Each year I look at this day and am amazed.
I am amazed because of what I was when I started and what I am today.
I am amazed because I know that I am what I am because of the grace received from a Power greater than myself.
I am amazed by the number of people I have been able to meet and interact with over the years and how blessed I am to have met them.
I am amazed that I am not better than I am now - that somehow I have not been struck wonderful just because of the hard work and determination I have done to align my will with His.
I am amazed because I know I am not halfway through - I am more than halfway through - and the life I have been granted by my Creator is second to none.
Today I am someone different than I was yesterday or 5 years ago or 26 years ago.
Today God has granted me freedom from bondage.
And tonight I get to go to the movies.
YIPPPPPEEEEE!
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Catholicism is counterfeit Christianity and you are completely deceived, believing in "another jesus and another gospel" per 2 Cor 11:4, which will never save you. For example, Boniface VIII proclaimed (circa 1300) that it was, "altogether necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff". Or, Pope Clement VI..."No man...outside of the obedience of the Pope, can finally be saved".
Face it: THAT IS A LIE. You can jump up and down, stand on your head in Macy's window and scream to the moon until you're blue in the face trying to convince us, but it will never be true. Salvation is believing in the merits of Christ alone, for, “there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). In fact, instead of saying that anyone not committed to the pope cannot be saved, Vatican 2 completely contradicts Boniface and Clement by saying, “The Church knows that she is joined in many ways to the baptized who are honored by the name of Christian, but do not profess the Catholic faith in its entirety under the successor of Peter.” Ergo, the Holy Spirit certainly does not bless the "big boys" with any type of consistency that's for sure.
http://normangeisler.com/salvation-church-papacy/
Indeed, Catholicism is a viperous theology that has bitten its members for far too long. Only the anti-venom of Scripture can cure her ills. But she refuses to take the antidote. We are flabbergasted that the laity refuse to wake up out of their spiritual coma and prefer to be lulled to sleep by all of the RCC's unbiblical doctrines! Let's take another example. The RCC has abrogated the original command to partake of BOTH bread and wine, and instead teach Jesus would be pleased we take either one!
WHAT?! NO WAY.
They even teach that the Savior never even OBLIGATED us to consume both elements. Listen to the madness of the Council of Trent: "This holy synod, taught by the Holy Spirit...declares that lay people...are not obliged by any divine command to receive the sacrament of the Eucharist under both kinds, and that it can in no way be doubted without injury to faith that Communion under either kind is sufficient to them for salvation. For although Christ the Lord at his last supper instituted this sacrament with the form of bread and wine...nevertheless that institution and tradition do not aim at this, that all believers in Christ are bound by the commandment of the Lord to receive both kinds. Neither is it rightly concluded [from the Last Supper or] from the discourse in John 6...that Communion under both kinds is commanded by the Lord” (“Concerning Communion Under Both Kinds”, ch 1).
To be sure, these are not the words of those under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, but rather of MAD SCIENTISTS on the verge of an explosion in the laboratory. They have completely reversed and thrown under the bus our marching orders to partake of BOTH bread and wine, so it is inconceivable they have been divinely commissioned by Jesus Christ to break his own commandments! The Lord said the Scriptures cannot be broken (John 10:35), but the Council of Trent has indeed done just that! No reasons whatsoever, no matter how pious they may sound, can justify mutilating the Lord’s Supper down to the choice of either bread OR wine. Jesus did not give us that option! Consequently, since the magisterium is obviously of the devil, the belief that the Messiah was speaking LITERALLY in John 6 and the Last Supper (as it regards eating his flesh) cannot possibly be true. Instead, all the biblical evidence proves he was speaking metaphorically in those places, and oh....should you deny it, I dare you to invite me to debate the issue.
eucharistangel@aol.com
It was the pope in communion with the bishops of the world that declared the infallible doctrines of Christianity (against common heresies): the Trinity, Deity of Christ , Virgin birth, and canonized the books of the Bible. We know which books are sacred writ because of theCatholic Church’s inspiration and God-given authority. Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church. What you declare bound on earth will be bound in heaven. Whose sins you remit will be remitted them.
(It is here stated that for salvation it is necessary that every human creature be subject to the authority of the Roman pontiff). This definition, the meaning and importance of which are clearly evident from the connection with the first part on the necessity of the one Church for salvation, and on the pope as the one supreme head of the Church, expresses the necessity for everyone who wishes to attain salvation of belonging to the Church, and therefore of being subject to the authority of the pope in all religious matters. This has been the constant teaching of the Church. —from Catholic.com
Remember, name-calling and division is not from God. Christ prayed for unity. The Church teaches that all baptized by water and in the name of Father Son and Holy Spirit is Part of the Body of Christ. We are not enemies. We wrestle against spiritual wickedness in high places. We are to love one another. He who does not love does not know God. No fighting. Pax.
Regarding communion: https://forums.catholic.com/t/why-bread-only-and-not-wine/40088/8
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