thanks for coming along 2,013 years after the fact and bringing us all up to date.....actually the Catholic church is the ONLY complete Christian church on Earth.....always has been, always will be....Christ said I will be with you until the end of time. I'll buy that....and the Catholics were the only Christian group on Earth at the time.....the only ones.
The word Catholic was invented centuries later, so that would be impossible. Christ had followers all over the old world when the establishment in Rome came about. Those were not “Catholic”.
New Testament churches are much more Christian than a bureaucratic organization that is based on performing rites and rituals and worshipping more than 10,000 unbiblical “Saints”.
There is one person we can pray to in order to reach God and that is Jesus. Not Peter, Paul or Mary, not the Pope.
You have been deceived, FRiend.
I challenge you to listen to the links I provided above with an open mind. I am sure my claims are hurtful to you, but I promise I take no joy in making them. Much of my own family is still caught in Satan’s snare known as Roman Catholicism and my heart breaks for them. They are just like those Israelites described by Paul in Romans 10, they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Eternity is a really long time and hell is real. Surely you should take a bit of time to at least investigate why I believe as I do. Wouldn’t it be awful to find out after it’s too late that I was right? Can you imagine being haunted for eternity that you had the truth at hand yet you were so hard-hearted you failed to even consider it?
The Testimony of a Former Catholic Priest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvID3lRyYIc&feature=relmfu
Non-believers may be forgiven if not properly instructed or if they are illiterate and have not either been exposed to true teaching or haven’t had the time to do so because of their station in life -loneliness or have been immersed in false ideas. The current scandal of course is the 35, 000 different brands of the truth that exists when there is only one truth. The Catholic Church.
I can see Peter opening the Gates of Heaven to atheists and agnostics rather than the Jimmy Swaggarts, David Koreshes, Jim (Kool-Aid) Jones; Rev. Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wrights and the Rev. Benny Hinns and prosperity-gospel Joel Osteens of this world.
The atheists and agnostics who adopt the beaten, starving, and orphaned child has a better chance in Paradise that the “Carry the Bible in My Pocket” and quote “Scripture” crowd. Wasn’t this the lesson of the Good Samaritan? If this is what Pope Francis had in mind, and there is no reason to believe otherwise, he is true to the Sermon on the Mount.