Someone told him, "Your mother and brothers are standing outside wanting to see you". He replied, "My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and obey it"(Luke 8:20,21)
"And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him." HEBREWS 11:6
@@ariston5433he calls all to reconciliation. It is true man cannot first seek God unless God Himself first sent out the invite to reconcile with him. 1 John 2:2, Titus 2:11, Romans 10:11-13, Revelation 22:17, 1 Timothy 2:4-6
@@brianstough5286 I appreciate you getting the message out but throwing a Bible verses to smack someone over the head really doesn’t help. For instance how much faith do you need no one can measure the depth of faith in some else’s soul as a matter of fact they can’t measure it in their own soul. There is no way to measure it! So my answer is always this to the question are you saved ? I am being saved. Besides it’s none of your business. I think that is an honest answer to a question that cannot really be answered with a definitive yes. Only God knows that answer. No other human has the knowledge, power or ability to know if God has saved another’s soul. If you say someone else is not saved I would not want to be you in judgement day. And that is my honest answer to you.
@@brianstough5286 Are you saved. I think the proper question is have you accepted Christ into your heart? If yes then great ! But salvation is a life long process that never ends until we die even then we’re are not perfection. God knows the heart of each person. Each life is different each person has had different struggles and problems , some very much worse than others. So no one has the right to ask are you saved? Only God knows that. To tell someone they are not saved is totally arrogant and down right demonic because it shows you are full of pride thinking you are better.
The only God for Catholics is God. Honoring and asking the prayers of the women who said "yes" to God's invitation to carry, give birth to, and raise the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, is not idolatry. What is idolatry is your worship of your private interpretation of Scripture. The practice by its very nature is prideful, and the fruits of this pride is doctrinal confusions and continual division. "the church is the pillar and foundation of the truth" (1 Tim 3:15) and not the private interpretations of an individual/group.
Matthew 12:48-50 Jesus Christ said whoever does the will of my Father in Heaven is my mother,brother,and sister!? Catholics are not true Christians they believe salvation is by works alone WRONG 😑 Salvation is by Faith! Catholicism is a man made religion & denominations they never refer themselves as Christians only by denominations they either know the difference,or pretend not to know?? Rosary 📿 is full of idolatry!! There’s one more extremely important thing they never teach about being born again? You will not inherit the kingdom of our Heavenly Father Lord God unless you’re born of the spirit & fire? 🇦🇺👏❤️✌️🌍👋
Tell that to Catholics ! Which part of idolatry is a sin they don’t understand?? They pray the rosary 📿 John MacArthur said Mary is dead,and buried so are the saints they can’t hear their prayers the only one that can hear you is our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth cause he’s alive sitting on the right side of his Father Lord God in Heaven!! Men made religion they never say I’m a Christian my denomination is catholic? Bless you brother your sister in Christ Jesus ✝️ Edit: Salvation is by Faith alone not by works!?
Mary NEVER said anything about being a Savior. But She is referred to as "Mother of our Redeemer". Galatians 4:4-5 New King James Version 4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, *born under the law,* 5 *to redeem those who were under the law,* that we might receive the adoption as sons.* -----God sent His Son, born of a woman, to redeem us. Mary is the woman with the redeemer. By calling Mary co-redemptrix, we are simply calling Mary "the woman with the redeemer." This is because "co" is from the Latin word "cum" which means "with." Therefore, "co-redemptrix" means "woman with the redeemer." Mary had a unique but subordinate role to Jesus in salvation.
@@salachenkoforley7382you are saying she is co redeemer but that is NOT WHAT THE WORD OF GOD IS SAYING .....it says nothing about her being our mother or anything you saying......SHE IS NOT QUEEN OF HEAVEN
@@TriciaPerry-ef7bi : You may now show me your evidence from the Bible where it says Mary is not a co-redeemer, not our mother and she's not the queen of heaven.
@@srich7503 we ask prayer to each others when we are alive only. When we die we will be waiting for God's judgment. Every one is personal that we cannot ask or pray for the deceased. For this we must obey God's commandment and do the good works for salvation.
@@srich7503 What brings people to God? It is God's word and the Holy Spirit. When people speak they speak what God has already said. It is then not the speaker that brings a person to God but His(God's ) word. Do you have remorse for things that you have done? That is the Holy Spirit convicting you. When we pray for others that brings glory to God, it builds faith in the person asking for prayer, and for the person being asked all of this brings glory to God. Our very lives 24/7 should bring glory to God. That is the meaning of the 10 commandments. We fail at this which is called sin and fall from God's graces. We need someone that can present us back to God and that can only happen through Jesus. No church, religion, Mary, or anything man can do or say will bring us back to God. Only Jesus can accomplish this. This is why knowing what the Bible says is vitally important. More important than what any religion has to say!
@@stever4181 You said “when we pray for others that brings glory to God, it builds faith in the person asking for prayers, and the person being asked…” There is the answer to the OP. Thank you Steve!!! The rest of Steves answer is just becomes stawman by definition
I heard a Catholic say Satan is more afraid of Mary than God. That was all I needed to hear to turn the other way. I've read the marian prayers, remove the name Mary and add the name Jesus and people would say its worship. Words are practically the same. I've read many of them and they are too much for me.
@@PInk77W1 I think part of the issue is with protestant songs such as the one that goes "hail Jesus you're my king". Well it's not biblical though to say "Hail Jesus". The Bible says "Hail Mary". (Luke 1:28)
We can perform the same actions, doesn't mean it has the same intentions behind it. From the outside it may look like worship, but in reality it is not.
Jesus said more about Mary Magdalene than he did about his mother. When she anointed the feet of Jesus, He said that she would be remembered wherever the gospel was preached because of it. Wasn't she the first one Jesus appeared to after the resurrection. Catholicism likes to read a lot of things into their teachings. Mariology desecrates the position of Jesus Christ and His sacrifice.
"Jesus said more about Mary Magdalene than he did about his mother." How do you know??? John says there wouldn't be enough books in the whole earth to record all that Jesus said and did. You were there listening to Jesus for 33 years? "Mariology desecrates the position of Jesus Christ and His sacrifice." That's absurd.
@@inthemiddleof Mary is called "blessed" by all generations. That is high praise which Mary Magdalene does not receive. Magdalene was a saved sinner. Mary participated in salvation by mothering the one who would deliver it. Worship has no place except in relation to God, not to any creature, including Mary.
@hamidrabiipour9707 *There are many who converted to luciferianism or atheism after years of study too. How does "conversion" prove it's truth? Bible says God's Word is truth. Jn **17:17**. Not "conversion" is truth. Roman religion has no truth. 95% of Roman doctrines did not come from Scriptures.* 1. Catholics say Mary was sinless. But BIBLE says Mary offered a sinner's offering. She was a sinner. Bible says Mary needed a Saviour. Lk 2:23-24, Lev 12:6-8, Rom 3:10. 2. Catholics say clergies must be celibate. Yet BIBLE says Peter (supposed R Church first leader) had mother in law. Bible says celibacy is not a qualification for clergies. Mat 8:14-15, Mar 1:30-31, Luk 4:38-39. 3. Catholics say Mary was forever virgin. Yet BIBLE says Jesus had brothers and sisters. Mary was not perpetually virgin. Mk 6:3, Mat 13:55, Mat 27:56, Mar 6:3, Mar 15:40, Mar 15:47. 4. Catholics say confess to R priests in a box. BIBLE says nothing about confessing to priests in a box. Bible says confess to GOD only. 1 John 1:9, Mat 6, Romans 10:9-10. 5. Catholics say drink of the physical blood of Jesus. Yet OT and NT both say do not drink blood. Acts 15, Lev 7:26. 6. Catholics say pray to passed on Mary and "saints". Yet BIBLE says do not contact the dead. NT Church did not record a single case of NT believers asking passed on saints to pray for them. Deut 18:11, Isaiah 8:19. 7. Catholics make and bow down to statues. BIBLE says do not bow down to graven images (statues). Deut 4, Exo 20:4-5. 8. Catholics sprinkles “holy water”. But NT Church of the Bible mentioned nothing about “holy water”. There was no record of any Apostles sprinkling “holy water” on believers. Catholics claimed “holy water” came from OT. Yet Num 5:17 says “holy water” was water used to test adulterous women in OT temple. Hardly the same. Those were for Old Covenant Jews. Not New Testament Christians. 9. Catholics say Peter was pope - bishop of all bishops. Yet BIBLE says Peter was just a leader of the Jerusalem Church. Bible says nothing of the office of bishop of bishops. Gal 2:9, Mat 16:18. 10. Catholics say there is a seat of Peter. Yet BIBLE says nothing about it. Jesus said “not to lord over others”. 11. Catholics has clergy priesthood. Bible says clergy priesthood was done away with in New Testament. There is no clergy priesthood in NT. Heb 7:27, 9:12, 10:10. 12. Catholics preaches Works Salvation (faith + good works + partake R sacraments + submit to R pontiff + be in R Church + devote to Mary = to be saved). Yet Bible says “believe in Jesus to be saved”. Bible says Works Salvation is cursed. Gal 1:8-9. Acts 16:30-31, John 3:16, Romans 10:9-10. 13. Catholics says they must do Penance to atone for their sins. Yet Bible says repent, confess and sins will be forgiven. Catholic Bible changes the word “repentance” in NT into “penance”. Original Greek NT does not use or mean the word penance. Penance = work to atone for sins. Repentance = change of heart. 1 John 1:9, Mat 6. 14. Catholics say Mary went straight to heaven without dying. Yet Bible says nothing about it. 15. Catholics say Islam and Christianity have the same GOD. Yet Islam doesn't believe in death and resurrection of Jesus and Trinity. you said For your own scrutiny please look up dr. John Bergsma, a highly educated Protestant preacher who after years of studying & research left his denomination, salary, & some friends for the sake of the Truth and finally joined the Catholic Church. He explains the reason in plain language so all can relate to & understand. Do it for your own spiritual development & leave the false preachers like MacArthur at the bottom of the pit where they belong.
