Gaius Americanus 🇻🇦

"My theological system is perfectly coherent, but it is so holy that only the regenerate can see how coherent it is!"

I am as nice as I can be. This is an example of when the gloves come off and when the memes must fly.

I absolutely love so many of my Protestant Bretheran. But O'Brien is committing serious sin, and, maybe breaking the law. I do not think he hates Catholicism. I suspect he is internally disinterested with the topic. I have made a career working around the mentality of self interest by unethical means. Regardless of my pessimism regarding his motives and intention, I would call him to repent. To speak evil of others is the execution of wrath. Plagiarism is theft. To do evil in pursuit of money is the choice of money over God. That is idolatry. I do not make judgements about the eternal souls of other people, but some things imperil the soul and salvation. These actions are as such. teapawt.net/grok/status/2096443177…

The Church put a Bible in my hand and told me it is the word of God. If the Church is false, then why trust that the Bible they put in my hand is the word of God?

Difference in Christian Cultures within the Church goes back to the very beginning. In the 4th century, Saint Ambrose (the Bishop of Milan) wrote a letter to Saint Augustine when he expressed concern about different customs in the city of Rome. Ambrose told him, "when in Rome, do as the Romans do." And, these words are undoubtedly in your cultural lexicon to this day. If a different culture has a custom that is not anti Christian or contradictory to it, then there is just not a good reason to try forcing them to abandon it. Converted natives from Catholic empires are still Catholic. I just returned from one. Converted natives from Protestant empires are, broadly speaking, not. The cultural memory is often far worse. Please do not take it personally if I cannot like that post.

Every single one of the seven sacraments is in the Bible. I obey the Bible and the Holy Spirit. Those who add to the Bible or take away from it are Apostate. 1. Baptism: Matthew 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. 2. Confirmation: Acts 8:14-17 Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John, who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit, for he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. 3. Eucharist: John 6:53 So Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 4. Penance (Reconciliation): John 20:22-23 And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld. 5. Anointing of the Sick: James 5:14-15 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 6. Holy Orders: 2 Timothy 1:6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7. Matrimony: Matthew 19:4-6 He answered, Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

Correct. Baptism happens in water.

Correct. Baptism happens in water.