In what way do the Nicolaitans resemble the Catholic Church?
This is hard to hear for a catholic, but the catholic system is contrary to what the Scriptures say is the Way to be born from above and then have God's Life in them. The catholic religion is a 'work to obtain salvation' religion. Christ established His Church upon the profession of Faith that He is whom God has sent to deliver people from their sina nd sin nature. He accomplishes this via placing His Life in us upont he cleansing Faith exhibioted in His Deliverance for our need as totally bankrupt people.
We know that this is an immediate not installment birth by the evidence displayed at Pentecost and in the house of Cornelius. God's Life came into the believers immediately, not even waiting for Peter to finish his sermons!
There is clear blasphemy in the catholic catechism claiming the Priest at Mass brings the Christ down from heaven to be in a wafer that is then placed upon the catholic altar for ingesting by those present for the Mass. Then the catholic church and its apologists defend this blasphemy by ignoring Jesus's own words in John 6 to instead claim Jesus said plainly to eat his flesh and drink His blood ... ignoring of course Jesus's own words to His disciples who were confused by His words which caused some to depart from Him: John 6:62 "What then if you see the Son of Man ascending to where He was before? 63 "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
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