*Salvation for Gentile believers:* *Two third of New Testament says Salvation is Not By Works (Faith Alone Doctrine)* Luke 23:43 - the thief at the Cross believed in Jesus and he was in Paradise thereafter. NOT WORKS! John 1:29 - Christ the Lamb of GOD who takes away the sins of the world ... (NOT OUR WORKS) John 3:16 - saved by believing in Jesus. NOT WORKS! Acts 16:30-31 - saved by believing in Jesus. NOT WORKS! Rom 4. Vs 1-2 - justified NOT BY WORKS! Vs 3 - Abraham believed (FAITH) and was accounted as RIGHTEOUSNESS. Vs 4 - WORKS are debts . Vs 5 - he who DOES NOT WORK is JUSTIFIED . Vs 5 - God justifies the ungodly, Vs 5 - FAITH was accounted as RIGHTEOUSNESS. Vs 6 - Blessedness Apart from WORKS! Imputation of RIGHTEOUSNESS by FAITH. Vs 8 - imputation of RIGHTEOUSNESS apart from WORKS! Vs 9-10 - Abraham was made RIGHTEOUS BY FAITH BEFORE ANY WORKS! Vs 9-10 - Abraham received seal of RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE FAITH by imputation. NOT WORKS! Vs 11 - Promise to Abraham was through RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE FAITH. Vs 14-15 - Faith is made void by works of the law, works of the Law brings Wrath, Not salvation. Vs 22 - Abraham believed (FAITH) and was accounted as RIGHTEOUSNESS . Vs 22 - RIGHTEOUSNESS imputed on those who believed. Not those who WORKS! Rom 11:6 - IF IT IS WORKS, IT’S NO LONGER GRACE . 2 Cor 5:21 - GOD made Jesus who knew no sin to become sin for us, that we might become the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD. Gal 2:16 - not justified by WORKS OF THE LAW, BUT BY FAITH IN JESUS. BY WORKS OF THE LAW, NO MAN IS JUSTIFIED! Gal 2:21 - if RIGHTEOUSNESS comes through the law, then Christ died in vain. Gal 3:1-5 - Paul said Christians who started by faith, why end up following WORKS of law (not only Mosaic laws)? Are you made perfect by flesh (WORKS)? Gal 3:1-5 - Did God do miracles by your faith believing or by your WORKS of law? Eph 2:8-9 - saved by grace through faith NOT BY WORKS. Eph 2: 8-9 - salvation is a GIFT. NOT WORKS! 2 Tim 1:9 - saved NOT according to our WORKS. Titus 3:5 - saved NOT BY WORKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. 1 Pet 2:24 - Christ (the Lamb of GOD) bore our sins … (NOT OUR WORKS).
@@rnbham39 *RCs are the usual lack of knowledge. Faith Alone come with Good Works, Eph **2:10**.* *Faith Alone doctrine:* - Eph 2:8-9. Salvation is not by works. - Eph 2:10. Saved to do good works.
@@rnbham39don’t just choose one poorly interpreted verse to justify an abominable position. Catholics love doing that. They’ll always resort to quoting one Bible verse bc they can’t find multiple so they twist the one they got. Not to mention the idolatry of the church, Mary, accessories, popes, etc. Genuine salvation comes when we humble ourselves before Christ and place our faith in him. For it is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone we are saved. It’s all about the relationship not the religion. John 3:16, Acts 16:31, Romans 10:9, John 8:12, Ephesians 2:8-9, and the entirety of Romans and Galatians are abundantly clear. Jesus can save you! Just come to him and trust that he alone is worthy and powerful enough to save you! I speak not out of pride but out of love, knowing that you are God’s creation and knowing that Jesus brings us out of the flames. I pray this helps! Christ bless!
unbeLlEver - Firstly Our Lord was Born Of a Virgin Mary Miraculous way - to NOT to disrupt her Virginity - He was born AS A LIGHT - as a stream of Holy Light - thus His MOTHER Mary was and is an EVER-VIRGIN!
@@mikehawthorne1396 *Nice fairy tales. Where in the Bible says "blah blah blah, thus thus His MOTHER Mary was and is an EVER-VIRGIN"? If you can find that i will give you are lollipop. Lol* you said Firstly Our Lord was Born Of a Virgin Mary Miraculous way - to NOT to disrupt her Virginity - He was born AS A LIGHT - as a stream of Holy Light - thus His MOTHER Mary was and is an EVER-VIRGIN!
He is a shocking heretic! Wake up. Don't follow cults just because their shows are based more on entertainment and their version of Christianity is easier to follow...just pay the ticket for the show.
Well, if you want an example of selfless faith, the kid from Nazareth was a pretty good example. Luke 1: 46"Then Mary said: 'My soul magnifies the Lord, 47and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior!'"
Yes, Mary was an example of selfless faith. But, notice Mary also called God *my Savior* . This proves that Roman Catholic Catechism is in _COMPLETE CONTRADICTION OF SCRIPTURE_ by claiming Mary remained sinless her whole life long. *MARY WOULD NOT NEED A SAVIOR IF SHE WAS SINLESS* . Only Almighty God is sinless.
Nit picky, nit picky! There is tons of stuff in the Bible that would send you to Hell, but I won't try and name them, I'll just forgive you.@@elsemorris906
I have no idea what you are ranting about. Every creature that has ever lived on planet Earth has been "mortal" What "mortal woman?" Almighty God made everything! The stars in the night sky, everything! Yes, even you. @@elsemorris906
And Mary was saved from that sin prior to Her conception. Blessed art Mary amongst women. The Queen Mother of our Church. The Ark of the New Covenant now clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
@@billpletikapich5640 Respectfully the Bible is the only true reference datum (a point at which all points are measured from) and not any church's teachings. Mary falls under the curse of sin because she is a descendent of Adam. By the working law of genetics which is identical in principal to gravity. She inherited from Adam a broken fallen sinful nature. She had sinful propensities which we all suffer from in varying degree's. Mankind looks upon the outward appearance to measure a person but God sees inwardly upon the human heart and by which spirit we are actuated. In Mary God found someone he could trust with his precious beloved son.
@@davidsowens I respectfully disagree that the Bible is the only true data point. This enters the debate of where and when the bible and its cannon originated and numerous other issues. Using just the bible and the cannon that MacArthur uses, we see that Mary is immaculately conceived. We see her sinless acceptance of a Virgin birth and declaration of Blessed amongst women to be in stark contrast to Abraham the Father Faith who needed several covenants to come around to God's way of thinking. Mary's role as explicated in the bible is as the Ark of The New Covenant. She birthed Jesus, taught and mothered Jesus, She interceded at His First Miracle, She was at His death on the Cross where she was declared to be our Mother and She was in the upper room during Pentecost where she was made the Queen Mother of the Church and She is seated on a throne in Heaven. I don't assign limits and timing to God and His ability to save Mary at Conception for Her to be immaculately conceived. In fact, The Immaculate conception was the norm in Christianity until late into the Reformation; Martin Luther along with numerous church fathers in the early church wrote that Mary was Immaculately Conceived: Mary is the New Eve who produced the fruit of our Salvation . MARTIN LUTHER wrote: "Mary is the Mother of Jesus and the Mother of all of us even though it was Christ alone who reposed on her knees . . . If he is ours, we ought to be in his situation; there where he is, we ought also to be and all that he has ought to be ours, and his mother is also our mother. (Sermon, Christmas, 1529) It is a sweet and pious belief that the infusion of Mary's soul was effected without original sin; so that in the very infusion of her soul she was also purified from original sin and adorned with God's gifts, receiving a pure soul infused by God; thus from the first moment she began to live she was free from all sin" (Sermon: "On the Day of the Conception of the Mother of God," 1527) She is full of grace, proclaimed to be entirely without sin- something exceedingly great. For God's grace fills her with everything good and makes her devoid of all evil. (Personal {"Little"} Prayer Book, 1522)" God Bless You !
