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First of all, most people are not thieves on crosses. Most of us are perfectly capable of learning about the church and perfectly capable of being baptised. Perhaps those who live in countries that censor Christianity, or who would be putting their lives in mortal danger in getting baptised, or...

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OP, your link seems to have disappeared. :-/

Thanks guys. This helps a lot. :) Happy Christmas.

Ewoks, you have been sorely misinformed. Catholics do not profess belief in saving by works alone. We profess the belief that we are saved not by works alone, nor by faith and works. We are saved by the grace of God, through first faith, then works, which are a response to our justification...

My apologies. :o

But there is a limit. One cannot actively support pure capitalism and remain a Catholic (unless you are ignorant of her teachings, which can be found in Rerum Novarum and in the Catechism of the Catholic Church - paragraph 2425 to be exact. By the way, the CCC and RN aren't Scripture; only the...

Perhaps I am reading into this, but... what makes Catholic unChristian? We are completely Trinitarian, believing Christ, God, and the Holy Ghost to be the very same God and yet different figures. We believe Christ, by His grace, through faith and good works, saves us (not that faith and good...

For example, in Ephesians 4:5, Saint Paul speaks of there being one baptism among all Christians. Anabaptists, however, believe that rebaptism of converts baptised as infants is needed. That is, they don't believe that infant baptism is valid, and therefore there are millions and millions of...

Now, I will say this because I get the feeling you think I think it is impossible for a Protestant to be saved. We don't believe that. I'm sorry if I led you guys to believe that. However, I also believe that you guys really do believe what you believe is true. In other words, when you say...

Very well. Happy Christmas, and I hope someday you will understand what I am trying to say. Obviously I am doing rather poorly, which is not surprising.

Ok, let's put it this way. Things about which YOU are utterly convicted, are uncontestable. As far as you can see, by your interpretation of the Scripture which you believe to be divinely inspired, these things which you utterly believe are Christ's teachings. Therefore, to you, they are nothing...

That is what every other Protestant also says. Thus I called it a parable and not a cold, hard fact. Of course I know there is more to Baptists than refusing infant baptisms. Why else would two Baptist churches in the same town excommunicate, if not outright anathemise, each other? It...

While I have commentaries on that last sentence, I'll save them and say, yes. Scripture has been around for centuries. But it has not been around since the beginning of the Church. However, they (perhaps not the Methodist) believe strongly enough in their own beliefs that they feel not...

Lord be praised! :D But even for those of us who lose everything, the Lord has great plans for us. My family has lost quite a lot recently. But thank the Lord, we still have more than most others. :o I hope He will bless us in the years to come, and I will be blessed with some sense of...

Even in this gay* time of year, I've seen many joyless faces in the world (including my own) and read many depressing and angry posts on a forum I frequent (a few of them my own). Surely you can understand why. It's not just the stresses of this time of year, where giving impressive gifts...

You may have a point, there. That is a lot to cover. BUT if Christ established a Church in c. 30 AD, and it is supposed to have survived to the present day, doesn't it make sense for it to have been consistent throughout the past 2000 years - not just any man's interpretation, but Our Lord's...

Amen, brother. Amen. No contest there. Well, you certainly take yourself as a keen source of revelation - as does every other Protestant. It's built into your theology. Private interpretation is the only recourse a Protestant has when he no longer has any standard on which to base the Bible...

Ah... you want to make God laugh? Tell Him what your plans for your life are. ;)

I don't want charts and science. I want historic consistency. Can you trace your beliefs back to the Apostles, and throughout the centuries? Can you provide any such thing? If you can, I really want to see it. I do. Of course this should not descend into "I'm wrong, and you're right". But it...