Originally Posted by smokey1:
Originally Posted by House of David:
Contendah, 1) everyone has a direct line to God if they want it. You are as close to God as you want to be. 2) you lump catholics in with the Mormons and JW. I think you do this to be condescending, and you probably feel prideful about that. Mormons and JW don't believe Jesus is the Son of God. Catholics know Jesus is the Savior. He is the Son of God. The Lord of all. 3) now I remember why I left the forum. Satan running around trying to twist and divide people. 4) Jesus is peace itself. He is the prince of peace. Our union with Him should be constant and unyielding. Believers in Christ should meld themselves to Him. 5). Instead of reading whatever pope book you want me to read, I'll will read the Bible. I encourage everyone on the forum to read Psalm 50. It's a psalm that should be read everyday - to keep one from prideful, arrogant, disdainful attacks on others.
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Very well said HoD.
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NOT so "[v]ery well said" after all, Smokey.
HOD said, "Mormons and JW don't believe Jesus is the Son of God. Catholics know Jesus is the Savior." Well, HOD, the Catholic Church seems to have no big problem with getting cozy with those Muslims who relegate Jesus to the status of a human prophet. Get your Catechism out and go to numbered item 841, which includes the following:
"The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims, who profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us, they adore the one merciful God, mankind's judge on the last day."
Muslims do not acknowledge as divine or as Savior. Thus, when they acknowledge "God," they are not acknowledging the God of the Bible, who does have a Son who is Himself God and Savior and who is a creator, according to John 1: 3. The "one merciful God" of Islam is not the God of the Bible.