More and more I'm drawing a conclusion that Rome is adhering to "another gospel"..."another Christ"..than the Christ of the Bible and the One whose Birth we are now in the midst of celebrating.
After awhile, once one examines the teachings of the catholic church, a picture unfolds that is anything but the Christianity Jesus taught us. In fact it leads people into another gospel message altogether....works, rituals, repetitive prayers, worshiping idols, praying to the departed and the list goes on and on and on...
.... all which evidences again and again something far different than God has established for believers...and this despite the outcry from catholics these things are not so....when in fact the evidence shows otherwise.
It's sorrowful thing to "see" this....to get ones head around the obvious distortions and lies...to the truth concerning what indeed do they worship and who.
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Why are you "in the midst of celebrating" Christ's birth?
Didn't you get the memo? "Christmas" is a pagan / Roman Catholic invention, the baptizing of the pagan feast of Sol Invictus. And even the name is papistical: "Christ-Mass".
In fact, the pagan "other Gospel" preached by Rome is characterized by belief: in Christ-mass, the pagan Trinity, pagan Sunday worship, the pagan celebration of the Easter/Ishtar festival, the pagan divinity-of-Christ Romish dogma, etc., etc., etc.
If you hold to any of these things, you, too, are a pagan, a member of the Roman Catholic institution, founded by the first Pope, Constantine.
</yopios-cultist>
(Just a distillation of the stuff I've "learned" on FR through the years.)
It is “another gospel”. Paul had it right when he told the jailor “believe on the Lord Jesus and you will be saved – and your house”. He didn’t then run through a litany of rules regulations and legalisms.