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Marymog

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Accepting Jesus is one thing.
Confessing that Acceptance is another thing.



Anyone can ACCEPT believing in Jesus, and later REJECT believing in Jesus.
Have you NOT learned the umpteen WARNINGS?
Guess not, since you are WONDERING what happens to them.
The WARNINGS Tell you what happens to them.



It’s not a theory. It’s Scripture teaching the Wise comprehend, and the Unwise call it ridiculous, because they do Not understand.




Some people have to LIE, with the hope of making their comment believable.
No, Taken did NOT SAY, keep the children from Jesus.
And WHY, Marymog DID NOT QUOTE Taken making that statement.



Some people have to LIE, with the hope of making their comment believable.
No, Taken did NOT SAY, entire households, minus any child who isn’t heartfully mature,were baptized.
And WHY, Marymog did NOT QUOTE Taken making that statement.



Some people have to LIE, with the hope of making their comment believable.
No, taken did not claim to have accepted the lates 500 year old teaching of Protestant men.
And WHY, Marymog did NOT QUOTE Taken making that statement.



Marymog, your own GASLIGHTING, shows your dim reflection.



Well observed you rely on your Carnal Mind in an attempt to stuff your False Claims in an others mouth.

Rom 8:7 .....the carnal mind is enmity against God...

Doesn’t impress me either...
Taken....I get it. You have accepted what your Protestant men have taught you and you reject what Scripture and your own Christian history actually teaches about the matter.

So I ask you taken: Since Scripture makes it clear (to you) that one cannot be saved without accepting and confessing Jesus as his Lord and Savior then what happens to those infants, thru whatever arbitrary age you have chosen for a person to be mature enough to accept Him, that are not mature enough to accept Him? Do infants and mentally immature people go to hell?

Curious Mary
 

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What's worse than misrepresenting Catholic teaching is trying to discredit Catholicism using re-packaged heresies that attacked the identity of Christ in the first 5 centuries. Same poop, different toilet.
Anti-Catholic rhetoric is usually just ignorance shinning in the purist sense of the word. Not stupidity....entirely.....but lack of knowledge.
The reality of it is that the Catholic Church "is what it is" today. I spend most of my time in Protestant churches of several denominations I also spend time with the Catholics at church, dinners, and seasonal activities. The local community churches are great and I love the people.

Part of the problem is that most Protestants are not big on history.....not even their own history. And sure there is part of Catholic history that we can condemn and rightly so. But the modern Catholic church is a much better church.....they learned from their mistakes and we can forgive them for past wrongs....That is what Christians are suppose to do.

But their past is not all bad. Its like the news....most of what you are going hear are the bad things. All though history the Catholics have dedicated "branches" to Good Deeds all over the world. Spiritual ministries, leading people to Christ and helping the poor and the sick....working through plaques and war torn areas. The Benedictines, the Franciscans, the Cistercians and the Jesuits...etc
And also the nun outreach organizations like Mother Teresa's Ministries of Charities.

Most of the Protestants do not know of all the good these organizations have done and are doing. You guys need to start a thread on the history of these organizations to educate the Protestants on the forum. Admittedly, it will only do so much good because Good Deeds are almost considered a sin in Protestant denominations, having no or little religious value. Their rightness with God is mostly based on what you don't do....and they have developed quite a list of man-made sins to edify themselves with. I'm a good Christian because I do not drink, I'm a good Christian because I do not smoke, I'm a good Christian because I do not wear pants, I'm a good Christian because I do not dance....etc.

There are things I like about the Catholic services, especially the Stations of the Cross in cathedrals.

But of course there is a reason I spend most of my time in Protestant churches....I don't believe in confessing my sins to a man....I like the real bread and wine communion and I love the Holy Ghost churches. But I do catch a little bit of heck from the Protestants because I have seen and have spoke with Miriam on a few occasions and testify of her. Most notably she appeared in the battlefield with us and saved me and about a dozen Seals from a mortar attack.
 
