I didn't see Mary mentioned there. Have you prayed to her this week? Have you prayed to a "saint" this week? The Bible says I'm a saint, have you prayed to me yet?
Exodus 20:3-5-----Do you have carved images? Do you have statues in your yard? On the sides of roads?
Do you pray Hail Mary's and Our Fathers? How many times? Mat 6:7
1 Tim 3:2----A bishop should be the husband of one wife. Are your Bishops married or have they been forbidden to marry,( 1 Tim 4:3-4) Had any pork on Friday's? In fact, just read the whole of the letters to Timothy as he explains the makeup up the church and see if the structure is different from the Catholic church.
There is no mention of popes, nuns, cardinals, monks, or purgatory.
I mean I could go on and on, but you get the picture by now. Catholic dogma is made up out of whole cloth. There is no mention of Peter the pope anywhere in Scripture. You misread the passage of what the Church is founded on. The "rock" of Jesus' Church is the recognition that Jesus is the Christ, not that Peter guessed correctly. Jesus was saying His Church would be of people that were "told" by God that Jesus was Christ. You cannot know this without the Holy Spirit telling you that. Dead people cannot know Spiritual things. Peter had nothing to do with it other than as an example. Does any of the Apostles do any ring kissing with Peter? Does anybody kiss Peter's ring or anything else. Since there is no pope mentioned, I don't think so. You have faith that your church wouldn't lie to you even though everything in Scripture is to the contrary.
God does discuss churches that don't follow Him. One of them is called the "Whore of Babylon". Why call it that? It is a church that was bought and sold by kings of the earth from the beginning. Money could buy almost anything from this church. Pay enough money and you too can get to Heaven. Just read Revelation 17 and learn who she is and what will happen to her. Rome is called the "city of 7 hills".
I realize all this is a waste of time because Catholics will defend their denomination before they defend the Word of God. Don't waste your time trying to impress me with some obscure writings from 14th century scribes explaining away these verses. I choose the Word of God over someone that murdered people on the rack and took money to get people to heaven. All I ever get back from Catholic "scholars" is some scribbles from men because they cannot use the Word of God to back up their blasphemous pagan practices.
Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and receive not her plagues. (Rev 18:4)
Notice Rev 2 starts the warnings to the churches, yet God felt a special need to talk of the Harlot church. If you are a Catholic, there is no doubt you have heard of Mary worship and idol worship charges from other Christians. Yet you absolutely reject any Scripture, any reason among thinking people and defend the denomination, not the Word of God. This is NO DIFFERENT than finding some obscure reason to promote homosexual behavior in the PCUSA or abortion in other churches like Obama's old church. God's Word says what it says and means what it says. The wart on the nose is Mary worship and bowing to statues, yet all I get is Jesus turning water to wine cause mommy asked Him too and other made up stuff that is such a stretch, it's hard to swallow. Every year, you can see people marching down streets in Mexico, Spain, S. America, almost anywhere in the world carrying statues of Mary or some other image of people. God specifically forbids this multiple times in Scripture, yet you see "no problemo".
I believe there will be a special punishment for teacher of this abomination. God is a jealous God and will not forgive blasphemy against His Son. Jesus Gave His life on the cross and He is to be worshiped, no one else. 1Tim 2:5 says there is only one Person to pray to. No one else can hear you or forgive you. A priest cannot have any effect on your forgiveness, so why say multiple prayers to a dead woman that cannot hear you and cannot forgive anything? The madness has even gone to denying that Mary ever even had sex and died a virgin. The Bible even states Jesus had brothers and names them, yet you are not swayed. You are drunk on the whores wine and cannot see anymore. The final straw should be that you can be saved if you are just a "good" person. I've heard that is becoming church policy now. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm hearing that Catholics are saying "good" Muslims, Buddhists, Hindu's, ect, can be saved without Jesus. Where is the line drawn for you? We can all chime in on the PCUSA, but what about your denomination? What is your limit? Where is your "breaking point"? Seeing the pope kiss the Koran was enough proof for me they are beyond nuts.
I know your blood is boiling, and I don't write these things to anger people, but I feel compelled as a Christian to try to shed light on the lies of cults to give people a chance to follow the narrow path. Just the fact that you are angered at someone for talking about the Catholic denomination shows an unnatural connection to a man made thing and traditions of men. For me, we could be discussing Mormonism, Islam, JW's, or any of numerous other religions. The PCUSA is just the tip of the iceberg and a symptom of a much larger problem. The loyalty to a denomination over Jesus Christ is the problem. Swerving from the Bible's teaching is the symptom. I don't glory in the problems the PCUSA is having. The Methodist's and many others are having the same problems. All the while Catholics are so wrong, they can't even recognize they are in the same boat and have been for centuries. Salvation is a personal thing. It doesn't come from joining a church or denomination. God will be looking to your personal relationship to His Son, not what denomination you are. Blindly following a fallen belief system even in good faith won't get anywhere when God judges what you did with the sacrifice of Jesus. He won't be pleased you worshiped Mary and other idols thinking that somehow would please Him. He specifically forbade the practice and in many separate Scriptures. Can you honestly say, "I didn't know". Can the PCUSA honestly say they didn't know homosexuality is an abomination to God, yet they put them in the pulpit? Error is error no matter who says it isn't. The Scriptures are our guide, not man's teaching.