A weak catholic does not become Protestant. A weak catholic stays a Catholic, but a Catholic who really reads and studies the Bible finds themselves in a Protestant church. Thats not weak, that’s deliverance.
Also there are many Protestant ministries that actually evangelize and go to other counties.
Jesus said,”Do this in remembrance of me.” He gave them earthly bread, earthly wine as a testament of what He was offering on the cross.
Instead of having communion in remembrance as Jesus clearly says,”They took it to the extreme and claim the after and wins transubsinste into literal flesh and literal blood.
I’ve heard reports wafer tastes like wafers, wine taste like watered down wine.
I am still learning myself, reading up on Church History from Roman Catholic Perspective, Orthodox perspective, Protestant perspective, Secular perspective. Reading letters from early Church fathers.
History of the Catholic Church: From the Apostolic Age to the Third Millennium by James Hitchcock
The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware
Church History in Plain Language by Bruce L. Shelley
The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World by Bart D. Ehrman
Just a few books I’ve read…plus articles online.
🤣 Pay attention to what you just said.
I’ll add another one to the name one thing.
Roman Catholics believe in the infallibility of office of the Pope. It was of office of the Pope that taught co-redemtix and thr Vatican, the Pope corrected it
Which shows the office isn’t infallible.
Really?
Here’s one.
Matthew 23:9 Call no one on earth your father; you have but one Father in heaven.
Catholics: Forgive me Father for I have sinned (spoken to a human priest)
Or ,”Hey Father Halloway, good to see you.”
Jesus warned against titles, what did Roman Catholics do? Created a bunch of em 🤣
Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not establish it?
Proverbs 3:5-6 5
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
Trusting God is trusting what He says is true regardless of our feelings, knowing God’s word is sure.
@Bullgator25@oelma__ 😂 I was going to go with specimen collection cup…but then I remembered egg drop soup, as I’m afraid specimen collection cup would be the #1 answer.
Actually, let us discuss these things. Then beer after.
scripture says in Romans 6:1-2 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
As a Protestant, I do not believe we are to continue in willful/diliberate sin or live an unrepentant life. As scripture says:
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
The Christian life is one of continual repentance and walking in the light. Since we have been justified in Christ, we are being sanctified by the Holy Spirit so we can imitate Jesus as Apostle John writes 1 John 2:6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.
1 Corinthians 6:11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Verse 10 lists the sins/lifestyle the world live in as unbelievers before we came to Christ, and verse 11 says such as were some of us…we lived that way…
The Bible teaches us as in John 15:4 Jesus says,”Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.”
We believe that true saving faith produces fruit consistent faith as James says 2:17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
And Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
I guess the difference between Roman Catholics and Protestants is defining the word “works” We Protestants see works as,”Love your neighbor as yourself.” We see this in the letter of James 2:15-16 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?
Catholics have a list of things ordained by the Church one must do in order to maintain salvation/increase merits for grace and adhering to a list of actions that must be done otherwise salvation would be lost.
Protestants believe saving faith produces fruit (James 2:17–18; Galatians 5:22–23; Matthew 7:16–20) and that we are being sanctified to die to ourselves and die to sin (Romans 6:6, 11; Galatians 2:20; Colossians 3:5), and since we will never be perfectly without sin (1 John 1:8; Romans 3:23; Ecclesiastes 7:20) we trust in Jesus Christ being the sole mediator between God and Man (1 Timothy 2:5), since Jesus is the High Priest (Hebrews 4:14–15; Hebrews 7:24–25; Hebrews 9:24), and that we can boldly approach the throne of grace (Hebrews 4:16), and that if we confess our sins to Jesus He is faithful to forgive us (1 John 1:9).
Any “Protestant” that says we can sin all we want without repentance…I would question his faith.
What are your thoughts on this my friend?
@CatholicDrip___ Yes early Church was katholikos Catholic. Early Church was not Roman Catholic. Big difference. Yes the Church in Rome during early church days was part of the katholikos church
Notice it says 300 A.D. this was around the time Pope Leo I created the official office of Pope.
The Early church was catholic. The Church in Rome was a part of the catholic Church. Then over time it became the Roman Catholic Church. Big Catholic, while the collective body of Christ was in Jerusalem, Antioch, Constantinople, Alexandria and Rome. Catholic meant katholikos meaning universal, according to the whole.
Eventually after Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem fell during the Arab Muslim conquest it was just Constantinople and Rome. Then in 1054 they excommunicated each other 😂 so Eastern Orthodox think they are the sole Catholic Church, Roman Catholics think they are the sole Catholic Church. So much for katholikos according to the whole.