@@davidsowens Martin Luther certainly had more depth and breadth in his read of the bible. Numerous early church fathers wrote on Mary's Immaculate Conception. There was no real objection until the 1800's. The eminent Lutheran scholar Arthur Carl Piepkorn (1907-73) has also confirmed that Luther believed in the Immaculate Conception even as a Protestant. Here is Martin Luther in his own words: “It is a sweet and pious belief that the infusion of Mary’s soul was effected without original sin; so that in the very infusion of her soul she was also purified from original sin and adorned with God’s gifts, receiving a pure soul infused by God; thus from the first moment she began to live she was free from all sin” - Martin Luther’s Sermon “On the Day of the Conception of the Mother of God,” 1527. “She is full of grace, proclaimed to be entirely without sin-something exceedingly great. For God’s grace fills her with everything good and makes her devoid of all evil. - Martin Luther’s Little Prayer Book, 1522. Both quotations derive from Luther’s writings after his break from Rome.
@@davidsowens And God saved Mary from that curse at conception so she could be "immaculately conceived" - His fully human, fully divine child never touched sin. Martin Luther held this same exegesis and wrote on it along with numerous church fathers. All writings are easily searched on-line. Next, search on typology of Mary and you can confirm all the bible VS. from which Mary gets Her titles such as The New Eve, Ark of The New Covenant, Queen Mother of The Church. etc. Its alarming that MacArthur doesn't know this or chooses to ignore it. I certainly was surprised when I studied more deeply into Mary.
i would recommend you read Revelation 12:1-9. The woman in Rev 12is the mother of the Messiah. She also represents the faithful of Israel crying. out for. the Messiah (Rev12.2). The depiction of the woman is rich in biblical symbolism: 1.Antagonism between the woman and the dragon (the ancient serpent (12:9)recalls Gen 3:15, the first prophecy inScripture to foretell the demise of the devil through the Messiah. 2. Images of the sun, moon and stars call to mind Gen 37:9-10where they symbolizes the family of Israel,namely Jacob, his wife and his twelve sons. 3. Because the woman is a queen who wears a crown and a mother who beards royal male child she is also the Queen Mother of the Davidic Kingdom established by Jesus. I hope this help you understand where Mary is in the Bible.
Blessed are you among women!!! Being full of God’s grace meant there wasn’t a single part of her that had any sin. At the moment of her death she was assumed both soul and body into heaven. Since she was Sinless in both soul and body she was assumed complete not needing a new glorified body because she was already complete. Where as the rest of us sinners will get a glorified body,
Just out of curiosity , if Mary is all merciful , mediator , and basically makes Jesus take a “ back seat “ to redemption then what did Jesus die for ? I don’t mean this in a nasty way way , but how can anyone read the Bible ( if they do ) and believe this tripe ?
Don’t you practice mercy ? Don’t you pray / intercede / mediate for others ? Nowhere does the Catholic Church she is above Jesus. Her existence is to promote her Son as lord and savior
YOU = what did Jesus die for ? ME = The reason why Jesus incarnated and died on the Cross was to redeem the = curse = caused by Adam and Eve's disobedience The Bible and OT begins with the = FALL = in the Garden of Eden of the man Adam who was given the directive by God to not eat of the forbidden =TREE= Gen 2;17. Eve, on the other hand, must have learned of this directive from Adam. The result of the Fall was to render the ground cursed and Adam and Eve dismissed from the garden Eden. The NT begins with the birth and = RISE = of Jesus, the spiritual Adam =1 Corinthians 15:21-23 = , who redeems man by His death on the TREE ( cross ) and is then buried in the Garden. What the Bible does = not = state is that God slammed the gates of Heaven shut after the Fall because Adam and Eve had taken on the nature of the devil. For when confronted by God, Adam blamed God = the woman YOU gave me = Adam also blamed Eve. Eve likewise blamed the devil ( serpent ). Instead of asking forgiveness from God who walked with them = Gen. 3:8, they played the Blame Game as children of the devil = 1 John 3:8 = and thus God had no option but to expel them from Eden and made them and their descendants ineligible for Heaven, through = Original Sin. This Original Sin is what Jesus came to pay by His death and shed Blood, as well as reverse God's curse on the ground. Thus the Tree which was the downfall of mankind now became the symbol = the Cross = of man's redemption. And the Garden where Jesus' body was laid now became the symbol of man's eligibility to Heavenly Paradise and thus has reversed the shame of his ousting from Eden and the reversal of the cursed ground. Third, the Fall of humankind began when Eve listened to and obeyed the = Fallen ANGEL =who is the devil. On the other hand, Mary listened and agreed with the = ANGEL = Gabriel to be the mother of Jesus who became the Redeemer. by His death on the TREE of the Cross. . Catholics thus believe that Eve brought about the Fall, whereas Mary contributed to the Rise of Mankind and have no problem in calling Mary = Co-Redeemer. Fourth, after Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, God called out to Adam = only = and he replied = I heard you in the garden, but I was afraid because I was NAKED, so I hid myself = Gen.3:10. On the other hand, when Jesus, the spiritual Adam, was nailed to the Tree, He was rendered NAKED = John 19:23 = with no way to hide. Fifth = 2 facts = First, Jesus was crowned with THORNS. Second =“And being in agony, Jesus prayed more earnestly. Then His SWEAT became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44). This = sweat Blood = of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, added to Jesus' thorn-crowned head, reversed and made satisfaction for God's curse in Genesis 3:17-19 = “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce THORNS and thistles for you and you will eat the plants of the field.19 By the SWEAT of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, Thus Catholics believe that Jesus came down from Heaven as a man to die and pay the penalty of Adam's sin which closed the gates of Heaven and imposed Original Sins on all Adam's descendants - you and me. === It is Finished = was Jesus' triumphant cry of Mission accomplished and that Heaven gates were now opened. Moreover, Jesus' death and shed Blood paid for and covered the = Original Sins = of all those past, those now living as well as those yet unborn. Furthermore, Baptism is a - one-time - Grace event which washes away all our prior sins. However, we are responsible for all sins after Baptism - as confirmed by Jesus' " execution " of Ananias and Sapphira from the 1st Christian Faith community - Acts 5. And this was shortly = after = Jesus' heavenly ascent. Jesus expects = More = from Christians as we have the best example of Jesus Himself = Luke 12:48. Moreover, the Cross is the very symbol of Christianity. The long vertical beam represents our love for God and the short horizontal beam represents our love for Neighbour. For God is the God of Love and heaven is the perfect place of love. And that is why God expects and demands our practice of love whilst on earth so as to qualify for heavenly entry. Even the final judgement is based on love - Matthew 25. Thus Catholicism promotes the sacraments, especially that of Confession and Holy Communion, as well as Mass attendance, Eucharistic Adorations, Stations of the Cross, Benedictions, Novenas, etc. Most Protestants have a different belief from Catholics as to why Jesus incarnated and died on the Cross that they have consider themselves = inheritors = of Christ's saving act and thus their need to do no more than have Faith in Jesus to be " saved " which they mean to be granted Heavenly citizenship. Thus they deny the need for works as these are considered " boastful." Basically, Protestants have shifted their gaze and focus from the 4 Gospels which detail Jesus' teachings which were given by the Heavenly Father for our salvation, teachings which spell =Tough Love = and have adopted " cherry-picked " passages mainly from Paul's letters such as Romans 10:9 They believe that God will forgive all sins, not only those against God but even sins against neighbour, forever = despite Jesus' warning in Matthew 6:14-15 and Matthew 18:32-35 = and have adopted the Doctrine of = Saved by Grace = Ephesians 2:8-9 - and that all sins past, present and future are covered by the Blood of Christ. They believe that Jesus came to earth to die and take away all sins and its guilt association. His cry - It is finished - proved that human redemption from sin was completed, and that those who believe in Jesus would have their names forever written in the Lamb's Book of Life and at the time of death, they would be - absent in the flesh, present with the Lord forever - no matter how many or how grievous they committed sins. Others would be caught up and - raptured - to be with Jesus forever. Thus the promise of salvation was God's free gift - grace - to them. Protestantism is a religious philosophy - a hearer and not doer of the Word thus deceiving themselves - James 1:22. While there is belief in Christ to be sure, there is no substance, no forms of worship and thanksgiving to our God Jesus for His - WORKS - of creation and redemption. There is no Confession as per the formula that Jesus gave on the very day ( evening ) of His Resurrection from the dead , when He - empowered - His Apostles to forgive sins - or - retain them- John 20:22-23. There is no participation in Holy Communion which Jesus declared was - Real Food and Drink - for ETERNAL LIFE - John 6:53-58. Even their churches have no kneelers to kneel and bow down before our God and Maker. And there is no difference between Protestant marriages and - easy - divorce and non-Christian ones. Protestants deny the need for Good Works despite that the Great Judgement is based on Works - Matthew 25 And Jesus gave an example by doing a - World of Works - John 21:25
