Brian Eickholt

I think the best way I can respond is to just post from what my church teaches about handling disputes. As with any family, there will be times of disagreement, disappointment and misunderstandings. It is in those trying moments that we have the greatest opportunity to show the lost world that we truly are the children of God by our loving and forgiving spirit. Sometimes, even among the closest of families, there are bitter arguments and disagreements that lead to sinful actions and attitudes. If left alone, bitterness can set in and great harm can come to the body of Christ. Signs of bitterness are backbiting, harmful gossip, unnecessary criticism and faultfinding. The consequences of not having a loving and forgiving spirit can do great damage to the cause of Christ and bring unnecessary separation among God's children that are to be united not divided. So...what is a believer to do? Matthew 5:23-24...our service for the Lord is not more important than our relationships...stop what you are doing and go get things fixed between you and your brother...both are very important to the Lord. Galatians 6:1-2...we are to go with a spirit and attitude of love and forgiveness...our goal is to restore, not condemn...we are to help lift our brother, not beat him further down. Matthew 18:15...go alone...no one else needs to know or be involved. Matthew 18:16...if things can't be resolved, get two or three others and go back...broken relationships need to be mended. Matthew 18:17...sometimes sin or just an unwillingness to make things right gets such a foothold in a brother's life that we can no longer fellowship with them...it may be a sign that they have never truly experienced the saving grace of God...in such cases we are to stop treating them as a fellow brother in Christ but as a lost person that needs Jesus. Our ability and willingness to stick together, confront problems, love one another and forgive are a very important part of our testimony to the world that we are true children of God.

Matthew 18:17 Jesus says take disputes to the Church. If someone refuses to listen even to the Church… Treat them like a Pagan Does this apply to Protestants?

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The Catholic Church doesn't agree with you. Catechism 818, 819 and 838 “One cannot charge with the sin of the separation those who at present are born into these communities [that resulted from such separation]… and in them are brought up in the faith of Christ, and the Catholic Church accepts them with respect and affection as brothers… All who have been justified by faith in Baptism are incorporated into Christ; they therefore have a right to be called Christians.” “Furthermore, many elements of sanctification and of truth are found outside the visible confines of the Catholic Church: the written Word of God; the life of grace; faith, hope, and charity… Christ’s Spirit uses these Churches and ecclesial communities as means of salvation.” “The Church knows that she is joined in many ways to the baptized who are honored by the name of Christian, but who do not however profess the Catholic faith in its entirety or have not preserved unity or communion under the successor of Peter. Those who believe in Christ and have been properly baptized are put in a certain, although imperfect, communion with the Catholic Church.”

Only Catholics are Christians

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Praying for the dead is a historic Christian practice, but the Church has never taught that every believer automatically goes to Purgatory or how long anyone would remain there. Jesus even told the repentant thief, “Today you will be with me in paradise” (Luke 23:43). We can pray for the departed without presuming their state, and Christian hope also trusts in God’s mercy. Claims like “one second feels like years” are speculation-Scripture never defines how time works after death.

𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜: “𝙈𝙮 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣.”🇻🇦 "When a person dies, they do not go straight to heaven, unless they are Saints on Earth. You are doing a great evil to your loved ones, if you don't pray for them. Do not say, my relative is in heaven now! No they are not. If they are Catholic and died with confession they went to Purgatory. It is your obligation to make sure that person receives the last Sacraments, and your obligation if you truly love them, to pray so they may get out of the fires of Purgatory soon. A Holy Mass once a year, it's cruel! Once a month is not any better. Think of your time, how will you like people to pray for you. Remember one second in Purgatory feels like years. Pray and say many Masses for your loved ones. No One goes to heaven not pure. "I come to tell you that they suffer in Purgatory, that they weep, and that they demand with urgent cries the help of your prayers and your good works. I seem to hear them crying from the depths of those fires which devour them: 'Tell our loved ones, tell our children, tell all our relatives how great the evils are which they are making us suffer. We throw ourselves at their feet to implore the help of their prayers. Ah! Tell them that since we have been separated from them, we have been here burning in the flames!' -Saint John Vianney The Church has always taught that nothing impure enters Heaven, and most souls must first be purified in Purgatory. When we assume the dead no longer need our prayers, we may actually be abandoning them in their suffering. The Holy Souls in Purgatory cannot help themselves anymore—they depend on our prayers, sacrifices, and especially the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. To offer only one Mass a year, or to forget them completely, is a terrible neglect of charity toward those we claim to love. Saint John Vianney warned that the souls in Purgatory cry out for help: they beg their families, their children, and their friends to pray for them so that they may finally enter Heaven. If you truly love your departed family members, pray for them, offer Masses for them, and never stop remembering them. St. John Vianney, pray for us.

@CatholicDrip___ You may not believe me but many Protestants get the same feeling from spending time reading their Bibles and praying but that's okay.

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@KickPistons You may not have said “only Catholics are Christians,” but defining Christianity as obedience to Rome effectively draws that line. People are responding to the implication, not inventing one.

I didn't say "only Catholics are Christians." I said a religion of Bible-reading and try-hard isn't Christianity, which is different (and still true). But this is what the Protestant deformation has led to: people who can't interpret a tweet thinking they can interpret Scripture.

This isn’t describing Protestant belief - it’s attacking a caricature. Protestants affirm the Virgin Birth, that Christ founded His Church, and that He instituted baptism and the Lord’s Supper. The disagreement is over the nature of authority and sacramental theology - not over whether Jesus existed or founded a Church. We worship the same risen Christ confessed in the Nicene Creed.