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But I do catch a little bit of heck from the Protestants because I have seen and have spoke with Miriam on a few occasions and testify of her. Most notably she appeared in the battlefield with us and saved me and about a dozen Seals from a mortar attack.
This atheist Harvard professor had an encounter with Mary as well.


 
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Goofy

Jesus FLESH did not exist prior to the Incarnation (Luke 1:31).

Jesus is without beginning. Learn the difference between EXIST and MANIFESTED.

It was CREATED by God in Mary using HER Body.

No.

Jesus was nothatched”.

LOL your minds goofy sentiment.

Jesus did not suddenly “appear”.

LOL your minds goofy sentiment.

He was CONCEIVED (created) in Mary, His mother by the power of God.

He is without beginning. (For Goofy, that means NOT created!)


The problem is that YOUR pathetic little god that you’ve invented cannot impregnate a woman without having intercourse with her.

I do not Call God a Human...that is Goofy’s claim.
Humans reproduce, procreate, via intercourse.
My God is not a created Human.


The Almighty God of Scripture only has to WILL for it to happen.
The bible clearly says that Mary was overshadowed by the Holy Spirit and conceived. (Luke 1:L35).

My God IN Heaven, SENT His word forth out of His Mouth.
My God PREPARED a Body for His word.
The Body My God PREPARED for His word, was in the LIKENESS “as” a Jewish man.
The Body My God PREPARED for His word, was SENT to the womb of a Jewish Woman.
The Body My God PREPARED for His word, was MANIFESTED 9 months after He was SENT forth out of Gods mouth to a Jewish woman’s womb.

Your god, is a human.
Your god, as you have explained is SPIRIT / Human MIX.
My God Revealed KNOWLEDGE of an abomination of created celestial spirits and created terrestrial humans MATING, and pro-creating and offspring of a very Large, Powerful race called Giants.

Your god, (a spirits SEED and man-kinds SEED mixing to pro-create an offspring)
BY My Gods Word that is an abomination act and NOT ever once Did My God teach He did or approved such an abomination act.


My God IS Spirit.
Your god is a procreated spirit human mix abomination.

Glad that is settled.
 

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Anti-Catholic rhetoric is usually just ignorance shinning in the purist sense of the word. Not stupidity....entirely.....but lack of knowledge.

And sure there is part of Catholic history that we can condemn and rightly so.

And when you are “rightly so condemning parts of Catholic history”....
Does that make you “partly” Anti-Catholic ?

Anti-Catholic is a term Catholics use, FOR ANY Disagreement with ANY part of Catholic teaching.

Catholics make their claims for what they Believe...Protestants disagree...and do not find a Catholic’s basics for a particular ”part” Scripturally verifying or valid.

Protestants make their claims for what they Believe...Catholics disagree...(which simply makes that Catholic ...Anti-Protestant...)
But the fact is ... Protestants Don’t Care who Disagrees with them, to feel the need to call them Anti-Protestants.... A Protestants only concern is ABOUT spirits and men who are Anti-Christs.


The anti-Catholic term, is hokey, AS IF it has some detrimental determining Factor in a mans salvation...it doesn’t.
 

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Jesus is without beginning. Learn the difference between EXIST and MANIFESTED.

I do not Call God a Human...that is Goofy’s claim.
Humans reproduce, procreate, via intercourse.

My God is not a created Human.


My God IN Heaven, SENT His word forth out of His Mouth.
My God PREPARED a Body for His word.
The Body My God PREPARED for His word, was in the LIKENESS “as” a Jewish man.
The Body My God PREPARED for His word, was SENT to the womb of a Jewish Woman.
The Body My God PREPARED for His word, was MANIFESTED 9 months after He was SENT forth out of Gods mouth to a Jewish woman’s womb.

Your god, is a human.
Your god, as you have explained is SPIRIT / Human MIX.
My God Revealed KNOWLEDGE of an abomination of created celestial spirits and created terrestrial humans MATING, and pro-creating and offspring of a very Large, Powerful race called Giants.