@@zenyattamondatta7757 2 Facts First = Check my comment headed by @loboman8029 1 month ago Regarding why Catholics seek Mary's intercession, here are 2 cases. ========================================= Second = Why do Protestants not understand the reason why Jesus incarnated as a man, died on the Cross and declare= It is Finished ? They thus arrive at doctrines that are heretical as they spell = Easy Christianity and cheap Grace = contrary to the 4 Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John which speak of Jesus' = Tough Love = message ===If you Love Me, keep My commandments, especially the Love of God and Neighbour. Jesus also defined a Christian as one who = Denies oneself, carries one's cross daily and follows Jesus. And = More = is expected of Christians as we have the greatest example of Jesus = Luke 12:48. And Jesus' parables, often prefaced by = the kingdom of Heaven = or = the reign of God = require us to multiply our talents, become more fruitful " soil " as well s wise virgins carrying oil = or else we will be denied heavenly entry The reason why Jesus incarnated was to redeem the = curse = caused by Adam and Eve's disobedience The Bible and OT begins with the = FALL = in the Garden of Eden of the man Adam who was given the directive by God to not eat of the forbidden =TREE= Gen 2;17. Eve, on the other hand, must have learned of this directive from Adam. The result of the Fall was to render the ground cursed and Adam and Eve dismissed from the garden Eden. The NT begins with the birth and = RISE = of Jesus, the spiritual Adam =1 Corinthians 15:21-23 = , who redeems man by His death on the TREE ( cross ) and is then buried in the Garden. What the Bible does = not = state is that God slammed the gates of Heaven shut after the Fall because Adam and Eve had taken on the nature of the devil. For when confronted by God, Adam blamed God = the woman YOU gave me = Adam also blamed Eve. Eve likewise blamed the devil ( serpent ). Instead of asking forgiveness from God who walked with them = Gen. 3:8, they played the Blame Game as children of the devil = 1 John 3:8 = and thus God had no option but to expel them from Eden and made them and their descendants ineligible for Heaven, through = Original Sin. This Original Sin is what Jesus came to pay by His death and shed Blood, as well as reverse God's curse on the ground. Thus the Tree which was the downfall of mankind now became the symbol = the Cross = of man's redemption. And the Garden where Jesus' body was laid now became the symbol of man's eligibility to Heavenly Paradise and thus has reversed the shame of his ousting from Eden and the reversal of the cursed ground. Third, the Fall of humankind began when Eve listened to and obeyed the = Fallen ANGEL =who is the devil. On the other hand, Mary listened and agreed with the = ANGEL = Gabriel to be the mother of Jesus who became the Redeemer. by His death on the TREE of the Cross. . Catholics thus believe that Eve brought about the Fall, whereas Mary contributed to the Rise of Mankind and have no problem in calling Mary = Co-Redeemer. ***** Fourth, after Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, God called out to Adam = only = and he replied = I heard you in the garden, but I was afraid because I was NAKED, so I hid myself = Gen.3:10. On the other hand, when Jesus, the spiritual Adam, was nailed to the Tree, He was rendered NAKED = John 19:23 = with no way to hide. Fifth = 2 facts = First, Jesus was crowned with THORNS. Second =“And being in agony, Jesus prayed more earnestly. Then His SWEAT became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44). This = sweat Blood = of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, added to Jesus' thorn-crowned head, reversed and made satisfaction for God's curse in Genesis 3:17-19 = “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce THORNS and thistles for you and you will eat the plants of the field.19 By the SWEAT of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, Thus Catholics believe that Jesus came down from Heaven as a man to die and pay the penalty of Adam's sin which closed the gates of Heaven and imposed Original Sins on all Adam's descendants - you and me.=== It is Finished = was Jesus' triumphant cry of Mission accomplished and that Heaven gates were now opened. Moreover, Jesus' death and shed Blood paid for and covered the = Original Sins = of all those past, those now living as well as those yet unborn. Furthermore, Baptism is a - one-time - Grace event which washes away all our prior sins. However, we are responsible for all sins after Baptism - as confirmed by Jesus' " execution " of Ananias and Sapphira from the 1st Christian Faith community - Acts 5. And this was shortly = after = Jesus' heavenly ascent. Jesus expects = More = from Christians as we have the best example of Jesus Himself = Luke 12:48. Moreover, the Cross is the very symbol of Christianity. The long vertical beam represents our love for God and the short horizontal beam represents our love for Neighbour. For God is the God of Love and heaven is the perfect place of love. And that is why God expects and demands our practice of love whilst on earth so as to qualify for heavenly entry. Even the final judgement is based on love - Matthew 25. Thus Catholicism promotes the sacraments, especially that of Confession and Holy Communion, as well as Mass attendance, Eucharistic Adorations, Stations of the Cross, Benedictions, Novenas, etc.
@@zenyattamondatta7757 obviously just your uniformed ignorant opinion You don’t know the first thing about what and why Catholics believe about the mother of God
@@HenryGibbs-u2r depends on what you the mean by the word of God if you mean the Logos made flesh then I agree with you but if you mean a book no. If you worship a book then that is putting a material good before God. God never told Jesus or the 12 apostles to write a book. Jesus had two commands love God with your whole heart mind and soul the second. Love your neighbor as yourself . That’s it! Sounds easy but very difficult to do in truth. The Bible was not completed for a very long time in the form we know today. So tired of Bible Thumpers who just throw scripture verse at people with no real love or charity in their hearts. And then pull scripture out of context not really understanding what it means.
Scripure tells us that only after Mary gave birth,did Joseph "know" her.In other words Mary and Joseph had a sex life.For those who say she didnt have other children,scripture tells us Jesus was her "first born son".
Then why did Jesus say to John at the crucifixion behold thy mother and said to Mary behold thy son? Normally in a Jewish family the relatives would have taken care of Jesus’s body and funeral not strangers. Jesus could have had step brothers and sisters that belonged to Joseph and not Mary. Widowers do and did marry again if their first wife died. Scripture is silent on this but it does not mean it wasn’t possible. History written in Biblical times did not give details like modern historical biographies as any well read Bible scholar knows.
Joseph could have had children with another wife who may have died scripture is silent on this so yes Jesus could have had step siblings from Joseph that were not Mary’s biological children. Mary had her first born son it does not mean she had a second born son. A first born son just means in Jewish culture the son who opens the womb.
@@ariston5433 It is stated IN SCRIPTURE, that after Jesus was born ,Joseph 'knew' his wife,it's a polite way to say they had sexual relations,which is NORMAL.IT is also stated in scripture that wives are to 'submit' to their husband.Read the bible,and quit regurgitating.
@savannahfan *Roman pagans really love ridiculous claims. In 99% of all the usages of the word Hail (chairo) in the Bible, none referred to what you claimed. And the only case that referred to a royalty was of Negative Connotation (Pharisees mocking Jesus as King of the Jews).* *Chairo is just a normal greeting. Not some claim of "royalty". If you claim otherwise, then the rest of the 99% verses that used Chairo must mean Queens of heaven too. Or Kings of heaven. If what you claimed were true, Jesus must be calling these people royalties and queens of heaven too in Mat 28:9. Lol* Matthew 28:9 9 And behold, Jesus met them and said, "Greetings (Chairo)!" And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him. ~~~~~ G5463 (Strong) χαίρω chairō khah'ee-ro A primary verb; to be full of “cheer”, that is, calmly happy or well off; impersonal especially as a salutation (on meeting or parting), be well: - farewell, be glad, God speed, greeting, hail, joy (-fully), rejoice. Total KJV occurrences: 74 G5463 (KJC) χαίρω chairō Total KJV Occurrences: 74 rejoice, 26 Mat 5:12, Luk 1:14, Luk 6:23, Luk 10:20 (2), Luk 19:37, Jhn 4:36, Jhn 14:28, Jhn 16:20, Jhn 16:22, Rom 12:15 (2), 1Co 7:30, 2Co 2:3, 2Co 7:9, 2Co 7:16, Php 1:18 (2), Php 2:28, Php 3:1, Php 4:4 (2), Col 1:24, 1Th 5:16, 1Pe 4:13, Rev 11:10 glad, 14 Mrk 14:10-11 (2), Luk 15:32, Luk 22:5, Luk 23:8, Jhn 8:56, Jhn 11:15, Jhn 20:20, Act 11:23, Act 13:48, Rom 16:19, 1Co 16:17, 2Co 13:9, 1Pe 4:13, Rev 19:7 rejoiced, 8 Mat 2:10, Luk 13:17, Act 15:31, 1Co 7:30, 2Co 7:7, Php 4:10, 2Jn 1:4, 3Jn 1:3 hail, 6 Mat 26:49, Mat 27:29, Mat 28:9, Mrk 15:18, Luk 1:28, Jhn 19:3 rejoicing, 5 Luk 15:5, Act 5:41, Act 8:39, Rom 12:12, 2Co 6:10 greeting, 3 Act 15:23, Act 23:26, Jas 1:1 joy, 3 Php 2:17-18 (2), 1Th 3:9 rejoiceth, 3 Mat 18:13, Jhn 3:29, 1Co 13:6 speed, 2 2Jn 1:10-11 (2) farewell, 1 2Co 13:11 joyed, 1 2Co 7:13 joyfully, 1 Luk 19:6 joying, 1 Col 2:5 G5463 (Thayer) χαίρω chairō Thayer Definition: 1) to rejoice, be glad 2) to rejoice exceedingly 3) to be well, thrive 4) in salutations, hail! 5) at the beginning of letters: to give one greeting, salute you said (Luke 1:28) And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. 1. Gabriel greets her with “Hail”. A reverential salutation meant to display a high degree of respect (Ie: “Hail to the Chief”, or “Hail Caesar”)
Very needed teaching, well done. The leadership is wicked as a man can be but the blind followers are lost and should be prayed for and shaken from they're slumber
The followers chose it & refuse to look into or study the history of their religion. It takes an indepenant study not a vatican sponsored study. Satan as roaring lion has devoured the weak minded
I feel sympathy and heart break for the billion people who follow this religion. I pray that they will awake from their slumber and see what is going on around them.
