The Catechism of the Catholic Church is one of the most beautiful documents ever written.
It not only tells you how to be a devout Catholic, but tells you how to live the good life and be a happy, well adjusted member of society.
“The Catholic church just leaves you hanging”.
Catholicism is the fullness of the Christian faith. You have to be a tough, dedicated person to be a devout Catholic. It’s not for sissies, never has been. It takes total, complete dedication to be a practicing Catholic that lives their faith. Not all have all the capability to totally give their life to Christ. And that is the reason Catholics fall away from the faith. It’s too hard for them. They wanted to do it their way instead of God’s way. Every lapsed Catholic I have known in my life that came back to the faith said the exact same thing I just said.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church is one of the most beautiful documents ever written. It not only tells you how to be a devout Catholic, but tells you how to live the good life and be a happy, well adjusted member of society.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church is one of the most beautiful documents ever written.
It not only tells you how to be a devout Catholic, but tells you how to live the good life and be a happy, well adjusted member of society.
Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.
Which is 360 degrees opposite to what God wants. Jesus did ALL the work FOR you.
Matthew 11:28-30 (ASV)
28 Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Hebrews 4:3 (AMP)
3 For we who have believed (adhered to and trusted in and relied on God) do enter that rest, in accordance with His declaration that those [who did not believe] should not enter when He said, As I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter My rest; and this He said although [His] works had been completed and prepared [and waiting for all who would believe] from the foundation of the world.
Romans 7:6 (AMP)
6 But now we are discharged from the Law and have terminated all intercourse with it, having died to what once restrained and held us captive. So now we serve not under [obedience to] the old code of written regulations, but [under obedience to the promptings] of the Spirit in newness [of life].
Colossians 2:20-23 (AMP)
20 If then you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things and have escaped from the world's crude and elemental notions and teachings of externalism, why do you live as if you still belong to the world? [Why do you submit to rules and regulations?—such as]
21 Do not handle [this], Do not taste [that], Do not even touch [them],
22 Referring to things all of which perish with being used. To do this is to follow human precepts and doctrines.
23 Such [practices] have indeed the outward appearance [that popularly passes] for wisdom, in promoting self-imposed rigor of devotion and delight in self-humiliation and severity of discipline of the body, but they are of no value in checking the indulgence of the flesh (the lower nature). [Instead, they do not honor God but serve only to indulge the flesh.]
Galatians 4:4-7 (AMP)
4 But when the proper time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born subject to [the regulations of] the Law,
5 To purchase the freedom of (to ransom, to redeem, to atone for) those who were subject to the Law, that we might be adopted and have sonship conferred upon us [and be recognized as God's sons].
6 And because you [really] are [His] sons, God has sent the [Holy] Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba (Father)! Father!
7 Therefore, you are no longer a slave (bond servant) but a son; and if a son, then [it follows that you are] an heir by the aid of God, through Christ.
Ephesians 2:4-9 (AMP)
4 But God—so rich is He in His mercy! Because of and in order to satisfy the great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved us,
5 Even when we were dead (slain) by [our own] shortcomings and trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; [He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him, for] it is by grace (His favor and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation).
6 And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together [giving us joint seating with Him] in the heavenly sphere [by virtue of our being] in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
7 He did this that He might clearly demonstrate through the ages to come the immeasurable (limitless, surpassing) riches of His free grace (His unmerited favor) in [His] kindness and goodness of heart toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For it is by free grace (God's unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God;
9 Not because of works [not the fulfillment of the Law's demands], lest any man should boast. [It is not the result of what anyone can possibly do, so no one can pride himself in it or take glory to himself.]
They wanted to do it their way instead of God’s way.
Oh, the irony of this statement. The Truth, and freedom from religious bondage, is waiting in God's Word.
Sure it is...../s
And the Ten Commandments and the Law, not to mention the Beatitudes. Heck, they're all just chopped liver in comparison.
The very words of God Himself couldn't do enough so the RCC decided that it had to add its own two cents in as well.
Just like Catholics do with adding their works to the finished work of Christ on the cross.
What hubris.
Yup, being in bondage is like that.
Jesus told us that His yoke was easy and His burden light and that the truth would set us free.
He came that we might have LIFE and life more abundant.
God's way is freedom in Christ, who gives us rest for our souls, and doesn't sell us into the bondage of works.
It leaves no room for bragging rights about what a tough guy the dedicated Catholic is.
I'm sure God is so impressed with the dedicated Catholic.
It's too bad that those dedicated Catholics weren't as dedicated to Christ instead of their religious system that they call a church.