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I think the RCC doctrines are a product of the enemy. The bible warns about the enemy invading "the body of Christ" not to be confused with RC teaching that it IS the Church. I think these doctrines are the example of "Damnable heresies" mentioned in the bible. It seems that many of the warnings in the bible are aimed at the RCC and many of it's teachings.

Gee, and I thought that all of those statements referred to the vast and damnable heresies brought forth in these latter times.

After all, let's take a look at Scripture:

1Ti 4:1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,
1Ti 4:2 through the pretensions of liars whose consciences are seared,
1Ti 4:3 who forbid marriage and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Well, lemme see...the Shakers forbade marriage...well, they sprang up during the latter days...

And, lemme see...the modern Messianic Jew believes in keeping kosher...and that movement sprang up during the 19th Century, as well...

2Ti 3:1 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress.
2Ti 3:2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
2Ti 3:3 inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good,
2Ti 3:4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
2Ti 3:5 holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people.
2Ti 3:6 For among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and swayed by various impulses,
2Ti 3:7 who will listen to anybody and can never arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
2Ti 3:8 As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of corrupt mind and counterfeit faith;
2Ti 3:9 but they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.

Well, if that isn't a description of the modern tele-evangelical movement, featuring the concept of "prosperity theology," I don't know what it would be.

2Ti 4:3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings,
2Ti 4:4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths.

Again, sounds like the modern Protestant movement to me. Don't like what this church teaches, go find one that agrees with you. Don't like Southern Baptists, go find American Baptists, or Primative Baptists, or Free Will Baptists, or United Baptists. Don't like the United Presbyterians, find the Orthodox Presbyterians, or the Reformed Presbyterians, or the American Presbyterians. Don't like the Evangelical Lutherans, go find the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, the Lutheran Church Wisconsin Synod, or whatever. Don't like the Church of Christ (Anderson), find the Church of Christ (Cleveland). Or if none of that works, go found your own church and teach it your way. After all, the Holy Spirit speaks to you, and so therefore you couldn't be wrong. Nor could you (pointing at somebody else). Nor you (pointing at yet another person).

Talk about arrogant! Pull the beam out of your OWN eye, FRiend.