re: Happy Reformation Day!

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You know it, I know it, everybody knows it. They aren't.

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Haahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahah

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quote:salvation comes through faith alone, not works Yet somehow protestants are the busiest of bodies, working reallllll hard to make sure they tell everyone how bad catholics are so they can justify the existence of their particular flavor of christianity.

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If they understood we spend literally zero time thinking about about them it might help them move on and focus on themselves.

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Then why dismiss it so casually?

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I don’t. And no one I know at our church does. No one in my Christian family, friends, pastoral, or academic circles does.

So-called Protestants have the same issue as RCs, writ large: nominal believers. Even Satan and his demons believe and even understand. They just don’t obey.

Thank you to all the fathers of the Reformation!

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We don't teach we can earn our way into heaven, we don't worship Mary or Saints, we don't think the Pope is infallible, we don't think tradition is above God's word...

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As someone who has spent equal time in both Catholic and Baptist churches I can unequivocally say you are full of shite.

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Even Satan and his demons believe and even understand. They just don’t obey.

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Absolutely. Coincidentally was reading James yesterday. The disconnect is Protestants change what we mean by "works"

James 2:14-26

What good is it, my brethren, if someone claims to have faith but does not have good works? Can such faith save him? 15 Suppose a brother or sister is naked and lacks his or her daily food. 16 If one of you says to such a person, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat well,” but does not take care of that person’s physical needs, what is the good of that? 17 In the same way, faith by itself is dead if it does not have works.

18 But perhaps someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and by works I will show you my faith. 19 You believe that there is one God. You do well to assert that. But even the demons believe and tremble.

20 You fool! Do you want proof that faith without works is futile? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22 Thus, you can see that his faith and his works were active together; his faith was brought to completion by works.

23 Thus, the words of Scripture were fulfilled that say, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God. 24 You can see, then, that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.

25 Likewise, Rahab the prostitute,[c] was she not also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them away by a different road? 26 For just as the body is dead without a spirit, so faith without works is also dead.

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he led billions away from the true church and salvation

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The Catholic religion added works to the Christian faith because they didn't believe Jesus dying on the cross was good enough

I was just about to post about the James 2:24 “debate” (clearly a non-debate).

Even Luther recanted and repented re: James.

Back with my 96th thesis.

Fun fact: Martin Luther would routinely flagellate himself because he thought the devil lived in his bowels.

It's thought he just had crohns disease.