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    New survey: Only one-third of Catholics believe in Real Presence

    Because He backed it up at the Last Supper when He held bread and wine in His hands and said it was His Body and Blood. .Nothing "absurd" about it. He never turned into a door or a shepherd or a vine . . .
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    To the Catholics visiting the Baptist forum.

    We are saved by God's grace - through a faith that works through love (Gal. 5:6). The Scriptures are clear that true faith = belief + obedience (works) (James 2:14-26, Matt. 7:21). Works are an essential component of faith - not just a proof or an afterthought. James is very clear that if all...
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    John 3:5 does not require (or even speak about) Baptism for Salvation (The Other Denom, Edition)

    WRONG. The word “Epignosis” connotes a full, experiential and relational knowlegede – like a person has for their spouse. This is more than “knowledge” (oida, gnosis). This is not a “Catholic” definition. The following is Protestant scholarship on the biblical term, “Epignosis”. Richard...
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    John 3:5 does not require (or even speak about) Baptism for Salvation (The Other Denom, Edition)

    If you believe that a born again person cannot fall away and be lost - then please explain the following excerpt to me from the Book of Hebrews - because NOBODY here has been able to do so . . . Hebrews 10:26-27 “If we sin deliberately AFTER receiving KNOWLEDGE of the truth, there no longer...
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    John 3:5 does not require (or even speak about) Baptism for Salvation (The Other Denom, Edition)

    ORIGEN “The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine sacraments, knew there are in everyone innate strains of [original] sin, which must be washed away through water and the Spirit”...
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    John 3:5 does not require (or even speak about) Baptism for Salvation (The Other Denom, Edition)

    Yes, that's your usual cowardly reply whenever you don't have an answer . . .
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    John 3:5 does not require (or even speak about) Baptism for Salvation (The Other Denom, Edition)

    You are espousing is the unbiblical Calvinist view of Unconditional Election. We are NOT forced to comply with God’s grace. It is a gift that is freely accepted – or freely rejected. Picking up our cross daily requires our cooperation. You don't get to sneak into Heaven without doing His...
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    John 3:5 does not require (or even speak about) Baptism for Salvation (The Other Denom, Edition)

    Let’s take Infant Baptism. Virtually EVERY Early Church Father who has written on the subject states that this was a Tradition handed down to them by the Apostles themselves, yet MOST Protestant sects reject Infant Baptism. WHY is that?
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    John 3:5 does not require (or even speak about) Baptism for Salvation (The Other Denom, Edition)

    It's not legalistic works. This false idea that we do absolutely NOTHING for our salvation is anti-Scriptural. God’s grace is what saves us – but His grace has NO AFFECT on us without our cooperation. The Scriptures are CLEAR on this fact. This is why of ALL of the Christian virtues we...
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    John 3:5 does not require (or even speak about) Baptism for Salvation (The Other Denom, Edition)

    Then, why don't YOU present the verses in Modern layman's English for us?
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    John 3:5 does not require (or even speak about) Baptism for Salvation (The Other Denom, Edition)

    The fact that you don’t understand what Sacred/Apostolic Tradition is – is mind-boggling to me as a Christian. Scripture is so crystal-clear on this: 2 Thess. 2:15 So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught – EITHER BY and ORAL STATEMENT – OR...
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    John 3:5 does not require (or even speak about) Baptism for Salvation (The Other Denom, Edition)

    The conversation went like this - in modern laymen’s English: Nicodemus: How does a guy get born again? Does he go back inside his mother? Jesus: Unless you are born of water and spirit you can’t be saved. Flesh is physical birth. I’m talking about SPIRITUAL birth. YOU would have us...
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    John 3:5 does not require (or even speak about) Baptism for Salvation (The Other Denom, Edition)

    There was no contradiction - just YOUR contextual acrobatics.
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    John 3:5 does not require (or even speak about) Baptism for Salvation (The Other Denom, Edition)

    I have already exegeted John 3:5. I presented the entire conversation with Nicodemus and showed that Jesus was answering him according to his question – and his fleshly point of view. And we’ve already discussed the Thief on the cross. He is the exception. Here’s a little advice for you...
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    John 3:5 does not require (or even speak about) Baptism for Salvation (The Other Denom, Edition)

    Verse 6 simply emphasizes Christ’s point in verse 5 – that He is NOT talking about physical birth. That He is talking about spiritual REBIRTH. Nicodemus asked Him to explain how a man could be “reborn” and even stated that a man could not re-enter his mother’s womb. Jesus answered him by...
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    John 3:5 does not require (or even speak about) Baptism for Salvation (The Other Denom, Edition)

    Sure I do. It’s when you inject your own agenda into what Scripture is teaching instead of gleaning what Scripture is clearly teaching, whether it’s explicit or implicit. This is precisely what Protestantism at large has done with John 3:5 because unless you DO – you must agree with the...
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    John 3:5 does not require (or even speak about) Baptism for Salvation (The Other Denom, Edition)

    I’m not here to “bash” Baptists or anybody else. I’m here to expose lies about the Catholic Church and defend the truth of the Catholic position. That’s all.
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    John 3:5 does not require (or even speak about) Baptism for Salvation (The Other Denom, Edition)

    And all that means is that more than one person here is WRONG and doesn’t understand implicit Scriptural teaching. Eisegesis is what YOU guys are doing – injecting YOUR Protestant doctrines on well-established Biblical and Christian norms.
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    John 3:5 does not require (or even speak about) Baptism for Salvation (The Other Denom, Edition)

    No, I suggest YOU start with Nicodemus's question - which is about being REBORN, not born.
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