Posted on 12/29/2014 10:30:48 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
I have taken ten of the most believed or written about misconceptions about Catholics or the Church and debunked them (with evidence wherever possible).
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Read your history. Council of Nicea?
One Christian church until about 1,000 A.D.
Roman Catholics then separate.
c. 1500 A.D. the Protestants separate.
The Roman Catholics separated from the Orthodox, then the Protestants separated from the Roman Catholics. The Orthodox kept going in a straight line.
It's a simplification, but there you have it. The Orthodox refuse to change. It's even a joke: "How many Orthodox Christians does it take to change a light bulb?"
Change?! (Meaning that it's strongly resisted.)
Btw, I'm saying this as a former Protestant. I still think as a Protestant. Orthodox thinking is at once deep, odd, sideways, and very often deeply insightful and satisfying. I'm still getting used to it.
You’re right. That’s what I thought when I started posting a lot in RF after only lurking and posting occasionally for years. I thought, I didn’t know FR was a Catholic site, but it seems like it is and I missed that somehow. From what I saw, I considered not posting here anymore, but then after a little time discovered the truth of the matter.
The problem is worldliness, which, from what I see, the Catholic Church priesthood, a clique unto themselves, has been working for both in and outside the Church for who knows how many centuries, in double agent style.
If the lineage of belief in a person’s family background is to be considered, then what does a Christian tell a Jew, Muslim, Hindu, etc., who would say that they can trace their family’s beliefs back a thousand years or more, too?
You can see on Post 51 that somebody here believes I should have listened to him.
I’ve looked into the issue, and the Catholic church, especially at Vatican II, offers inclusiveness...citing the many similarities that many protestant religions have to Catholics (some have communion, most have similar sacraments, etc.). This all makes perfect sense, as protestant religions are essentially off-shoots of the first Christian religion. Anyway, the Catholic church believes there is a path to salvation for non Catholic Christians....almost like the Prodigal Son.
But Evangelical Christians offer zero options for non-members to achieve salvation. Their hierarchy seems to eschew any similarities between their religion and Catholicism, and quite frankly, they deem Catholics to be on their way to hell.
That attitudinal distinction alone is very informative to me.
And another thing that always amazes me: The protestant religions continue to break up. I can’t even name all the different versions...but even within one version, there are local fractures within a community, with people liking one pastor over another, hopping back and forth between churches on opposite sides of town, etc. Again, the continuous fracturing of the Protestant branch of Christianity alone should cause some introspection among its members...shouldn’t it?
Most Christians I meet are very good people - kind and well meaning. My earliest memories of my Catholic church are of the inside of a single wide trailer, set in the parking lot of a Methodist church. The Methodists were very kind and generous to allow the use of their land. And this being early 1970’s Alabama...to some extent its members were putting their own reputations on the line, as Catholics were viewed with great suspicion. So I like Protestants, and I’ve been to many Protestant services in the Boy Scouts and later in the military - so I think I have a fair understanding of their services.
But I think it boils down to Protestants projecting their own idiosyncrasies on Catholics...and it leads to a sort of competitiveness on their part. I’ve tried to explain this before, and I’m not eloquent at it...but Catholics aren’t nearly as concerned with Protestants as Protestants are with them. This entire idea of being in competition with one another is very strange to me.
And given today’s demographics, with a mushrooming population of savage Muslims flooding Europe, it may be a good idea for all Christians to stick together - so the inclusiveness offered at Vatican II is probably crucial to our survival...if the other Christian religions would ever reciprocate.
Families can be wrong. Even for a thousand years.
It is not family history that matters. What matters is how God has acted to reveal Himself in historic events.
Yes, I am, and I’m also a teacher in a Jesuit school, so get a lot of help, discussion, and information there.
If you knew anything about bible history, you'd know that Jerome re-translated the Old Latin Bible into his new Latin Vulgate...Jerome didn't compile anything...
And in the next thread those same Catholics will say Catholics don’t pray to Mary...Is that being dishonest or what???
If your room mate talked to you about being born again, I have no doubt he told you how and why...
You have it so backwards I can't believe it...It is the Catholic religion that says you must be Catholic to find salvation...It is the Protestants and the bible that says you first must be saved (born again)...
What, in your opinion is “Christian?”
There are obviously many that use his name but do not “Believe” as the term meant to the Jewish men that wrote the Bible.
To believe in Yeshua is to take up a discipleship, following all of his commandments, and living as he lived.
Clearly one cannot do that and also be admitted to the “communion” of the Roman Catholic Church!
I’m sure that the ‘insane’ would be welcomed.
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>> “I would pray to Mary, just to be on the safe side.” <<
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A guaranteed ticket to the Great White Throne Judgment.
We are called to pray only to the Father, in the name of Yeshua, our sole intermediary.
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>> “We ask for Mary’s prayers, we don’t pray to her. Prayer and worship is for God alone.” <<
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WOW! - Now there is a sophistry.
I guess the apostle John spewed anti-catholic hate in his divinely inspired prophecy...
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Why not unite under the pure word of God instead?
Those man made words are “Wood,hay, stubble.”
what do you suppose that the woman with the ‘issue of blood,’ who was healed by touching Yeshua’s Talit in faith, was wearing?
What was the thief on the cross wearing?
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>> “St. Jerome compiled the Bible” <<
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The word of God has no need for compilation.
The “scriptures,” as Yeshua and the Apostles knew them, were studiously copied, preserved, and gathered in the temples by the Levite scribes, who were commissioned by God to bring us his Oracles.
You can find no commission in God’s word for anyone else to do so, but all of the true letters of the Apostles had been collected two centuries before Constantine’s cult came into existence.
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You’re absolutely clueless about Catholicism. Try worrying for a change about whatever fundamentalist faith you claim to have.
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