Posted on 01/21/2015 4:47:04 PM PST by RnMomof7
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Mohammed is high on a pagan Saint list
After reading this post, I read your About page, was very pleased, and am hoping more RCC members are called out and chosen just as you are and have been.
Welcome to the frozen chosen, as we were called once upon a time. (Make sure it’s PCA, not the other.)
I do not think Calvin was a big fan of the Catholic Church.
“We will hear thee again of this matter.”
The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields; sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, images at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison, are all of pagan origin, and sanctified by their adoption into the Church.[Cardinal Newman - Development of Christian Doctrine, pg 373]
Only currently committed Roman catholics cannot see that. FORMER RCs in my fellowship do see it and are vocal about it now.
"prayers to the saints, prayers for the dead, the veneration of relics, the lighting of candles (in homage to the saints), and the veneration of icons are all rooted in Roman paganism. Such practices infiltrated the Christian church after Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century."
Syncretic Paganism, codified into RC belief, read back into the Scriptures (eisogesis), then defended here on Free Republic.
Oh, for God’s sake. Ever since the early 1500’s Calvin has opposed the Catholic Church. But, he had no problem with a church being named after himself. Talk about inconsistencies.
Catholics don’t even pray straight to the Blessed Mother. They merely address a request to her to pray FOR them to God.
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