Same old tired defense.
Ex. 20:4 You shall not make for yourself a carved image-...
My eyes and ears don't deceive me. My wife is a former RC. My children went to a RC high school. I watched the school build a grotto that they bragged was wider and taller than the one at Notre Dame University. The grotto had a nice statue of Mary in the middle, no Jesus, and RC's regularly came and bowed down and worshiped Mary. They treat her as if she is God.
At this high school they ended prayers with the words "notre dame".
I've seen the heresy of the RCC and it's loyal followers first hand. I've also been blessed to be able to preach The Gospel to some and I've seen some become Born Again Christians.
You yourself might take a moment to ponder the commandment, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."
The problem isn't anyone lying about the heretical beliefs and practices of the RCC and it's members. The problem is since the Reformation Christians have been able to get their hands on Bibles in the vernacular, read them, and see the things RC's do that Christians are told not to do.
Your wife is a former Roman Catholic, so what! Catholics who become Evangelicals usually were ignorant about their former faith to begin with.
I’m not easily duped by your polemics.
I’m a former iconoclastic anti-Catholic. So you have no point.
The problem isn’t anyone lying about the heretical beliefs and practices of the RCC and it’s members. The problem is since the Reformation Christians have been able to get their hands on Bibles in the vernacular, read them, and see the things RC’s do that Christians are told not to do.
>>The only thing that happened at the so-called “Reformation” was the Bible was rewritten by polemicists to suit their prejudices.
If anything is heretical, it is the former “Reformation” beliefs that I once held. Protestantism deters clear thinking and is cult-like in its refusal to allow Christians to think through the cliched arguments.