This Is How We Get Our Kids Out Of The Matrix. God Bless This Kentucky Teacher & The Parents!
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I hope you are right but me thinks you have been deceived honey. I am Evangelical Bible-based all the way sunshine and my eyes are wide open and discerning. Don’t worry about me. I have only 1 that I answer to and his name is JESUS.
When you’ve had steak and lots of it you can tell when someone is trying to force feed you a Big Mac. I’ll pray for you but please stop trying to feed me Big Macs!
So why ignore what came out of his mouth?
"Who do people say that the Son of Man is?" The Apostles responded, "Some say John the Baptizer, others Elijah, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." Our Lord then turned to them and point-blank asked them, "And you, who do you say that I am?"
St. Peter, still officially known as Simon, replied, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God." Our Lord recognized that this answer was grace-motivated: "No mere man has revealed this to you, but My heavenly Father."
Because of this response, our Lord said to St. Peter, "You are 'Rock,' and on this rock I will build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." The name change itself from Simon to Peter indicates the Apostle being called to a special role of leadership; recall how Abram's name was changed to Abraham, or Jacob's to Israel, or Saul's to Paul, when each of them was called to assume a special role of leadership among God's people.
I’m sorry, you are implying that I have ignored something Jesus has commanded? Well perhaps, for I am fallen and do sin daily - but I’m trying to be better.
Ignoring? I mean, I doubt you're ignoring it out of spite or anything like that. Moreso from a place of "Catholic bad, Jesus good" because you've been lied to about Catholic theology.
When presented with sound arguments from the Bible and your only refutation is "JESUS ONLY!" when Jesus clearly said these words himself...yeah that's kind of veering into ignoring the Lord's words.
From the Lord's mouth:
Even though all 12 disciples are gathered together for this meeting, Jesus says these things only to St. Peter.
Peter’s authority comes precisely from Jesus Christ, as Matthew 16 shows. It’s quite obvious, therefore, that if Jesus is the one who established these things in Peter, then what’s set up in Peter is not a foundation other than of Christ. It’s the very foundation of Christ.
OBJECTION: PETER COULDN’T BE THE ROCK BECAUSE JESUS IS THE ONLY FOUNDATION
1 Corinthians 3:11- “For other foundation no man can lay, but that which is laid; which is Christ Jesus.”
Those who raise this objection fail to realize that the Bible speaks of all the Apostles as foundations.
Revelation 21:14- “And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.”
So, the fact that Christ is the foundation or the cornerstone, as we read in Ephesians 2:20, does not mean that Christ Himself could not or did not establish one apostle to have a perpetual office which would be the rock upon which the Church would be built. The two concepts are not mutually exclusive. For example: Jesus is the Good Shepherd (John 10:14), but He also gives the responsibility of shepherding all His sheep to Peter, as we will see in John 21:15-17. Jesus is the one with the keys (Rev. 1:18; Rev. 3:7), but He gives His keys to Peter.
Jesus gathers His disciples and gives the keys of the Kingdom to Peter alone. He then gives to Peter alone the power to bind and loose.
“And I will give unto thee [Peter] the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven...” (Matthew 16:19)
The fact that Christ is the only foundation, as 1 Cor. 3:11 teaches, simply means that everything comes from Christ. All true authority in the Church must come from Christ because the Church itself comes from Christ. Anything outside of Christ is a false foundation.
Even Martin Luther was never against the concept of the apostolic succession! It's a modern heresy to reject apostolic succession. There's a brand of internet truther Christian that rejects all authority and apostolic succession. That would have been absurd a few hundred years ago. Ah, modernity!
Yes we can agree Christ is the rock and we are His church, or His bride for when He returns. Be ready for the day and be glad, pray for it and as the parable tells you have your lamps filled with oil.
Friend, perhaps you are a minority or from a minority congregation in the Catholic Church, as you seem to be somewhat competent in the Word. However, you cannot deny that as a whole the Catholic Church does not advocate Bible reading/small groups/ evangelism by its members focusing on the sole act of grace and redemption being that of Jesus, the lamb foreshadowed throughout the Old Testament. Had the Jews known their Bible they would have known that it accurately predicted ‘to the day’ when the Messiah would enter Jerusalem.
I am a product of the Catholic Church, and maybe from a bad example - nonetheless, Jesus saved me and opened up my eyes to the truth. I only pray many others will receive my blessings and find true peace and truth from Gods word, not from any man.