So my littlest brother David is getting confirmed in May to be a Catholic. He let me know this today by saying he knew what saint name he was going to pick. Obviously I said that none would be the best. Mainly i say that because of what the Roman Catholic church does to keep their pews filled and their followers ignorant of the faith. They just send them through a production line like a check box of things they gotta do to be saved (which is the essence of their religion of doing things, Faith + Works). Sometimes I think it is not even faith anymore and that it is just works. Reason being is this very thing of confirmation. They were baptized... check, they went through first communion...check, they are confirmed... check... ok they are in only after they go through purgatory! I can't stand it. I am not bashing my brother in his ignorance. But that he is ignorant because of the deception given to him. Like I know they kind of teach the Roman Catholic doctrine, but comon do you think they are all listening. My experience is that they taught very little doctrine and more about service and this and that, I barely even knew I had to believe in anything. And so they say well you did all the requirements to get confirmed, lets confirm you. Instead of saying you know this this and this about the faith... do you believe it or not? and the this this and this are the important things like how are you saved and how one is made righteous. They might even tell you that and yet not back it up with scripture and say here believe this instead of this is what the Church believes and why do you believe it too?
So I asked my brother, who the pope is and what does he represent? and he had no reply. NONE! not his fault, its the Roman Catholic Church who has either left it out, or forgot to mention its importance. They dont even display the other sides view to say this is what other believe that is different to even give a choice, they just present it and that is the only choice. I also told him about works based salvation like I mentioned above and he didn't know that either. That the Roman Catholic Church says you can lose your faith if you don't do enough works, ultimately needing to go take the Eucharist to be given the perfect sacrifice and to tarnish it week after week and needing it over and over again...what blasphemy to downplay the perfect work of Christ! But David does not know these things and he is going to confirm himself into that faith? what faith? he doesnt know. He is just going through the process like all the others, just like I did.
Just to be honest though about what I am saying and what I am not. I am not saying my brother will not be saved because he will be a Roman Catholic, because I know no one is perfect and it is the perfect work of Christ imputed to you by faith that justifies you. And there are those who probably do have a saving faith regardless of the blasphemies taught to them or believed. But, because of the incorrect doctrine of what is being taught, the possibility is a lot higher that that faith cannot even be known and received and believed because it is not the belief of the RC church or taught to its members. I say this because I know my mom slung a emotional mud ball at me one time while talking to her saying "Does that mean my mother (my grandmother) is not in heaven because she was Catholic?" All I would say is I don't know if she is or not and that is up to God to know her faith whether it was a saving one or not, and mine and my moms and everyone else's as well. But I can say scripturally what a saving faith is and what it means for those who have it. Which unfortunately is unscriptural by the standard of the Ecclesiastical hierarchy who has no way to prove their power to determine the meaning of scripture except for saying "because we say so".
Sola Scriptura, Sola Fide, Sola Gratia, Sola Christus, Soli Deo Gloria!
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