Jesus Christ founded the Catholic Church? NOPE.
The word “Catholic” is never mentioned.
He and the Apostles DID however bring us the Gospel, which Catholicism chooses to cherry pick at some points and completely ignore at other points...
For example, Christ says “this is the blood of the new covenant, poored out for you” and the Catholic Church CREATES the doctrine of trans-substantiation.
The Catholic church doesn’t believe in PERMANENT forgiveness of sins through Christ ALONE. It’s ironic that they celebrate the Body and Blood of Christ but don’t actually accept the meaning of it!
And finally, when Jesus told Peter that he held the keys to the Kingdom he was not referring to literal keys. Rather he was explaining that God would reveal himself to the hearts of men (just as he did with Peter) when asked “who do you say I am?
also...
This idea of the infallibility of the Pope is ludicrous. Even Catholicism’s “first Pope” Peter denied Christ 3 times!
- They slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people (see the Aztecs and Muslims) in the name of the Church
- For a long time, they discouraged people from reading the Bible at all. They don’t recognize that the Holy Spirit (which they allege to believe in) gives us understanding of scripture.
I could go ooooon and ooooon about this.
My point is that (in my opinion at least) none of the candidates practice true Christianity.