Posted on 05/18/2015 6:05:47 PM PDT by Old Yeller
For years, growing up as a Roman Catholic, we were taught that we were members of the one true church. It was impressed upon us regularly by the parish priest during Mass while giving his homily; by the nuns all throughout my Catholic parochial school years of second through seventh grade.
It was impressed upon us during our preparation to receive for the first time the sacraments of Penance, Communion and Confirmation. And while attending CCD classes all the way through high school. (CCD is the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, an association established at Rome in 1562 for the purpose of giving religious education, normally designed for children.)
It was an established fact that we understood and we never questioned the validity of it. And to be honest, it was a matter of pride, that we were privileged enough to be members of the correct church, while all others had belonged to something else that didn’t quite measure up to the status of the Roman Catholic Church.
After all, how could it be possible that Roman Catholicism is not the one true church?
Look at what Rome has to offer: It has the priests, the nuns; the bishops; the cardinals; and of course, the Pope. They have the Sacraments; the statues; the holy water; the incense; the Stations of the Cross; the Eucharist - in which Chris supposedly physically manifests Himself into the wafer after the consecration by the priest during the Mass; the Marian apparitions—which appear mainly to Roman Catholics.
And they have the Vatican, where the Vicar of Christ (who they believe is Christ’s representative on earth), governs the faithful and makes infallible proclamations and doctrine. How can this not be the one true church? No other organization on the face of the earth comes close to offering to its flock what Rome provides for its faithful.
But, of course, to be true, one must adhere to what has been established as truth and not teach or practice what is contrary to the truth. We read in Scripture a few passages that declare what is truth and what is not. Jesus proclaimed in John 14:6:
“I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me.”
Not one word about her after Pentecost.
it is taken directly from the protestant site
www.ccel.org
maybe your divinely inspired reading is better than theirs
There was nothing at all wrong with the “blanket statement”; many nominally Christian denominations have folded on both of those issues. How could you even dispute that?
In fact, if anything, the Pope at the time mostly agreed with Luther, and ignored the whole thing as a "monkish quarrel." "No big deal," thought the Pope. "Of course indulgence peddling is wrong. Just send the money." He never saw the obvious. Of course the Romans were incredibly corrupt, and had more rackets going than Al Capone, but what really got the ball rolling on the Luther Reformation was that local princes were tired of paying off the church and as the dispute developed, were quick to jump on the bandwagon.
In modern times the Vatican has pretty much thrown in the towel and said, "All right already, Fr. Luther was right about Grace, Indulgences, etc. We were really bad boys back then. Can't we all just get along now? Forget the money!" So there has been a little bit of a rapprochement. Some married Lutheran pastors have even become married Catholic pastors.
In general, IMNVHO, Fr. Luther was not as Protestant as a lot of Protestants may wish. For example, he had a life-long devotion to the Virgin Mary. But he did get more Protestant as time went by. But even at his best, he was no Knox or Calvin.
Just how many “graves” of people in the Bible have been found? I was reading something the other day which said Peter’s bones are in Jerusalem not Rome. When the archeologist met with the pope at that time, the pope told him to keep it quiet. Why?
However, Christianity's problem with catholicism is that catholicism has gone way, way, way, way beyond the text in what is accorded Mary.
It is apparent from this that catholics do not take Scripture very seriously....for if they would they would not be worshipping Mary as they are doing and continue to advocate.
Catholics do not worship Mary.
When you stop repeating this lie, you will have a chance at becoming an intellectually honest person.
When you stop repeating this lie, you will have a chance at becoming an intellectually honest person.
A little re-formatting makes your statement true. When you realize that the italicized statement is the lie, the second statement follows.
A Freudian slip?
Well, Saul gave several tellings of things to come, so that isn’t quite accurate is it, Elsie? Look at 1 Thess 4:13-17 and 1 Cor 15:51-52. What he saw and then wrote of is like what Daniel saw and wrote of, and Daniel is considered a prophet.
That's what happens when different folks use the SAME words to mean different THINGS.
Except for Catholics.
They'll call her all KINDS of things that are NOT biblical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titles_of_Mary
Matthew also made a BIG DEAL out of Rahab, the prostitute and David's Mother, wife of Uriah.
When you can't even quote what was just typed in this thread correctly; it's no wonder that your grasp of the Scriptures are so weak.
Um, would that be Solomon’s mother?
When problems with TODAY's Catholicism appear in these thread; "No Big Deal" seems to be the SOP for apologetics.
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