Re: Purgatory?

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:15:01 -0500, Joseph Geloso
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the following funny stuff in Usenet
News'Froups! :

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>I have a bit of a problem referring to the Baptist Faith, or the
>Baptist system of religion, as a "Church." That is not what it is.
>Baptists, as long as they are properly baptized, are members of
>Christ's One Church, and that Church subsists in the Catholic Church.
Horse apples.
Jesus never founded that one.
I'm not trying to arrogantly or falsely claim that 'the only Church is
the Baptist Church' either, like roman catholics try to claim about
the rc religion.

and The Baptist faith IS A CHURCH.
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>So if you want to say you and I belong to the One Church, that is
>O.K., but it is not *my* Church vs. *your* Church. And if the Baptist
>religion were to disappear from the face of the Earth, God's Church --
>the Catholic Church -- would yet remain. By contrast, Our Lord
>promised that the Church He founded -- the Catholic Church -- would
>remain on Earth through every age.
You're talking through your hat.
 The roman religion is NOT the Church fouinded by Christ, and it will
be overturned.

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>>LOL! 'properly baptized'???? I most certainly WAS properly baptized,
>>by immersion, as our Lord Himself was also baptized, according to the
>>Bible.
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>Were you baptized "In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the
>Holy Spirit," according to the Commmand of Christ? To be baptized with
>the Baptism of John is not the same thing, and the Scripture attests
>to that fact also.
>
I most certainly WAS, thank you.

>>I thought better of you than this, Joseph. how dare you assume I was
>>not 'properly' baptized.
>
>I do not assume anything. I said "if you were..."
>
Yes, I WAS.
And properly by IMMERSION, not merely sprinkling a few drops of water!

>>and as for the roman religion,. it is NOT the Church founded by
>>Christ. I must again disagree with you on that.
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>You are right, the "Roman religion" -- emperor worship -- was not
>institued by Christ. The Catholic Church was. If you were properly
>baptized, you are a member of her.
>
Bollocks.

As for my baptism, I was baptized into CHRIST's Church, not the
romanist one.

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>
>Do you believe in God the Father Alimighty, Creator of Heaven and
>Earth?
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>Do you believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, Our Lord?
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>That He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary?
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>That He suffered under Pontius Pilate for our sakes, was crucified,
>died, was buried, and descended to the dead?
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>That He rose from the dead on the third day, ascended into Heaven, and
>is now seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty?
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>That He will come again in Glory to judge both the living and the
>dead?
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>Do you believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of Life, who
>proceeds from the Father and the Son, and with the Father and the Son
>is worshipped and glorified?
Sure- that doesn't make me a Catholic, nonetheless.

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>Do you believe in One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Church?
>
No.
The Roman Catholic religion is not the one and only, and it's obvious
from studying its history, it's FAR FROM holy....

remainder of coercive comments ignored.

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