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OriginalGeek

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9. Yep

Mon Jan 15, 2018, 08:31 PM

Jan 2018

Catholics are Christians but you'd be very hard-pressed to find a conservative baptist who believes it. Hell, when I was independent, fundamentalist baptist, we thought southern baptists were liberal backsliders.

glad I got out of all that bullshit.

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Religion question - Do Catholics NOT accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior? [View all] underpants Jan 2018 OP

That's what I was taught! 12year survivor of Catholic school. 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2018 #1

I am a 12 year survivor also rurallib Jan 2018 #8

I graduated in 1970 myself! 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2018 #17

It's sola fidelis Drahthaardogs Jan 2018 #30

Im a convert DUgosh Jan 2018 #2

Perhaps the woman agreed to accept..... CatMor Jan 2018 #3

Bet this sort of exchange happens often. nt PufPuf23 Jan 2018 #6

Funny I was thinking the same thing underpants Jan 2018 #7

Bingo Dorian Gray Jan 2018 #40

Or just to get food. Ken Burch Jan 2018 #59

Speaking as a professional church musician teenagebambam Jan 2018 #4

Yeah I could see that underpants Jan 2018 #11

Speaking as an escaped Catholic, that whole "Lord & Savior" bizness is not a "thing" for Catholics. scarletwoman Jan 2018 #5

Yes I agree. I was raised Catholic, attended Catholic schools, this wording is foreign to me. Irish_Dem Jan 2018 #18

Thank you. I appreciate your point about the differentiation between the use of Christ vs. Jesus. scarletwoman Jan 2018 #36

Yes exactly, when we were baptized we entered the Church and its teachings. Irish_Dem Jan 2018 #43

And yes, Catholic charities were important, and Nuns helped tame the west. Irish_Dem Jan 2018 #47

Both are required in Catholicism. Drahthaardogs Jan 2018 #48

Protestants also believe in good works. raging moderate Jan 2018 #88

No. Sola fidelis was one of Martin Luther's statements Drahthaardogs Jan 2018 #98

Amazing how ingrained KatyMan Jan 2018 #51

Totally agree. greatauntoftriplets Jan 2018 #52

Once you're RC, you're in the club. rickford66 Jan 2018 #67

Humm,, I also learned the Apostles' Creed as a Presbyterian in the 1950s. pangaia Jan 2018 #80

Yep OriginalGeek Jan 2018 #9

Yes, we do. WillowTree Jan 2018 #10

Bag of worms jberryhill Jan 2018 #12

Thanks underpants Jan 2018 #14

If you really want to have fun with a sola scriptural Protestant Drahthaardogs Jan 2018 #35

Catholics do.....but that is not all that is required of the faithful ollie10 Jan 2018 #13

Evangelicals don't believe that Catholics are "saved" LeftInTX Jan 2018 #15

This Catholic doesn't believe RW evangelicals are "saved" meow2u3 Jan 2018 #69

Actually, you are talking about Fundamentalists. raging moderate Jan 2018 #89

You have a point meow2u3 Jan 2018 #113

Well I'm no expert but I'm going to mention a difference lunasun Jan 2018 #16

The Apostles Creed : moriah Jan 2018 #19

Catholics absolutely believe Jesus is the Lord and savior tymorial Jan 2018 #20

Protestants don't believe that Catholics believe or worship Jesus. It is crazy. SweetieD Jan 2018 #21

It's the new Anabaptist movement. moriah Jan 2018 #24

Most of us do, Dear. raging moderate Jan 2018 #91

:) Hortensis Jan 2018 #116

Sorry, I have to laugh safeinOhio Jan 2018 #22

Southern Baptist Convention underpants Jan 2018 #37

There are differences with-in the SBC too. safeinOhio Jan 2018 #49

Yes Catholics do believe it...but evangelicals think Catholics are not Christian. Hubs Demsrule86 Jan 2018 #23

Pretty much depends safeinOhio Jan 2018 #25

Which is a bit of a joke, considering whathehell Jan 2018 #44

Of course they do.. whathehell Jan 2018 #26

It's the "born again" thing mcar Jan 2018 #27

Born again is an evangelical Protestant ritual. Not Catholic and not mainstream Protestants anneboleyn Jan 2018 #56

Yes mcar Jan 2018 #70

Actually, you are talking about Fundamentalists. raging moderate Jan 2018 #90

The divide was due primarily to Martin Luther. Towlie Jan 2018 #28

George Washington Carver dlwickham Jan 2018 #100

Sigh...So here's what this is about Drahthaardogs Jan 2018 #29

And both can prove their respective positions with copious Bible quotes. Towlie Jan 2018 #34

No. Catholics do not and never have believed in using the Bible Drahthaardogs Jan 2018 #39