Your god, (a spirits SEED and man-kinds SEED mixing to pro-create an offspring)
BY My Gods Word that is an abomination act and NOT ever once Did My God teach He did or approved such an abomination act.


My God IS Spirit.
Your god is a procreated spirit human mix abomination.

Glad that is settled.
Yes, I know that YOUR little god can't create anything without having sex.
MY God - the God of Scripture merely SPOKE and the universe leapt into existence. Impregnating a virgin without sex was a FAR simpler task.


Thank you for once again displaying your utter ignorance of God's Word . . .
 

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And when you are “rightly so condemning parts of Catholic history”....
Does that make you “partly” Anti-Catholic ?

Anti-Catholic is a term Catholics use, FOR ANY Disagreement with ANY part of Catholic teaching.

Catholics make their claims for what they Believe...Protestants disagree...and do not find a Catholic’s basics for a particular ”part” Scripturally verifying or valid.

Protestants make their claims for what they Believe...Catholics disagree...(which simply makes that Catholic ...Anti-Protestant...)
But the fact is ... Protestants Don’t Care who Disagrees with them, to feel the need to call them Anti-Protestants.... A Protestants only concern is ABOUT spirits and men who are Anti-Christs.


The anti-Catholic term, is hokey, AS IF it has some detrimental determining Factor in a mans salvation...it doesn’t.
This is a TEXTBOOK example of anti-Catholicism., which has nothing to do with simply "disagreement"
An Anti-Catholic is a person, like yourself, who resorts to LYING and otherwise purposely-misrepresenting what Catholics teach and believe.

There are many on this forum - but YOU are a living caricature of one . . .
 

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Yes, I know that YOUR little god can't create anything without having sex.

I see you CONTINUE making up LIES...as if that is all you’ve got.

MY God - the God of Scripture merely SPOKE and the universe leapt into existence.

Leapt..LOL
Impregnating a virgin without sex was a FAR simpler task.

God SENDING His Word in the LIKENESS AS a man, was much simpler and THE ACTUAL TRUTH, instead of all your hokey foolishness.

Thank you for once again displaying your utter ignorance of God's Word . . .
Do not attempt to give me credit for your gaslighting. That is all accredited to you.
 

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Taken....I get it. You have accepted what your Protestant men have taught you

Why would you Claim to GET THAT? I have NOT said That!

and you reject what Scripture and your own Christian history actually teaches about the matter.

Since I never said THAT either....what ACTUAL Christian history are you CLAIMING (for me) that I reject?

So I ask you taken: Since Scripture makes it clear (to you) that one cannot be saved without accepting and confessing Jesus as his Lord and Savior then what happens to those infants, thru whatever arbitrary age you have chosen for a person to be mature enough to accept Him, that are not mature enough to accept Him? Do infants and mentally immature people go to hell?

Curious Mary

Uh...infants grow, hear, read, learn and choose...IS that a mystery to you?
 

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This is a TEXTBOOK example of anti-Catholicism., which has nothing to do with simply "disagreement"
TEXTBOOK “anti-Catholicism”....LOL. Must be a “Catholic Textbook”...which is of ZERO interest to me.


An Anti-Catholic is a person, like yourself, who resorts to LYING and otherwise purposely-misrepresenting what Catholics teach and believe.


Nope...Catholics such as yourself OPENLY make claims about Spiritual Godly things, that none of you can GIVE Scriptural Validation, Verification for your Claims.

That is not me misrepresenting a Catholics Position....that IS ME Noticing you are without Scriptural Validation, Verification and thus Disagreeing with your Positions. Get over it.



There are many on this forum - but YOU are a living caricature of one . . .

No Goofy that would be you...remember I’m Einstein... :Laughingoutloud:
 

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What three “PERSONS” did God MANIFEST for men to SEE?
"Manifest" doesn't necessarily mean to "See". It can also be defined as a perception or something that is understood.
Don't let your limited understanding of the English language fog your mind . . .
 

