Your profile video has been one of my favorites for a long time. I try and watch it (and one other) every morning and I call it "my daily bread". Like a siritual cappuccino, it wakes me up and sets my day into motion. I have seen your comments on several videos and I enjoy reading what you have to say. I have a question for you. I am a new Godtube member and I was wondering how to get into the Catholic Apostolic group. I have not seen a request to submit to ask permission to be admitted. I would certainly be interested in learining and sharing with this group. I'm gonna go check out your favorite videos.....Thanks and Peace
JP2 I know you like the parables. so here is one about the wise and foolish virgins. I bet you will like it. I did,
http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=31ef9680021650fb1e46
Friends, from now on I will no longer post to this account. It seems the owner cannot stand to see the truth and must hide from it by doing thing one would expect from a 12 year old child. From now on I will post to the individual posts and the others by sending my reply directly to them and to my own screen name list. Where the truth can be discussed, and childish games are not permitted. Go sit in the corner list owner.
I don't think that I understand your comment. Has someone gotten into your Godtube account and changed your profile picture? What government are you speaking of in God's Kingdom? I'm sorry. I don't understand...can you explain further?
robatrhema...I invite you to challange my beliefs...they are all straight from God. The best way to learn is to ask me what I believe and why I believe it.
Linda, do good works come from having faith or are good works required to have faith? This is a question that has been debate for hundreds of years. The Catholic belief is that it is not enough to merely claim Jesus as our Lord and savior, but we need to live out that faith with good works. "What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith, but has not works? Can his faith save him?...So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead." James 2: 14,17. From what my Protestant friends have explained to me, it is the Protestant belief that if a person has true faith...then good works are a result of faith. So faith and good works go hand in hand without saying. It seems to me we are both saying the same thing...it is more which came first, the chicken or the egg...which comes first good works or faith? Do good works prove that a person has faith or are good works a requirement to obtain faith? This is an impossible question to answer...but I believe that faith and good works are not one in the same. One can have faith and not live it (good works) and another can do good works and have no faith. This is why Catholics stress good works are needed for salvation...it is not that we believe we can earn salvation...because no one can...no one is deserving...but good works is a way to live out our faith and share Christ with others.
Daren...you cannot use that reasoning without saying that Paul also contradicted Christ. "For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel." (1 Cor. 4:15)
Harry, I apologize for not answering sooner. I've been out of town for the past week. I will try to explain the Catholic belief a little better. We believe that the Holy Spirit is guiding the Catholic Church. This is not to mean that popes, bishops, and priests are without sin. They are human...we are subject to temptation and corruption...priests are no different. But that doesn't prevent the Holy Spirit from working through them. If we look at ANY prophet in the Bible, we will see that all were with sin and made many mistakes...but that did not prevent the Holy Spirit from working through them. Catholics are Christians...none of our doctrine contradicts scripture. Scripture is a gift from God. There are thousands of Christian denominations...this is from differences in interpretation of scripture...Catholics believe that God did not only give us scripture but He also gave us the Church to help guide and instruct us.