Featured OSAS Trap

Jesus is faithful for His part, so long as we remain believing in Him.

But as James told the brethren, that one of them could fall away from the Truth and end in sin and death. Stop believing in other words, and deny the truth he first received.
Further he states that a person who rescues such a one from death will have multitude of his own sins covered thereby.

So two things we can gather in the word here.

Yes the brethren can fall away from the truth and end in sin and death.

And that we who go to rescue these can merit thereby.

 

Read James bro.

“19 My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring that person back, 20 remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.” James 5

It is possible to leave the path of salvation to death, but it is also possible to rescue a person who has left the truth and is on the path of sin and death.

Take heart from the word.

 

No, you can’t forgive sin, correct.

Those outside the Apostolic lineage cannot forgive, retain, bind or loose. This was a gift lost for you at protestant rebellion.

“Father who knowest the hearts of all grant upon this Thy servant whom Thou hast chosen for the episcopate to feed Thy holy flock and serve as Thine high priest, that he may minister blamelessly by night and day, that he may unceasingly behold and appropriate Thy countenance and offer to Thee the gifts of Thy holy Church. And that by the high priestly Spirit he may have authority to forgive sins…” Hippolytus, Apostolic Tradition, 3 (A.D. 215).

“The Church holds fast its obedience on either side, by both retaining and remitting sin; heresy is on the one side cruel, and on the other disobedient; wishes to bind what it will not loosen, and will not loosen what it has bound, whereby it condemns itself by its own sentence. For the Lord willed that the power of binding and of loosing should be alike, and sanctioned each by a similar condition…Each is allowed to the Church, neither to heresy, for this power has been entrusted to priests alone. Rightly, therefore, does the Church claim it, which has true priests; heresy, which has not the priests of God, cannot claim it. And by not claiming this power heresy pronounces its own sentence, that not possessing priests it cannot claim priestly power. And so in their shameless obstinacy a shamefaced acknowledgment meets our view. Consider, too, the point that he who has received the Holy Ghost has also received the power of forgiving and of retaining sin. For thus it is written: ‘Receive the Holy Spirit: whosesoever sins ye forgive, they are forgiven unto them, and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.’ So, then, he who has not received power to forgive sins has not received the Holy Spirit. The office of the priest is a gift of the Holy Spirit, and His right it is specially to forgive and to retain sins. How, then, can they claim His gift who distrust His power and His right?” Ambrose, Concerning Repentance, I:7-8 (A.D. 388).

Those that break away from the Apostolic priesthood, lose the gifts and faculties of that priesthood.

 

I am forbidden from proselytising anyway, no one can be forcibly converted, it’s a stupid Islamic idea. I’m dead against it, it’s one of those serious peeves I tell them about.

I can evangelise pointing out God’s Word however, that is a common right granted by Christ to all Christians including me and you bro.

 

Protestants and Baptist’s have many “some mans “ interpreting scripture for them. These are all self appointed.

Catholics have a long and documented Apostolic lineage and priesthood going back to Apostolic times. We follow the Apostolically appointed bishops from the beginning, through the laying of hands.

Protestantism is loaded with “ some man’s “ all conflicted in their interpretation of scripture and every wind of doctrine opposing each other, from the same Bible.
None have the Apostolic authority through laying of hands from the Apostles, these are all self appointed.
These are not the Apostolically approved and appointed men mentioned in scripture.
They don’t have the Apostolic gifts to bind and loose to forgive and retain sin in the person of Christ, nor do they claim to.

These are the powerful God breathed gifts of Christ’s Apostolic appointments. What they hold bound or loosed, Heaven equally holds bound or loosed. What they hold forgiven on earth is held forgiven in Heaven. What they say is not forgiven on earth, heaven holds it not forgiven.

As The Father sent Christ with Authority to forgive and retain sin, so Jesus sent the Apostles with the Authority to forgive and retain sin.

Believe the Scriptures.

 

I’m pointing out the truth from the words of scripture itself.

Did you even read the scriptures I posted?