I will not likely persuade many of them to become Catholic. I am an evangelical Christian and have been part of Baptist churches across the years.
I further acknowledge that others i. Thanks for your comment. In answer to your question, Mortara became a Catholic priest, and a quite happy and successful one, at that. Do you have any comments on my article? Your question is clear and pointed. Fra Mortara -one can guess- resided in the bosom of the Lord. Within the larger revisiting of Pauline theology in Protestant circles N. Wright, et. Growing up Catholic in the Bible Belt, sometimes, like he noted,I wonder about the efficacy of apologetics with Baptists….
Faustina would say…. This is spot on, especially that last paragraph. A fine rebuttal. One Evangelical Protestant belief I cannot fathom is eternal security. I can see the dispute over child versus adult baptism, but claiming that once you have faith you can never be damned is downright mind boggling.
And I thought they were Bible Christians. Well, there are numerous passages in the NT that certainly seem to imply this. The misunderstanding seems to be about both the nature of sin, which, according to Protestants, is a huge issue. One little sin, no matter how small, is committed against an infinite God, and so deserves infinite punishment.
In that case, we would sever ourselves from God with every sin we commit, and we often do not even perceive our sins, like a moment of anger or a ill thought towards another.
However, Christ said that all who are His i. Christ also taught that if one sheep gets separated from the flock, He will take it upon himself to seek out and rescue the lost sheep and restore him to the flock. Paul says that all Christians were called, chosen to belong to God, predestined to glory, and this is because we are united to Christ, who keeps us in himself through the power of His Spirit as a guarantee of our inherence, and so, nothing at all can separate us from God in Christ, since in him we are more than conquerors.
That clearly implies that if we belong to Christ we will preserve by His power. John wrote that the Antichrists will go out from the body, separating themselves from Christ and His church, which, John says, proves that they were never really of us, for if they were of us, that is, the church, then they would have remained with us.
There are many more passages that speak to this doctrine. The question is who has the sole authority to provide a correct interpretation of the bible? The answer is those who originally approved and canonize the number of books that made up the bible and who approve and defended the correct interpretation of what the bible was teaching and that is the Catholic Church. Protectants would not have a bible if it had not been developed by the Catholic Church based on the apostolic doctrines and teachings handed down by the Apostles to the early Christ disciples and Christian Churches established in different parts of the world.
To ignore this history is to ignore the origin of Christian belief based on the formation of the bible. Jose, You have to admit — if you studied the 16th century Reformation at all — that the corruption of the Church had reached unprecedented proportions back then. Priests were selling indulgences from Purgatory to build St.
The Reformation started with a 95 Thesis. And now, in the 21st century, because of the Reformation, we have more Biblical literacy throughout the world then could have ever been imagined — and because of this biblical literacy Christians are no longer duped by the potential corruption of authority from within the Church — because they know their Bibles.
What was it William Tyndale said? He wanted to bring more biblical literacy to the young man who plows the field than the Pope had. You have an ideal in which you want to subject others to — you want to reform society for the better — thanks for that. Just a Thought. With Kind Regards, Jeff Lahman. You really ought to read more about indulgences before you make such accusations. There were at various times in history some abuses connected with indulgences, but the abuse of a good does not make the good, evil.
Jesus is present entirely, body, blood, soul, and divinity, both in validly consecrated bread and in validly consecrated wine. It is not necessary to receive Him under the species of wine. You seem to be quite confused about indulgences. They still exist. Because of the possibility of abuse, almsgiving is no longer one of the actions to which indulgences are attached.
Reading Scripture, on the other hand, is. If that was his goal, he should have used one of the good translations of the Bible that were already available, rather than writing a truly lousy one that was rife with errors both accidental and deliberate. Or do you think that people ought to be able to change the words of the Bible to suit their own agendas? What has the 21st century to do with anything?
Catholics were a minority and an oppressed one, at that in Colonial America. There were Catholic schools even then; but the Protestant majority set up public schools and attempted to suppress Catholic schools, both by depriving them of any money from taxes and by efforts to make it mandatory to attend public schools.
Casey, Your assessment of the outworking of baptist theology is insightful. You can opt out at any time. Yes, I want the Patheos Evangelical Newsletter as well. Meet the World's Confessional Lutherans. What Is "Progressive Christianity? Roger E. My Book on Fascism Revisited. The Failure of the "Youth Group" Related posts from Roger E. In light of same-sex marriage, some couples and pastors are wanting to Studies show that most people are bought into the idea that Christianity In the last several years journaling Bibles have become extremely popular.
If every minority group is pressing its demands, he said, all hope of spiritual unity is lost. Mohler ignored the elephant in the room. The GOP has fallen captive to a toxic form of white identity politics. The racial tension within the SBC is simply a function of electoral politics.
That is their unforgiveable sin. The SBC has hit the default button and returned to Alan Bean is executive director of Friends of Justice , an alliance of community members that advocates for criminal justice reform. He lives in Arlington, Texas.
Analysis by Mark Wingfield. Opinion by Corrie Shull. Curated Exclude from home page BNG staff. Opinion Alan Bean April 19, i. Alan Bean. In so doing they are not contending for their own system of religious philosophy, but they are contending for God's scheme of redemption. The fact that they are always ready and willing to meet representatives of denominational schools of thought in private or public discussion, manifests their attitude and tolerance relative to "seeking truth.
Folks ought not to shy away from controversy. A man is not a good man unless he engages in some controversy in life — he must fight evil within himself, and oppose evil without, which would corrupt him and his associates — and that involves controversy. Life is controversy, and people expect dispute in every realm of activity — but some shy away from it in the field of religion.
While it is true that much religious controversy is of an ill-natured sort and seems to produce no good effects, the fact remains that anything which stands opposed to God's will, must he opposed by God's people, and it should be known that through honest clear-cut controversy truth can be ascertained. Bible examples are in order. Job engaged in controversy with the princes of Edom. Elijah, Amos and a host of other prophets of God debated with the evil forces of their day.
John the Baptist and Jesus Christ were in controversy with the evil forces of their day. Paul and his companions in the gospel were constantly in dispute with elements within the church and with the world outside the church.
All of this was in interest of God's will, not in interest of any personal whims or conceptions. Thus these men were not bigots, and neither are those who contend for God's will in this day and age, in any sense of the word.
Now when we talk about things wrong with the Baptist Church we are quite aware of the fact that there are things wrong in the church of Christ. But there is a great difference between the type wrongs existing in the Baptist system and the kinds of wrongs seen in the Lord's church. In the Lord's church the wrongs lie with the people, not with the institution, not with its make-up, not with the founder and authority of the glorious ship of Zion. Certainly there are wrongs in the Baptist Church which come in the same classification of those things wrong in the church of Christ.
The difference is, the church of Christ can clean up her errors and the people can get to heaven through the Christian system seen inthe Lord's church. But though the Baptist Church can likewise correct moral and religious shortcomings in daily living, its system of religion is one that does not constitute the "way" spoken of in the Bible and thus its people cannot get to heaven through it, and that is what is wrong with it.
While both the Baptist Church and the Lord's church have moral and religious problems to be corrected, one is a man made religious institution and the other is God's institution, the body of Christ.
That is what makes the difference. So when we talk about what is wrong with the Baptist Church we are not trying to cast a mote out of its eyes when there are beams in our own — we are pointing out that the Baptist system of religion is one that does not exist by the authority of God, and that is what is wrong with it.
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