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TEXTBOOK “anti-Catholicism”....LOL. Must be a “Catholic Textbook”...which is of ZERO interest to me.

Nope...Catholics such as yourself OPENLY make claims about Spiritual Godly things, that none of you can GIVE Scriptural Validation, Verification for your Claims.

That is not me misrepresenting a Catholics Position....that IS ME Noticing you are without Scriptural Validation, Verification and thus Disagreeing with your Positions. Get over it.

No Goofy that would be you...remember I’m Einstein... :Laughingoutloud:
I guess the VOLUMES of Scriptural evidence that present in my posts don't count to a lying anti-Catholic like YOU . . .
 

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"Manifest" doesn't necessarily mean to "See". It can also be defined as a perception or something that is understood.
Don't let your limited understanding of the English language fog your mind . . .

I am aware you rely on your Carnal Minded understanding for “perceiving” an understanding.
When Jesus was Manifested, He fulfilled Gods Promise for men to SEE.
 

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I guess the VOLUMES of Scriptural evidence that present in my posts don't count to a lying anti-Catholic like YOU . . .

Mentioning a Scripture that has nothing to do with proving your claims, is irrelevant.

No, I do not lie. And your “anti-Catholic” whining is laughable.
Scripture itself and myself are concerned with “anti-Christs”...

You should know, (by your Catholic Texts)... “anti-Christs” are they which elevate spirits and human (male or female) equal with :( or higher than Christ.
 

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Your god, as you have explained is SPIRIT / Human MIX.
Your god, (a spirits SEED and man-kinds SEED mixing to pro-create an offspring)

You've pretty much described a demigod; which is a singular being who's
half human and half divine

The Word of John 1:1, and the flesh that the Word became in John 1:14, are
two separate and distinct beings each with an identity of their own-- the one
is an eternal spirit being whose origin is currently unknown, and the other is
a temporal material being whose origin can be easily traced to David and
from thence to the very dust with which Adam was constructed. In other
words: the flesh of John 1:14 is a creature of design.

Jesus has since been promoted to the rank of God, but he didn't have that
position before his crucifixion. God endowed him with divinity as
compensation for his unselfish devotion to a matter of grave importance.
(Isa 52:13, Phil 2:6-11)


FAQ: Why are so many folks confused about Jesus' status?

REPLY: Because the information is privileged.

Matt 11:2 . . No man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth
any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will
reveal him.
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You've pretty much described a demigod; which is a singular being who's
half human and half divine
Yes, analogous to an Oreo cookie. The Nestorian heresy was refuted at the Council of Ephesus in 431, its authoritive verdicts affirmed at various authentic councils up to and including Vatican II. It's surprising how many evangelicals exhibit Nestorian-lite but won't admit it.
The Word of John 1:1, and the flesh that the Word became in John 1:14, are
two separate and distinct beings each with an identity of their own-- the one
is an eternal spirit being whose origin is currently unknown, and the other is
a temporal material being whose origin can be easily traced to David and
from thence to the very dust with which Adam was constructed. In other
words: the flesh of John 1:14 is a creature of design.
They are different descriptions of the same Person. Emmanuel.
Jesus has since been promoted to the rank of God, but he didn't have that
position before his crucifixion. God endowed him with divinity as
compensation for his unselfish devotion to a matter of grave importance.
(Isa 52:13, Phil 2:6-11)
Jesus was not promoted nor endowed. He is God incarnate, He is God before becoming man, God in His mothers womb (Theotokos), God before the Crucifixion, and God on the cross. Such challenges were resolved at the Council of Nicaea in 325, and affirmed at various authentic councils up to and including Vatican II.
FAQ: Why are so many folks confused about Jesus' status?

REPLY: Because the information is privileged.

Matt 11:2 . . No man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth
any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will
reveal him.
Yes. Peter comes to mind. Jesus' identity was first revealed to Peter by the Father, in spite of his limited brain. The other guys had to be taught. To FULLY know Jesus, and to FULLY know the Father, you have to be PHYSICALLY DEAD. There is no quibbling in heaven.
 