I suggest you get the log out of your eye before you feel sympathy. Every Catholic is, at least, in the ONLY church established by Christ for salvation. You are in a rebellious sect waging war against Christ and too blind to see what you are doing., We are praying for you and hoping that you come out of your fog!
History shows us that Jesus didn't leave us a bible, the apostles didn't tell us which books belong in the bible, the church fathers never agreed on the 27 books of the NT through the 4th century, not only did they not agree but their list of would-be NT canons were GROWING during this time. So, if it wasn't the Catholic/Orthodox church, guided by the Holy Spirit, that compiled the 27 books of the NT in the 5th century, just 75 years AFTER the council of Nicaea which began the Trinitarian doctrine, and then with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and preserved these scriptures by laboriously hand copying them over and over throughout the centuries before the invention of the printing press, the “rule of faith” for many, please tell us, show us, who did? And if this church no longer exists today, what good is the text which came forth from her if she couldn't sustain herself?
@@srich7503 god wrote and put the bible togther. the filthy catholic church forbid people to own bibles and killed and tortured those who had them. your holymen will never remind you of that. they are busy in the back room with little boys.
It is interesting to note that apart from the 4 gospels, Mary is never mentioned anywhere in the epistles and writings of the apostles. If the beliefs about Mary are so important as the Catholics say they are, you would at least expect Paul or Peter to mention them.
Exactly! Jesus had numerous occasions to exalt Mary but didn't nor did anyone else in the Bible! Just good ole cult religions like the Catholics. Was she a righteous woman? Absolutely, that's why she was chosen by God, but she was a sinner like everyone else in need of a savior and by the way, those were her words.
And, Joseph from the Egypt days (son of Jacob, Prime Minister of Egypt) is mentioned in the New Testament many more times than is Joseph, husband of Mary (and father of Several of her Children)
They use a bible called th Apocrypha, it has about seven other books in it including writings from the Maccabees that were written during the 400 silent years before Jesus was born, that is where the Catholics some up with a lot of foolish doctrines like Limbo etc. and by the way, they did do away with Limbo. Always wondered where those poor babies are stored now!
The Catholic Church uses derivatives of the Duoay Rheims that was first published in the 16th century.which included 73 books (first and second canons). The church put together the bible in the councils. The first one was in Rome (382), the next one was in Hippo in 393 and the final one was in Carthage in 397.(same 73 books). Now let’s look at protestant bibles. The first one was the Geneva Bible which was published in 1565 with 80 books! The next bible was the King James version published in 1611 with 80 books also. In 1881 the powers to be decided to delete 14 books from the Geneva Bible. In 1885 the King James deleted the same 14 books! Surprise, Surprise!! Now let’s take a look at the Reformation and the instigator Martin Luther. His bible deleted. the second canon books in the Old Testament and the following books in the New Testament: James, Hebrews, Jude and Revelation. Was it wrong to delete books from the bible? The answer can be found in Revelation 22:18-20. Enjoy !!!!
Mainly it is used as an adornment on a table and that is if they have a Bible. Catholics who read and study the Bible become protestants. Catholics who say they read the bible actually read the Catechism's version of the Bible.
@@stever4181 You are so wrong. You show the world how ignorant you are you are about Catholic Bibles. Now let me educate you,besides the Latin Vulgate translated by St Jerome there is the Duoay Rheims bible that was published before the King James Bible. the Catholic bible was agreed upon at the Council of Carthage in 397 with 73 books! If you pick up a Catholic bible today, the same 73 books will be included. There have been no additions or deletions. There have been several attempts to add/delete to the bible but we’re all unsuccessful including Martin Luther’s attempt during the Council of Trent. Now, let’s look at the King James version. It was first published in 1611 with 80 books. in 1885 the powers to be with the Bible Society decided to delete 14 books from the KJV. Take a look at Revelation 22: 18-20. After you read that you could use your bible as an adornment on a table!!!! I hope this helps you to know some of the basics of Catholic Bibles and the history associated with it. By the way I almost forgot to tell you that we read from the bible during each Mass. I bet you didn’t know that!
It is a universal tragedy that so many people have been deceived by Satan. I read the obits from back home to see if anyone I know has passed away. It's always gives me a sinking feeling when I read of anyone who were "devoted Catholics." I can't imagine a worse feeling when you find yourself in hell and realize that your religion was that of Satan.
You are talking about Jesus Church! Shame on you! Many Protestants are lost, thinking they are going to heaven when they may not if they don’t keep His Commandments and stay faithful to His Church! Your Communion is blasphemy! It is NOT the Eucharist! You can only receive the Eucharist in a Catholic Church ( Eastern or Western), so if you are outside of His Church you are not keeping Jesus last Command! Catholic means Christian and many are closer to Jesus than any Protestant can ever be! Praying for you that you will come home!
What a judgmental comment. You can’t know when someone is in heaven or hell. Catholic religion is from Jesus! He started the Church! You will stand before Jesus one day. Protestants believe the lies about Jesus only Church!! That’s what Satan wants to deceive the Protestants and keep them from His True Church!
@f5062 *Where in the Bible or real history ever said "Roman religion = Jesus' Church or the Church or the Universal Church or the true church"? Where? Chap verse? Self claims is Not a proof for doctrines RC. Where is your proof?* you said You are talking about Jesus Church! Jesus only Church! Catholic religion is from Jesus! He started the Church! His True Church!
YOU = It's always gives me a sinking feeling when I read of anyone who were "devoted Catholics." I can't imagine a worse feeling when you find yourself in hell and realize that your religion was that of Satan. ME = Of all the religions, our = Living = God JESUS has favoured Roman Catholic Christianity, more than all others, with His presence and manifestations in the past 2,000 years.
