
OK.
For those if us not familiar, got a link source so we can see "The Laws of One"???
Jesus gave 2 commandments:
Love God with all your might, mind, and strength; Love your brother as yourself.
There are many Christians who profess to follow the first but ignore the second. If an atheist is truly following the 2nd commandment, he will come to know the first.
Pope Francis is a smart fellow.

Jesus gave 2 commandments:
Love God with all your might, mind, and strength; Love your brother as yourself.
There are many Christians who profess to follow the first but ignore the second. If an atheist is truly following the 2nd commandment, he will come to know the first.
Pope Francis is a smart fellow.
even for the atheists that IF THEY REPENT ... it doesn't matter how "good" these atheists are if they do not repent and turn from atheism. There is no such thing as a "saved atheist,"
Doesn't the protestant bible have James in it?
James, 2:[14] What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him? [15] And if a brother or sister be naked, and want daily food:
[16] And one of you say to them: Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; yet give them not those things that are necessary for the body, what shall it profit? [17] So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself. [18] But some man will say: Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without works; and I will shew thee, by works, my faith. [19] Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils also believe and tremble. [20] But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
[21] Was not Abraham our father justified by works, offering up Isaac his son upon the altar? [22] Seest thou, that faith did co-operate with his works; and by works faith was made perfect? [23] And the scripture was fulfilled, saying: Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him to justice, and he was called the friend of God. [24] Do you see that by works a man is justified; and not by faith only? [25] And in like manner also Rahab the harlot, was not she justified by works, receiving the messengers, and sending them out another way?
James, 2:[26] For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also faith without works is dead.
It's funny--
But when we agree with the Pope, there is never a problem or question of translation.
When we don't agree with the Pope, then the translation thing always comes up.
Can't have it both ways.
Now however, this was posted by the Huffington Post, that Liberal RAG of a newspaper. I don't trust them to not have cut out a sentence here or there that clarified what the Pope was trying to say. Taken out of context, it could all be screwed up....
AND... furthermore, there are a lot of enemies of Christ right inside the Vatican itself. Who knows what butchering went on before the release of the originial article to the HuffPO?
...and towards the end of his life, Martin Luther regretted breaking from the Catholic church. No one ever mentions that.
Here is a link to Luther's writings and as one person said, it is clear from what he wrote towards the end of his life, he regretted leaving the Catholic church.
I haven't read this yet, so you'll have to do your own research at the link.
http://socrates58.blogspot.com/2006/11/luther-lutheranism-index-page.html
Here is a link to Luther's writings and as one person said, it is clear from what he wrote towards the end of his life, he regretted leaving the Catholic church.
I haven't read this yet, so you'll have to do your own research at the link.
http://socrates58.blogspot.com/2006/11/luther-lutheranism-index-page.html
Armstrong began his website, "Biblical Evidence for Catholicism," in March 1997[4] and it was described in a magazine article in 2002 as "well-known among both Catholic and Protestant apologists, garnering an estimated 200,000 or more hits annually...a virtual Catholic Encyclopedia".[5] The site received the "Catholic Website of the Year" award from the Catholic apologetics periodical Envoy Magazine in 1998.[6]

Doesn't the protestant bible have James in it?
James, 2:[14] What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him? [15] And if a brother or sister be naked, and want daily food:
[16] And one of you say to them: Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; yet give them not those things that are necessary for the body, what shall it profit? [17] So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself. [18] But some man will say: Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without works; and I will shew thee, by works, my faith. [19] Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils also believe and tremble. [20] But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
[21] Was not Abraham our father justified by works, offering up Isaac his son upon the altar? [22] Seest thou, that faith did co-operate with his works; and by works faith was made perfect? [23] And the scripture was fulfilled, saying: Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him to justice, and he was called the friend of God. [24] Do you see that by works a man is justified; and not by faith only? [25] And in like manner also Rahab the harlot, was not she justified by works, receiving the messengers, and sending them out another way?
James, 2:[26] For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also faith without works is dead.
I had 8 years of Catholic school, followed by 4 years of CCD during high school. A couple of related topics that were discussed way back then are applicable to this topic. First, to sin there has to be three conditions:
I has to be a sin, you have to know it's a sin, and you have to do it willingly i.e. - if someone hold a gun to you and makes you kill some one, it's not your sin as you had no choice in the matter ((we'll bypass the argument that you could have refused and allowed yourself to be shot)). So, some one that is not a "believer", if they have not been taught that something is a sin can not be held responsible; although if they are taught that something is bad/wrong/evil and still does it then, yes, they still have sinned.
Second, we were questioning what happens to good non-believers, as we could not see God punishing good people who had not been introduced to Jesus (mainly looking at historical periods); the priest commented that this has been a issue brought up to the Church as far back as the middle ages, and the Church stance since then was that those good people would still be judged at the last judgement, when they would be given the chance to know Jesus and accept him. Until then, they would be in a state of limbo, neither in Heaven or Hell. You still need to accept Jesus, and everyone will get a chance to do that at the Last Judgement and be judged for their actions during life.
See folks... this is what I'm talking about: Pure, unabashed ignorance. It's absolutely pitiful.... We all deserve hell. ...
See folks... this is what I'm talking about: Pure, unabashed ignorance. It's absolutely pitiful.
Because your statement:Maverick, I'm not talking about you. You are perfect and sinless.
Not *ONLY* includes me, but a *heck* of a lot of people who definitely don't deserve it.... We all deserve hell. ...