Is leaving the one true Catholic Church considered as “SIN against the holy spirit”?
Indeed it is!
Jesus said, “He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters. Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the sin against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. Furthermore, whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come” (Matthew 12: 22-32).
A simple understanding of this matter is what we call “Renunciation of Faith.” For example, a Catholic leaves his/her faith what does it mean? It suggests that he/she will no longer believe in the traditional doctrine of the church. He will no longer partake in the Eucharist which is our heavenly food that nourishes our soul. He will no longer believe in the symbolism of the cross, he will refuse to receive the sacraments. The sad thing is that he will never again attend the Holy Eucharist which is the highest form of Worship long before and was practiced in the apostolic era. These are just some of the sad realities if one would leave the church.
That’s why the church has a dictum called “EXTRA ECCLESIAM NULLA SALUS” which means “There is no Salvation outside the Church.” But before reacting to the said decree we must need to understand that it doesn’t mean only Catholics will be saved, it does not mean that if you are a Catholic, you are saved already. Though it pertains to those baptized members of the Catholic church who chose to reject their faith, and they detached everything from the faith. This assertion reminds us that salvation is not possible for those who died in these state having a failure to reconcile themselves from the church.
I do understand that Religion or being a baptized member of the church is not an assurance of salvation because we will be judged according to our works but don’t forget that the church was established by our Lord God Jesus Christ to be our way to obtain salvation. Apostasy was a grave offense against God because that act means disobedience in the earthly authority established by God that’s why Jesus highlighted in Matthew 12: 22-32 that, the Sin against the Holy Spirit is unforgivable.
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. (Hebrews 13: 17)
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven(Matthew 16: 19)
Question: when is the time that we can say sin is unforgivable?
Answer: If a person dies on the stage of unrepentance and having a failure to reconcile himself to the True Church of Christ. FINAL IMPENITENCE! In fact, salvation is offered to all whether you are born a Protestant or a Catholic as our God is God of all. Those essentials merited by Protestants in their salvation is because of the essential elements from the Catholic Church and not from themselves or from their sect. What we’re trying to say here is the distinct closure of salvation to those apostate ones especially those heretics who aim to destroy the one True Church.
I am inviting you to go back to the Catholic Church. God is merciful! Confession is biblical, don’t be afraid.
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Why would anyone want to “go back to the catholic church”? The church has absolutely and totally discredited itself. I’m 69 years old and I left the church a long time ago and never looked back. And by the way, there is no “one true church”. That idea is childish unenlightened nonsense. I despise the catholic church. The way it uses and leverages guilt in order to maintain power over the people is despicable. Jesus would have been appalled at the RCC. He would have walked in and overturned the tables of the hypocrites just like he did 2000 years ago.
So what your saying is that The Holy Spirit is the Catholic Church quoted from your article, “EXTRA ECCLESIAM NULLA SALUS” which means “There is no Salvation outside the Church”. First of all, I write this with love, because it does not matter what I think is true, it matters what the Bible says. You are correct that in Matthew 12:31-32, blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is an unforgiven sin although this does not pertain to a man made doctrine, building or law. The church that The Bible talks about is the body of Christ. Read John 2:19-21, Jesus was talking about His body when rebuilding the temple in three days. Read 1Cor 3:16, “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you.” Read 1Cor 6:19 “Or do you not know that you are the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own.” Read Heb 8:2 “A Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected and not a man.”
As a Christian, not a Catholic, Methodist, Baptist or any other Christian label, we must follow the God Head and not man head and that is Christ at the center and head of the church. I pray that you look further into the Catholic cannon laws which in many ways contradict biblical doctrine. A good and probably the best is cannon law 331 which states that the pope is the vicar of Christ on earth meaning that the pope is the representation of Christ on earth. This is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit because the Bible states in John 14:15-18 “If you love Me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father and He will give you another Helper , that may abide with you forever, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees Him nor knows Him, but you know Him, for He dwells within you and will be with you.” The vicar of Christ on earth after Christ ascended, meaning the representation is the Holy Spirit. Those that receive the Holy Spirit in which the Spirit lives, are ambassadors of Christ on earth.
Please do not be blinded to the truth, John 8:31 says “If you abide in My Word, you are my disciples indeed, and you shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free.” Please do not be blinded by tradition, read the Bible for what it is, do further research into how the Catholic Church started, look at the thousands of man made cannon laws they added in-order to be part of their church, ask about the vicar of Christ, ask about worship of angels and saints, read the Bible about salvation through Christ alone and not through Mary or any other person, read your history about Constantine and how Rome mixed paganism with Christianity to make up the Catholic church, read about confessions of sins through a priest or any man when we have the perfect and only one High Priest in heaven that sits at the right hand of the Father interceding for us, what does the Bible say about baptism, read about why Catholics baptize infants and most importantly, do not harden your heart to Gods word because you may be afraid to find out the truth that a religion you and your family may have been following for years is blinded and not after the will of God which is souls.
We cannot be lazy when it comes to The Word of God. Hos 4:6 ” My people are destroyed from their lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as priest; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.” Do not trust in anything but weigh it out for the truth by the statutes of the Bible which God has given to us for direction through faith that it is the truth.
2Tim 3:16-17 “All scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. God uses it to prepare and equip His people to do every good work.”
I say this with love and not to compare myself better than any other person that may agree or disagree. I pray that this may be a blessing for every person that may read this comment and that God may move to change our hearts so that we may know the truth in this mixed up world. Ask and you shall receive and if you really want to know the truth, its in The Word. Study it, pray and be watchful or else you will be surprised and fooled at the end.
This is so untrue! 1st off the bible clearly states that we should not worship any other idols! Why do the Catholics pray to the Virgin Mary. She only gave birth to Jesus. How can they say she intercedes our prayers makes no sense! And the crazy thing they have all these statues in the church. Jesus was not catholic. I don’t understand is that on Monday thru Saturday a catholic can sin and then confess right before he goes to church on Sunday and take communion. Then it starts all over again sinning cause come Saturday you’ll confess again. What’s gonna happen if you die on Tuesday and you didn’t confess? I left the catholic church and I am glad I did because I don’t remember ever learning anything about Jesus when I went to catechism. They never taught us about the Bible just to memorize the 10 commandments. I have learned so much these past 2 years than I did when I was younger and going to church back then.
Sorry but NO it isn’t a sin if the church isn’t God’s church to begin with. I know it isn’t. It is a church perhaps sincerely for worship of God but by doctrine of man. Very happy to have left the pagan roman empire’s version of Christianity. Happily and unregretably ex catholic.
such WICKEDNESS. Repent before its too late
Wickedness… like pedophile priests the church tried to hide or ignore from the public?? I personally can’t stand for it or for a church that forces babies into a faith that really thinks babies have sin.
I agree