What is the largest Church in America?

Glad you asked....54 years of living with Catholics. Ancestry back to the Romans. But it isn't authority, its knowledge. So if you want to stand on Gods authority, be my guest.....LOL. Now where is your knowledge of Catholics?

 

My knowledge of Catholics is from experience: 20 years in the Catholic Church. It is also through extensive personal study.

But even if I had never studied one iota of RCC doctrine my authority is the Bible. Everything that comes across my plate is tried and tested by God's Word. If it doesn't agree with the Word of God it is rejected. That is the basis on which RCC doctrine is rejected. It is contrary to the Word of God. Much of it is anti-Bible, let alone simply unbiblical. It goes directly contrary to the work of Christ on the Cross.

Christ saved me from the darkness of the RCC. I praise him for that.

 

Some friends of mine had recently been saved. I was visiting them in their dorms at the University. They asked me if I believed the Bible. I answered (as a good Catholic), that I did (though I had never read one).
They asked: If you were to die tonight would you go to heaven.
A Catholic could never know that. If I committed a mortal sin, had a heart attack, I would go to hell. So the answer was no. I could not know for sure.
Then they simply asked if they could show me through the Bible how I could know for sure that I could go to heaven. Since I had already said I believed the Bible, I didn't really have a valid objection, and then they shared with me the "Romans Road."
I have never doubted my salvation since.

 

And my mothers answer to that after 72 years as a Catholic was....Im going to heaven because I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord & Savior! She died a week later secure in her salvation.:godisgood:

 

I am glad she did. But that is the first time in 20 years I had ever heard the gospel. It was never preached, never taught in the Catholic Church. They don't preach it. They preach against it. They preach a salvation by works; not of faith. Salvation is by faith alone. It is not of works as the RCC states, as my father died believing. He believed he was good enough to make it. He kept the Ten Commandments. He went to mass on a regular basis. He went to confession and did penance regularly. He did all that the RCC demanded of him. His works (the works of the RCC) were going to get him to heaven. He wasn't interested in what I had to say of the grace of God that brings salvation. He was confident in doing the works of the RCC that that would get him to heaven.

 

Jude says: "Contend for the faith."

In Mark, Jesus said:
Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

In Matthew Jesus said:
Matthew 28:19-20 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

In Luke Jesus said:
Luke 24:46-48 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things.

In John Jesus said:
John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

In Acts Jesus said:
Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

You say you are a Baptist. I would be ashamed to make such a post as a Baptist.

 

She did those also & to care of my cerebral palsy sister. Besides she read the bible, sent my brother to a Baptist College, supported his ministry & never once altered her opinion of herself as anything but a good Christian Catholic. I have a woman in my baptist church that goes to services every Sunday, participates & supports her baptist family but she will not convert. Both my mother & this lady give there lives to Christ but your right they do good works only there good works are a result of being called to a higher understanding of God.

Anyway, Christ first was seeded in both my brother & my soul because Christ was taught to us by my mother.... the rest of the ritual was just that. It was her goal to develop good Christian men of us.

Personally I wish she had not. Could have perfected my evil lifestyle to infinity. Instead I am preparing a Mens Bible Study for tomorrow....Romans of all things!

 

Well maybe I'm not as full of myself as you are....at least I can spell Judea properly.

Here is something for you in return:

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness & reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each one's praise will come from God.

 

I went to Roman Catholic School and they do not teach you how to get saved. Thus they are a mission field.

 

Sorry about your experience in your Catholic school. The liberal Baptist church down the road from me doesn't teach how to get saved either. None of you seem concerned with outreach to the many liberal Baptists that don't believe in the essentials of the faith.

 

We do. We evangelize all those that are unsaved. I would never enter the door of a Catholic church and try and take over the priest's pulpit. Would you expect one of us to barge into a liberal Baptist church and take over the pulpit? I think you need some common sense here. Many of us go from door to door and no matter who they are or from whatever background they come from, if they are not saved, we witness to them.

The great majority of the RCC are not saved; the great majority of the Baptists are saved. Those are just the facts.

 

Dito! :thumbs:

 

I used to believe 'the great majority of Catholics were not saved' myself. Now I 'R' one!

 

I am in complete agreement with you. However, I don't believe for one second that 'the majority of Catholics are not saved'.

 

If you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and you believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead you will be saved. Romans 10:9

Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Romans 10:13

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. Romans 10:12:thumbs:

 

I live in a predominately Catholic nation. I don't recall ever meeting a saved Catholic. They are as blind to the gospel as Muslims are. I try to point this out to you. You are blind to it as well. And if you believe the RCC doctrine on it you are not saved either.

Choose ye this day which you believe.
Are you born again? If so by whose theology? the RCC? Or, by the evangelical teaching of the Bible? The one contradicts the other and both cannot be right. The one sends a person straight to hell, and the other leads a person straight to heaven. Lori are you born again? And by whose interpretation?

The RCC's interpretation of the new birth is to be baptized. That interpretation will send a person straight to hell. The new birth is not baptism.

To be born again is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ (and his sacrificial work) and trust him as your Savior. Come to him as a sinner, admit your need as sinner. If you got what you deserved you would end up in hell. But Christ died and took the penalty for your sins. You were born into Satan's family. Christ asks you to trust him that you might be born into God's family and be His child. Will you accept him by faith and faith alone. This has nothing to do with baptism.

 

GE:
Very enigmatic. But I consider myself a Protestant and Reformed Protestant for that, even though I differ on cardinal ethical doctrines -- 'water-baptism' and Sunday-worship. NOTHING EVER can undo my affiliation with the only Christian Church of all time; least my own differences I have with God's only Children on earth.

Please note, I do not say or imply here the Baptists are not also this Church of God.