To this:
"Wylie-Kellerman asserted, “In Christ, there is neither gay nor straight.”"
-Article

Finally, this:
"IN CHRIST there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither Slave nor Free, there is neither male nor female, and there is neither "gay nor straight".

TB wrote:
"Which one?" you ask...
Neither. Those who have the witness of the Holy Spirit need neither the church's nor their own interpretation as they have God's within.
You testify against yourself. As I said, it's sad you believe that.

These can't agree how much water to use during baptism. They can't agree what the essentials are of the Gospel. They can't agree on the order of salvation. They can't even agree on the Big Enchilada, the "doctrine upon which the Church stands or falls": Faith Alone or Faith & Works.

How could this hodgepodge of 10,000s of Protestant bodies even square with the Bible's requirement that Christians be one?

Jim Lincoln wrote:
Not-Your-Pope, that's nice the Romish Church has held it's position on abortion, one of the few things that isn't false about [URL=http://www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/_PDFArchives/roman-catholicism/RC1W0799.pdf]]]Roman Catholic Tradition[/URL]. Oh, and it's one of the most ignored traditions by the laity, when it comes to the pill. [URL=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/14/98-percent-catholic-women-birth-control_n_849060.html]]]98 Percent Of Catholic Women Use Birth Control Banned by Church[/URL]
Wall Street Journal pro-abortion? You gotta be kiddin' [URL=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704662604576256702271734850.html]]]The Pro-Abortion Party [/URL] Catholics certainly seem to like it.

Since she knew the Roman Catholic Church wouldn't change its 2,000 year constant teaching against birth control, she eventually stumbled upon the idea to hold Protestant preaching contests to convince Evangelicals to use it.

She would reward the best sermons extolling the "virtues" of birth control. And that she did. Protestants have had a love-affair with Sanger's progeny ever since.

The Barna Group has documented this [URL=http://www.sermonaudio.com/new_details.asp?ID=33040]]]here[/URL].

Your great grandparents downgraded and omitted their denominations' constant teaching against birth control (1930).

They sowed the whirlwind and now denominations are reaping a devastating hypercane (Gal 6:7-9).

Who's going to tell millions of church-minted "young dropouts" what to do when these denominations got them hooked on the gateway drug to liberalism: The Pill?

The ever-expanding nightmare won't end until your church repents of this hypocrisy and says "No" to birth control.

Dirk Yoder wrote:
Protestantism and Romanism ... are both the same whore, drunken on the blood of the saints.

Yours is the reasoning of the likes of Joseph Smith, founder of the cult of Mormonism.

Whereas, this is a biblical portrait of Protestants and Catholics:

"Pelikan takes a highly sympathetic and even irenic view of Roman Catholicism, seeing the Roman Church as the mother in whose arms the Protestant baby rocks."

Review the SA threads that number 500 entries. At the end there's no settled doctrine. Just worn out Christians trying to convince each other what's right in their own eyes.

Well done Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha. You've finished the race.

Thank you SA for these important articles about the Roman Catholic Church. Well all need a hero, especially since the days are evil.

Rufus wrote:
one Antichrist.

TB wrote:
What man can ever do the work of standing in the place of God?

km wrote:
this is why we should not make images of Christ. it encourages the world to blaspheme and it causes irreverence of his glory.

The finest marital advice you'll get will be from a priest. When you ask Protestant pastors with 5-6 children who've converted into the Roman Catholic Church and become priests, you'll find these of utmost quality, too.

She leaves behind her husband and 8 home-schooled children.

Then these same folks turn around and criticize the Roman Catholic Church for carefully studying a person's life for 50 years and eventually declaring him to be in Heaven.

Now, for those in full-time Christian service, as Jesus and His Twelve were, they didn't have time to interact with their wives or children at night. They were fully-immersed in the work of God.

When you talk with Protestant pastors with 5-6 children who convert into the Church and become Roman Catholic priests, ask them how effective they are compared to the single celibate priest. They'll admit that they're not nearly as effective. Also, the cost of running a family with 5-6 children makes it nearly impossible to be a full-time Protestant pastor in the average congregation of 80-100 persons. More divided loyalty.

Should we all strive to imitate Christ? Definitely. But he led a single celibate preacher's life. He was *always* available to rebuke, console, heal, teach and love. Is your Protestant pastor imitating Christ by being *always* available to the needs of his flock?

For 500 years someone's "personal attitude" somehow made the Pope anti-Christ? That's like saying my "personal attitude" is that SA promotes Islam. Ridiculous on both counts.

Show me a Christian Religion more concerned about the tiniest of humans -- the embryo -- than the Roman Catholic Church. You can't do it. The Roman Catholic Church and it's apostolic leader, the Pope, are diametrically opposed to our culture of death. That they would be "anti-Christ" is a real knee-slapper.

"Happy 400th Birthday AV!