re: It's good know churches are open to new worship ideas including drag queens

The normalization of mental illness will be the downfall of our society. Luckily theses freaks don’t usually procreate. They’d probably kill the baby any way if they had the choice.

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Very few churches are churches anymore

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Too much about the money changers and the egos

Maybe we need a good old fashioned smiting!

That would not be allowed at my church.

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You split from the one true church and you're left with this blasphemy.

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That’s a fact, but what isn’t is the the Catholic Church is the true church.

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The Catholic church ain't perfect because it is run by humans

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You’re right, but the true church you alluded to is not run by humans. It’s run by Christ, who is the head of the church, and it’s not in a building, but in the heart of those who believe upon Christ for their salvation, made Him Lord of their personal lives, and live according to what scripture alone says rather than what man says, and there’s a very big difference in the two mindsets. The true church knows it can’t earn salvation through works, because only Christ can purchase that on the cross.

Not for this at all but is the Catholic church still moving around pedophile priests?

Well it’s sick people who need a doctor…. I will put my faith in the Lord for this issue

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Well it’s sick people who need a doctor…. I will put my faith in the Lord for this issue

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I agree with this, but you know, when Christ ate with sinners, He didn’t go there and celebrate their sin, or validate their bad thinking, or place no demands upon their lifestyles, but rather to offer them hope in Him, the same He offers for all of us, me included. The repentance is a change of mind, and a turning to Him in our hearts rather than our own efforts to be good, and to be conformed to His example through a rebirth in mind and spirit, not remaining stuck in our own sins. It’s about recognizing His truths, and with that our absolute failure to live up to that, and our turning to Him and His sacrifice, and relationship with Him to both save us through faith in Him only, and to also sanctify us over time in our relationship with Him. It’s not whether you measure up, because NONE of us do, but it’s embracing His truth over man’s truths, and man’s justification for himself.

What gets me about this is that it’s more about accepting them and their lifestyles, and less about any of what Christ came for or offers us, and that’s a change within our hearts, minds, and lives.

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live according to what scripture alone says rather than what man says, and there’s a very big difference in the two mindsets

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Only issue with that is the following two questions:

1. Where does it say in scripture that we are to depend on scripture alone and not on the church Jesus founded when he told Peter “Upon this rock I will build my church?”

2. Which interpretation of scripture do we follow? The Protestants removed 7 books from the Bible. Do we ignore those 7 books or follow them since the original Christians included them? I couldn’t find anywhere in scripture about what we should do on this one.

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Where does it say in scripture that we are to depend on scripture alone and not on the church Jesus founded when he told Peter “Upon this rock I will build my church?”

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And that church popped up into existence some 300 years later when Constantine formed it? That is not what Christ founded. He founded His church, and upon the “rock” of truth of Him being the head of that. His church is HIS church, and he didn’t hand it to Peter, or any any other flawed man in need of a savior to be in charge of.

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2. Which interpretation of scripture do we follow? The Protestants removed 7 books from the Bible. Do we ignore those 7 books or follow them since the original Christians included them? I couldn’t find anywhere in scripture about what we should do on this one.

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Use your Catholic bible. It says the same thing, and man’s rules, organization, and thinking that does not line up with scripture from Genesis to Revelations is not sound. It’s man made. It’s traditions of men.

For instance, when scripture tells us that there is ONE mediator between God and Man, Christ Jesus, it clearly means ONE mediator, not multiple mediators, or some spiritual bureaucratic system of prayer intercession one must go through to communicate with our creator. It means that Christ is our own mediator between God and man.

As far as the Apocrypha is concerned, it was added to the Catholic bible only after Martin Luther was attempting to reform the church by addressing the indulgences, of which are said to be referenced in said apocrypha, which is clearly why it was added at the point in time. The apocrypha was used in Protestant bibles as well for a time to be references historically, as Judaism also considered it’s usage, as did the council of Nicea, which is why it was not a part of original cannon of inspired scripture.

So what about the books that were removed? Do we believe those or not?

Also, the church wasn’t formed in 300. Need to re-study that time period of what happened under Constantine and who his mother was.

But the biggest question I have is what does Jesus mean in Matthew 18 if that isn’t granting authority upon which only the Catholic Church has the claim of apostolic succession?