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“Each and every time we talk to a Catholic, the issue we should be discussing is the Gospel. Rome is heresy because it has a wrong Gospel.”
Amen! I’ve said that exact thing before. Rome does not have THE Gospel. It has A gospel, but not the one and only Gospel that saves. I think they are wrong on a host of other things, but the hub of my disagreement is about the Gospel itself. The Gospel is why I can’t support ecumenical movements. The Gospel is why I am so concerned about my Roman Catholic loved ones and friends.
Romans 14.
It’s time to stop picking each other apart and to start healing our differences so we can present a united front to the world. I do not understand the Mary thing, but as a very small child I went through a terrible ordeal and was the only surviver, my little toddler Protestant self came out with a MAJOR fixation on Mary. I’m not so arrogant to imagine that I know what God will and won’t do, or where His whimsy will take us, I’m just grateful for His mercy, kindness, and direction. I think we will pay a very high cost if we slander the faith of other believers.
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Keep it simple. The Magisterium started with the 12 apostles. There is a direct uninterrupted lineage from them to today’s RC bishops. A heretic 500 yrs ago took off on his own and today there are 40,000 subspecies of his error, each following their self-directed religion. No, you don’t have the wherewithal on your own to “find your way”. You are incomplete and inadequate to go it alone. The Truth is in the RC Church. Grace required for salvation is from the Sacraments. Sacraments administered from RC priests who are ordained to act in the person of Christ.
I’ll add that it is the One True Church that will maintain the sanctity of marriage against “same sex unions” and artificial birth control. It is the One True Church that the world hates and is and will be the target of the persecution underway and gaining momentum now. I invite you to not be like the world and stop your persecution of the Church. Drop your resistance and seek your salvation in Truth.
For those interested in being catechized, please let me refer you to the One True Faith at ChurchMilitant(dot)com. You might be eternally grateful.
Another absurdity is nuns being a bride of Christ. There is more than one nun, so wouldn’t that be polygamy? No one on earth has the power to declare someone a bride of Christ.
I am a practicing Catholic. I attend Mass every week and watch it almost every night on EWTN. I agree with many of your points. So do many other Catholics, I can even add a few of my own:
1) Compulsory clerical celibacy is a Church rule, not a Biblical requirement for service in the priesthood.
2) You are right about Mary. A true saint. But not a perpetual virgin. She was married to Joseph and Jesus had brothers and sisters. This is mentioned in the Bible and I first learned in it a Bible study class taught by a CATHOLIC priest in a CATHOLIC church.
3) You are right about confession. We are taught in the Bible to confess our sins, but no requirement is there which says you must confess them to a priest.
4) An the concept of papal infallibility is a complete crock, a dogma developed in the late 19th century by a rather authoritarian Pope who didn’t want any of his other ideas, doctrines, or dogmas questioned.
I could go on and on. I love my Church and respect its history and traditions. But like all other churches it is a man made institution and is far from perfect. It makes mistakes and commits sins just like everyone else.
Great Post Catholicism also has many pagan symbols and practices interwoven into their faith. Look it up. Glad Im Baptist and pray for the Catholics, alot are good folks but have grown up in this ideology.
A couple other puzzlers that make no sense:
Mat 23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Christ was obviously condemning using “father” as an honorific, since He repeatedly used “father” to describe the male parent...
Mar 7:7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Mar 7:8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
Mar 7:9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
Catholics rather boldly teach that their traditions trump Scripture wherever the two are in dispute... And that’s a rather dire warning Christ gives for holding to tradition over God’s commandments. Tradition that trumps Scripture therefore definitionally can NOT be from the Holy Spirit.
Another day, another Proddie lie.
I directed a RC friend to the link where the statue falls and is beheaded during a ceremony. Even he thought it was hilarious! The one nun almost gets clobbered when she tries to ‘save’ it. LOL