What should we believe...
after the pope's death i began thinking more about religion again...in just
looking around i found
this
site that discusses the catholic catechism...i still do not understand the
need to have a book outside of the Bible but that is a different day...anyway
one of the sections this person quotes from is 846 and how only the catholic
church can save you...
846
How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers?
335 Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from
Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body:
Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a
pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator
and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church.
He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby
affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through
Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the
Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse to
enter it or to remain in it.336
the church is necessary for salvation...which means if you are not catholic you can
not be saved...i have read the new testament many times and a lot of the catechism
recently and have always been confused by the catechism and its complete disregard
for what the Bible says...most of the catholics i know either do not understand
the contradiction or refuse to accept it...this is not to say i understand everything
perfectly but to say that Jesus never taught that the catholic church was required
for salvation...
John 3:16:18
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him
should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world
to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever
believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already,
because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God."
i am not going to put down any conclusions like the individual in that article but
if anyone reads this and has an answer for me and does not mind a discussion on
the topic please send me an email...i do not really want to argue with anyone just
discuss heatedly...
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