Quote (WorshippingJesus @ Sep. 06 2009,08:38)Quote (CatholicApologist @ Sep. 04 2009,21:18)Quote (WorshippingJesus @ Sep. 02 2009,19:24)Quote (CatholicApologist @ Sep. 02 2009,02:56)The Catholic church is not a man made orgainization unless you are referring to the God-man Jesus Christ.Hi CAWhere is the Biblical and Historical link of the Catholic…[Read more]

Quote (wisslewj @ Sep. 08 2009,07:30)God has!! Praise him!! He has put his spirit in me that leads me into all truth!!   Its a good thing too because if I had to listen to man tell me what to do who knows where we would end up.  God has told me his spirit would teach me and his word says that no MAN will have to teach us because we will all be t…[Read more]

Quote (david @ Sep. 05 2009,17:17)Quote What did you expect me to say to you?–caIf the questions were wrong or part of a straw man, I wanted you to explain why the questions were wrong.  That's what I would have done.  Listen, we apparently don't know exactly what you think about this, because you have recently mentioned something about Peter b…[Read more]

Quote (Cindy @ Sep. 06 2009,10:18)I don't know what the Catholic church called itself before 324 A D, but it was Constantine who gave it the name when he made this new religion, “Christianity”, the empires religion; it was then when it became the “Roman Catholic (Universal) Church”There weren't any official popes until 533 A D, when Justinian…[Read more]

Quote (wisslewj @ Sep. 08 2009,02:16)Thinker,that passage has often had me wondering.Isaiah 44:6″Thus says the LORD(YHVH), the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD(YHVH) of hosts: 'I am the first and I am the last, And there is no God besides Me. Almost ALL translations have that AND in there.  The NIV doesnt.  I havent yet lookd at the g…[Read more]

Quote (Not3in1 @ Sep. 06 2009,19:12)Quote (Cindy @ Sep. 03 2009,13:00)Quote (Not3in1 @ Aug. 24 2009,12:38)CA,You will find that many threads go off track (a bit, or a truckload!).  That seems to be the nature of this real-time board, so don't let it frustrate you too much.  There are threads dedicated to the Trinity, as you will notice.  Two of my…[Read more]

Quote I rely on the authority of the Living God who is my Father who has promised in His Word that He by His Spirit will lead me into all truths. When I have a question regarding something that has been said was said by Him, I ask him if He said it. Or if I have a question regarding what He meant by something that is in scripture, I ask Him what…[Read more]

Quote (david @ Aug. 31 2009,14:37)Anyway, “apostolic succession”?Protestant Christian – I reject the notion of apostolic succession because it's not taught in thescriptures.Catholic Christian – You only believe things that are taught in the scriptures?Protestant Christian – Yes. I believe that all scripture is inspired so that we can be fully…[Read more]

Quote (WorshippingJesus @ Sep. 02 2009,19:24)Quote (CatholicApologist @ Sep. 02 2009,02:56)The Catholic church is not a man made orgainization unless you are referring to the God-man Jesus Christ.Hi CAWhere is the Biblical and Historical link of the Catholic Church to Jesus and the original 12?WJIt is replete throughout Scripture, the fathers, the…[Read more]

Are They Awake on The Watchtower?They travel in pairs, carrying copies of their magazines. They’re Jehovah’s Witnesses (JWs), part of a non-Christian religion. Their publishing house—the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (WTS)—is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, and publishes two magazines that appear twice each month: Awake!, which is a ge…[Read more]

The deposit of faith is considered “Public Revelation.”Public revelation is binding on all Christians, but private revelation is binding only on those who receive it. The Catholic Church teaches that public revelation was completed, and therefore was concluded, with the death of the last apostle (Vatican II, Dei Verbum 4), but private revelation…[Read more]

Quote (942767 @ Sep. 04 2009,12:50)Quote (CatholicApologist @ Sep. 04 2009,10:50)Christ conferred upon his apostles the original task of shepherding the earthly Church in his absence. As the Church grew, the apostles themselves appointed different kinds of ministers to assist them.Among the apostles there were two groups. The first consisted of…[Read more]

Quote (david @ Sep. 04 2009,16:37)Will God, in his great mercy, eventually save all humankind?Does 2 Peter 3:9 indicate that there will be universal salvation? It says: “The Lord is not slow about his promise as some count slowness, but is forbearing toward you, not wishing that any should perish , but that all should reach repentance.” (RS) It…[Read more]

This is for the rest of you all:CATHOLICS AND THE BIBLECATHOLIC EVIDENCE GUILDCatholics are often accused of arguing in a “vicious circle,” proving the Bible by the Church, and the Church by the Bible. We must be careful to avoid this by explaining that we put the Church before the Bible because the Church existed first and wrote and compiled the…[Read more]

Quote (Cindy @ Sep. 05 2009,12:24)Quote (Nick Hassan @ Sep. 04 2009,06:46)Hi CA, Rituals and sacraments can never magically substitute for faith and obedience.Nick do you know that it is an abomination to God.  They turn Bread and wine into the real Body of Christ so they say.  The whole Mass is an abomination to God, cause they make it a S…[Read more]

Please consider the following:CHAPTER V.THAT THE INVISIBLE CHURCH FROM WHICH THE INNOVATORS PRETEND TO DERIVE THEIR MISSION IS A FIGMENT; AND THAT THE TRUE CHURCH OF CHRIST IS VISIBLE.OUR adversaries, clearly perceiving that by this touchstone their doctrine would be recognised as of base gold, try by all means to turn us from that invincible…[Read more]

Marty,This thread is dedicated to this work by St. Francis de Sales. Did you read it?If so, what do you think of what he said regarding the visibility of the church?

Didn't you guys ever just wish you could get the inside track on Scripture? I mean, did you ever wish you could have been in the room with the apostle Paul while he was teaching? Did you ever wish you could have even one hour to sit down with him and ask, “when you wrote X, did you mean A or B? Or what did you mean?Well, as a non-Catholic, I…[Read more]

Quote (Not3in1 @ Sep. 05 2009,11:35)Hi CA,Nice to see you are still going strong!I've been getting the kids ready for school and running to football practices.  Not much time to debate here.I do feel a fire starting to burn again though, so hopefully I'll be around to toss some theory with you.Love,MandyHey Not3,Totally understand. If you want…[Read more]

Quote (942767 @ Sep. 04 2009,13:56)Quote (CatholicApologist @ Sep. 04 2009,12:29)Quote (942767 @ Sep. 04 2009,12:19)Hi CA:One more question on this topic.  Do you not go to the bible when someone asks you about a doctrine that the church teaches in order to explain and justify what the Catholic church believes to be the truth?Love in…[Read more]