True, the Bible is not really a big thing with Catholics melman Jan 2018 #54

Thanks underpants Jan 2018 #42

I have a real issue with Calvinism Drahthaardogs Jan 2018 #46

James 2 verse 24 standingtall Jan 2018 #63

So here is where this falls apart, Drahthaardogs Jan 2018 #71

Eternal security is biblical truth standingtall Jan 2018 #75

Funny how sola scriptura can ignore Jesus's own words Drahthaardogs Jan 2018 #77

Peter is not the rock Christ is standingtall Jan 2018 #81

Nope. That's not what He said. Drahthaardogs Jan 2018 #87

That is what the bible teaches standingtall Jan 2018 #92

I don't want to get it. Drahthaardogs Jan 2018 #95

The Waldensians used a bible translated long before standingtall Jan 2018 #99

If Andrew knew Christ before Peter, why is Peter called Drahthaardogs Jan 2018 #101

The Apocrypha was never considered inspired scripture standingtall Jan 2018 #103

The Apocrypha was noted as early as 382 at Council of Rome Drahthaardogs Jan 2018 #104

The council of Rome was a local coucil and not an standingtall Jan 2018 #105

If it's divinely inspired but only the one you believe Drahthaardogs Jan 2018 #106

Yeah that basically what presuppositions are standingtall Jan 2018 #107

The Catholic Church did not officially declare them scripture Drahthaardogs Jan 2018 #109

"God is not an [expletive deleted]" (rhymes with mindian giver) OriginalGeek Jan 2018 #78

Yes, but I do not remember it being stressed a whole lot mvd Jan 2018 #31

That phrase means her Catholic friend converted to Fundamentalist Protestantism jmowreader Jan 2018 #32

I am Jewish, but from growing up in the midwest, from what I observed that innuendo came still_one Jan 2018 #33

You observed correctly. Evangelicals do not MaryMagdaline Jan 2018 #55

I personally have never met a Jewish person who believed that Catholics were not Christians. When still_one Jan 2018 #62

I live south of mason dixon line MaryMagdaline Jan 2018 #64

Five years ago, I had an employee MurrayDelph Jan 2018 #73

Oh God. When our family moved to Georgia MaryMagdaline Jan 2018 #74

We do.... Dorian Gray Jan 2018 #38

Ha! underpants Jan 2018 #45

Evangelicals believe you have to invite Jesus into your heart. Catholics believe he is already ther. Iris Jan 2018 #41

Not quite. Catholics, unlike evangelicals, believe in infant or childhood Baptism, where the parents pnwmom Jan 2018 #94

Baptism is different from being saved Iris Jan 2018 #110

It isn't different in the view of Catholics. To Catholics, people are "reborn" in Baptism. pnwmom Jan 2018 #112

Catholics are baptized as infants and don't believe you have to be born again. AJT Jan 2018 #50

Baptism IS being born again! meow2u3 Jan 2018 #72

Yes. Jesus is Lord and Savior but MaryMagdaline Jan 2018 #53

Confirmation has little to do with the Nicene Creed Drahthaardogs Jan 2018 #61

God my catholic education was bad. MaryMagdaline Jan 2018 #65

It's okay. Most of the Catholics out there really don't understand Drahthaardogs Jan 2018 #66

You are both right. Confirmation IS about confirming our faith because pnwmom Jan 2018 #97

I grew up Catholic in Baptist country dawg day Jan 2018 #57

A friend of mine was son of a Baptist Missionary who came to the Philippines... brooklynite Jan 2018 #58

It's the Baptist Thing bitterross Jan 2018 #60

Jesus did come here to teach us how to live standingtall Jan 2018 #68

Ha, my Methodist cousins are fond of joking about baptists OriginalGeek Jan 2018 #79

That is hilarious - and so dead on! bitterross Jan 2018 #82

That's another one the cousins told me OriginalGeek Jan 2018 #83

Here it is bitterross Jan 2018 #84

Yes! OriginalGeek Jan 2018 #86

They do. . . BigDemVoter Jan 2018 #76

I am agnostic on this. OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2018 #85

Of course they do. But some non-Catholics think they worship the Pope. pnwmom Jan 2018 #93

It's not the Catholics that are exceptions, it's the evangelicals. LAS14 Jan 2018 #96

ALL religions agree on one basic belief: Binkie The Clown Jan 2018 #102

That's overly cynical ColemanMaskell Jan 2018 #108

It was an easy win. JNelson6563 Jan 2018 #111

The elderly woman was probably being polite. Vinca Jan 2018 #114

I like to think Jesus accepts me Stanley Roper Jan 2018 #115

Even Satan believes in Christ Kaleva Jan 2018 #117

Locking.... DonViejo Jan 2018 #118