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Posted on 12/10/2023 8:41:34 AM PST by patriot torch
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In this video, Mike Gendron, an ex-Catholic, visits Revolve to give a seminar that exposes the twisted, unbiblical, and outright satanic teachings of the Catholic Church that most people are completely unaware of. If you’d like to learn more about Mike, please visit his ministry’s website: https://www.proclaimingthegospel.org
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From those two verses Rome has built a myriad of false teachings and dogmas.
So now everyone's own personal interpretation of Catholicism is the rule of the day? You can pick and choose what you like and don't like of Catholic teaching to believe? Which version of Catholicism you like the best?
And Protestants are criticized for that very thing. How hypocritical.
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Anyone who has received the sacraments is never an ex-Catholic. Anyone who has not received the sacraments was never Catholic
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...according to......wait for it.....roman catholic TRADITION. And NOT Biblical Scripture.
It is actually quite Biblical to leave the roman catholic church as supported by Scripture...
2 Corinthians 6:16-18
King James Version
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
The Word of God is Biblical Truth and stands True against all unbiblical attacks. The Word became Jesus. The Two are synonomous.
John 1:1
King James Version
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14
King James Version
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
He who rejects the Written Authority of Scriptures also rejects the Authority of Jesus as Saviour and as Head of the body. Which is why the rcc invented the unbiblical position of pope in order to replace the True Head of the Church.
The Authority is Jesus as Head of the church and the Word of
God, Which is infallible. Not tradition.
THE WORD BECAME FLESH AND DWELT AMONG US.
Nonsense. They called her God's mother. GOD has no mother.
Jesus did.
Also, the Catholic church ascribes to her abilities that only God has and assigns to her titles like *Co-Redemptrix*, *Advocate*, and *Mediatrix* ( and yes, capitalized like one does for the names of God.) and those titles can be found in the Catechism of the Catholic church.
"Official doctrine" means absolutely nothing when practice shows what someone really believes.
Appealing to *official Catholic doctrine* is just a smoke screen to try to portray the Catholic church in a better light when everyone can see what Catholics really believe by what they do.
For all practical purposes it was hidden from the common man.
The Catholic Church had formally determined the canon of 73 books to be included in the Bible in 382 A.D.
Rome only dogmatically defined its canon at Trent April 8, 1546.
And it wasn't even unanimous.
Metzger, Bruce M. (13 March 1997). The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance. Oxford University Press. p. 246. ISBN 0-19-826954-4. "Finally on 8 April 1546, by a vote of 24 to 15, with 16 abstentions, the Council issued a decree (De Canonicis Scripturis) in which, for the first time in the history of the Church, the question of the contents of the Bible was made an absolute article of faith and confirmed by an anathema."
Are you claiming you’re living a “sinless” life....in word, deed and thought??
Once again a Roman Catholic appeals to this completely discredited argument showing it is the Roman Catholic who is the ignorant and the lazy.
And yes...it is hilarious.
Everyone here seems to be always looking for a fight.
The Pope is a man. He will have opinions whether global warming is real, whether immigrants should be allowed into Western Countries, or whether spinach is better than broccoli, etc.... Many of these may be "informed" or influenced by his Catholic faith - but they are NOT doctrine.
This Pope indeed seems very favorable to communism, and quite blinded by post-modern theories of environmentalism, "acceptance" of homosexuality, etc... It is indeed discouraging for traditional Catholics - and many have publicly opposed him. Many feel his views may even border on heresy.
But this is NOT CATHOLIC DOCTRINE, nor has he (nor could he) say these are Catholic Doctrine.
There's quite a big difference.
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Complete nonsense, but even if perfectly true, what is your primary point?
How is this *complete nonsense*?
Exodus 20:4-5a “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them;
That's your opinion of the Ten Commandments???
Just scrolling on the first page of the religion section I count three.
Are you saying Roman Catholicism says being homosexual is not a sin?? Just want to get you on the record on this question.
“But the fact that he is an ex-Catholic does make his opinion more trustworthy than that of a non-Catholic (see above for some of those).”
Not really. After all his own bio says the following:
He was stout defender of the Catholic faith for 35 years.
He left the Catholic faith in 1984. This means he is claiming he was a strong defender since he was born. So he was a strong defender of the Catholic faith when he was 4 years old? Really? Also, it says he only read the Bible for the first time in 1932 - that would mean he was about 33 years old. How could he have been a strong defender of the Catholic faith and yet NEVER READ THE BIBLE until he was in his 4th decade? https://www.proclaimingthegospel.org/page/about
A much more convincing conversion story would be this one: https://www.calledtocommunion.com/2012/09/i-fought-the-church-and-the-church-won/ And I freely admit I have no idea where Stellman is at now.
