Explaining the Heresy of Catholicism (John MacArthur)

For those who are interested in the on-going battle on FR between Catholics, who seem to want to dominate the Forum, and those who reject Catholicism, just click on the connection above.

Pastor John MacArthur of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California provides eight free sermons out-lining Catholic beliefs and why they are full or error, heresy and idolatry.

1 posted on 05/26/2014 4:13:56 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne

As a Protestant, I’ve noticed more Catholic bashing by those who would do well in a music video for Ray Stevens’ “Mississippi Squirrel Revival.”

2 posted on 05/26/2014 4:16:33 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)

To: Dr. Thorne; Salvation

Catholics want to dominate the forum?

3 posted on 05/26/2014 4:18:35 PM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)

To: goodwithagun

You have not been reading what I have, then. Protestant bashing goes on all the time.

4 posted on 05/26/2014 4:19:41 PM PDT by MamaB

Hail full of Grace, The Lord is with thee, Blessed art Thou among women and Blessed is the Fruit of thy Womb, Jesus. Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinner now and at the hour of our Desth. Amen.

Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam

5 posted on 05/26/2014 4:19:56 PM PDT by LurkingSince'98 (Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam = FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD)

It’s the albino monks, I tell ya.

6 posted on 05/26/2014 4:20:09 PM PDT by OpusatFR

If only the Catholics would watch. They are one group that does NOT want to know the truth of God’s Word.

Thanks for posting.

8 posted on 05/26/2014 4:24:03 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001

Helq us Dr Thorn, we r stuck here as Catholicks and need your preyers!

9 posted on 05/26/2014 4:24:47 PM PDT by RBStealth (--raised by wolves, disciplined and educated by nuns.)

Oh my gosh. Now granted, we are all off today and have time on our hands but can’t we all just get along? This stuff has been festering for hundreds of years, and it’s not going to be solved in a chat room. Let’s just shake hands and slowly back away

10 posted on 05/26/2014 4:26:38 PM PDT by equalator

Keep asking those who claim this to ping when a situation arises. I’ve yet to be pinged. I don’t doubt that it happens, although I’ve never witnessed it, but I frequently find Catholic bashing without even looking for it.

11 posted on 05/26/2014 4:26:50 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)

To: spacejunkie2001

You can’t handle the truth.

So you’re Protestant.

(naah-naah-naaah! I mean, as long as you gotta be juvenile)

12 posted on 05/26/2014 4:29:27 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)

I’m with B4Ranch. Dr. T, is part of your gospel ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’ or is that just irrelevant? IF your goal is to win hearts for Jesus ....

13 posted on 05/26/2014 4:29:36 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)

To: goodwithagun

So true.

Why is this non-Catholic trying to tell Catholics that Catholicism is a Heresy?

‘Cause it’s not a heresy.

14 posted on 05/26/2014 4:31:24 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)

15 posted on 05/26/2014 4:31:33 PM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)

“For those who are interested in the on-going battle on FR between Catholics, who seem to want to dominate the Forum, and those who reject Catholicism, just click on the connection above.”

Would it add to the quasi-festive martial atmosphere here if someone can arrange to have a rousing rendition of “Onward Christian Soldiers” being sung in the background while people are linked to this thread?

I can’t speak for the other few Buddhists I know of here on FR, but I - for one - am pleased as punch to be left out of the squabbling.

16 posted on 05/26/2014 4:32:03 PM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)

Maybe if Christians would stop stabbing each other in the back Christianity would be better able to defend itself against assault by the secular left and islam. Of course recognizing that Catholics and Orthodox are in fact Christians would help. Is it truly accepted that Christianity did not exist from the final chapter of Revelation to the Ninety Five Theses?

17 posted on 05/26/2014 4:32:32 PM PDT by xkaydet65 (.You have never tasted freedom, else you would know it is purchased not with gold but with steel)

18 posted on 05/26/2014 4:32:35 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)

To: Dr. Thorne; dcwusmc; Jed Eckert; Recovering Ex-hippie; KingOfVagabonds; Berlin_Freeper; UnRuley1; ..

Credo in Deum Patrem omnipotentem;
Creatorem caeli et terrae.

Et in Jesum Christum,
Filium eius unicum, Dominum nostrum;
qui conceptus est
de Spiritu Sancto,
natus ex Maria virgine;
passus sub Pontio Pilato,
crucifixus, mortuus, et sepultus;
descendit ad inferos;
tertia die resurrexit a mortuis;
ascendit ad caelos;
sedet ad dexteram Dei Patris omnipotentis;
inde venturus est
iudicare vivos et mortuos.

Credo in Spiritum Sanctum;
sanctam ecclesiam catholicam;
sanctorum communionem;
remissionem peccatorum;
carnis resurrectionem;
vitam aeternam. Amen.

In English:

I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ,
his only Son, our Lord.
He was conceived
by the power of the Holy Spirit,
and born of the Virgin Mary,
He suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
He descended into hell.
On the third day he rose again;
he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
he will come again
to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy Catholic church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen

My soul magnifies the Lord,
And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.
For He has regarded the low estate of His handmaiden,
For behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
For He who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is His name. And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with His arm:
He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
He has put down the mighty from their thrones,
and exalted those of low degree.
He has filled the hungry with good things;
and the rich He has sent empty away.
He has helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy;
As He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to His posterity forever.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen

Magníficat ánima mea Dóminum,
et exsultávit spíritus meus
in Deo salvatóre meo,
quia respéxit humilitátem
ancíllæ suæ.

Ecce enim ex hoc beátam
me dicent omnes generatiónes,
quia fecit mihi magna,
qui potens est,
et sanctum nomen eius,
et misericórdia eius in progénies
et progénies timéntibus eum.
Fecit poténtiam in bráchio suo,
dispérsit supérbos mente cordis sui;
depósuit poténtes de sede
et exaltávit húmiles.
Esuriéntes implévit bonis
et dívites dimísit inánes.
Suscépit Ísrael púerum suum,
recordátus misericórdiæ,
sicut locútus est ad patres nostros,
Ábraham et sémini eius in sæcula.

Glória Patri et Fílio
et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio,
et nunc et semper,
et in sæcula sæculórum.

Amen.

She became the Mother of God, in which work so many and such great good things are bestowed on her as pass man’s understanding. For on this there follows all honor, all blessedness, and her unique place in the whole of mankind, among which she has no equal, namely, that she had a child by the Father in heaven, and such a Child . . . Hence men have crowded all her glory into a single word, calling her the Mother of God . . . None can say of her nor announce to her greater things, even though he had as many tongues as the earth possesses flowers and blades of grass: the sky, stars; and the sea, grains of sand. It needs to be pondered in the heart what it means to be the Mother of God.

(Commentary on the Magnificat, 1521; in Luther’s Works, Pelikan et al, vol. 21, 326)

19 posted on 05/26/2014 4:32:39 PM PDT by narses (Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)

I’m getting the popcorn. Who wants to get the sodas?

20 posted on 05/26/2014 4:33:22 PM PDT by firebasecody (Orthodoxy, proclaiming the Truth since AD 33)

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