Does he mean like this?
Surely, no Protestant would have this in their church!
Seems to be a lot of things here I agree with...Any Protestant agreements, disagreements based on the bible???
I invite the anti-Catholic, bigotted author to read what Catholics see when they read the Bible:
Salvation (Grace or Grace & Works?)
John 3:5
Titus 3:5
Eph 4:23
I Cor 9:27 & 10:12
Hebrews 10:26
Philippians 2:12
2 Cor 5:10
Rom 2:6, 5:12, 8:24, 11:22
Col 2:23
2 Macabees 12:44-46 (not in KJV)
Penance
Luke 3:8, 13:3, 24:47
Acts 2:38, 3:19, 8:21-22, 17:30
2 Cor 7:10
Matt 3:8
Ps 6:7
Jer 7:3
Confession
John 20:23
Matt 16:19 & 18:18
2 Cor 5:18-20
Eucharist
1 Cor 5:7, 10:16, 11:24, 27-29
Luke 22:19,20
Mark 14:22-24
Matt 26:26
Acts 2:42
John 6:27-71
Baptism of Children
Matt 18:14, 19:13
Mark 10:13-16
Luke 18:15-17
John 3:5
Acts 2:39, 16:15-33
1 Cor 1:16, 15:22
Confirmation
Acts 8:17, 19:6-20
Heb 6:2
2 Cor 1:21
Eph 1:13
Extreme Unction (Last Rights)
James 5:14-15
Mark 6:12
Purgatory
2 Samual 12:13
2 Maccabees 12:44-46
Luke 12:57-59
I Cor 3:15
Col 2:24
I Peter 3:19-21
I John 5:16-17
“Catholic” means “universal”.
It is the result of Christ’s conferral of primacy on Peter.
The Succession to Pope Benedict is historically traceable.
Reference the following:
Matt 16:18-19, 18:16-18, & 28:20
Acts 2:41 & 20:28
John 21:15-19
Ez 37:22-25
Eph 2:19-22 & 3:5
Luke 22:31-32
Gal 1:18
2 Thes 2:15
Too anti-Catholic for me. I have my own issues, but this is mean-spirited and snide, don't want to even bother reading the whole thing.
Blah.blah, blah,
Catholics really don't care when splitters attack our faith.
Again, Iscool has proven once again that God has a sense of humor. I'll pray for you at Mass. I'll ask Christ to give you the gift of tolerance for your fellow Christians.
Wow.
And an "educated" man writes this?!
Good Lord... So much ignorance....
I'll ask Mary and the Saints to intercede on your (and his) behalf... :-p
What goes around comes around I guess.
You should have read some of the Charges leveled
again Jews by the early Church. (Whom Catholics claim to be)
>>I stumbled across this page on the net...I haven't looked at the main site...
Seems to be a lot of things here I agree with...Any Protestant agreements, disagreements based on the bible???<<
I'm almost always happy to discuss the Bible and what we can learn there.
I could write a book on my concerns about and differences with the Catholic church. I could never be Catholic.
I could also write a book defending the Catholic church - they have faced so many obstacles, do so much good, work to correct their errors over time and when I heard John Paul II speak or I hear my friend, a retired nun, I KNOW I hear sincere Christians seeking to do as God asks.
And I certainly don't have a problem with stating that I think an action is wrong - whether we are talking about terrorism or someone stealing from or harming others while they claim to act in God's name...
But this paper feels bad. It feels deliberately hurtful. It doesn't matter if Pastor G. Reckart gets some details right or not if the intent is to harm other Christians and their faith.
I keep coming back to this. God wants us to be good to each other and to love Him and ask forgiveness when we do wrong. Those three simple things that God asks simply don't call me to judge the faith and worship of other Christians.
When a Catholic looks in the Bible they will not find purgatory. They will not find priests taking money to say a Mass to get souls out of the fires of hell. The Catholic church is popular because many do not want much out of religion and the Catholic church offers them the little they want.
Can't read any further ... laughing hysterically. This is almost as absurd as the Discovery show last night about Jesus' family tomb.
Where did you dig this up? From James Cameron's lost tomb of Jesus?
It was Jacob (James) the firstborn son of Mary by Joseph after Jesus was born.
THERE IS NOT ONE SINGLE VERSE saying that James is the Blessed Virgin Mary's son or even that he was Joseph's son.
I'm a Protestant, and I say God bless the Pope and the Catholic Church, two of His forces for good in this world.
But when a Catholic looks into the Bible for this mystery ritual Mass they will not find it.
Oh really?
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. 52 If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world. 53 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 54 Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. 55 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day.
(John 6: 51-55)
So, who is lying, is it our Lord Jesus Christ or the author?
Lie ... Catholics don't believe that.
They then learn the Catholic church took up the name "Catholic" from Latin which means "universal."
Error ... it's from Greek.
Christianity existed 295 years before the Catholic church was founded.
Error. This rests on the false notion that the Catholic Church was founded by Constantine in 325. Yet Ignatius of Antioch describes himself as the "bishop of the Catholic Church in Syria" in 107 AD. Go figure.
It is the priest recrucifying Jesus in the emblems of the Eucharist and the Cup. Where in the Bible are we to think that observing the Lord's Communion or Passover memorial we are recrucifying Jesus on the Cross? It is not there! The Catholic who learns this discovers also that the daily multiple Mass observance to recrucify the Lord Jesus is not in the Bible.
Lie ... Catholics don't believe the Mass "recrucifies" or "resacrifices" Jesus, or anyone else.
There are, of course, many other lies and errors in this post.
But, you know, guys like this "Pastor" don't believe "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor" applies to them, if Catholics are involved.
Does he mean like this?
Surely, no Protestant would have this in their church!
-this is HOGWASH! -as a Catholic I find this drivel offensive...as it does NOT represent MY church.
I agree with most of what the writing says though.
This is kind of funny, poor guy, he's so ill informed.
The beloved disciple, John, the last of the New Testament writers, wrote his Gospel in the 90's. John was an eyewitness to the events of the Last Supper (Jn 6:30-68).
Jn 6:53-56
Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him."
The Catholic Church never claimed to be the true church of the Bible. The Catholic Church IS the church established by Jesus Christ. Why would anyone leave the Church Jesus personally established?