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Thank you! Donate now! And today we celebrate Prayer for this morning. Daily meditation. This unbiblical idolatrous blasphemy is taken from Babylonian sun worship. So what percentage of Irish Catholics possess a Bible and how many of them read it? Silly of you, Jim; to ignore the very clear text above where it says the Catholic Church decided which books were to be included in the Bible.
She used her authority to declare which books were, in fact, inspired by the Holy Ghost, and deserved to be preserved, studied, meditated, and revered as the Word of God. Catholic invented the bible……seriously? You need to read it if you honestly think that. Check yourselves ladies and gentlemen. Why are we criticizing each other? Do you believe Jesus is the Messiah? Did you believe Jesus died for our sins on the The cross? The Catholics and Protestants believe in Jesus.
Which religion is not Christian? The Catholics did not invent the Bible. It was God breathed, Holy Spirit led. Explain to me why in the Bible, God directly speaks against idols, the making and worshipping of statues, praying to anyone but the father, bowing only to him. Yet, the Catholic Church has statues everywhere, they praise and bow to the pope idolatry , and pray to saints and Mary? I was catholic …. They say they believe in Jesus, yet they still have people confessing their sins to a priest.
When Jesus was crucified you no longer went through a priest, no one gets to the father except through Jesus. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. We need to confess with our mouths that Jesus Christ is Lord and repent…. We live in New Testament times, we are under the law of the messiah…. Are we still doing animal sacrifices when we sin? I hope not!
We go to God with our sins, not a man that tells us to say penance which most times is praying to Mary. Do your research and look into the history…. I pray that the Lord will begin opening peoples eye to this deception. Your churches arnt gods house there unholy and most where stolen from the catholic church which is blastermy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I find no mention of popes,nuns,cardinals,praying to mary,and priests as you have in your church in the bible.
The church you say God started, the catholic church, is mentioned nowhere in Gods word. Please give me book,chapter and verse in the bible for just these few things that you believe God has anything to do with in His church. What you believe is not in the bible. None of what you believe is in the word of God. Not one thing!!!!!!!!
Just re-read your comment. Do you read the Bible? It gives us basis and unchanged information so that we can learn more. Be humble and forgiving. Just as we may have misunderstood some of your denominational practices, you may have misunderstood ours. Please remember to respect others before you call yourself holy and call us blasphemous. As you were nominally a Catholic, I understand that you did not practice your Faith; or you would know better than to transfer to a lesser religion that excludes much of what Christ Himself commands us to do and believe.
How did you decided to leave the Catholic Church? When I asked about reading the Bible I was told that it can be misenterpreted. Then why give me a Bible. I want to know if the Cathechism and the Bible are equal then why not make it one complete book?
It feels like other Christian groups who use the Bible plus. What is the standard by which we should measure truth? For every religious group that claims the Bible plus something, the only commenailty is the Bible. My mother in law just died last week and was married to a catholic man in a Catholic Church over 40 years. The priest called when she had died firstly started to prayer for her and then realised she was not baptised and said the church would not handle her service and called her a corpse in front on my wife and her husband.
Since then the church tried to apologise through a text to another brother. This happened in Ireland where the majority of the country follow this cult. I feel sad for them that they follow such a bigoted institution. Not biblical. I want to read up on this. I must have overlooked that while I was studying my bible. Is that in the new testament or the old testament? After the child molestations the Irish just plain quit the Catholic Church.
I was raised staunch Catholic, but I never saw one person whose life was radically changed by Jesus in the Catholic Church. Sure, we were scared of breaking a commandment, and that kept us from many sins, but born again? One way- Jesus, not one way- Catholicism. Since she was already passed, yes, her body was a corpse. Never fun to have someone you love die; stop trying to cancel your sorrow with illogical anger against the Catholic Church. I frequently found my Catholic friends give no preference on bible … in 1 occasion, I was to go at Catholic church for a visiting with some of my friends then on then way I recognise that I left my bible at home.
Pat, stop being so nasty; Christ died for the salvation of all men of good will; if people have been led into heresy; you are not helping them by being nasty.
Please stop hating on our denomination. Remember to represent Christ before speaking and please read Ephesians Matthew Sadly Daniel, you have been misled by centuries of Catholic lies and myths.