Catholics have been favoured with Eucharistic Miracles- like the 1996 Eucharistic Miracle of Buenos Aires, Argentina & in Lanciano, Italy in the 8th C - among many other miracles (( Note - Satanists will steal a consecrated " Catholic " Holy Communion host for use in their diabolical " Black Masses'' They will keep away from the communion hosts of near-Catholic but Protestant denominations like the Anglicans, Methodists and the Lutherans precisely because these don't have the Presence of Jesus. )) In Acts 2:27 - we read - For God will not allow His Holy one to undergo corruption. Likewise, God has clothed with incorruptibility the corpses of Catholic saints who have led a holy life in conformity with Jesus. The 500 year incorrupt corpse of St. Francis Xavier, which resides in Goa, India.is one example. The incorrupt corpse of the Lebanese St. Charbel Makhlouf is another example. Fr. Albert Hebert has compiled a list of over 400 resurrections of people who died but were raised to life by many Catholic saints. His book - Raised from the Dead - is available in book-stores. Jesus, our Living God, has appeared to many saints. In the 14th C, Jesus appeared to St. Bridget of Sweden who was much desirous of knowing about his agony He endured on the Way to Calvary - in other words, His Passion & Death. For a whole year Jesus taught her 15 Prayers and attached Promises to anyone who repeats these Prayers continuously for a year - the 1st Promise being - Jesus will deliver 15 souls of his/her lineage from Purgatory. ( Note - you can check the Internet under - The 15 Prayers of St. Bridget - and also view the Promises. ) And in the 1930's, not yet a hundred years ago, Jesus appeared almost daily to a Polish Nun, Sr. Faustina, and taught her the following prayer - Eternal Father, I offer you the Body & Blood, Soul & Divinity of your dearly Beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. In atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and the whole world. - This is in line with The Lord's Prayer which is pluralistic with the words - Our, Us, We, etc.(( Note = Sr Faustina kept a Diary of Jesus visits which is available from book-stores with its Title - Divine Mercy in My Soul I urge you to purchase a copy and read it. )) In 1995, Jesus appeared to a Nigerian named Barnabas and gave him the Devotion to His Precious Blood. Mary has appeared in many places like Lourdes, France and Fatima, Portugal, and Guadalupe, Mexico City, Mexico - among many other places and at different times. Moreover, She has appeared for 3 years nightly over a Coptic Church in Zeitoun, Egypt and pictures of her are available on the Internet. Lastly, before the Catholic Church declares a person - Saint - 2 first class miracles must be attributed to that deceased person - miracles which are mostly authenticated by non-Catholic doctors and professionals. On the other hand, the agents of Satan, Communists and Masons - aka Free-Masons - have long sought to infiltrate the Catholic Church clergy and thus undermine its teachings In the 1960's, ex-Communist executive of the Communist Party of USA, Bella Dodd testified before the US Congress that the Communists had sent over a 1,000 men into Catholic seminaries (( Note - this can be checked on the Internet. )) Undoubtedly, the Catholic Church has been favoured by our Living God and at the same time has been the target of God's enemies - because she represents the Truth regarding her Doctrine. Secondly, The Bible is, historically, a dated book as it records only to the 1st Century. Thus we read only the deaths of Judas and James but not about the other 10 Apostles or of Paul as to when, where and how they died. Does it mean that, because their deaths are not recorded, that they are still alive ?? Obviously not. Paul declares the Bible - useful and profitable - in 2 Timothy 3:16, but that the = Church = is the Bulwark and Pillar of Truth - 1 Timothy 3:15. That is because the Church, the community of Believers, came first - Matthew 16:18 - and incorporates both the written word as well as the oral tradition - 2 Thessalonians 2:15. And the Bible declares that Jesus performed a = World of Works = which are unrecorded - John 21:25. As a result 2 traditions ensued - oral and written - 2 Thess. 2:15 - which are of equal merit. By "Sola Scriptura" Protestants are only receiving part of Divine Truth thus resulting in so many denominations. The Catholic Church was founded on Peter's declaration of Jesus' Divinity - Matt. 16:16 and Jesus' promise - Matt 16:17-19- and holds to both traditions. It is the Church of the Living God and the Pillar and Bulwark of Truth - 1 Timothy 3:15 On the other hand, Protestantism is a religious philosophy - a hearer and not doer of the Word thus deceiving themselves - James1:22. While there is belief in Christ to be sure, there is no substance, no forms of worship and thanksgiving to our God Jesus for His - WORKS - of creation and redemption. There is no Confession as per the formula that Jesus gave on the very day of His Resurrection from the dead , when He - empowered - His Apostles to forgive sins - or - retain them- John 20:22-23. There is no participation in Holy Communion which Jesus declared was - Real Food and Drink - for ETERNAL LIFE - John 6:53-58. Even their churches have no kneelers to kneel and bow down before our God and Maker. And there is no difference between Protestant marriage and - easy - divorce and non-Christian ones.
@@loboman8029 *Hilarious claims. ROman religion came in ad300s. So it's not 2000 years. You are still pretending "Roman religion = the Universal Church or Church Christ founded" with no proof that it was so. So where is your proof?* *Existed for a long time does not prove it's "favoured". Many nations existed longer than Roman religion and they are diabolical. That completely refutes all your false logic.* *Christian Churches has raising the dead, the lame walk the blind see, water turned into wine, walking on water miracles. Just check out all the miracles by Kathrine Kulhman, Smith WIggleswworth, John G Lake, Rayhard Bonkett. Even Roman religion type Communion miracles. Totally nothing to do with Roman pagan transubstantiation (elements transforms into Jesus to be eaten by RCs) or Roman pagan Mass (sacrificing Jesus on the altar back to God).* you said Of all the religions, our = Living = God JESUS has favoured Roman Catholic Christianity, more than all others, with His presence and manifestations in the past 2,000 years.
Catholics have been favoured with Eucharistic Miracles- like the 1996 Eucharistic Miracle of Buenos Aires, Argentina & in Lanciano, Italy in the 8th C - among many other miracles (( Note - Satanists will steal a consecrated " Catholic " Holy Communion host for use in their diabolical " Black Masses'' They will keep away from the communion hosts of near-Catholic but Protestant denominations like the Anglicans, Methodists and the Lutherans precisely because these don't have the Presence of Jesus. )) In Acts 2:27 - we read - For God will not allow His Holy one to undergo corruption. Likewise, God has clothed with incorruptibility the corpses of Catholic saints who have led a holy life in conformity with Jesus. The 500 year incorrupt corpse of St. Francis Xavier, which resides in Goa, India.is one example. The incorrupt corpse of the Lebanese St. Charbel Makhlouf is another example. Fr. Albert Hebert has compiled a list of over 400 resurrections of people who died but were raised to life by many Catholic saints. His book - Raised from the Dead - is available in book-stores. Jesus, our Living God, has appeared to many saints. In the 14th C, Jesus appeared to St. Bridget of Sweden who was much desirous of knowing about his agony He endured on the Way to Calvary - in other words, His Passion & Death. For a whole year Jesus taught her 15 Prayers and attached Promises to anyone who repeats these Prayers continuously for a year - the 1st Promise being - Jesus will deliver 15 souls of his/her lineage from Purgatory. ( Note - you can check the Internet under - The 15 Prayers of St. Bridget - and also view the Promises. ) And in the 1930's, not yet a hundred years ago, Jesus appeared almost daily to a Polish Nun, Sr. Faustina, and taught her the following prayer - Eternal Father, I offer you the Body & Blood, Soul & Divinity of your dearly Beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. In atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and the whole world. - This is in line with The Lord's Prayer which is pluralistic with the words - Our, Us, We, etc.(( Note = Sr Faustina kept a Diary of Jesus visits which is available from book-stores with its Title - Divine Mercy in My Soul I urge you to purchase a copy and read it. )) In 1995, Jesus appeared to a Nigerian named Barnabas and gave him the Devotion to His Precious Blood. Mary has appeared in many places like Lourdes, France and Fatima, Portugal, and Guadalupe, Mexico City, Mexico - among many other places and at different times. Moreover, She has appeared for 3 years nightly over a Coptic Church in Zeitoun, Egypt and pictures of her are available on the Internet. Lastly, before the Catholic Church declares a person - Saint - 2 first class miracles must be attributed to that deceased person - miracles which are mostly authenticated by non-Catholic doctors and professionals. On the other hand, the agents of Satan, Communists and Masons - aka Free-Masons - have long sought to infiltrate the Catholic Church clergy and thus undermine its teachings In the 1960's, ex-Communist executive of the Communist Party of USA, Bella Dodd testified before the US Congress that the Communists had sent over a 1,000 men into Catholic seminaries (( Note - this can be checked on the Internet. )) Undoubtedly, the Catholic Church has been favoured by our Living God and at the same time has been the target of God's enemies - because she represents the Truth regarding her Doctrine. Secondly, The Bible is, historically, a dated book as it records only to the 1st Century. Thus we read only the deaths of Judas and James but not about the other 10 Apostles or of Paul as to when, where and how they died. Does it mean that, because their deaths are not recorded, that they are still alive ?? Obviously not. Paul declares the Bible - useful and profitable - in 2 Timothy 3:16, but that the = Church = is the Bulwark and Pillar of Truth - 1 Timothy 3:15. That is because the Church, the community of Believers, came first - Matthew 16:18 - and incorporates both the written word as well as the oral tradition - 2 Thessalonians 2:15. And the Bible declares that Jesus performed a = World of Works = which are unrecorded - John 21:25. As a result 2 traditions ensued - oral and written - 2 Thess. 2:15 - which are of equal merit. By "Sola Scriptura" Protestants are only receiving part of Divine Truth thus resulting in so many denominations. The Catholic Church was founded on Peter's declaration of Jesus' Divinity - Matt. 16:16 and Jesus' promise - Matt 16:17-19- and holds to both traditions. It is the Church of the Living God and the Pillar and Bulwark of Truth - 1 Timothy 3:15 On the other hand, Protestantism is a religious philosophy - a hearer and not doer of the Word thus deceiving themselves - James1:22. While there is belief in Christ to be sure, there is no substance, no forms of worship and thanksgiving to our God Jesus for His - WORKS - of creation and redemption. There is no Confession as per the formula that Jesus gave on the very day of His Resurrection from the dead , when He - empowered - His Apostles to forgive sins - or - retain them- John 20:22-23. There is no participation in Holy Communion which Jesus declared was - Real Food and Drink - for ETERNAL LIFE - John 6:53-58. Even their churches have no kneelers to kneel and bow down before our God and Maker. And there is no difference between Protestant marriage and - easy - divorce and non-Christian ones.
