This is the old slander, not just against Catholicism of course, but against all of Christianity. Lutheran Satire does a good job dispatching this in their YouTube clip, "Horus Ruins Cristmas" (LINK)
You'll enjoy this, EC1 & markomalley. Editor-surveyor, perhaps not so much. Although I'm always tickled pink when you zero in on Catholics, when in fact you think most Christians of the named denominations -- Lutherans, Baptists and so forth --- are likewise not going to enter the Kingdom of Heaven -- as you've stated on the Religion Forum repeatedly.
I do have the sense to rejoice at the honor, however, when Christianity is the target and Catholicism is the bills-eye.
I can’t stop laughing.
It’s perfect. :)
Even my wife has a serious case of the giggles - and she is Buddhist.
>> “This is the old slander, not just against Catholicism of course, but against all of Christianity.” <<
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But what most are accustomed to calling “Christianity” is not the worship that Yeshua and his apostles practiced and taught.
A clear reading of Paul in Hebrews 3 and 4 shows that they considered the same Torah and Tanakh preached by Moses and his successors to be the Gospel of the Kingdom, and was what they preached.
Paul clearly states that it was unbelief that cost those that died in the desert their salvation, not any defect in Moses’ presentation, and that same unbelief was the proximate threat to the salvation of those to whom he preached.
“Christianity” now omits all that was worship in the first century and before, and adds in forbidden “days” and “feasts” in its place, thus explaining the unfathomable declaration of Yeshua in Matthew 7:23.
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