well, i am not a woman, so i doubt there is any escape there for me
i think the verse has a different meaning relating to a mother's sacrifices for their children, but that is just imo.
you seem to mostly be dedicated to gratuitous answers here, but i will keep pretending you are having a conversation for others' sake.
you simply take statements in the worst way they can be taken.
well, there are two sides to every coin, and i certainly don't mean for my "worst way" to necessarily mean you, but simply a broader understanding of the reality of that particular assertion, be what it may. It is you who have asserted "All Catholics are lost," so you might consider how you have casually offended so many while reflecting upon how easily you are offended. It is all well and good to say 'follow
Acts 2:38 and be saved," but we all know many who have done so yet do not appear to manifest the gifts of the Spirit; so mentioning these does not discount that some might be saved in this way, eventually, but that it does not appear to be an iron-clad path to salvation as we understand it, and in fact seems to also provide cover for the worst kind of hypocrite, which may be the function of religion anyway, as an example.
it's also the recent century-old fad that doctrine is a bad word today.
man, talk to me about the doctrine that was
sufficient for them and we will be agreeing
Scripture denounces the doctrines of men, so i would say that this fad is at least 2000 years old. If it is some doctrine that led you to "All Catholics are lost" imo you need to toss all of your doctrines and start over anyway, as even whores and tax-collectors have something that you do not. This is all unadulterated Scripture, Mike.
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