Stick close to JESUS CHRIST ONLY and his HOLY WORD!!!
Use your discernment in all things and stay away from all organized religions.
2007-10-18 09:10:54
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answered by Anonymous
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First off..I do NOT believe that "Catholicism both Orthodox and Roman are false systems and that Catholics whether Roman or Orthodox are "unsaved Christians" FAR from that. I only disagree with some of the Churches stands like birth control . I am a non denominational Christian.
2007-10-18 09:25:46
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answered by PROBLEM 7
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If you each recognize the opposite's ideals, and don't seem to be secretly pondering insulting matters approximately the opposite, or hoping the opposite will convert, it must be great. The drawback comes while individuals were raised to consider that the 'different facet' do not take their religion significantly, or aren't honest, or while individuals are attempting to transform the opposite. People continually take into account the horror reports of peers who dated for months, and even married, handiest to uncover one occasion used to be opening to return out with bigoted feedback approximately the opposite's religion, or used to be hoping to transform the opposite. If you could have have shyed away from that, you must be well. You'll desire to investigate your values and priorities line up in which it issues, however I'm certain you are already on that, and that there's an alternative for marriage and baptising and elevating kids that will not do any harm both of you (honesty may be very main right here). Both of you must normally gain knowledge of approximately the opposite's religion, in case your faiths are main to you, so you realize in which each and every different are coming from! Word of caution: you're going to, finally, have an issue. How that argument is going, and the way you manage it, must let you know whatever approximately the connection.
2016-09-05 14:16:00
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answered by cyrstal 4
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They must say that the Catholic Church is wrong or else why are they Protestants? Yet they must also admit that not one of their denominations has any right to declare itself to be the one True Church. And that, for the simple reason that Christ did not establish any institution which could be known by men to be His Church.
They are all brought up with that impression and so they continue in religious matters to wander where they will, like people in a forest, who follow any line of tracks without bothering to ask where it leads. And they so love the risky adventure of experimenting for themselves that they search Scripture for every possible text which they think will support them.
All Christians admit that Christ intended a unity of some kind to prevail amongst His followers. But we cannot deny for ourselves what type of unity must prevail. The "all going the one way" type of unity, whilst each goes his own way, is useless if it be quite foreign to the mind of Christ. Who can accept the invention of Protestants who, noting the numberless ways in which they are divided, define the unity required to suit themselves in their present circumstances and in such a way that they may remain where they are.
Those who believed all that He had taught would at least be one in faith. Again, He demanded unity in worship. "One Lord, one faith, one baptism," was to be the rule and baptism belongs to worship. The early Christians were told distinctly by St. Paul that participation in the same Eucharistic worship probably was essential to the unity. "We, being many, are one bread, one body; all that partake of one bread".
In other words, "The one Christ is to be found in Holy Communion, and we, however numerous we may be, are one in Him if we partake of the same Holy Communion."
Protestantism cannot preserve Christian standards intact. Articles of faith have gone overboard. Mortification and fasting are not required. The evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience, with their consequent inspiration of monastic life are ignored. Protestant writings excuse, and even approve, laxity in moral practice. Protestantism has not produced anything equivalent to the canonized Catholic Saint. Many of the Sacraments of Christ are not even acknowledged by Protestantism, whilst the heart has been torn out of its worship by the loss of Christ's presence in the Blessed Eucharist. Of spiritual authority there is scarcely a trace. The very clergy are not trained in moral law, and cannot advise the laity as they should, even were the laity willing to accept advice. The prevalent notion, "Believe on Christ and be saved," tends of its very nature to lessen the sense of necessity of personal virtue.
Protestantism was a movement of heated dissent. Error and rebellion took the first Protestants from the Catholic Church, the various forms of error, or the various countries in which the rebellion occurred, giving rise to the various sects. But any goodness which the first Protestants took as doctrinal baggage with them was derived from the Church they left. And any apparent goodness in the teachings of Protestantism is still to be found in the Catholic Church. Where, in the Catholic Church, cockle sown by the enemy is found here and there amidst the wheat, Satan was wise enough to allow some wheat here and there to remain amidst the cockle of Protestantism. And it is the presence of this wheat which accounts for the continued existence of Protestantism. But the wheat does not really belong to Protestantism. It is a relic of Catholicism growing in alien soil. A Catholic is good when he lives up to Catholic principles, refusing to depart from them. A Protestant is good when he unconsciously acts on Catholic principles, departing from those which are purely Protestant.
2007-10-19 18:53:12
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answered by cashelmara 7
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My position is that anyone who believes that Jesus Christ died and rose again, and will one day return is a Christian. And it doesn't matter what denomination you are. I go to a Baptist church but I used to participate in a Bible study that was open to all denominations. I was surrounded by godly women of all denominations. Even a some Catholics and Orthodox women.
2007-10-18 09:09:39
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answered by Sharon M 6
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well... a protestant church by definition is a reformed catholic church... so I don't believe it was a protostent church.... I believe that any church that is independant, autonomous, soul-winning, and Bible believing in literal definition is a "right church"... If I honestly had to make a suggestion as to which church is the remnant of the apostolic church.... I guess I would have to say independant baptist. This is why I am still a baptist.
2007-10-18 09:15:04
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answered by Matthew P (SL) 4
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Great question - over 20,000 Protestant denominations and those who call themselves non-denominational; all teaching something different!
Yes, CJ - you ARE a Protestant. Although I doubt too many of them would want to claim you, with your hatred abounding..
2007-10-18 09:10:19
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answered by SpiritRoaming 7
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Let me put it this way,if all are the true church founded on Peter and the Apostles then there are now hundreds of the one true church and this is nonsense.
2007-10-18 09:11:38
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answered by Sentinel 7
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I'm not a protestant. Anyway the only saved people are those who are saved by the true Gospel laid out in the Bible, the one without works for salvation.
The Bible says we must believe that Jesus, who is God, died for our sins on the cross and rose again. This alone saves us. If we add works to this (as the catholic cult does), then it becomes a false gospel that leads to eternal hell (Galatians 1 talks about this false gospel of works)
2007-10-18 09:08:00
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answered by Chris 4
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