Can you name a “doctrine of demons” in the “RCC Catechism”?
“Can you name a “doctrine of demons” in the “RCC Catechism”?”
Here’s a start....
http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p122a3p2.htm
The Immaculate Conception
493 The Fathers of the Eastern tradition call the Mother of God “the All-Holy” (Panagia), and celebrate her as “free from any stain of sin, as though fashioned by the Holy Spirit and formed as a new creature”.138 By the grace of God Mary remained free of every personal sin her whole life long.
Mary — “ever-virgin”
Mary’s virginal motherhood in God’s plan
http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p123a9p6.htm#II
II. DEVOTION TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN
971 “All generations will call me blessed”: “The Church’s devotion to the Blessed Virgin is intrinsic to Christian worship.”513 The Church rightly honors “the Blessed Virgin with special devotion. From the most ancient times the Blessed Virgin has been honored with the title of ‘Mother of God,’ to whose protection the faithful fly in all their dangers and needs. . . . This very special devotion . . . differs essentially from the adoration which is given to the incarnate Word and equally to the Father and the Holy Spirit, and greatly fosters this adoration.”514 The liturgical feasts dedicated to the Mother of God and Marian prayer, such as the rosary, an “epitome of the whole Gospel,” express this devotion to the Virgin Mary.515
http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p123a9p3.htm
829 “But while in the most Blessed Virgin the Church has already reached that perfection whereby she exists without spot or wrinkle, the faithful still strive to conquer sin and increase in holiness. And so they turn their eyes to Mary”:306 in her, the Church is already the “all-holy.”
“Outside the Church there is no salvation”
846 How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers?335 Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body:
Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.336
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Doctrines of demons?
Mary was always a virgin. Mary was conceived without sin and remained without sin her entire life. Mary is the reason the church has reached perfection. Salvation is through the Catholic Church.
It doesn’t get much worse than that.
The doctrine of transubstantiation.
The doctrine of the Assumption of Mary.
The doctrine which views the priest as an "alter Christus."
The doctrine that bestows infallibility on a pope and his magisterium.
The doctrine that elevates tradition to the level of Scripture.
Yadayadayada...
These doctrines do not come from God's word. They are anathema to Christianity.
"That God's word damns your ceremonies it is evident; for the plain and straight commandment of God is, 'Not that thing which appears good in thy eyes shalt thou do to the Lord thy God, but what the Lord thy God has commanded thee; that do thou; add nothing to it; diminish nothing from it.' Now unless you are able to prove that God has commanded your ceremonies, this his former commandment will damn both you and them." -- John Knox (Knox, Works, 1:199. Cf. Calvin, The Necessity of Reforming the Church, in Tracts, 1:128-29.)
If not "demons," close enough.
Doctrines of demons in the RCC?
1. APPROX 99.7% OF THE CARICATURED MARIAN DOGMA.
2. That Salvation is partly by works.
The rest will likely have to wait until I’ve waded through the Catechism.
Perhaps Dr E or some of my Bros, Sis. above would have some discernment on that.