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Half human, half divine, does not exist...

But, but, but....Fully Human, Fully divine, exists in the Carnal Mind of BOL.. :laughing:

God in the A Fashion, A LIKENESS AS A MAN, was manifest for men to SEE.

God without beginning, in HIS mothers womb.... :laughing:
 

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What is the ONE “True” Church?
Christ Jesus’ Church...Period.

What is a Gathering of men who Testify;
Jesus is the Christ the Son of the living God called ?
Members of Christ Jesus’ ONE True Church.
 
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.You've pretty much described a demigod; which is a singular being who's half human and half divine

I would say no such thing exists...except in people who have a mind like BOL, whose god is: fully god AND fully human.

The Word of John 1:1, and the flesh that the Word became in John 1:14, are
two separate and distinct beings each with an identity of their own--

Disagree.

Are you two separate and distinct beings?
Do you have multiple names, titles, descriptions, identities?
Does multiple names, titles, descriptions, identities, make you two separate and distinct beings?

God is without beginning or ending.
God is without Ancestors.
God is MAKING for His Pleasure, Adopted Children.

That which is IN God IS God.

That which comes forth OUT from God, IS STILL, IN God, IS STILL God.

God IS Spirit.
Gods Spirit comes forth OUT from God, Yet remains IN God.
Gods Word Comes forth OUT from God, Yet remains IN God.
Gods Power Come forth OUT from God, Yet remains IN God.
Gods Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, Truth, Seed, Life Comes Forth OUT from God, Yet remains IN God.

the one
is an eternal spirit being whose origin is currently unknown, and the other is
a temporal material being whose origin can be easily traced to David and
from thence to the very dust with which Adam was constructed. In other
words: the flesh of John 1:14 is a creature of design.

Every God created and made man-KIND of Terrestrial being, was created and made AS A POTENTIAL candidate TO BECOME ... MADE a worthy child to BECOME “MADE” “Adopted” BY God, as “His child”, (according to His Order and Way).

His “basic” ORDER, is:
(Hebrews First.
(Thereafter Hebrew Descendants; ISRAEL;
(Thereafter Gentiles;
(Thereafter Gentile Descendants;
(Thereafter Hebrew, Israel remnants;
(Thereafter Any Freely Willing manKIND.

His “basic” WAY, is:
Any mans Freely, Willing, True Belief in his Heart...IN the Lord God Almighty...
BEFORE the mans Mortal Death.

ANY man WHO, does so FREELY BELIEVE in his heart...
.”AND”...”AND”...”AND
Confesses his Belief...BEFORE the mans Mortal Death...

* That man TAKES UPON HIMSELF the Sonship and IS ACCOUNTED as a descending Son ........
OF God, OF Abraham, OF Isaac, OF Jacob, OF king David...


* That man BECOMES “heir” to Abraham’s Promised Land...
* That man BECOMES “entitled” to be Included as a Citizen of king David’s “house”...(the House of David).


God Himself Established....Abraham’s Promised Land.
God Himself Established....king David’s Ever Lasting Throne.

God Himself Fulfilled His OWN LAW to BE Heir of Abraham’s Promised LAND and Descendent of the House of David, by, through, of Gods Word, manifested ON Earth IN the Likeness AS a man, AS a Son of Abraham, AS a Son of David.


Jesus has since been promoted to the rank of God, but he didn't have that position before his crucifixion. God endowed him with divinity as
compensation for his unselfish devotion to a matter of grave importance.
(Isa 52:13, Phil 2:6-11)


FAQ: Why are so many folks confused about Jesus' status?

REPLY: Because the information is privileged.

Matt 11:2 . . No man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth
any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will
reveal him.
_

Heb 13:
[8] Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

What Jesus Christ IS is the same He has ALWAYS BEEN....
IN GOD, WITH GOD, IS GOD.