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If you do not follow the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed...St Paul

Catholics need to stand up and say no to watering down their faith by attending joint church celebrations or attending gatherings with other religions. There is only one way to salvation and that is through the Holy Roman Catholic Church that the second person of the Trinity Jesus established nearly 2000 years ago. The 'Good News' loses its meaning unless we adhere strictly to the true teachings of Jesus as interpreted by the magisterium. Where is the good news if everyone is judged by their conscience? If one must state the exception of those that have never heard of or read the Bible, well here it is but it is not the rule. Few fall into this category today. Most have made a conscious choice. Have heard the good news and said yes or no to it. The good news is salvation, the avoidance of eternal damnation. Eternal damnation is the fate of all those who do not accept Jesus as Christ and repent and follow Him.
Baptism is a wonderful gift. It cancels all sin and inputs grace. Through it we are welcomed into the kingdom of God. Brought inside and removed from the relentless throng ambling to hell. Yet how many are grateful? How many say "no thanks I'm with that lot distined to perdition, they have more fun". Still how many others are baptized and fined themselves in protestant denominations where they have an uphill battle against misinformation and apostasy. 
Ybarra says...
"For St. Paul, those who do not receive the Gospel with repentance, faith, and obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ are perishing. That seems to be pretty all embracing by a straight forward reading without any speculative agendas being imported from the wisdom of man. Was St. Paul not “in line” with the instincts of the Gospel? Perish the thought!

Or how about when St. Paul, in writing to his own beloved Gentiles, described the status of their life on earth before being baptized into Christ with the following hopeless description:

Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision made in the flesh by hands—  that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the worldBut now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ” (Eph 2:11-13)"..."  Ybarra's blog post

12 comments:

  1. "Few full into this category today."
    Oops!

    RBB

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    1. Now go and correct the other spelling errors.

      TC

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  3. Arrogant and arrant nonsense.

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  4. Peter is a bit grumpy because he slept in again.

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    1. And the old gal is still in his office

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  5. What I don’t get, from Robert’s silly treatises, is that, of all the religions and the many variants of the Christian one, why does the ‘holy Roman Catholic’ one have to be the only true one and that everyone who follows something else is damned?
    To paraphrase Orwell - all religions are silly but some religions are sillier than others.

    TC

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    1. Catholicism was founded by Jesus. Before Jesus no souls went to "heaven", there was no "kingdom". Jesus made it all possible. Who else are you going to follow?

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    2. I couldn't find your quote on Google but did find this..."one cannot have any worthwhile picture of the future unless one realises how much we have lost by the decay of Christianity" Orwell.

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    3. OK. You’ve shown that your mind is closed off to anything other than this Catholicism rubbish. I don’t know why I bother arguing with you.

      TC

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  6. Are you up yet, TC?

    RBB

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  7. "Catholicism was founded by Jesus. Before Jesus no souls went to "heaven", there was no "kingdom". Jesus made it all possible. Who else are you going to follow?"

    "At least in the Abrahamic faiths of Christianity, Islam, and some schools of Judaism, as well as Zoroastrianism, heaven is the realm of afterlife where good actions in the previous life are rewarded for eternity (hell being the place where bad behavior is punished)." - Wikipedia

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