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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl
You have my apologies, then, I wouldn't know any better since I'm a protestant blasphemer 
Really? You'd make an excellent protestant, then. It's a sweet deal. You don't have to swear allegiance to anyone other than God Himself and His Son, our Saviour. You also get to partake in communion with no strings attached and the worship services are a lot better. You don't even have to confess your sins or say prayers to express your penitence!
The only downsides are that we don't have rebellious Catholic schoolgirls dressed in nice uniforms that God Himself must have designed and we're expected to actually do stuff. It's not all bad, though. Helping a homeless person build a house or making and delivering dinner to an incapacitated senior citizen is quite rewarding. |
Well I consider myself to have never owed allegiance to any man but my own conscience and to God.
Though technically I'm a Catholic I consider myself simply as a Christian.
In my 31 year of life and some of the worst things a man have to go through not a single Catholic would stand up for me . . . .If it wasn't because of God I'd have given up my faith completely and became a broken man in spirit and mind.
Religion saves no one. It's merely a feel good ritual meant to fill man's inability to reach and understand and know the God whom he wishes to worship.
Men need God to be saved. No one is perfect and even no one is worthy of living forever in abundance or to receive eternal power. All is in the grace. Men cannot save himself nor his religion could offer him salvation. It's his relationship with God that would save him. And that doesn't depend on anyone but God's initiative and the man's own response to it.
I've come to the realization that even if I make it to be acceptable in God's presence, it will not because of me at all. Not because I'm such a bad person but I've realized that I'm actually completely absolutely nothing and who will not even stand there in the first place if it wasn't because of God's own initiative and grace.
This God whose face shines beyond all light, who changes heart, who has the power to give the ultimate peace which brings joy and change man's heart to be alive and ever gentle, this God who answers prayer, whose spirit sounded like a great mighty wind to those who it came to, this God who knows the whisper of our every thought who never leave us or go to sleep or rest even when we are in death, who is able to reveal secrets and see into the hearts of men and nations, whose command even nature would obey, who actually make plans before carrying them out, who actually prefer us being clean physically and make us so before making an encounter or when His spirit lives in heart of His people, who love people who do not know Him and are unworthy, who has the power to forgive sins and who gives forgiveness even without being asked!
All those things would only be possible if He was indeed the Creator of all things whose mark of authority resides in every thing that has been created whose power defined by His Holiness, the scepter of His rule.
I feel lucky for having known such a God not as a God who only exists in a book but who let His believer to know the truth in it. Truly the living God.