Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaitlyn
^ He says he is saved. And we've had discussions about what that means, so I think he is. And talking him about reading the Bible is something I've been doing. He says he doesn't trust his own opinion. He thinks God set the Pope up so everyone could have true interpertaion of the Bible.
|
If he thinks the Pope was set up for the purpose of true interpretation, he must have a misguided idea about the purpose of the indwelt Holy Spirit. The bible says the Holy Spirit is our guide to all Truth. The role he assigned to the Pope is substituting a man for the role that the bible said is one of God alone.
Having been Catholic, I know it will be hard to deal with these secondary issues such as the rapture and final authority until your friend is actually born again. Once you are both being led by the same spirit, he will understand. Until then, its an uphill battle.
I know he says he's saved, and I know you think he's saved, but anyone deferring to the Pope, instead of Jesus and the Holy Spirit is very confused.
And anyone who does not have a hunger for The Word of God which testifies to Christ, sends up a red flag about where they are at because the indwelt Spirit testitifes to the Truth of Jesus Christ and points those of Christ to The Word.
Anyone comfortable worshipping in a service where Christ is re-offered in an unbloody sacrifice for ongoing forgiveness of sins and submits to another intermediary such as a priest instead of Jesus alone, is still very confused about why Jesus is unique, who Christ is and what He accomplished. And its pretty hard to have total faith in the sufficient and completed work of Christ if you don't understand those Truths about who He is or what He did and how completely unworthy you are in relation to Him.