A Rant: Protestants and Catholics

[Hebrews 11]

Religious ceremony is ridiculous.
It doesn't matter what group, from Pentecostal to Catholic with Methodist in the middle.
To think God is at your becon call!
Promptly at your time of service,shake some pots of smoke play with snakes and its show time for Jesus.
The devil is a liar,if you believe you can kneel down eat a wafer and have a guy impart salvation to you on that man's merits your wrong.
If you think you can conjure the Holy Spirit and impart anything by man's will your wrong.
God doesn't work for us,if you deny his Son and beat your head on a wall God will not hear your prayer.
If you think a man can forgive sin or give salvation I fear for your eternity.

We are saved by grace through faith in Christ alone not of works.
Not of man
Not of ritual.
If you receive Gods Word you receive Christ.
] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

[2] The same was in the beginning with God.

[3] All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

[4] In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

[5] And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Keeping with the thread title I have finished my rant.

 

[Alithis]

Religious ceremony is ridiculous.
It doesn't matter what group, from Pentecostal to Catholic with Methodist in the middle.
To think God is at your becon call!
Promptly at your time of service,shake some pots of smoke play with snakes and its show time for Jesus.
The devil is a liar,if you believe you can kneel down eat a wafer and have a guy impart salvation to you on that man's merits your wrong.
If you think you can conjure the Holy Spirit and impart anything by man's will your wrong.
God doesn't work for us,if you deny his Son and beat your head on a wall God will not hear your prayer.
If you think a man can forgive sin or give salvation I fear for your eternity.

We are saved by grace through faith in Christ alone not of works.
Not of man
Not of ritual.
If you receive Gods Word you receive Christ.
] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

[2] The same was in the beginning with God.

[3] All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

[4] In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

[5] And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Keeping with the thread title I have finished my rant.

well that was a much more acceptable rant lol .

over all i don't care who you are or where your from (anyone i mean) ..if you're mankind i will love you and i will speak the gospel truth to you according to the word of God and ONLY the word of GOD (bible)
But i will not love ,nor agree with, nor stand idly by in the face of doctrines of demons and lies .

if you share them, speak them or preach them i will openly oppose you and stand solely on the Word of God .

"I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.-Isaiah -and by "another .. he means NO other . not mohammed , not buddha and not mary .

 

[Hebrews 11]

Muhammad is dead,Budda is dead and Mary is dead.
God is not a God of the dead but God of the law ving through Christ who is alive and has defeated Death Hell and the grave

 

[psalms 91]

Muhammad is dead,Budda is dead and Mary is dead.
God is not a God of the dead but God of the law ving through Christ who is alive and has defeated Death Hell and the grave

Yes:arms::clap2::arms:

 

[MoreCoffee]

Well now I understand the reason Catholics display Jesus on the Cross.
If you believe we receive him from a ritual,that is carried out weekly by a man,then his Death ,Burial, and Resurrection are not needed.

Your heart will never remain empty,if it is not filled by the living Word then it will be filled with the vanity of religious ceremony.

John 12 :

[47] And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

[48] He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

[49] For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

Catholics display crucifixes so to bear public witness about the redeeming sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. An empty cross tells the world very little about what the Lord did for the saving of his people from their sins. There were three crosses on Calvary on the day that the Lord Jesus Christ died, all three were emptied by the time the Sabbath started so an empty cross tells only a part of the story of redemption while a crucifix spells out exactly who it is that Christians worship and what he did for the faithful.

Do those in your religion believe that the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ cleanses them from all sins? If so when do you receive that cleansing? Surely there is an element of the costly sacrifice of Christ that applies to the faithful in the here and now. And if it is objectionable in your religion to receive the body & blood of the Lord in holy communion then do you celebrate holy communion at all and if so what can it mean to you if it is evacuated of any application of the words of institution that the Lord spoke on the night of his betrayal? He said "this is my body" as the disciples received the bread and "this is my blood of the new covenant" as they received the wine that he had blessed. I believe what he said and so I receive Christ as I receive holy communion, it is more than rehearsing the story told in the gospels it is participating in Christ as the Lord explains in John chapter six and in the last supper dialogues.

 

[MoreCoffee]

Muhammad is dead,Budda is dead and Mary is dead.
God is not a God of the dead but God of the law ving through Christ who is alive and has defeated Death Hell and the grave

Mohammed is dead, so too is 'Buddah' but Blessed Mary lives as do saints Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Jesus said, "But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living." (Matthew 22:31-32) Surely Christians acknowledge that Blessed Mary believed God and is with him now.

 

[psalms 91]

Mohammed is dead, so too is 'Buddah' but Blessed Mary lives as do saints Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Jesus said, "But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living." (Matthew 22:31-32) Surely Christians acknowledge that Blessed Mary believed God and is with him now.

Perhaps but we do not pray to people(saints) we pray to Jesus

 

[MoreCoffee]

Perhaps but we do not pray to people(saints) we pray to Jesus

I pray to the saints asking them to pray to the Lord our God for me. My bible encourages me to do that.