Eradicating Cafeteria Catholics

Cafeteria Catholics, were your average church goer. I mean average as they would go to Mass every Sunday; gave a handful of church donation; some of them are active in the Parish; and some of them are hardworking-Catholics. Don't get me wrong, I mean 'some'. These people get a high impact on people because most of the time, they are chosen to lead a big group. They are also called 'Biblically unsound BUT Politically 'polite'. 

These people never says negative about the other sects. Well, that is a good sign. But most of the time they agree with them. These people were so gullible that even sometime 'Pagan' insights are adopted, just because it sounds right, like for example believing the 'Law of Attraction'. This stuff are fed in the masses, as if the Church supports it. 

Generally, they pick and drop important teachings in the Catholic Church. One example is this; most Protestants especially the Evangelicals believe in the "Personal Savior". You might heard it along with a handful of Charismatics; they preached it, and taught it fiercely. In reality, the Church never taught about "Personal Savior", I challenge everyone to open your Catechism and look for this teaching, or even open your Bible....You wont find it. Even in John 3:16 it NEVER been mentioned.  Still these Cafeteria Catholics adopted it anyway. 

The 'Personal Savior' is actually 1/3 formula of "SOLA FIDE" or the Faith Alone Pillar of the Protestantism. This was made as a polemic way to help Protestant to justify that they need not a Church or a Creed or a Doctrine. They only need Christ. If you agree on this, please examine your claim and ask yourself, is this thing Biblically grounded? 

Another thing is the choice to practice 'safe sex methods'. Condoms, IUD, cervical caps or pills and other alike. The theory is that poverty is due to over population.  As a Registered Nurse, I do not support this at all. Poverty is imminent not only in our time, but even in Jesus' time. Do you think Jews need this population control thing? Nope. The only problem on this country is CORRUPTION! Plus, they argue that this is a right for women, for their health. That is wrong! Imagine you as a woman will agree to put these artificial articles inside your body? If these are artificial, then expect side effects. 

Do you know condoms are made ONLY for controlling 'sperm cells' NOT HIV/AIDS, and do you know that every rubber had a tiny microscopic whole that a HIV virus can enter freely? 

Imagine a handful of Catholics agree on this stuffs. 

How to eradicate them?

Each Parish should make this a colossal move towards sanctification of the Family. We are not going to burn these people in the stake.... But we will burn the source.... IGNORANCE! should be burn and destroyed.... How? Massive campaign, let every one know about the teachings and stands of the Holy Catholic Church in every topic. 

Adult Catechism, Academic Bible study with Apologetic, can help alleviate this problem. Let us know our Catholic Faith. It is time to WAKE UP! and STAND ON OUR FAITH! 

ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED.....?????

I was talking with an Evangelical co-worker and he said the Bible teaches that once we are “saved,” we can never lose our salvation. Is that true?

Absolutely not. In fact, the Bible is full of passages that either directly or indirectly contradict this doctrine of “Once Saved, Always Saved.” For example: Rom 11:17-23, “But if some of the branches were broken off [the Jews], and you, a wild olive shoot [the Gentiles], were grafted in their place to share the richness of the olive tree [Jesus Christ], do not boast over the branches...For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will He spare you...Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in His kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off.”

Paul is talking about how salvation has come to the Gentiles, while many of the Jews have rejected it. And he makes it very clear that once you have been grafted into Christ, you must “continue in His kindness,” or you can also be cut off. So, even after you’ve been saved, you can still be cut off from Jesus Christ.

This is further seen in Galatians, chapter 5. Verse 1, “For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery [sin].” If once saved always saved is true, then one cannot “submit again” to a “yoke of slavery,” and Paul’s warning makes no sense.

But Paul goes on in verse 4 to say, “You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.” Paul is talking to Gentile Christians who had been wrongly taught by the Judaizers that they have to be circumcised and obey the Mosaic Law in order to be true Christians. Paul tells them that is false, and if they submit to circumcision and to the Old Law, they will be “severed from Christ.” If once saved always saved is true, though, they can’t be severed from Christ and, once again, Paul’s warning is meaningless.

We also have the Parable of the Prodigal Son, Luke chapter 15. The Prodigal Son was in his father’s house, and the father here is representative of God the Father. Then, the Prodigal Son leaves his father’s house and goes and lives a sinful life. In the end, though, he repents and returns to his father. After the Prodigal Son returns, the father says this of him in verse 24: “For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.”

In Evangelical terminology, to be dead is to be unsaved, and to be alive is to be saved. Notice very carefully, though, that the father says the son is alive “again.” In other words, the son was alive, or saved, when he was in his father’s house at the beginning of the parable; was “dead,” or unsaved, when he left his father’s house and lived in sin; then was alive again, saved again, when he repented and returned to his father’s house. Alive, dead, alive again. Saved, unsaved, saved again.

Once saved always saved? I don’t think so.

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