Other Religions

In Romanism, you get grace by participating in the sacraments (particularly baptism, communion, confirmation, confession and the last rites of the church). According to their doctrine, their church is the only church that has the authority to perform the sacraments. That means that you have to be a member of their church in order to get God's officially authorized sacraments, or you won't get any grace.

Jesus started His church in Jerusalem, not Rome. The church in Rome wasn't founded until years later. Roman Catholic teaching is a perversion of the Gospel taught in the New Testament.

The Roman Catholic Church has been engaged in an extensive public relations effort in the U.S. and elsewhere to try to appear to be somewhat evangelical. They have duped many charismatic believers into thinking that they must be born again because a lot of Catholics are speaking in tongues. (What about the documented cases of Hindus, Animists, Satanists and Mormons speaking in tongues?)

Tongues or no tongues; evangelical rhetoric or no evangelical rhetoric, a person isn't a Christian until they have been born again (John 3:3). And when a person gets a genuine dose of salvation, he or she isn't comfortable in a place where they teach the devil's errors.

When a person tells you that they are a born again Roman Catholic, that means one of three things. Either they are not genuinely born again, they are a new Christian who hasn't made the break yet, or they are a Christian living in the sin of participating in a false religion that is lying to people about the most important thing in life--their relationship with God.

Is it loving to talk about another church this way? The most unloving thing a Christian can do is to let someone go to Hell without doing everything possible to try to win them to Jesus.

Our duty as Christians is to realize that Roman Catholics are lost, and to do all we can to win them to Christ.