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Lenten Fish dinners
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Most of the posts have NOT :BangHead: answered the question. Its not a matter of fellowshipping with RC's, their works(for salvation) ect.. Sag said "If it bothers you to eat a fish fried by a Catholic "
I don't care who cooks its. Where are the profits going? If you buy a ticket at a RC church the proceeds are going to further their false gospel.
Is that a problem for you.
raying:It is for me, thus I would not attend one where I had to pay.:saint:
If it is not a problem - why isn't it?
Now, if a member of their church invited me - at their cost - I would go.
PLEASE RESPOND TO THE OP
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Listen you......most of my family is Catholic. They were the ones that taught me to put Christ 1st in my life & to give Him the glory due Him. They put me & my brother through school & raised us up in Faith. My brother is today a Baptist Pastor & I am a strong believer. So regarding your attitude....go chase yourself!
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Sorry.... that wasnt very Christian of me..... you dont have to chase yourself.
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Most of the posts have NOT :BangHead: answered the question. Its not a matter of fellowshipping with RC's, their works(for salvation) ect.. Sag said "If it bothers you to eat a fish fried by a Catholic "
I don't care who cooks its. Where are the profits going? If you buy a ticket at a RC church the proceeds are going to further their false gospel.
Is that a problem for you.
It is for me, thus I would not attend one where I had to pay.:saint:
If it is not a problem - why isn't it?
Now, if a member of their church invited me - at their cost - I would go.
PLEASE RESPOND TO THE OP
And what if the proceeds were to feed & clothed neighborhood children or provide a home for destitute people or a food pantry? If thats what the money would go to then heck yes because they are doing Gods work & I dont care that it comes from a Catholic source. In my area, its the Catholics doing that & we as Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists etc are gladly sending them there because we cant accommodate all the increased poverty thats happened within the last two years. So yea, I would gladly participate.....and give my meal to some poor guy or gal who needs it......Im fat enough:smilewinkgrin:
If the Catholics are so great, why are your bother and you Baptists?
Who said there great, but they are people & I consider them Christian Brothers. I consider Calvinst "Great" :thumbs: & thats why I now switched to a non denom church that is both baptistic & Calvinistic.
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Yes....on dads side....:thumbs: There also all dead. But mommy's side be Catholic. Didnt you find those posts?
Honestly never heard a Catholic say a bad thing about a Baptist. In fact, mom (RC) paid for Brothers Seminary expenses & living expenses while he decides to take years off to go back to school. I gave him a house to live in & my uncle (an RC) gave him part time jobs, meals for him & his family & a car to drive while at school.
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Jesus ate with sinnners and he fed them. But he did not partake in their sin. The question was do we participate in a lenten fish fry? That is different than sitting down to dinner with someone who happens to be Catholic. As Christians we should not partake in any aspect of Rcc's false doctrine.(Lent) Nor their pagan practise of eating fish on Good Friday. It's fine and good to eat fish anytime. It is not ok to participate in their system of good works.
Don't call yourself a Baptist! So what if they feed the poor or provide homes for the poor. They do NOT teach the way to heaven. Believe the RCC doctrine and you WILL go to hell. Satan inspires good works to add confusion and deception.
No worries.....I dont. I said Baptistic, not Baptist. :thumbs:
(Moderator....please change my profile from Baptist to Non-Denom. I tried but must be prohibited. Thanks)
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Yes, eating with them indicated the highest level of acceptance in the culture of the day.
Of course not. You seem to think that doing anything other than communicating the gospel (with words, apparently not actions) is somehow partaking in their sin.
Yes, I understood the question. I apparently don't understand the prejudice.
Ah, it's about hating the practice of Lent! Since many people in my church (Baptist) participate in the ancient Christian discipline of Lent, I'm not freaked out by it nor assume that it is something evil.
Yeah, that's really evil and pagan to deny yourself the pleasure of eating meat in remembrance of the suffering of Christ and the pleasures He denied Himself on our behalf.
Except, apparently, when you're a Baptist and Catholics are involved.
It is wrong to do good works?
