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NASB | Romans 3:28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 3:28 For we maintain that an individual is justified by faith distinctly apart from works of the Law [the observance of which has nothing to do with justification, that is, being declared free of the guilt of sin and made acceptable to God]. |
Subject: What separates Evangelicals, Catholics? |
Bible Note: I believe the key to the Kingdom is the revelation that Jesus is Lord. Peter realized that thru revelation knowledge, so do we. As far as papal infallibility, I was raised Catholic, went to Cath school, took religion religiously. :) Anyway, we were taught that the pope was infallible when he spoke from the chair of Peter, that maybe as a man, he might be thinking one thing but whenever he got up to speak in his papal capacity, that the Holy Spirit spoke thru him and that was why he was infallible. When they canonize saints, the pope speaks from the chair of Peter and therefore he's infallible. This about about the time Vatican II was taking place. Then they decided that St. Christopher was not a saint, that he never existed, was just a legend. After that, I got to wondering, some pope supposedly spoke from the chair but he was supposed to be infallible, not they are saying he was wrong, then the pope is not unfallible-they lied! Then I got to wondering what else they lied about. Then when I was in the 9th grade at a Cath Girls high school in religion class, we had a priest tell us that the Bible was just a book written to compete w/mythology, me and him got into it in class, continued it in the hall. I didn't actually ever read the Bible but I knew the Bible stories and he said they were just a fable. Thank God I started going to public school after that, but after a few years, I decided they were all hooey and left the church completely. Somebody said something about Chick being down on Catholics, after I finally got saved after years of complete rebellion, I read his stuff and believed every word he said about them because I was there, I had strict Cath. upbringing and I know what I was taught and Jesus Christ didn't have anything much to do with it. He was made to seem like some harsh guy who wouldn't listen to us mere mortals so you had to ask his mama to talk to him for you. Maybe there are some Cath churches that may actually teach salvation but I had no idea what it was but I knew church doctrine. I know there are some Catholics who are Christian but I believe the majority are not, mainly because they just haven't been told. They are still trying to get in by works and hoping not to die with a mortal sin, the big gamble. I know I tried talking to the old folks and parents in my family, tried to tell them the church is not the way, that Jesus is, but I really don't know if any of them really accepted that or not besides my Mama, the others are all gone and I have no idea whether I'll see any of them again. :( Daddy's first cousin is a priest and Mama had a great uncle in Czechoslavakia that was an archbishop so I'd say I had deep Catholic roots, we were in the church every time it opened, novenas, everything. On the days when we didn't have to go to school, I'd think oh boy, no mass today-Mama would wake us up and we'd go to early mass, this was an every day thing, rosaries at night-we were crammed! They all knew I was going to hell when I quit the church but I had enough, esp when I figured out the lies. |