When the Emperor Constantine declared himself to be the Summus Pontifex, what followed was more than ten centuries of Dark Ages, during which time people who professed Christ rather than Mary or the Popes, people who denied transubstantiation, were fed to lions or burned at the stake. During the Dark Ages, for a common person to read the Bible was a sin for which there was no forgiveness; and so the people were spoon-fed from the papist pulpit. The Bible was said to exist only in the Latin text and the common and largely illiterate people could learn the stories that were in the Bible from paintings and stained glass windows. Those who first made the Bible available in the language of the people were killed for their trouble; but when Martin Luther quoted Paul, of all people, the Protestant Reformation began. The gospel that saves is that Christ accomplished everything needed to save you from sin and death when he died on the cross for sins.
YOU = The gospel that saves is that Christ accomplished everything needed to save you from sin and death when he died on the cross for sins. ME = Why do Protestants = not = understand the = REAL = reason why Jesus incarnated as a man, died on the Cross and declare= It is Finished ? Protestants thus arrive at doctrines that are heretical as they spell = Easy Christianity and cheap Grace = contrary to the 4 Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John which speak of Jesus' = Tough Love = message ===If you Love Me, keep My commandments, especially the Love of God and Neighbour, even enemies Jesus also defined a Christian as one who = Denies oneself, carries one's cross daily and follows Jesus. And = More = is expected of Christians as we have the greatest example of Jesus = Luke 12:48. And Jesus' parables, often prefaced by = the kingdom of Heaven = or = the reign of God = require us to multiply our talents, become more fruitful " soil " as well s wise virgins carrying oil = or else we will be denied heavenly entry thru the narrow gates = Matthew 7:14. The reason why Jesus incarnated was to redeem the = curse = caused by Adam and Eve's disobedience The Bible and OT begins with the = FALL = in the Garden of Eden of the man Adam who was given the directive by God to not eat of the forbidden =TREE= Gen 2;17. Eve, on the other hand, must have learned of this directive from Adam. The result of the Fall was to render the ground cursed and Adam and Eve dismissed from the garden Eden. The NT begins with the birth and = RISE = of Jesus, the spiritual Adam =1 Corinthians 15:21-23 = , who redeems man by His death on the TREE ( cross ) and is then buried in the Garden. What the Bible does = not = state is that God slammed the gates of Heaven shut after the Fall because Adam and Eve had taken on the nature of the devil. For when confronted by God, Adam blamed God = the woman YOU gave me = Adam also blamed Eve. Eve likewise blamed the devil ( serpent ). Instead of asking forgiveness from God who walked with them = Gen. 3:8, they played the Blame Game as children of the devil = 1 John 3:8 = and thus God had no option but to expel them from Eden and made them and their descendants ineligible for Heaven, through = Original Sin. This Original Sin is what Jesus came to pay by His death and shed Blood, as well as reverse God's curse on the ground. Thus the Tree which was the downfall of mankind now became the symbol = the Cross = of man's redemption. And the Garden where Jesus' body was laid now became the symbol of man's eligibility to Heavenly Paradise and thus has reversed the shame of his ousting from Eden and the reversal of the cursed ground. Third, the Fall of humankind began when Eve listened to and obeyed the = Fallen ANGEL =who is the devil. On the other hand, Mary listened and agreed with the = ANGEL = Gabriel to be the mother of Jesus who became the Redeemer. by His death on the TREE of the Cross. . Catholics thus believe that Eve brought about the Fall, whereas Mary contributed to the Rise of Mankind and have no problem in calling Mary = Co-Redeemer. Fourth, after Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, God called out to Adam = only = and he replied = I heard you in the garden, but I was afraid because I was NAKED, so I hid myself = Gen.3:10. On the other hand, when Jesus, the spiritual Adam, was nailed to the Tree, He was rendered NAKED = John 19:23 = with no way to hide. Fifth = 2 facts = First, Jesus was crowned with THORNS. Second =“And being in agony, Jesus prayed more earnestly. Then His SWEAT became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44). This = sweat Blood = of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, added to Jesus' thorn-crowned head, reversed and made satisfaction for God's curse in Genesis 3:17-19 = “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce THORNS and thistles for you and you will eat the plants of the field.19 By the SWEAT of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, Thus Catholics believe that Jesus came down from Heaven as a man to die and pay the penalty of Adam's sin which closed the gates of Heaven and imposed Original Sins on all Adam's descendants - you and me.=== It is Finished = was Jesus' triumphant cry of Mission accomplished and that Heaven gates were now opened. Moreover, Jesus' death and shed Blood paid for and covered the = Original Sins = of all those past, those now living as well as those yet unborn. Furthermore, Baptism is a - one-time - Grace event which washes away all our prior sins. However, we are responsible for all sins after Baptism - as confirmed by Jesus' " execution " of Ananias and Sapphira from the 1st Christian Faith community - Acts 5. And this was shortly = after = Jesus' heavenly ascent. Jesus expects = More = from Christians as we have the best example of Jesus Himself = Luke 12:48. Moreover, the Cross is the very symbol of Christianity. The long vertical beam represents our love for God and the short horizontal beam represents our love for Neighbour. For God is the God of Love and heaven is the perfect place of love. And that is why God expects and demands our practice of love whilst on earth so as to qualify for heavenly entry. Even the final judgement is based on love - Matthew 25. Thus Catholicism promotes the sacraments, especially that of Confession and Holy Communion, as well as Mass attendance, Eucharistic Adorations, Stations of the Cross, Benedictions, Novenas, etc. Most Protestants have a different belief from Catholics as to why Jesus incarnated and died on the Cross that they have consider themselves = inheritors = of Christ's saving act and thus their need to do no more than have Faith in Jesus to be " saved " which they mean to be granted Heavenly citizenship. Thus they deny the need for works as these are considered " boastful." Basically, Protestants have shifted their gaze and focus from the 4 Gospels which detail Jesus' teachings which were given by the Heavenly Father for our salvation, teachings which spell =Tough Love = and have adopted " cherry-picked " passages mainly from Paul's letters such as Romans 10:9 They believe that God will forgive all sins, not only those against God but even sins against neighbour, forever = despite Jesus' warning in Matthew 6:14-15 and Matthew 18:32-35 = and have adopted the Doctrine of = Saved by Grace = Ephesians 2:8-9 - and that all sins past, present and future are covered by the Blood of Christ. They believe that Jesus came to earth to die and take away all sins and its guilt association. His cry - It is finished - proved that human redemption from sin was completed, and that those who believe in Jesus would have their names forever written in the Lamb's Book of Life and at the time of death, they would be - absent in the flesh, present with the Lord forever - no matter how many or how grievous they committed sins. Others would be caught up and - raptured - to be with Jesus forever. Thus the promise of salvation was God's free gift - grace - to them. Protestantism is a religious philosophy - a hearer and not doer of the Word thus deceiving themselves - James 1:22. While there is belief in Christ to be sure, there is no substance, no forms of worship and thanksgiving to our God Jesus for His - WORKS - of creation and redemption. There is no Confession as per the formula that Jesus gave on the very day ( evening ) of His Resurrection from the dead , when He - empowered - His Apostles to forgive sins - or - retain them- John 20:22-23. There is no participation in Holy Communion which Jesus declared was - Real Food and Drink - for ETERNAL LIFE - John 6:53-58. Even their churches have no kneelers to kneel and bow down before our God and Maker. And there is no difference between Protestant marriages and - easy - divorce and non-Christian ones. Protestants deny the need for Good Works despite that the Great Judgement is based on Works - Matthew 25 And Jesus gave an awesome example by doing a - World of Works - John 21:25