Also why did the Roman Catholics murder, burn, torture thousands of true Christians because they challenged the might and money of Rome? Saint Peter has been in Rome, twice. This has been documented not only by Christian historians, but by pagans and Jews as well. Biblical proof: Peter wrote his first epistle in Babylon, which is the code name for Rome at the time because of the similar persecution Jews suffered at the hands of the Romans and earlier, from Babylonians.
Catholics have the literary, archeological and testimonial proof of his sojourn to Rome. Linus, Clement and Cletus all mentioned in the Bible, and all residents of Rome were his successors to the episcopacy and were ordained by Peter himself in Rome. If you have read the testimonies of Roman Christians and even hostile pagans immediately after the martyrdom of Peter is proof enough. My exwife is Catholic, has been for 10 yrs. My exwife tells me that that Catholics use a different bible and that theres is the only real bible.
My mother was born Catholic but left the Catholic church before i was born. All the research ive done on the Catholic church and Christians shows that Catholics are not Christians. No man can pick someone for god to talk to. GOD speaks to who he chooses!
Is so true. Catholicity is all full of lies made by man to fool them from the evangelical path. He is the only one we should ask to be our mediator not the so called saints. Mary was a good woman chosen to birth the messiah but she was still human. Yes she is right catholic bible has more books than other bibles.. This is your own idea but church ds not teach like that. As the Father hath sent me, I also send you.
Haha all these protasents uneducated our lord founded the catholic church himself Church of England for example was founded by dirty Henry 8th from nothing just because he wanted to marry loads of wives what a big joke!!!!!!!!!! I just want to assure you that true Catholicism promotes the Bible and the only reason we have the Bible is because of the early Church creating and preserving the Divinely inspired Word. Is it not those who are inside that you are to judge? God will judge those outside.
Yeah its sad that the Catholic church in the year pope Urban ordered the killing of hundreds of thousands of Turks and jews. But hey. They could get away with it. They told their soldiers that they would be forgiven their sins. To help people. My mother was born and raised Catholic, she converted before i was born. She never told me till she found out that i was doing research.
If catholics are Christians why are they not called Christians? Before you claim being catholic check the differences between Christianity and Catholics and see where you stand.
Good for you; I would recommend reading the commentary from Adam Clarke and his writing on the Holy Bible and teachings. God Bless. The bible says: Jesus is the way , the truth and the life, no man cometh to the father but by him.
John Be not deceived seek the truth while there is still time Jesus is coming soon…………….. Obviously the Bible is divinely inspired but it was created by humans, who were Catholic, lead by the Holy Spirit. To say Catholics do not believe in the Bible, read the Bible, etc. Roman Catholic believes the bible one among the other man made faiths. Religion started because of the Institutional Churches. Doctrinal fight started because of the Institutional Churches.
Lord Jesus did not created Catholic Religion. The word Catholic is meant for a Spiritual purpose. But, this word was not used by the Apostles.
Members through Faith in One Body or Institution???. These Institutions will not come to Heaven. Only those who belonged to catholic institution will be saved???. Let your eyes be opened towards the Truth. Need to read the bible from front to back, or go to a bible study group.
If you read the bibl it tells you that god told man what to write. Number 2 everything in the bible happenef after it was written. Bible warns US! Catholic religion ommits for then 10 sins against god! RCIA Rite of Christian Initiation of Adult is for everyone who is curious to know more about the Catholic faith confirmed Catholics included and really help to better understand the complexities and beauty of Catholism.
God Bless you on your journey and welcome home! Disagree here also 1. Get yourself a King James Bible and read it yourself. As you read, ask the Holy Spirit in prayer to teach you; that is His job. Joh But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Wondering if there were big differences. The KJV will not steer you wrong. And please start your Bible reading in the third chapter of John, where Jesus tells the life-long Catholic Priest that unless he is Born Again, he cannot see or enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus would like to save you, all by Himself. If you add to Jesus, you make Him less. If you say you need to do something to save yourself, then YOU are your savior.
That means instead of trying to make yourself good enough for God, good luck with that, BTW, you simply repent of that and accept Jesus instead. A one for one. How is Jesus talking to a Catholic priest in John chapter 3 if the Catholic Church was not established until after His death?
