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Roman Catholicism: The One True Church?
Rapture Ready ^ | Stephen Meehan

Posted on 05/18/2015 6:05:47 PM PDT by Old Yeller

For years, growing up as a Roman Catholic, we were taught that we were members of the one true church. It was impressed upon us regularly by the parish priest during Mass while giving his homily; by the nuns all throughout my Catholic parochial school years of second through seventh grade.

It was impressed upon us during our preparation to receive for the first time the sacraments of Penance, Communion and Confirmation. And while attending CCD classes all the way through high school. (CCD is the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, an association established at Rome in 1562 for the purpose of giving religious education, normally designed for children.)

It was an established fact that we understood and we never questioned the validity of it. And to be honest, it was a matter of pride, that we were privileged enough to be members of the correct church, while all others had belonged to something else that didn’t quite measure up to the status of the Roman Catholic Church.

After all, how could it be possible that Roman Catholicism is not the one true church?

Look at what Rome has to offer: It has the priests, the nuns; the bishops; the cardinals; and of course, the Pope. They have the Sacraments; the statues; the holy water; the incense; the Stations of the Cross; the Eucharist - in which Chris supposedly physically manifests Himself into the wafer after the consecration by the priest during the Mass; the Marian apparitions—which appear mainly to Roman Catholics.

And they have the Vatican, where the Vicar of Christ (who they believe is Christ’s representative on earth), governs the faithful and makes infallible proclamations and doctrine. How can this not be the one true church? No other organization on the face of the earth comes close to offering to its flock what Rome provides for its faithful.

But, of course, to be true, one must adhere to what has been established as truth and not teach or practice what is contrary to the truth. We read in Scripture a few passages that declare what is truth and what is not. Jesus proclaimed in John 14:6:

“I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me.”


TOPICS: Catholic; Evangelical Christian
KEYWORDS: catholic; lies; onetruechurch; romancatholicism
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To: Arthur McGowan

Not one word about her after Pentecost.


182 posted on 05/19/2015 1:36:18 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: daniel1212

it is taken directly from the protestant site

www.ccel.org

maybe your divinely inspired reading is better than theirs


183 posted on 05/19/2015 1:37:45 PM PDT by LurkingSince'98 (Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam = FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD)
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To: MamaB

There was nothing at all wrong with the “blanket statement”; many nominally Christian denominations have folded on both of those issues. How could you even dispute that?


184 posted on 05/19/2015 2:22:35 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Steelfish
This not about grace or rapture or any of that rot.

I get it, Catholics don't believe what 1Thessalonians 4:13-17 or 1 Corinthians 15:51-53 says. But to refer to God's grace as "rot"? My pity for you is overwhelming.
185 posted on 05/19/2015 2:40:26 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: Elsie
The 95 theses Luther nailed to the door were not originally designed as direct in-your-face challenge to the Pope. It was just the standard traditional university challenge to a debate on the subject. The door was the University bulletin board, Fr. Luther,OSA, a scrupulously zealous priest, was a faculty member. So he posted it right up there with the "Rooms to Rent," and "Lost Briefcase" announcements, probably little suspecting that this was going to turn into one of the most important religious documents of all time!

In fact, if anything, the Pope at the time mostly agreed with Luther, and ignored the whole thing as a "monkish quarrel." "No big deal," thought the Pope. "Of course indulgence peddling is wrong. Just send the money." He never saw the obvious. Of course the Romans were incredibly corrupt, and had more rackets going than Al Capone, but what really got the ball rolling on the Luther Reformation was that local princes were tired of paying off the church and as the dispute developed, were quick to jump on the bandwagon.

In modern times the Vatican has pretty much thrown in the towel and said, "All right already, Fr. Luther was right about Grace, Indulgences, etc. We were really bad boys back then. Can't we all just get along now? Forget the money!" So there has been a little bit of a rapprochement. Some married Lutheran pastors have even become married Catholic pastors.

In general, IMNVHO, Fr. Luther was not as Protestant as a lot of Protestants may wish. For example, he had a life-long devotion to the Virgin Mary. But he did get more Protestant as time went by. But even at his best, he was no Knox or Calvin.

186 posted on 05/19/2015 2:47:31 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Hi! We're having a constitutional crisis. Come on over!)
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To: Arthur McGowan
Why is there no tomb of Mary? Why are there no relics of her body? Why are these never even mentioned in history?

Moses body has never been found, but he wasn't assumed into heaven without dying.
187 posted on 05/19/2015 2:52:03 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: Old Yeller

Just how many “graves” of people in the Bible have been found? I was reading something the other day which said Peter’s bones are in Jerusalem not Rome. When the archeologist met with the pope at that time, the pope told him to keep it quiet. Why?


188 posted on 05/19/2015 3:05:20 PM PDT by MamaB
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To: Arthur McGowan; CynicalBear
Christians accord Mary the respect due her as noted in the Word.

However, Christianity's problem with catholicism is that catholicism has gone way, way, way, way beyond the text in what is accorded Mary.

It is apparent from this that catholics do not take Scripture very seriously....for if they would they would not be worshipping Mary as they are doing and continue to advocate.

189 posted on 05/19/2015 3:38:58 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone
It is apparent from this that catholics do not take Scripture very seriously....for if they would they would not be worshipping Mary as they are doing and continue to advocate.

Catholics do not worship Mary.

When you stop repeating this lie, you will have a chance at becoming an intellectually honest person.

190 posted on 05/19/2015 3:54:39 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan
Catholics do not worship Mary.

When you stop repeating this lie, you will have a chance at becoming an intellectually honest person.

A little re-formatting makes your statement true. When you realize that the italicized statement is the lie, the second statement follows.

A Freudian slip?

191 posted on 05/19/2015 4:17:42 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
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To: Elsie

Well, Saul gave several tellings of things to come, so that isn’t quite accurate is it, Elsie? Look at 1 Thess 4:13-17 and 1 Cor 15:51-52. What he saw and then wrote of is like what Daniel saw and wrote of, and Daniel is considered a prophet.


192 posted on 05/19/2015 4:19:35 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: DungeonMaster
So we are speaking a whole different and weird language.

That's what happens when different folks use the SAME words to mean different THINGS.

193 posted on 05/19/2015 4:19:47 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Arthur McGowan
“All generations will call me blessed.”

Except for Catholics.

They'll call her all KINDS of things that are NOT biblical.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titles_of_Mary

194 posted on 05/19/2015 4:21:41 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Arthur McGowan
If she was so irrelevant, why do St. Matthew and St. Luke make such a big deal out of her?

Matthew also made a BIG DEAL out of Rahab, the prostitute and David's Mother, wife of Uriah.

195 posted on 05/19/2015 4:23:42 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: CynicalBear
But He said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it."
196 posted on 05/19/2015 4:24:52 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Arthur McGowan
You have been calling her unimportant.

When you can't even quote what was just typed in this thread correctly; it's no wonder that your grasp of the Scriptures are so weak.

197 posted on 05/19/2015 4:26:15 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kenny Bunk
In fact, if anything, the Pope at the time mostly agreed with Luther, and ignored the whole thing as a "monkish quarrel."
198 posted on 05/19/2015 4:27:13 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Um, would that be Solomon’s mother?


199 posted on 05/19/2015 4:27:17 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: Kenny Bunk
"No big deal," thought the Pope.

When problems with TODAY's Catholicism appear in these thread; "No Big Deal" seems to be the SOP for apologetics.

200 posted on 05/19/2015 4:28:27 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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