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Post by Cepha on Apr 13, 2008 11:44:02 GMT -5
Ever notice that when a Catholic becomes a Protestant, they becomes very bitter and nasty and rude and unChristianlike in their behaviour towards their former brethren?
Is this what their new church teaches them?
To slander? To judge? To divide?
But when a Protestant becomes Catholic, they always speak highly of their former faith and are kind and gentlehearted & Christlike towards their Protestant brethren?
This is what Jesus taught, mercy, compassion, love.
Which of the two truly represent Christian behaviour?
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Post by cradlecathlic27 on Apr 13, 2008 12:41:42 GMT -5
AMEN! I have heard and seen this more than enough times!
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Post by redsoxfan on Apr 13, 2008 12:42:59 GMT -5
I actually noticed that.
The closest I have ever noticed a Catholic convert acting rensentful of thier past is not really filled with bitterness. Usually when I see it seems more like embarassment. Kind of like saying "I can't believe I dated THAT girl."
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Post by Cepha on Apr 13, 2008 12:52:45 GMT -5
I've met a few Protestants who left The Church that were charitable to their former faith. I'd say that the percentage is about 10%.
But that's because their new church taught them not to look down upon their former faith regardless of their new found religion. And that in my opinion reflects a Christian heart.
Where as the church that teaches one to practice unChristlike behaviours cannot be led by The Holy Spirit. It is completely contradictory. It can't be.
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Post by redsoxfan on Apr 13, 2008 13:01:00 GMT -5
I'm gratefull for those ten percent. Though I wish they would come home.
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Post by Cepha on Apr 13, 2008 13:09:16 GMT -5
Some are better Christians while being outside of The Church than they were within The Church. Granted, they might not have the fullness of The Faith, but they exude Christ and that's more important...their relationship to Christ.
Maybe God called them out of The Church because they couldn't work with the gift of The Church and called them to a church where they could function as better Christians.
I'm not saying that that's what it is, but if an atheist can be saved, then a Protestant can be saved...ultimately, it's always up to God in the end.
I'd love to have them all back and I'd love for all Christians to be as Jesus wanted (that we all be one as He and The Father are one), but I'm not God and I certainly won't deny a person their choice. God bless them all.
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Post by emily445455 on Apr 13, 2008 16:03:18 GMT -5
My best friend left the CC. She's none of those things. She is VERY nice to her family, even though they have practically disowned her for leaving the CC.
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Post by I.M.Apologetics on Apr 14, 2008 0:22:57 GMT -5
weren't you Catholic, emily?
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Post by emily445455 on Apr 14, 2008 8:05:58 GMT -5
No.
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Post by Cepha on Apr 14, 2008 10:13:10 GMT -5
My best friend left the CC. She's none of those things. She is VERY nice to her family, even though they have practically disowned her for leaving the CC. Does she attend your church? |
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Post by emily445455 on Apr 14, 2008 10:16:30 GMT -5
Yes. I feel bad for her, her family just recently started talking to her again (she left the CC a few years ago).
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Post by Cepha on Apr 14, 2008 10:27:04 GMT -5
Yes. I feel bad for her, her family just recently started talking to her again (she left the CC a few years ago). Wow. I don't blame them for not talking to her considering what church she goes to. Your church is a very nasty anti-Christian church. Of course, you don't see this because you are within their fold and have been indoctrinated by them. But any reasonable person can see that a true Christian doesn't exclude other Christians as your church does. Her family (your friend) is upset because your friend joined a cult. I feel sorry for her too. I can't believe you go to that church. You seem so nice and they seem so nasty. |
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Post by emily445455 on Apr 14, 2008 10:29:41 GMT -5
Actually, they know nothing about our church, they have never asked her about it or what she beleives now, etc.
They didn't talk to her and treated her badly because she left the CC...that's it, no other reason.
Lol, everyone in my church is nice.
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Post by Cepha on Apr 14, 2008 10:46:27 GMT -5
Actually, they know nothing about our church, they have never asked her about it or what she beleives now, etc. They didn't talk to her and treated her badly because she left the CC...that's it, no other reason. Lol, everyone in my church is nice. How do you know that they don't know anything about your church? Didn't she renounce her faith and join another faith? That speaks volumes. She joined a church started by a man. Of course their going to be upset when their daughter leaves The Christian Church for a Denominational church. They know everything they need to know. And if their so nice, why do they go to a church with a website like that? And where they lie? Let's take you for example. You're a lier. You say that Catholics aren't Christians. That's a lie. So, any church that teaches one to lie in Jesus name is not "of" Christ, but of man. I believe you were taught this by that church or by another anti-Christian church. But I believe your heart is nice. Just misled. Of course, you have no excuse. You can read the Bible for yourself and see that it is wrong and against Christ's teaching to be against anyone who is a Christian even if they are not among your group. But that won't be the first time your church teaches in error (like placing their faith in a bible that didn't exist in Jesus' time for example). |
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Post by emily445455 on Apr 14, 2008 10:49:20 GMT -5
Not all Catholics aren't Christians  I was just saying that not all people who have left the CC are not "very bitter and nasty and rude and unChristianlike in their behaviour", and sometimes it is the other way around. |
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Post by Cepha on Apr 14, 2008 11:02:38 GMT -5
All Catholics are Christians.
I didn't say that all were like that, just a good 90% of them.
Usually, they quit because they want a divorce or because they want to have sex out of wedlock or because they want to live a sinful life without restraint. Of course, we can't allow them to live like that just to appease them, so they quit.
Then they go about slandering The Church and they just love to join churches where they can fellowship in slandering The Church. And these churches allow them to live however they want to without any guidance. And they like that freedom, the freedom to sin, to slander, to "not" have to live a righteous life. Let's face it...people in sin don't want to hang around people who tell them their in trouble. They'd rather hang around people who accept them exactly as they are without them having to convert their live.
But hey, to each his own. Neither you nor the will have any excuses when judgment day comes when you're asked by God why you attended a church that rejected The Old Testament that Jesus used and that used The Old Testament that those that killed Jesus used.
I got my own stuff to answer for too. But when it comes to The Church, at least I'm 100% solidly sure that I'm in the right place.
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Post by emily445455 on Apr 14, 2008 12:30:17 GMT -5
Not all Catholics are Saved, not all Protestants are Saved. Being part of a church doesn't make one automatically Saved.
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Post by cradlecathlic27 on Apr 14, 2008 13:31:38 GMT -5
No, but if you are a "true" Catholic, then you are Christian! So with that said...all Catholics are Christian!
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Post by emily445455 on Apr 14, 2008 13:34:11 GMT -5
There are a lot of "false" Catholics then...
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Post by cradlecathlic27 on Apr 14, 2008 13:50:11 GMT -5
what do you mean "false" Catholics? Explain and i might understand.
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