What in John 3 says that? Jesus was speaking to Nicodemus, a pharisee, a religious person, might as well have been a priest. Catholic priests are, by their beliefs and extra-biblical doctrines, holier and more righteous than Christ Himself.
They are the first that truly need the second birth. Thank you! I was beginning to wonder if anyone even knew the truth. Catholics are not Christians — Christians are not Catholics.
Thank you for your response which was put together very well, enough for a small child to understand. Catholics were the first Christians we wrote the Bible. We have been around for years. Peter which means Rock is who Jesus built His Church upon. Oh dear, someone is brainwashed.
The fall of Rome, yes. We crucified Peter upside down at his request for spreading the Gospel! We better look good for all to see! Try to cover up the hundreds of thousands that we fed to the lions! God will speak to your hearts. His sheep know his voice. Read John 3. And pray where you are. God hears you. Who set up the Catholic Church of which Peter was the first Pope? Actually,Peter means small pebble. Jesus is The Rock upon which the church is iilt.
He is the foundation. But, Catholics always give Peter special honors as if Peter had a superior holiness. Peter was jacked up just like each of us, but God used him anyway. Why do they call themselves Catholics instead of just Christian? This issue with exalting Peter idol is one of the reasons, along with requiring ppl to pay an indulgence to get a relative out of purgatory, that Martin Luther protested against Catholicism with writing Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences The 95 Thesis.
Catholicism is more focused on teaching and upholding its religious traditions as opposed to encouraging its congregants to develop a real relationship with Christ that is personal and knowledge based. In other words, Catholics are to the church what the Pharisees were to the Temple! In latin Catholic means one united Christian church so technically Catholic is Christian just a latin term for it.
In regards to Peter being the Rock there are two words used one being Petra and the other being Petros. One meaning a pebble and the other a huge boulder. For as many as call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
One the contrary. The Catholic fairh is Christian. Tina, Because the Catholic Bible was the only biblical text at the time that was of any use to the King James Bible scholars. Your statement is just ignorant. Ignorance is a lack of true knowledge.
Educate yourself. The world Christian simply means that one does and obeys all the teachings of Christ. Yet Catholics claim they were given authority to change the 10 commandments. They even falsely declare that gods holy sanctified Sabbath day has been changed to Sunday the pagan first day of the week. We know the Sabbath will never be changed from its original date because God prophesied in the old testament book of Daniel, while talking about the end times on earth, that the beast will change his days and laws.
Which is exactly what the Catholic church did in the year under pagan Roman emperor Constantine. Yet God told us in the book of Daniel, that whoever changed his laws would be doing it under the authority of the beast. Hardly christian. The Catholic Church is the one true Church of Christ.
It was the first and all others are separated from it. Do your work before making false claims. You know a lot of people love to speak without the truth of the knowledge. The old testament was written because that was the law the our creator has put upon us, but the new testament is where jesus Christ our savior the creators only son has be cruxified for us and he came to change some of the laws of the old testament.
Why did Jesus with the creators permission permit for jesus to change the 10 commandment to save his children that he love a lot because he knew that with the devil roaming around not everyone was able to keep all ten commandments. That is in the bible that Jesus himself changed the commandments, not the catholics.
You can take the 7 day to go to church to praise the lord, read the bible and keep it holy by not doing other things, but dedicating it to the Lord. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works. Mark If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end.
But there are some who are disturbing you and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ. Or am I seeking to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ. His Call by Christ. Here the Lord is telling all of you that there is only one church which he establish years ago the Roman Catholic and he is offended that you allowed for others to decive you to go to false churches.
Matthew And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the Gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Peter was the first pope of the Roman Catholic the church that Jesus Christ established and said you must go and attend to it.
Plus Peter is the only one that can get you to heaven, so no other churches can. One God, One church and one teaching. God bless!!! Do you know about the Schism? Some of what you have said here is not what all Catholics are taught. Jesus fulfilled the law.
When he rose from the dead, all changed from the physical to the spiritual. Praise God! If that were not truth, we would still have to sacrifice animals to be forgiven. Our Lord scrificed his perfect blood. Those of us that have have his spirit in our hearts also have the beautiful gift of grace.
No one can stop sinning. Our flesh is sin. God sees only our hearts. Knock and the door shall be opened. Seek and ye shall find. The Holy Spirit will bring all truth. Love and light through our Lord Jesus Christ. Jews and Muslims consider Christians idolaters because they made a man into a god. It appears Christians have changed the first two commandments. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Catholics are the first Christians.
