Can Catholics and Protestants Come Together?

[Big Boy Stan Murf]

Because the catholics deceive Christians in to converting to catholicism which makes them hell bound just like the catholics.

The Lord's Word instructs us to not be unequally yoked with unbelievers.

Witness to them, yes... join up with them, NO!

[jesusandliberty]

9 hours ago, FJK said:

Maybe we should join in with the Muslims too?

That would be a step in that direction.

And the establishment of a one world religion acceptable to everyon as well.

But remember, once you mix black and white paint there is no unmixing it.

Main difference being Muslims don't believe Jesus is Lord and Savior. Catholics do. 

[jesusandliberty]

38 minutes ago, Stan Murff said:

Because the catholics deceive Christians in to converting to catholicism which makes them hell bound just like the catholics.

The Lord's Word instructs us to not be unequally yoked with unbelievers.

Witness to them, yes... join up with them, NO!

I know plenty of Catholics who have proclaimed with their mouths Jesus is God and believe in their hearts that He was risen from the dead on the 3rd day. The requirements of salvation. 

Edited August 27, 2023 by jesusandliberty

[Big Boy Stan Murf]

3 minutes ago, jesusandliberty said:

I know plenty of Catholics who have proclaimed with their mouths Jesus is God and that he was risen from the dead on the 3rd day. The requirements of salvation. 

And then they disqualify themselves by praying to the dead (necromancy) and worshiping mary (idolatry) 

According to the Word of the Lord, those that continue in sin will not be spending eternity with the Lord Jesus Christ and instead will be going south when they croak.

There are many testimonies of catholics that did actually get born again and the first thing the Lord led them to do what to leave the catholic "church" because it's a cult and unbiblical.


 

Edited August 27, 2023 by Stan Murff

[Anne2]

8 minutes ago, Stan Murff said:

And then they disqualify themselves by praying to the dead (necromancy) and worshiping mary (idolatry) 

According to the Word of the Lord, those that continue in sin will not be spending eternity with the Lord Jesus Christ and instead will be going south when they croak.

There are many testimonies of catholics that did actually get born again and the first thing the Lord led them to do what to leave the catholic "church" because it's a cult and unbiblical.


 

They do not believe they are dead and in the grave. It is one thing to deal with false beliefs, It is another to call people names for things they don't believe. They believe (as do other Christians) there are living saints in heaven. "the communion of the Saints". 

This might be of interest concerning this.

A copy and paste of some excerpts on the subject follows

communion of saints

Christian theology

communion of saints, Latin communio sanctorum, in Christian theology, the fellowship of those united to Jesus Christ in baptism.

 

 translated both as a sharing of the benefits of membership in the church and as a communion with the saints (in the biblical sense of all who have been baptized). 

Major Protestant reformers, wishing to reaffirm the unique mediatory role of Jesus Christ, denied the intercessory role of the saints and viewed the communion of saints as all believers in Christ. Some Protestant churches further understand this to be limited to living Christians.

[Big Boy Stan Murf]

6 minutes ago, Anne2 said:

They do not believe they are dead and in the grave. It is one thing to deal with false beliefs, It is another to call people names for things they don't believe. They believe (as do other Christians) there are living saints in heaven. "the communion of the Saints"

 

Thank you, you are making my point for me that catholics follow teachings that are extra biblical and do NOT come from the Lord!

Talking to the Dead
( those that have physically died which causes them to be separated from contact with this world )

Luke 9:60
Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

Definition of NECROMANCY
conjuration (contacting) of the spirits of the dead for purposes of magically revealing the future or influencing the course of events

Definition of SORCERY
the use of power gained from the assistance or control of evil spirits especially for divining

Definition of DIVINATION
1 - the art or practice that seeks to foresee or foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge usually by the interpretation of omens or by the aid of supernatural powers
2 - unusual insight : intuitive perception (apart from information directly the Holy Spirit)

Galatians 5:19-21
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance (debate), emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Leviticus 19:31 ESV
Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.

Isaiah 8:19 ESV
And when they say to you, Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?

Leviticus 20:6 ESV
If a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.

Deuteronomy 18:10 ESV
There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer

Revelation 16:14 ESV
For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.

Ecclesiastes 9:5 ESV
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

Psalm 115:17 ESV
The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any who go down into silence.

Deuteronomy 18:9-14 ESV
When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, ...

Revelation 21:8 ESV
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.

1 John 4:1 ESV
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Hebrews 5:14 ESV
But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

1 Timothy 4:1 ESV
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons

Ephesians 4:30 ESV
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

2 Corinthians 11:14 ESV
And no wonder, for even satan disguises himself as an angel of light.













 

[Big Boy Stan Murf]

13 minutes ago, Anne2 said:

This might be of interest concerning this.

It's on no interest to true Christians who go by what the Lord says in His Word.

[Anne2]

1 minute ago, Stan Murff said:

It's on no interest to true Christians who go by what the Lord says in His Word.

Then what is your interest in the subject? To bash?

[Big Boy Stan Murf]

11 minutes ago, Anne2 said:

Then what is your interest in the subject? To bash?

Same purpose as you.  The express a point of view, the ones from God's Word.

The ones where the Lord saying contacting the dead is a sin!  Those ones!

This is so people can become aware of what the Lord says on this subject so they can repent and stop this sin in their lives as it's an open door to demons to bring destruction to them.

I don't like people getting in trouble and get all beat up by the devil, do you?

[FJK]

1 hour ago, jesusandliberty said:

Main difference being Muslims don't believe Jesus is Lord and Savior. Catholics do. 

Some things I've been hearing the Pope profess makes me wonder about that.