Posted on 10/28/2011 6:59:29 AM PDT by markomalley
Bull. There have been more acts of depravity and heresy committed based on “interpretation” of the Book of Revelation than any other book in the Holy Bible.
1. Jim Jones
2. David Koresh
Not to mention Jehovahs Witnesses, and other sects that have predicted the world ending numerous times.
And as for interpretation, I will look to the Original Church for guidance.
Where DID you cut-n-paste that from then?
As a matter of fact. Now that I have read some on that site I think more should go check it out. Ill actually put a clickable link to it.
http://aletheia.consultronix.com/7.html
If I had taken that from any site I would have put the site address in. I want any lurkers to go check out all the ties to pagan worship. If I had taken that from a site I would have wanted anyone who is interested to go get the other information contained on those sites. The more people learn the better informed they become. It would be stupid for me to keep the extra information those sites contain from them.
I wouldn't call perusing the internet and performing an occasional cut and paste actual study. I would call it plagiarism.
I have studied this stuff for a lot of years now.
You honestly think that information wasnt available before the internet? Katherin had more books on the subject of pagan religions then you have on Catholicism I would bet. She laughed at Christians who didnt know how much paganism they practiced.
Blessed! Thats a whole lot different then being warned to stay away from it isnt it.
You honestly want me to believe that you didn't cut and paste that? (Catholics can Google too).
Oh, I get it. That website plagiarized you.
Catholics are being made fun of in pagan societies and among those who know pagan religions. The Mariology of the CC is taken directly from pagan practices of the societies they were trying to convert. They simply replaced the pagan gods with what they hoped would be Christian gods.
BTW That cute thingy that the priest puts the wafer in with the sunburst around it to hold it up? That came from pagan practices also.
Its called a tabernacle. (See, you didn't need to plagiarize, you have enough goofy ideas of your own.)
I thought it was called the Monstrance. They all have the sun burst right? In fact, doesnt St Peters square also have the sun burst design with the obelisk in the center surrounded with a four point wheel? If you can find a book or something on the temple of Baal in Hatzor check out the pattern on the alter. Or just look up the symbol of Baal.
See I think anyone that converts to Catholicism was never saved... and was a social or a cultural 'protestant" looking for an experience that makes them feel holy ... and all that drama and incense and vestments sure make even a heathen feel holy .
No, you thought it was called a "thingy". A Monstrance (Ostensorium) does not hold consecrated hosts. You really ought to do a little actual research on Catholicism and the Catholic Church on which to base your criticisms. Right now you just look like an ignorant doofus.
Riiiiiiggggghhhhhttt.
Ostensorium means, in accordance with its etymology, a vessel designed for the more convenient exhibition of some object of piety. Both the name ostensorium and the kindred word monstrance (monstrancia, from monstrare) were originally applied to all kinds of vessels of goldsmith's or silversmith's work in which glass, crystal, etc. were so employed as to allow the contents to be readily distinguished, whether the object thus honoured were the Sacred Host itself or only the relic of some saint. [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11344a.htm]
>>You really ought to do a little actual research on Catholicism and the Catholic Church on which to base your criticisms.<<
Maybe you should. I already had.
Interesting when we know more about CC stuff then they do.
You guys need to check out the pic of the St Peters square area. Look at the picture from above with the obelisk in the center of a four spoked wheel then compare that to the four spoked wheel symbol of Baal.
The key to understanding Revelation is in understanding the Old Testament .
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