They are called Catholics by St Ignatius of Antioch to describe the universality of their mission. Acts …And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
Colossians Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the traditions of men… If you can only find the reason that you are doing something in religious sect literature, you might be following a tradition started by a man or men that want to control others. How many times have I heard that if one commits suicide they are going to hell? Humans have weaknesses but if you let Jesus into your heart, He will never leave you or forsake you.
Do you talk to God through Jesus Christ? If not you are following a tradition of men. God bless you all as you seek the Truth. John Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the light…No man cometh unto the Father but by me. Anyone who believes in Jesus Christ is a Christian regardless of what faith you claim to be. Some may be misguided nevertheless still a Christian. Atheists are not Christians. Agnostics are not also. Please bear this in mind.
Not everyone the believes in Jesus is a Christian. The bible is very specific about this, it says that even the demons believe that Jesus is the Son of God. Does that make them Christian? It is only those that confess with their mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe in their heart that he has saved them.
Repenting of their sin and turning from there wicked ways. Belief without change is just religion. Do you even know what the word Catholic means? It means, universal. In essence all Christians are Catholic. All denominations of Christianity derrive from the mother church. Catholicism is different as it is idolatry to Mother Mary and he Pope, Christianity does not idol anyone but Christ.
Where are you getting your information from?? Catholics are indeed Christians. Jesus is the One Who established the Catholic Church. Catholic means universal. I was trying to figure out which Bible was right for me.
Our new young pastor says any are good, but I have noticed the meaning is changed with the wording. Thank you for helping me to realize KJV the right bible. My Pastor taught us that the King James Version is the best way and that we should pray as well as read. He feels that it is fine to use other versions to compare but the base of our reading for our growth should he be the King James Version. I just know that it is. So as just a regular person I recommend the original King James Version.
Using other versions to help you study or for clarification. Best wishes. First of all you say that he was catholic. Not true he was a pharisees. Second of all did you read john and john Why do people constantly pick on the Catholic church when we follow what Jesus taught us to the best of our ability.
If you Truly believe Jesus is Lord and try to follow His teachings to the best of your ability, you are saved… Also Luke We are all followers of the same Christ Jesus. Do Catholics not read scripture? I have wondered about the 7th day and what was the name of the seventh day when God ended all of his creation? Did not the Jewish calendar read from right to left? What if we today would read from right to left, what would be the seventh day then?
Are you a born again? Cause what you are saying is self opinionated , prejudice and stupid, I would not trust a born again they are all sckers. And please pray to God, and not to Jesus. We should always pray to God even if we believe in the holy Trinity. If you do your history the calendar has changed multiple times. A Jewish calendar of today or a Georgian calendar will not ever match to the oldest ones found.
As for changing day of the week of the Sabbath you must also remember the Bible says every day is to be treated as the sabbath. You truly need to read more. As for Catholics idolizing Mary I partly agree but only because that is what I was taught. To me praying to Mary is wrong because no man comes to the Father except through Christ.
And I think confession is weird too because to me it is almost going backwards where sacrifices were given and the priest of the old testament did the prayers and asked for God to forgive his people.
I dont care what day they worship on Or what Bible they use or if they attend Church of some type or not. John is my reasoning for that. And the law of the old testament was fulfilled by Christ so if the 10 commandments were changed then why and what?
You have shown no evidence of such. So please give clear things words and meanings change and words are removed from dictionaries or added all the time so updated to help people understand not to remove anything. Amen to that! The are two points in seperate posts that need to be addressed: first-All Catholics are Christians while not all Christians are Catholic. All one needs to look at is John as a start. And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
No church other than the Holy Roman Catholic church has this or ever will. In the beginning was the Catholic universal church. Protest-ant came out of this. Christ is perfect and his church isnt but the Holy Spirit guides it till the end of time as he promised. God Bless all reading this.
Peter was a devout Jew. Catholics despise jews and reject their teachings and traditions. False prophet Catholics changed gods times 7th day Sabbath for 1st day sabbath and holy feast days instead of Passover, they honor manmade pagan Easter and christmas. Hint: no-one in the bible even honored birthdays because it was rooted in sorcery and astrology. Wake up. I get the impression that perpetual in this context is kind of beyond days of the week. Like scripture should be. Plus with the changing of calendars through the ages, day names would have been moved around, so would god just like the name Friday, or would it be a actual day marked but now lost, or is it just arbitrary!?
