I so agree with your statement regarding Jesus and share your views on the Catholic church.
12yrs of Catholic school with elementary part being in Latin. My Grandma was a Catholic all her life until my grandpa was dying in hospital and she called our local priest to come and give him last rights. He responded, well I would but I am heading out the door for a golf tournament. After the funeral, my grandmother attended Assembly of God until she died. This was a woman who made pilgrimages to Carey, Ohio ( A Catholic Shrine) every year (and took us as well)...
Raised our kids Catholic, etc. Then one day, our priest after the liturgy starts telling us how we need to join AMWAY, etc. We got up and walked out. Never been to a Catholic church since.
I have gone to the Church of Nazarene for the last 10 years and love it. Jesus was a Nazarene. I love the Bible classes, our soup kitchens, the food pantry for the poor, the outreaches, visiting people in nursing homes and hospitals, etc....
I never learned so much about the Bible and how to have a personal relationship with the Lord until I left the Catholic church. I am forgiven of my sins by confessing to Jesus, not another “man who is a supposedly go between”...I was 40yrs old when I found out that Catholics in Middle ages charged people to “pray” for the sick and the dead; and used that money to buy homes, land and entertain mistresses. I can’t get over the gold and the riches of the Vatican.
That is not what Jesus had in mind for his “church”....
I was 40yrs old when I found out that Catholics in Middle ages charged people to “pray” for the sick and the dead; and used that money to buy homes, land and entertain mistresses. I can’t get over the gold and the riches of the Vatican.
It’s really good that you escaped the clutches of the false “gospel” of catholicism.
Jesus is God. He is not any man-made designation, such as “Nazarene.” Jesus is God, period. The Bible tells you all you need to know, through the illumination of the Holy Spirit—if you seek Him.