According to the logic you have expressed, a person could be baptized, murder someone, never repent, and go to heaven.
Where did I say that? I simply said baptism was a requirement. So is continued obedience.
2 Peter 2:20-22 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”
I notice you didn't dispute my definition of saint. Keep searching the scripture, and comparing it to what your church teaches.
So I guess you didn't read anything I wrote about the connection between sanctification or the communion of saints at all? At one point you just quoted a verse where someone literally only says the word "saint," when referring to a group of people; that is hardly a definition. The entire third paragraph I wrote addresses your definition, which, as I said, is lacking. It's not that you have it entirely wrong. It's that you don't have it completely right.
My Church is the reason why there is Scripture as we have in the Bible today, compiled by the Church after being written by the saints and prophets under the direction of the Holy Spirit. The Bible didn't fall from heaven like a brick in the way we have it in a book now. There's not a single thing in Sacred Scripture that contradicts what the Catholic Church teaches or believes--rather, the entirety of it reveals the glory of God's plan of salvation through the Church that Jesus Christ came to establish so that all humanity might come to know, love, and serve God, and rejoice with God forever in heaven. If the Bible is the menu for living out Christianity, the Catholic Church has the feast, and indeed the very Wedding Feast of the Lamb. We are the only Church that has the fullness of the revealed Truth, in the threefold pillars of Sacred Scripture, the Apostolic teaching authority, and Sacred Tradition received from the Apostles of Christ, so that the fullness of the Truth of Christ can be safeguarded and handed on to all people, unchanged, through the ages.
According to the logic you have expressed, a person could be baptized, murder someone, never repent, and go to heaven.
Where did I say that? I simply said baptism was a requirement. So is continued obedience.
2 Peter 2:20-22 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”
I notice you didn't dispute my definition of saint. Keep searching the scripture, and comparing it to what your church teaches.
So I guess you didn't read anything I wrote about the connection between sanctification or the communion of saints at all? At one point you just quoted a verse where someone literally only says the word "saint," when referring to a group of people; that is hardly a definition. The entire third paragraph I wrote addresses your definition, which, as I said, is lacking. It's not that you have it entirely wrong. It's that you don't have it completely right.
My Church is the reason why there is Scripture as we have in the Bible today, compiled by the Church after being written by the saints and prophets under the direction of the Holy Spirit. The Bible didn't fall from heaven like a brick in the way we have it in a book now. There's not a single thing in Sacred Scripture that contradicts what the Catholic Church teaches or believes--rather, the entirety of it reveals the glory of God's plan of salvation through the Church that Jesus Christ came to establish so that all humanity might come to know, love, and serve God, and rejoice with God forever in heaven. If the Bible is the menu for living out Christianity, the Catholic Church has the feast, and indeed the very Wedding Feast of the Lamb. We are the only Church that has the fullness of the revealed Truth, in the threefold pillars of Sacred Scripture, the Apostolic teaching authority, and Sacred Tradition received from the Apostles of Christ, so that the fullness of the Truth of Christ can be safeguarded and handed on to all people, unchanged, through the ages.