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To: Salvation; boycott; metmom; chuckles; DennisR; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; boatbums; CynicalBear; ...
The Catholic Church was founded by Christ on the Apostles, the first Bishops

Not true. Attributing something to Jesus (or perhaps you mean another "Christ," not Jesus?) borders on blaspheme.

Catholicism was created several hundred years after Jesus walked the earth and started Christianity.

You are using a false premise to apparently accuse a Christian of not believing in Jesus Christ, with a personal attack question to go around the guidelines of the Religion Forum

Jesus was not and is not a Catholic as some claim.

He did NOT start Catholicism, he started the practice of believing in Him and following Him.

He was building his church.

It was then, and is now, called Christianity which is the practice of repentance, being born again and following Jesus. It is a belief system-the ONLY valid one on earth-not a religion. The Pharisees had religion, but did not please Jesus with their superior condescending attitude.

Which, sadly, Catholicism seems to be continuing with their proclamations that you HAVE to be a Catholic to have a relationship with Jesus. And centering on the Catholic Mary and the rosary and the vain repetition of prayers that these both call for.

100 posted on 02/21/2018 2:37:47 PM PST by Syncro (Facts is facts)
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To: Syncro

Well said!


104 posted on 02/21/2018 7:08:12 PM PST by DennisR
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To: Syncro; Salvation
Which, sadly, Catholicism seems to be continuing with their proclamations that you HAVE to be a Catholic to have a relationship with Jesus

Yes; that is correct.

The following is STILL in force!!


"One indeed is the universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved, in which the priest himself is the sacrifice, Jesus Christ, whose body and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under the species of bread and wine; the bread (changed) into His body by the divine power of transubstantiation, and the wine into the blood, so that to accomplish the mystery of unity we ourselves receive from His (nature) what He Himself received from ours."

--Pope Innocent III and Lateran Council IV (A.D. 1215)

108 posted on 02/22/2018 3:41:36 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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