to teach this kind of thing, but the Catholics are about as liberal these days as... anyone else

what a shame.

But nevertheless, the Catholic Church still stands. As a priest once said to Napoleon after N threatened to destroy the Church, "If Catholics have not managed to destroy it, what makes you think you can?"

anyway, i have other thngs to say about all this but... later

Many Catholics don't like to be called Christians. They want to be called Catholics.

 

[Robert Pate]

where do i sign up?

and how do i go about buying indulgences? :banana:

Send me $100 and you will be good to go.

 

[Cruciform]

Many Catholics don't like to be called Christians. They want to be called Catholics.

Post your proof for this as yet wholly unsubstantiated claim.

 

[Cruciform]

Send me $100 and you will be good to go.

Gigantic Straw Man Fallacy. Try again.

 

[Cruciform]

yeh, the Catholic Church used to teach this kind of thing...

We still do. :up:

...but the Catholics are about as liberal these days as... anyone else

Some individual Catholics, perhaps. However, the formal doctrines of the Catholic Church herself have remained unchanged in their essence for the past two millennia now.

But nevertheless, the Catholic Church still stands.

And always will (Mt. 16:18; 1 Tim. 3:15).

As a priest once said to Napoleon after N threatened to destroy the Church, "If Catholics have not managed to destroy it, what makes you think you can?"

Amen.



Gaudium de veritate,

Cruciform
+T+

 

[musterion]

Well, at least there's one Catholic honest enough not to parrot that "separated brethren" lie.

 

[Cruciform]

Well, at least there's one Catholic honest enough not to parrot that "separated brethren" lie.

Many non-Catholic denominations and sects are indeed properly called "Christian," and their members "separated brothers." However, that does not mean that such schismatic believers can rightly be considered to have experienced the fullness of the Christian faith, which resides only in Christ's one historic Catholic Church.

 

[musterion]

Many non-Catholic denominations and sects are indeed properly called "Christian," and their members "separated brothers." However, that does not mean that such schismatic believers can rightly be considered to have experienced the fullness of the Christian faith, which resides only in Christ's one historic Catholic Church.

One is either 100% fully in Christ or one is not.

 

[Cruciform]

One is either 100% fully in Christ or one is not.

Irrelevant to whether one is joined to Christ's one historic Church, within which resides the fullness of the Christian faith and Divine truth.

 

[ok doser]

Christ's one historic Church[/COLOR][/B][/URL], within which resides the fullness of the Christian faith and Divine truth.[/FONT]

well, no

not the one you claim

 

[KingdomRose]

yeh, the Catholic Church used to teach this kind of thing, but the Catholics are about as liberal these days as... anyone else

what a shame.

But nevertheless, the Catholic Church still stands. As a priest once said to Napoleon after N threatened to destroy the Church, "If Catholics have not managed to destroy it, what makes you think you can?"

anyway, i have other thngs to say about all this but... later

Oh yeah. The Catholic Church still stands, just like the "tares" stood and overwhelmed the "wheat" in Jesus' parable of the Wheat and Tares at Matthew 13:25-30, 38-43 (King James Version). The "tares" are, as Jesus explained, "the children of the wicked one." And yet they endured and were said to endure right up to the "harvest," or, "the end of the world." Then they would be gotten rid of.

Do you really think Jesus is leading the RCC and its spawns? Has he turned a blind eye to the thousands upon thousands of children who have been molested by church fathers? Would Jesus do that if it was his Church?

 

[john w]

Irrelevant to whether one is joined to Christ's one historic Church, within which resides the fullness of the Christian faith and Divine truth.

I revised it for you:

"....one is joined to the religious prostitute known as the Roman Catholic Organization, within which resides carcasses, full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness."

See here:

No charge.


Get saved.

 

[patrick jane]

where do i sign up?

and how do i go about buying indulgences? :banana:

I've been storing up sins, I can't seem to make it to church when the confessionals are open. I don't like waiting in line to get forgiven. :devil:

 

[Bright Raven]

Oh, I have to believe in all those non-biblical things to be a Christian.

 

[Cruciform]

Oh, I have to believe in all those non-biblical things to be a Christian.

Rather, you have to affirm and follow all that Christ's one historic Church teaches, just as Christians have been doing for two millennia now.

 

[Bright Raven]

Rather, you have to affirm and follow all that Christ's one historic Church teaches, just as Christians have been doing for two millennia now.

And that includes Maryology, purgatory, transubstantiation, and praying to Icons.

 

[Cruciform]

And that includes Maryology, purgatory, transubstantiation...

Correct.

...and praying TO Icons.

Straw Man Fallacy. Try again.

 

[Bright Raven]

No more need to address erroneous doctrine.