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1 | difference Christian and catholic | Acts 11:26 | TRAW6 | 50843 | ||
I'd like to point out that Christianity as opposed to any and all other religions is more than a religion. It is a relationship with God the Creator of all things. Secondly, all other "religions" tell you that it is of your own doing that you can become righteous or good enought to attain heaven (works), whereas, Christianity tells us that man's righteousness is as filthy rags and that there are no 'works' that are good enough whereby we may gain a right into heaven. God in His infinite mercy and love, made a way for us by sending His Son Jesus to die on the cross, thereby, building a bridge and making a way for us to get into heaven and into His presence once again. The difference between Catholicism and Christianity is that Catholicism follows the customs of men, much the way the Pharises of the Bible did. They believed that by acting or not acting in certain ways and by doing or not doing certain things that they would automatically be given passage into heaven and the presence of God. God was saying then, and is still saying to this day that we are all sinners and by definition - fall short of the glory and presence of God. That's why he sent His only Son to redeem the world and open the way back to God for us. We could never and can never do this apart from Christ. Catholicism limits us to our own human abilities and capablities, in that we pray to a human (confession) for forgiveness of sins that only the blood of the savior can provide. It's not by certain acts or ritualistic prayers that we are given or granted anything other than that of our own vain glory and pride. | ||||||
2 | "just" consequences? | Gen 3:1 | TRAW6 | 50819 | ||
First let me respond by saying that God doesn't have any enemy's because nothing and noone is on God's level. He is omnipotent(all-powerful). The Devil and his angels have limited power; both in what they are able to do and in the length of time they have to do it in. Secondly, when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the garden from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil - we were all brought into this "war", because Adam through his disobedience to God's direct command of "not to eat of the tree", gave over his rights to the earth, thus by one man sin entered into the world because Adam was carrying the 'seed' of all humanity in him. And lastly God in order to keep us(mankind) from being left in that perpetual state of "lostness" (Gen. 3:22-24) has done everything possible to help us; even to the point of giving the life of His only Son to die a horrible torturous death on a cross to reconcile a lost world back to an all loving God and Creator. As for any suffering that the world may endure it is because "the thief comes but to steal, kill and destroy"' but "every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father of Lights in whom there is no shadow of turning. In other words God does not cause anything that steals from you, kills you or destroys you. We all must be educated properly in order to know where to lay the blame. The Bible says in quoting God speaking, "My people suffer for lack of knowledge". If we knew more of the truth - we wouldn't suffer under the lies that our enemy feeds us. The word "just" means that for all of God's love and mercy and grace and long-suffering He is equally balanced to give justice for the Devil and demons as well as for the evil in men's heart's. Man is born under sin and in a perpetual state of sin - it is the blood of Jesus and only the pure and unblemished blood of an all loving God that can wash the human heart clean. | ||||||