Steve700 wrote:
I was rather suspicious of that thing about the pope, saying he was a Mason, 33rd degree yet. You're saying I'm lying is ludicrous. Read the words I used. I said that the pope said that he does not believe a person need take Jesus as their Lord and Savior in order to be saved. I never said he said that you need not believe in God in order to be saved. All the others are even more off. As for the rest of it, I trust my information more than yours. Especially since you just displayed a lack of objectivity. Also please understand this is like one piece out of a very many that make up a complete well defined picture of what's going on that you can follow the progress of according to prophecy. It is not the Bible prophecy that has convinced me of anything. It is all the other pieces to the puzzle that has been the proof that convinced me that Bible prophecy is true and accurate and therefore of God. I think you need to do some more research. I like to do it through YouTube videos that I find much more advantageously entertaining and enlightening. I also never claimed that the videos were scriptural or even fully accurate. There are more like information about spiritual and religious matter. I think you should watch the videos and then you would be in better shape to make a decision as to the veracity of it all. I mean that seems like the reasonable thing to do so as to not have a corainial rectal inversion. And what do you know about Catholic and Christian theology. My guess is that your main knowledge is anti-Christian anti-American Marxist rhetoric and talking points (that are from ignorance of facts that makes their points null & void) --- SEE THE VIDEOS
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FYI- I did watch the videos. And they are entertaining, but present the wrong conclusions. Also, my knowledge of Catholicism comes from attending a Catholic Church or 20 years while being married to my 1st wife. (She was the Catholic, not me.). During that marriage, I studied Catholic doctrine, in depth, with the priest as he was trying to convince me to join the Catholic Church. Me, being raised Presbyterian, he eventually, jokingly, called me "too radical" to become Catholic and we left it at that. Although never being allowed the sacraments, I kept attending the Catholic Church to maintain religious continuity for the benefit of our kids whom, according to Catholic tradition, HAD to raised in the Cathoic Church.
Once my marriage to my 1st wife ended and I eventually remarried, I returned to Protestantism, becoming a "Certified Lay Minister" in the Presbyterian Church, USA (PCUSA). So, I believe I have the knowledge to debate with you the various points of Catholicism and the teaching of the "End Times," i.e., about eschatology, end times, the rapture, and millennialism, amillenialism, and even the 3 forms of pre-millennialist.
You said, "I also never claimed that the videos were scriptural or even fully accurate. There are more like information about spiritual and religious matter."
Yet you posted them as if they were accurate and scriptural. Plus, if you're going to post messages that can be construed as anti-Catholic, don't you think you should be willing to discuss ALL of the points regarding your post? For you to, now, comeback and "back-stroke" away from your post's content, only tells me that your convictions weren't/aren't very strong to begin with.
I'll leave you with this Bible passage to ponder: Matt. 24:35-37, "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words shall not pass away. But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone." Now, answer me this, if the angles nor the Son doesn't know the day and hour of His return, how can mankind figure it out? Trying to do so is but another way for mankind to try to put himself at the level of God. Remember the Tower of Babel? Same song, ump-teenth verse....