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt here and assume you are referring to the Baptist idea that Roman Catholics believe that they are working their way to heaven. Certainly lots of Roman Catholics believe that, but a significant number do not. Just like there are all kinds of Baptists, there are all kinds of Roman Catholics under the umbrella of Rome. I have known some completely idolatrous Roman Catholics whose faith in indistinguishable (to me at least) from rank paganism. I have also known many Roman Catholics who are far sounder Christians than most Baptists I know (including a number of people in my own extended family). My mother's side of the family was Roman Catholic (coming from Europe) and they were much more Baptistic in viewpoint than my father's side of the family where my paternal grandfather was the Chairman of Deacons at a large Baptist church in my home region. He definitely thought he was working his way into God's favor and was one of the most theologically/spiritually messed up people I have known. Baptist legalism made him hard and callous toward people, including his own family.
Of course, when I was growing up in a Baptist church, I heard the old canards from Sunday School teachers about how Roman Catholics believed they were the only true Christians, they were working their way to heaven, and they did horrible things like drink, dance and went to Mass. They were obviously going to hell while the Jews we visited when our Sunday School class went to the synagogue were going to heaven because they were Jewish (even though they explicitly rejected Jesus). And Baptists were going to heaven too (at least those who walked the aisle and told the pastor they wanted to be baptized -- that was the extent of the gospel message I was taught) even though the deacons smoked like chimneys outside the Sunday School building on Sunday morning, many people in the congregation secretly drank alcohol, and there was lots of sexual hypocrisy going on among adults in the congregation. For what it's worth, my mother was led to Christ in the context of a lesson against idolatry, by a Roman Catholic priest. In contrast, in my Baptist Sunday School classes, I was taught that allowing a Baptist hymnal to touch the floor was treating the gospel with disrespect, like "pearls before swine."
Based on my experience, I'm sure you'll forgive me if I don't paint everyone with a broad brush and assume people are right and wrong with God according to their labels and what the "official" positions of religions and denominations happen to be.
If Jesus can sit down with prostitutes, tax gatherers and false religionists and present the life and light of God to them by His words, actions and nature, then I as His disciple am called to do the same in a constructive way. If I am invited to a Lenten fish fry, I feel perfectly comfortable participating in a meal, knowing that there are likely many Christian brothers and sisters there with me, although I may have some serious theological disagreements with many of them. And to those who are Roman Catholics who have been deceived, I can demonstrate that there is more to the Kingdom of God than the Roman Catholic church and let the Spirit of God work in the relationship.
glfredrick
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The way I figure it, one can either get a fish fry at the Catholic Church or the local pub. Either way the proceeds are supporting something that I don't... Fish is still good, though. :thumbs:
Long John Silvers doesn't count as fish fry... Captain D's either. Moby Dick, if you have them in your area is close enough to count.
Here in Louisville we like Mike Linnig, doing good fish for a LONG time:
http://mikelinnigsrestaurant.com/
Long John Silvers doesn't count as fish fry... Captain D's either. Moby Dick, if you have them in your area is close enough to count.
Here in Louisville we like Mike Linnig, doing good fish for a LONG time:
http://mikelinnigsrestaurant.com/
If you are not a Baptist, then you should not be posting in this Baptist only forum.
Please - simple question- can we give a simple, short answer to the question of the OP
Sounds good. The only thing that scares me is that Louisville is a LONG way from the ocean! Do they fly in fresh seafood or it is frozen?
glfredrick
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Probably frozen -- like 99% of America. :thumbs:
I love the fresh, but reality is, that is difficult. Especially when you're serving a truck load a night!
Yes..... Goodbye! & Thanks:thumbs:
glfredrick
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I'm sure "once upon a time" the River was the source for the fish. Not any more. Can't eat that stuff more then once or twice a year without seeing some health issues. Too much lead, mercury, and PCBs in the Ohio River.
I make it a point to not do much with that water, even in a recreational sense. But I do fish it once in a while, and I have eaten some hybrid bass that can be caught below the power plant. Those guys are worth the effort once a year 30+ pounds, 36+ inches of nice fillet on the fin... :thumbs: If the river was clean like the ones I knew in Wisconsin, that would make up about half my diet!