1982 not 1932. Darn typos!
Show us where ANY of us Christians have EVER made that comment?
That is the most common accusation against someone who believes that faith alone saves and honestly, is a manner of projection.
Just because you think that way, doesn't mean anyone else who thinks faith alone saves does, too.
As far as that question, it really reveals a tremendous ignorance of Scripture to even try to claim that is a Scriptural teaching.
The pope is supposed to be the representative of Christ on the earth to the world, but when he does something you all don’t like, you brush if off with the *he’s just a man* excuse?
If Catholics don’t feel the need to submit to him, and I see none here on FR that do, they why expect non-Catholics to submit to him and condemn them for not doing so?
...nope, know Mike and all you confirmed as an armchair warrior is that you didn’t watch any of the video. Try disputing any of his points.... you won’t and all Mike desires is your chance at salvation.
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Thanks. The Catholic church does not believe that the she is a deity.
Whether one were to agree or disagree with the beliefs about the Virgin Mother, there is certainly nothing there that would lead to the church that recites the nicene creed at every mass being called “apostate”.
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John 14:6
King James Version
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
The “Hail Mary,” Ave Maria in Latin, is a Roman Catholic prayer to the Virgin Mary that consists of salutations and a plea for her intercession. Also, the term “Hail Mary pass” was used by the press to describe a pass by Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach in a 1975 divisional playoff game and has come to be synonymous in football with a long pass that has little chance of success. The text of the Hail Mary prayer incorporates two Bible passages: “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee” (Luke 1:28) and “Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb” (Luke 1:42). The first passage is the angel Gabriel’s greeting to Mary when he came to inform her that she had been chosen to bear the Messiah. The second is her cousin Elizabeth’s greeting to Mary when Mary came to visit her cousin, who was also pregnant at the time with John the Baptist. The third part of the Hail Mary prayer is not from the Bible and is, in fact, in direct contradiction to Scriptural truth: “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.”
This last part of the Hail Mary prayer has three unbiblical parts to it. First, Mary is not and never was “holy.” Mary was a human being who was born, as all humans are, with a sin nature and who recognized that she needed a Savior. In fact, the very passage used in the Hail Mary, known as Mary’s Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55), contains the declaration “my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,” a clear indication that she understood her need for a Savior from sin. The Bible never says that Mary was anyone but an ordinary human whom God chose to use in an extraordinary way. Yes, Mary was a righteous woman and favored (graced) by God (Luke 1:27-28). At the same time, Mary was a sinful human being who needed Jesus Christ as her Savior, just like everyone else (Ecclesiastes 7:20; Romans 3:23; 6:23; 1 John 1:8).
The second unbiblical part of the Hail Mary is addressing Mary as the “Mother of God.” Mary was the human mother of the human Jesus Christ, who was indeed God incarnate. But she was not the mother of God, neither is she the ”queen of heaven,” another title given to her by the Catholic Church which has no basis in Scripture. God doesn’t have a mother, nor does He have a queen. He is an eternal, infinite Being, uncreated and unborn, self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
The third unbiblical statement in the Hail Mary is the plea for her to “pray for us sinners.” Here we see the unbiblical practice of praying to Mary to intercede with God for us. First, we do not need another intercessor with God. Christ is the only intercessor we need. Through Jesus and Him alone, we have direct access to the Father. Christ alone mediates and intercedes between God and man. “For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5). Prayer to anyone other than God alone is anti-biblical. Praying to Mary or petitioning her to pray for us is against the Scriptures. Prayer is an act of worship. When we pray to God, we are admitting that we need His help. Directing our prayers to anyone other than God is robbing God of the glory that is His alone, something God hates and will not tolerate (Isaiah 42:8).
https://www.gotquestions.org/Hail-Mary.html
Sounds like you are denying the divinity of Christ somewhere in heap.
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The odd thing is that we are encouraged to dig into Scripture and refute errors being spread from the pulpit...unless you are Catholic. The Catholic Church (which chose Francis as Pope) is off-limits.
This is not true. The Pope can not deviate from “the deposit of faith.” Indeed, the present Pope can and should be ignored when his comments stray, particular into secular or psuedo-religious matters.
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About that roman catholic traditional belief of the
pope being infallible....
Nothing biblical about the intercession of the saints.
Revelation 8:3-4
And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne, and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel.
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