The Protestant God is false. The "Jesus" they claim to worship - born of an ordinary woman, founding no church, instituting no sacraments except a purely symbolic baptism and Eucharist, acknowledging no authority higher than Scripture (interpreted by themselves) - never existed.

Judas was never one of Jesus’ sheep in the saving sense-Jesus explicitly says some disciples didn’t truly believe: “There are some of you who do not believe” and “one of you is a devil” (John 6:64, 70), and later “none of them is lost except the son of perdition” to fulfill Scripture (John 17:12). Judas wasn’t “snatched away”-he proved he was never truly a sheep to begin with.

Was Judas ever truly saved?💧 If yes, then salvation can be lost If no, what does that say about Jesus calling him chosen?

Protestant denominations didn’t appear out of nowhere-they emerged from within the Western Church itself. They weren’t claiming to found a new Church, but to reform what they believed had departed from apostolic teaching. The Reformers saw themselves as calling the Church back to its original foundation, not replacing Christ’s Church.

There is a reason the Catholic Church has stood for 2,000 years, while every rebellious movement continues to fracture into smaller pieces. 👇

Christ prayed for unity - but He also prayed, “Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth” (John 17:17,21). Unity in Scripture isn’t mere institutional alignment; it’s unity in the apostolic gospel. Division didn’t begin in the 1500s, and visible structure alone has never guaranteed doctrinal purity. The real question isn’t “Is there visible unity?” but “Where does Christ locate infallible authority - in a hierarchy, or in His Word?”

If Christ prayed for visible unity, and the Reformation produced endless division, then the question is… Is Protestantism the work of the Spirit of unity? Or the fruit of the father of rebellion, Satan?

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That’s a good question. Faith is not merely saying “Christ is my Savior.” Salvation is described as believing and receiving (John 1:12; Rom. 10:9–10) - trusting in Christ alone for forgiveness and eternal life. We’re saved by grace through faith, not works (Eph. 2:8–9) - but that faith results in real transformation. When we’re born again, we become a new person in Christ (2 Cor. 5:17) and enter God’s family. So faith isn’t empty words - it’s personal trust in Christ that produces a changed life. Our security rests in Christ’s finished work and promises, not our performance. Good works and obedience (like baptism) flow from genuine faith - they don’t create it or sustain it. So we would say faith is not “mere mental assent,” but trusting reliance on Christ that inevitably bears fruit - even though those works are the result of salvation, not the cause of it.

@eick74 But how do you guys define faith? Is it merely just stating Christ is my savior, or is it a working faith?

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We don’t worship a book - we worship Christ. Scripture isn’t above Jesus; it’s His inspired Word and the authoritative witness to Him (2 Tim 3:16). Saying the Bible is the final authority doesn’t subordinate Christ - it means His written revelation norms the Church. The real question isn’t “Do you worship the Bible?” but “Where did Christ place infallibility?”

We don’t worship The Bible™️ We worship The God-man, Jesus Christ🇻🇦

The Trinity isn’t a word in Scripture, but its elements are explicitly there: the Father is God (1 Cor 8:6), the Son is God (John 1:1; Heb 1:8), the Spirit is God (Acts 5:3-4), and there is one God (Deut 6:4). The Father, Son, and Spirit are also clearly distinct (Matt 3:16-17; 28:19). That’s doctrinal synthesis from explicit texts. Where are the equivalent explicit texts that place Mary outside Adam’s condition?

@eick74 All does not mean all in the case of Romans Many things aren’t explicit in scripture The Trinity isn’t

In the OT, the Ark that carried God’s Word had to be pure gold, consecrated, untouched (Ex 25)💧 If the Ark was that holy, how much more the woman who bore God Himself?

@CatholicDrip___ Babies haven’t committed personal sin, but Romans 5 teaches that death spreads to all because of Adam. Christ is the clear biblical exception because He is uniquely divine. Where does Scripture explicitly place Mary in that same category?

@eick74 Have Babies who died sinned?

I agree that the LXX and DSS show some diversity in the Second Temple period. But diversity of usage doesn’t automatically equal equal canonical status. The core Hebrew Scriptures - Torah and Prophets especially - functioned covenantally across Jewish communities. My position isn’t that the later Masoretic tradition is authoritative because it’s rabbinic. It’s that it preserves the Hebrew textual tradition corresponding to the corpus Jesus and the apostles consistently treat as Scripture. If the claim is that the deuterocanonical books functioned with the same covenantal authority across mainstream Judaism before 33 AD, that would need to be demonstrated - not assumed from the existence of the LXX.

@eick74 @BillArnoldTeach LXX/DSS sufficiently show that pre-33AD Jews didn’t have 1 answer to the question of what counts as “other [sacred] writings.” The MT follows a post-130s AD talmudic answer. You are being asked to justify accepting that particular answer as in any way authoritative.

You can’t borrow the Jewish canon and reject the Jewish Messiah.

@MaryRoshPhD @BillArnoldTeach I think we’re actually debating two different questions. I’m addressing what functioned as Scripture in the Second Temple period. You’re asking why I don’t accept the Church’s later authoritative determination. Those are related but distinct questions.

@eick74 @BillArnoldTeach Illicit burden shift & straw-man. You concede there wasn’t 1 pre-33 list of “other [sacred] writings.” So: justify why I ought to subordinate the Church’s list—for 2000 years—to a post-70 list curated by people depicting Mary as a whore & Jesus as boiling in shit. Thank you.