Question: Is it Christ-like to post libelous straw men about others?
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I guarantee that if you polled all the atheists on here, the majority would fit my description.
And what do you know about being Christ-like?
No - but plenty of atheists get dicky in here too...
We just don't know all of your role models (and it wouldn't be Christ-like either) to incessantly rub it in your faces...
"to paint with a broad brush atheists as hedonistic and immoral is dishonest, judgmental,"
I COMPLETELY agree...
However, to compare us to that Christ in which so many do not believe in a question obviously meant to call out said idiocy just further fuels the cycle. According to many of you, I hate homosexuals, brainwash children, vote for blue laws, and have the IQ of a standard poodle...I am labeled in these ways by many of the same people that claim superior morality due to the fact that they are not doing it for my Christ, or His heaven.
This happens across the board, and the call outs only fuel the fire by spreading more generalizations (even though you didn't generalize directly.)
Edit - many of us ought to be ashamed of the things we say in here - we should all assume that our Christ, our mommas, our pops, or whoever we hold dear will be reading it. If we all posted with those assumptions, this place would be much different...
The Catholic Church does teach the importance of faith for salvation, but they say that faith alone is not enough for justification. The Catholic position on justification could fairly be described as: Justification = Faith + Works
The Bible states plainly that if you are trying to be saved by 'faith plus works' the true gospel of justification by grace through faith alone is cancelled out and made void.
(Romans 11:6 KJV) And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
(Galatians 2:21 KJV) I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
(Galatians 3:10-11 KJV) For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. {11} But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
(Galatians 5:4 KJV) Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
Not only does the Catholic teaching proclaim salvation and justification by faith plus works but they also place those who teach salvation by grace through faith alone under the papal anathema. This word 'anathema' is the same word used in the Galatians 1:6-9 passage (previously quoted) in which the explanation of the word meant to be 'cut off' or 'accursed'. The Roman Catholic Church says because we teach justification by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone we are to be 'anathema'.
The Council of Trent made this clear:
If anyone says that the faith which justifies is nothing else but trust in the divine mercy, which pardons sin because of Christ; or that it is that trust alone by which we are justified: let him be anathema. (quote from Council of Trent, p. 47, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ROME, Harvest House Publishers.)
FROM EVEN A VERY BRIEF STUDY OF THE ROMAN CATHOLICS WE ARE FORCED TO MAKE SOME SERIOUS CONCLUSIONS.
1. The Roman Catholics teach and preach a different gospel than the true gospel of justification by grace through faith alone.
2. This proves the Roman Catholic Church a false religion and not true Christianity.
3. This places the Roman Catholic Church under the curse of God according to Galatians 1:8-9, cuts them off from Christ and places them under the judgment of God.
4. If Christians take the great commission seriously they will prepare themselves by study and prayer to share the gospel with our Roman Catholic friends.
We hope this has informed you of some very important issues concerning the differences between the Roman Catholic Church and true Christianity.
Your Servants in Jesus, David and Donna Carrico
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