Catholics Vs. Protestants (I don't get it)

[Not of the World]

1 minute ago, ayin jade said:

Bible says.. Romans 1.. No one has an excuse.

They may not have an excuse but does their ignorance guarantee damnation?  Again, I don't know.  If it's true that all atheists are damned then I have to presume that ALL non-Christians are also damned.  I guess I would like to believe that some non-Christians can be saved but it's God's sandbox and he makes the rules!   

[ayin jade]

2 minutes ago, Your closest friendnt said:

Have you been in a RCC at Easter time or any other time follow the ten steps of Jesus, the story of the death of Jesus Christ on the Cross..

Or have you each any Easter enactment of the death of Jesus Christ in Golgotha? 

Ive seen the yaqui church version. Quite pagan.

I live in mormon country so i am very familiar with their beliefs. Salvationally off.

[Not of the World]

12 minutes ago, Your closest friendnt said:

so we can live our lives without the fear of death. 

I certaintly don't obsess about death but it's not exactly an appealing thought.  I want to go to Heaven but I also prefer never to die.  

[Not of the World]

1 minute ago, ayin jade said:

I live in mormon country so i am very familiar with their beliefs. Salvationally off.

Have you ever tried ministering to them?

[Your closest friendnt]

1 minute ago, Not of the World said:

I certaintly don't obsess about death but it's not exactly an appealing thought.  I want to go to Heaven but I also prefer never to die.  

What I meant when I said we should not live with the fear of death I meant with the fear what will happen to us after we die. Because only one thing it can happen and this is to be with Jesus in his name...

 

[Not of the World]

15 minutes ago, Your closest friendnt said:

...or according to their denial in him.

It doesn't seem to me that Christ would condemn someone simply because they don't believe that he exists.  Of course, I'm reminded of Proverbs (below).  I guess it's my love, sympathy, pity, and my desire that the Godless be shown mercy that causes me to hold out hope for them.  But I know that only Jesus can decide and that he is perfect in all things and that I must rely on him and certainly not on my own, limited, faulty, thinking.  

 

Proverbs 3:5-6

English Standard Version

5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
    and do not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge him,
    and he will make straight your paths.

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16 hours ago, JohnR7 said:

He had God's faith working in him. The Grace of God does a work in us to transform us into the people of God. Our part is to all God to do what He wants to do in us and in our life. There is NOTHING we can do, apart from God. 

Excellent use taking scriptures out of context to support unsupportable positions.

[Your closest friendnt]

11 minutes ago, ayin jade said:

Ive seen the yaqui church version. Quite pagan.

I live in mormon country so i am very familiar with their beliefs. Salvationally off.

Have you seen and follow the ten steps of the Crisificton of Jesus Christ...they are through out curved on the wall...

 

Edited October 17, 2022 by Your closest friendnt

[Not of the World]

5 minutes ago, Your closest friendnt said:

What I meant when I said we should not live with the fear of death I meant with the fear what will happen to us after we die. Because only one thing it can happen and this is to be with Jesus in his name...

 

My greatest fear is to die into nothingness and to not even exist.  That's a horrifying thought to me.  Praise God for thinking of and creating all of us!   

[Your closest friendnt]

7 minutes ago, Not of the World said:

It doesn't seem to me that Christ would condemn someone simply because they don't believe that he exists.  Of course, I'm reminded of Proverbs (below).  I guess it's my love, sympathy, pity, and my desire that the Godless be shown mercy that causes me to hold out hope for them.  But I know that only Jesus can decide and that he is perfect in all things and that I must rely on him and certainly not on my own, limited, faulty, thinking.  

 

Proverbs 3:5-6

English Standard Version

5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
    and do not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge him,
    and he will make straight your paths.

You are right about that, the scripture says that only those who died in unbelief or having the chance to believe in Jesus and decided not to believe and they died that way in their unbelief are away from God and not with Jesus in Heaven...

The rest who died in ignorance Jesus cannot judge them according to their faith in him or according to their denial in him...Jesus will deal with them in some other way...this is the truth.