The noun form is used primarily to denote the seventh day of the week, though it may occasionally refer to the Sabbath week Lev at the end of every seven Sabbaths or fifty days, or the Sabbath year Lev in which the land was to be at complete rest. Then Enemy has taken up residence in your heart. Through hatred you have opened a door to Satan and he has confused and perverted your faith — as is his want.
Remember God loves all of his creation — without exception. Every single person. When you can rid yourself of your judgmental urges, and sincerely love all people without measuring their worth by your standards, you will become once again as pure as the day of your birth. Why do you speak of Daniel, or Melchizedek, or Solomon?
Christ did not choose Paul to follow him while He walked the Earth. Yet all of you so called Christians worship the words of Paul as the true word of God.
Pray for true revelation and discernment. God will answer…and enlighten you. I am the way the truth and the life. If we both believe these words in the Bible we we know the Christ was the anointed one and Jesus appeared to Saul and became a chosen vessel of Christ to take the word t o all that would believe.
Christ is no respector of persons. Paul did not self proclaim. Satan is so smart. What better way to cause hate than to use different churches and doctrines? Judgement is not our job. Light and love from our Lord Jesus Christ. I am a Catholic and have been all my life.
I do not hate Jews. My Church, my Catholic faith does not hate Jews. For some reason I get the distinct impression that you might hate us??? I only hold up my Lord, Jesus Christ as my Savior. Catholic doctrine teaches this, but it is a self-serving error. Why do you think Martin Luther had such problems with the Catholic Church and what it taught, like indulgences and purgatory.
Get out of religion and find you a strong teaching ministry focused on teaching the exegetical word of God only! Your post was very informative except for the accuracy of John and in the third chapter about Nicodemus going to Jesus. There was no Catholics then. They came about way after Christ. Just an FYI. Peter was the first poop he was the successor to Christ he still is Christ on earth.
If you read the Bible you would know that because Jesus said that our theater and upon this rock I will build my church. Jesus is the Word. Born agains give other Christians a bad name. They listen to CDs of teachings not realizing they are keeping some fraudster rich who is reading a verse from a KJV. The God of Luck is actually Satan himself.
God says to throw your burdens on him. Catholic came long before KJV! People like you need to step back and learn a bit more before running the mouth! It is supposed to all be about God! If an opinion is asked for and you feel inclined to give one, do it!
But it is only an opinion. Just as the Bible is…an opinion! I was raised Catholic. I am Methodist. I know if something is missing is wordage I refer elsewhere to get all info I need. But KJV is just that! People wrote what King James told them to! He was not God! He was a person! He had an opinion and gave it and happened to have the power to get a book written…which by the way left out several books for the Bible!
Know your history before running your mouth and bullying people…. If you were baptized Catholic, then you are on the right track. If you want the truth I would recommend the Jerusalem Bible.
Catholicism which means universal is years old started by Jesus Himself. Simon Peter Peter, which means Rock was our first Pope. Just do your research and decide for yourself. A few differences were in punctuation. He went to the grave. On the third day, He rose and stayed on earth for 40 days before ascending.
Most specifically, they subtracted the 2nd commandment about not making any graven images, moved the 4th commandment and made it tbe 3rd, changing it from 89 words on keeping the seventh day Sabbath holy to 8 words on keeping the Lords day holy and claiming that it was the 1st days of the week. They openly admit changing the day themselves. Nowhere in the Bible can Sunday be found. Constantine changed it so that the pagans would join the Catholic church because they worshipped the pagan sun god.
This Sunday worship is actually a counterfeit of the true Seventh day Sabbath. There are many other versions that have not made changes that actually change the meanings, such as the New King James Version, the New American Standard Version and others that I am not as much familiar with.
I hope this helps and if you ask God for truth He will give it to you. He is the only One who has earned the right to forgive sins. Anyone else claiming that right is lying. I have had the same discussion with family and church members about Sunday sabbath and was told I should be Jewish. Not so,God gave Saturday as His day and all peoples day of rest in Genesis. The KJV is a good translation. But other versions are also helpful.
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