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  1. Stalwart

    What are your thoughts about the Catholic Church?

    To reiterate the same point in different terms, no Catholic has his own opinion on matters of faith or morals. If he is a Catholic, he professes those of the Church as his own.
  2. Stalwart

    What are your thoughts about the Catholic Church?

    Where you contend against the Church, you contend against God Himself. I'm not the one doing the deciding - it is a dogma of the Catholic faith that none outside of the Church will be saved. I am bound to believe it, even if I did not agree with it.
  3. Stalwart

    What are your thoughts about the Catholic Church?

    I recognise the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church as the one Church which Jesus Christ founded to bring together His faithful. I recognise that the Catholic Church is the sole depository of objective moral and religious truth. I recognise that without Christ, one cannot be saved - and...
  4. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    There is much more to it than that. There is endless correlation between this event and those in the OT - beyond that fact, why would Christ create an anarchic Church on earth when the Church is an extension of the Kingdom of Heaven? It's nonsensical. This video will help, I'm sure:
  5. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    Your obstinance is honestly very depressing - you reject actual, recorded history, and put your faith in a book and your own understanding of it; not in Christ. Watch the video. I won't be responding again for a while.
  6. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    Yet what is being referred to here is the office of bishop. Watch the video above.
  7. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    'Elder' = 'bishop'. Same thing, different term. Not in the Bible, no. But some of those who became successors to certain Apostles are mentioned in scripture, so we know that they existed. The Apostles established churches (bishoprics), and governed over them as leaders; like shepherds over...
  8. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    A bishop is a consecrated successor of the 12 Apostles. They occupy the same authoritative office in Christ's Church as they did in the first century AD. ...What?
  9. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    Christ's teaching means more when written down by the Apostles than when spoken out loud by the Apostles?
  10. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    Except for the Apostles, right? Our Lord was telling a little fib when he declared that nobody was to teach anyone else. Again, this is a translatory issue in the same strain as the passage pertaining to 'call no man Father'. Why should I believe your personal, arbitrary, totally subjective...
  11. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    Seriously? Rev. 22:18-19 refers to the book of Revelation. It is a declaration that his vision was recorded in whole.
  12. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    You need to be taught - just as the disciples of the Early Church were taught by the Apostles. Sacred Scripture is not sufficient on its own in the hands of an ignoramus - we can see that from the tens of thousands of Protestant denominations, each with as little authority as another.
  13. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    Where in the Bible does it state that every element of the faith that will ever be revealed is in the Bible? This is Church history. Do you reject the Fathers of the Early Church?
  14. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    Christ came to fulfil the Law, not abolish it. It has been changed, not made redundant. Did Christ not command us and His disciples of many things throughout the Gospel - and did his Apostles not do the same throughout the New Testament, on His authority, informed by His oral tradition...
  15. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    Then why did they appoint successors for themselves?
  16. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    For your own good, because you are under some kind of delusion which demands correction.
  17. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    If you conform to the Gospel - the commands of Christ - then you conform to God's Law. Being subject to the Apostles is necessary to this.
  18. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    You're offended by words? Pitiful.
  19. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    Yeah, okay, whatever you say. What draws you to 'paganism'? Do you think the romanticised notion of nigh-animalistic snow- and forest-dwelling barbarians is something to aspire to? Are you an ethnonationalist who subscribes to this idea of Christianity being a mechanic of Jewish subversion...
  20. Stalwart

    Is it necessary to be baptized as an adult, if you were baptized as a baby?

    So it's totally arbitrary and subjective? You, personally, get to decide where Law does and does not apply? Pull your head in. You have no authority. Actually, yes, scripture was 'given to us' by a pope and bishops - the Bible was created by the Church, for the Church. It is a Church document...
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