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Subject: Catholic bashing
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 17:29:00 -0800
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From: Paula Gazarek
To: heb_roots_chr@geocities.com
Subject: Re: Praying for the dead

I wish to be removed from this list! I joined to learn more about
Christianity's Jewish roots, not to participate in bashing the Catholic
church. You may believe as you wish, but, as a Catholic, I am very offended
by this so-called explanation. Shame on you! Christ would not want this from
his followers. Please advise me as to how to remove myself from this list.

thank you,
Paula

>From Eddie:
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Paula,

I will remove your name as you wish. However, there are some
fundamental truths which I would like to share with you.

The purpose of this newsgroup is NOT to bash the Catholic
church. Whether you go to a Catholic church or a Protestant church
makes no difference to God. What matters is that you accept Jesus
Christ as your PERSONAL Savior and Lord and you seek for the Holy
Spirit to lead you and guide in the ways of God's Kingdom. (John
16:13)

I have found after going to church for over 25 years that
many things that I have been taught in my church (Protestant) is not
BIBLICAL. I was NOT offended by finding this out and it DIDN'T
bother me to CHANGE when God showed me the truth in his Word. My
faith is NOT based in an organized church. My faith IS based upon having
a PERSONAL relationship with Jesus Christ and desiring to follow and
do what God teaches me to do in the scriptures. My church cannot save
me but JESUS can !!! Hallelujah !!!

You CANNOT offend me by showing me something that my church
does (Protestant) that is UNBIBLICAL. Instead, I praise God that He
loves me enough to have faithful teachers of His word who is willing
to show me what the written Word of God says about a subject rather
than the traditions of men. Why can't you offend me? Please let me
reiteract this vital truth which should be the heart of those who
have made Jesus their Messiah, my faith is NOT based upon what a
church says. My faith is based in the person of Jesus Christ and the
authority of God's written Word.

We have many Catholics on this list. Some have been on the
list for almost 2 years. They can testify that this list DOES NOT
bash the Catholic church but this list DOES try to show what the
BIBLE says. Sometimes that agrees with what Catholic and Protestant
churches teach and sometimes it does not.

The article which you just read by a former Catholic about
practices and teachings of the Catholic church was NOT Catholic
bashing. You should not confuse Catholic bashing with the facts. The
FACTS were simply presented in this article. What was shown were
quotes from official Catholic church documents versus what the Bible
says.

The BIBLE is God's written Word. It will live and abide
forever! The traditions of men will fade away.

I would strongly encourage you to put your faith in JESUS
and not in an organized religious institution. If you do, you CANNOT
be offended by what people say about a particular religious
institution. You can only be offended if your IDENTITY is a religious
institution rather than the PERSON of JESUS.

Our Jewish roots are in the MESSIAH Yeshua/Jesus not in
the traditions of our church. Our Jewish roots are in JERUSALEM and not
in Rome or Babylon. Our Jewish roots are in the father of our faith
ABRAHAM (Romans 4:16) and not in the "father" of the Catholic church,
the Pope, or the "father" of the Protestant reformation, Martin
Luther or any other church "father" of the past 2,000 years.

May God continue to bless you in your studies as you seek to
grow in the knowledge of our personal Savior and Lord ---- Jesus
Christ who died so that our sins could be forgiven and we could be
reconciled back to God and have a PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP with
the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. THIS is what JESUS desires
from those who are followers of Him. The purpose of this list
and the purpose of learning of our Hebraic/Jewish roots is for those
who have accepted Yeshua/Jesus as their Messiah to have a closer and
more personal walk and relationship with the King of kings and the
Lord of lords not in the traditions of men and organized religion.


Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int'l

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