In order to get the jest of what is going on, you need to read from post one. I'm trying to bring Jesus onto the situation.
quote:Originally posted by House of David:quote:Originally posted by C.O.B.R.A.:
I was raised Catholic, was an alter boy for a while, didn't let any priests near my body. I went with the Catholic thing cause I was told to. I got older and made some realizations. They say they don't worship Mary, yet they pray to her. The Bible teaches us to pray only To God through Jesus Christ. They do pray to Mary, lets see if I can remember, Hail Mary full of grace the Lord be with you. Etc. Another thing is they baptize babies. The Bible teaches that babies come from God and no unclean thing can be in the presence of God. It also teaches that baptism is for the remission of sins. If babies come from God and no unclean thing can be in the presence of God, then babies MUST be sin free. We are also taught that we must repent in order to be baptized and in order to repent we must confess, I haven't found a baby yet that can talk let alone confess some kind of sin they never committed. We are only held responsible for our own mistake,Adam and Eves sins CANNOT be passed on to anyone.
Catholic cleargy are not allowed to get married yet in their own Bible in 1Timothy 3-7 says their Bishops MUST BE MARRIED and if they had them, their DEACONS must be married too!
There are more things. So, no more of that for me, I sought out the real organization of Jesus Christ, and about Peter being the rock that the church was built on, WRONG ANSWER THERE TOO! Go back and re read the verses before that statement and you will see Jesus wasn't talking about Peter at all. Jesus asked Peter who he thought Jesus was and Peter said he was the Son of God and Jesus said flesh and blood hath not revealed it to you but my Father in Heaven. Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my church. Jesus didn't say thou art Peter and upon you I will build my church. And He didn't say thou art Perer and you are a rock and upon you I will build my church. He said, His Father in Heaven REVEALED to Peter that Jesus was the Son of God and upon THIS ROCK, (THE ROCK OF REVELATION FROM GOD ) He would build His church.
Nuff said
Cobra,
I have read you previous post, and I can tell you are very happy with where you are at (religiously). I also noticed in previous post that you are secure in your salvation, and I think that is great. I am also secure in my salvation.
The end of your post says "nuff said" I'll take that to mean you don't want me to lay out a counter discussion going point by point on the issues you brought up about the church. (Mary and so on....) But, I think we can both agree Jesus is the Son of God and the eternal Savior.
one last thing, If I may ask, What is C.O.B.R.A. an acronym for? I'm just curious