😬Catholic Bishop Robert Barron says believing in Christ is NOT required for salvation.
"Vatican II clearly teaches that someone outside the explicit Christian faith can be saved...So, if you're following your conscience sincerely, or in your case [referring to a jew], you're following the commandments of the law sincerely, yeah, you can be saved.”
- Bishop Robert Barron
The rosary is unbiblical. Scripture never commands prayers to Mary or the use of prayer beads. Jesus condemned vain repetition (Matt. 6:7) and taught us to pray to our Father (Matt. 6:9). Its ritualistic practices resemble pagan prayer traditions, not apostolic Christianity. Christ alone is our mediator (1 Tim. 2:5).
“For as soon as falsehood has been mixed with it, the Word of God is no longer the pure and precious Word of God.” - John Calvin
Reformed Baptist retweeted
“Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
Romans 8:1
Reformed Baptists and Reformed Presbyterians need to focus less on their differences and join forces to combat Catholicism and Arminianism / Provisionism.
I watched Flowers's video so you don't have to; and here is my response.
Romans 3 isn’t merely saying sinners can’t earn righteousness. Paul says all are “under sin,” no one seeks God, and all have turned aside (Rom. 3:9–12).
And Scripture goes further:
• The fleshly mind “cannot” submit to God (Rom. 8:7–8).
• The natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit and “is not able” to understand them (1 Cor. 2:14).
• No one “can” come to Christ unless the Father draws him (John 6:44).
• Coming to Christ must be “granted” by the Father (John 6:65).
• We are dead in sin until God makes us alive (Eph. 2:1–5).
The issue isn’t that sinners want Christ but God prevents them. Fallen man loves darkness and refuses the Light (John 3:19–20).
Total inability means man cannot come precisely because, apart from grace, he does not WANT to come.
The solution isn’t a better invitation.
It’s a changed heart.
For those who believe Romans 3 teaches total inability, please take a few minutes to watch this:
youtu.be/2bBJERjnyHA?is=343S…
The perseverance of the saints isn’t wishful thinking. It’s God’s promise.
Jesus: “I give them eternal life, and they will never perish.” John 10:28
“He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion.” Phil. 1:6
Those God justifies, He glorifies.
Rom. 8:30
Those who permanently abandon Christ reveal what they were: “They went out from us, but they were not of us.”
1 John 2:19
The saints persevere because God preserves them.
“The heart of man is a perpetual factory of idols.”
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 1.11.8
“For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.” Romans 11:36
"He answered them, 'And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?'"
Matthew 15:3
"in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men."
Mark 7:7–8
"See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ."
Colossians 2:8