@loboman8029 *1. Yes while it is true "not everything is in the Bible". That does not mean you can take anything or any Roman pagan traditions as doctrines.* *2. Scriptures only Accepts "traditions of JEsus and Apostles", 2 Thes **2:15**; but Rejects all "traditions of men", Col 2:8, Mark 7:8. Bible calls any doctrines not commanded by God/Jesus "traditions of men", Col 2:8, Mark 7:8.* *3. 95% of Roman pagan doctrines were not even from commands/commandments of Jesus/God. They were "traditions of men".* *4. Jesus, APostles and NT CHurch all practised taking doctrines from Scriptures/Written Word Only. 180+ verses say so. Are you telling me they were all false teachers?* you said YOU = More fairy tales. Bible does not even mention any Roman Mass ME = Is the Bible the = only = source of Christianity ? And can omnipotent Jesus who did a = World = of works = John 21:25 = fit into one book ? Jesus is the Word and Spokesman of The Father = John 1:1 = and words can be = both = written and spoken The Bible contains only the written word. Moreover, there was a period after the death of Jesus between 30 and 40 AD to the time when the earliest Gospels of Mark and Matthew were written 30 years or so later during which time Oral Tradition or the Spoken Word reigned supreme. And in = 2 Thess. 2:15 = Paul implies the equality of both the Oral and written traditions. And the Bible declares that the ( Catholic ) church of the Living God is the Pillar and Bulwark of Truth - 1 Timothy 3:1 = and holds to both the Oral and Written traditions. Jesus was the = Word = and spokesperson of The Father who sent Him to both be as well as teach us the Truth, Way and Life to the Father. Jesus' message was TOUGH LOVE =If you love Me, keep My Commandments. Especially, the love of God and Neighbour. With Love being a verb or action word. If you wish to be My disciple = thus defining who's Christian = take up your Cross daily, deny yourself and follow Me The gate to Heaven is narrow and = few = find it = Matthew 7:14 & Luke 13:23-24Jesus warned = Matthew 24:13-14 = He who endures to the = end = will be saved. And declared that = More = is expected of Christians to whom much has been entrusted = Luke 12:48. Jesus updated the = letter = of Moses' 10 Commandments to include the = spirit = by requiring not only the forbidding of murder, but also getting angry, not only adultery, but also looking with lust. Jesus fasted 40 days/nights. He prayed daily. He also did a = world = of unrecorded works = John 21:25. Jesus spoke of The Father's reward for Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving and Good Works done in secret = Matthew 6. And Jesus' various Parables prefaced with = the Kingdom of Heaven = or = the Reign of God = require us to multiply our talents, become more fruitful " soil " and wise virgins carrying oil, or we will be excluded from Heaven Even Paul, like a good Christian, boasted of the Cross = Galatians 6:14 Paul urged = WORK out your own salvation with fear and trembling. = Philippians 2:12 Paul warned that those Christians who do works of the flesh would not inherit Heaven = Galatian 5:19-21 Hebrews 12:6 warned that The Father chastens and disciplines = every = child before He will accept them into His Kingdom. When Martin Loser, I mean Martin Luther broke away from Catholicism and started Protestantism, he promoted "Sola Scriptura" - or the authority of the Bible alone as well as the doctrine of " Faith alone." He also took the focus of Protestantism = away = from the 4 Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and onto " cherry-picked " verses such as Romans 10:8-10 and Ephesians 2:8-10. Luther thus ignored Jesus' and other NT Tough Love passages and brought about doctrines that spell = Easy Christianity and cheap grace. Sadly, Protestants and non-Catholics have embraced Luther's errors despite the fact that they proclaim " Sola Scriptura " and read the Bible often, even daily. By declaring that only Faith is necessary for Salvation, they have effectively cancelled the Cross = the very symbol of Christianity. Protestantism is = only = a religious philosophy - a hearer and not doer of the Word thus deceiving themselves - James 1:22. While there is belief in Christ to be sure, there is no substance, no forms of worship and thanksgiving to our God Jesus for His - WORKS - of creation and redemption. There is no Confession as per the formula that Jesus gave on the very day ( evening ) of His Resurrection from the dead , when He - empowered - His Apostles to forgive sins - or - retain them- John 20:22-23. There is no participation in Holy Communion which Jesus declared was - Real Food and Drink - for ETERNAL LIFE - John 6:53-58. Even their churches have no kneelers to kneel and bow down before our God and Maker. And there is no difference between Protestant marriages and - easy - divorce and non-Christian ones. Protestants deny the need for Good Works despite that the Great Judgement is based on Works - Matthew 25. And Jesus gave an example by doing a - World of Works - John 21:25
Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
Then please explain to me why there were graven images inside the Jerusalem temple ??? There were two Cherubim inside the temple with their wings over the Ark of the Covenant and the Mercy Seat! So explain that one away…
@@ariston5433the thing is that of you make a statue is supposed to be for decoration the sinful thing about it is things such as praying directly to it bowing down to it kissing it thinking it somehow has divine power or taking it in procession a image is supposed to be still and untouched nobody at all worshipped venerated or bowed down to the golden cherubim or the serpent of moses
Catholic teaching and Islam are the complete opposite. The Catholic Church teaches that God can come into our lives and the Holy Spirit can can work with human nature to transform our lives the divine and human work together resulting in salvation of the human soul. Islam teaches that God is separate and has no participation in human salvation Islam is a set of outward rules with no possibility of salvation. Kind of sounds like the what many so called heretical “ churches” teach. No wonder the Byzantine Empire fell so easily to Islam because this exactly what the Byzantine embraced. It was basically a heresy that crept into the Byzantine Church. A sort separation between church and state which allowed many heresies to creep in. Islam was the result. When you do not have the ruling body of the church heresies of all types spring up. So no you can not have a layman just start up a church and hang a sign over a strip mall building and have a Church that is both orthodox in its teachings because there is no magesterium to keep it from error.
@savannahfan *Where in the Bible says RCs can "venerate Mary and make statues for her"? WHere? Cite me one example of a believer in NT who "venerate Mary and make statues for her"? WHere?* 1 2 3 What is a synonym for venerate? Some common synonyms of venerate are adore, reverence, revere, and worship. While all these words mean "to honor and admire profoundly and respectfully," venerate implies a holding as holy or sacrosanct because of character, association, or age. you said 1. Catholics don’t Worship anyone other than the Blessed Trinity. Anyone that worships anything other than Almighty God is not a Catholic, they are a Heretic 2. Catholics do not have any idols in their Church or Home, anyone that does is committing Idolatry and is not a Catholic, they are a Heretic 3. There is a difference between an Idol and an Icon. And Idol represents something FAKE, an Icon represents something or someone REAL. 4. There is no prohibition whatsoever in the Bible against Icons, in fact there are examples of Icons used (Exodus 25:18-20, Exodus 20:31, Hebrews 9:5) 5. Catholics do not pray to a painting or plaster statue anymore than Protestants pray to the paper and cover of their Bible… You pray to and think of our Savior when you look at a painting of the Madonna, not the paint and Canvas 6. We are commanded by God to honor our Father and Mother. We honor the Mother of our Savior 7. Blessed Mary is the first Christian and first to devote her life to our Lord, who knew our Savior better than anyone. She was the eyewitness to, and storyteller of his miraculous Life leading up to his public ministry. She was there for the Passion, Resurrection and Pentecost. Our Lady is the one, that helped all of us better know and understand our Savior through Scripture 8. Our Lady is a perfect example of obedience to and acceptance of God’s Will. Almighty God CHOSE her and her alone for the most important thing any woman has ever done, and she was ready to do his bidding without hesitation. As if that wasn’t enough reason to honor The Blessed Virgin 9. Our Lady was VENERATED by the Archangel Gabriel, who greeted her with a respectful salutation of “Hail Mary, Full of Grace” Gabriel made it clear that our Lady was FAVORED BY GOD, and that our LORD WAS WITH HER (Luke 1:28) 10. Our Lady was also VENERATED by Elizabeth and John the Baptist as her voice alone (filled with the Holy Spirit) made him leap, and cause Elizabeth to exclaim that Mary was (Most) Blessed among (All) Woman (Luke 1:41-42) So when Protestants give Catholics a hard time about Venerating our Lady, or Calling her “Mother of God” it shows poor knowledge of Scripture 11. Why pray to Blessed Mary…? because she has and will intercede on our behalf with her Son… Who can and will do miraculous things for whom she advocates for (John 2:1-11) 12. Our Lady is in Heaven, cloaked in the Glory of her Son, Crowned as Queen of the 12 Apostles, and ready to defeat the Dragon by bringing forth Christ again. (Revelation 12). Blessed Mary, of the House of David, Tribe of Judah, and a true Daughter of Zion is by Hebrew tradition Queen as her Son reigns as King of the Jews. Blessed Mary is Israel. Mary IS the most important woman in the Bible, veneration of her IS Biblical. Her Soul Magnifies our Lord, and allows us to know him better, and brings us closer to Her Son with her example of how to truly love and serve our Lord and Savior
@frankvw4819 *You failed to answer to your Ls again. This is of course a L. 95% of R Church doctrines were unheard of in 1st century and not from traditions of Jesus and Apostles or Scriptures or contradicts Scriptures! Jesus, Apostles and Nt Church of the Bible had not heard or practised any of these Rc doctrines.* 1. Purgatory 2. Confessing to priests 3. Office of pope or priests4. Pope being the vicar (representation of Christ, usurping the authority of God)5. Praying to Mary, saints6. Penance 7. Worshipping idols/images, placing idols images in church8. Church in the Bible is not building, but the body of believers9. Sacrament was never the real body and blood of Christ as RC church claimed (Real meaning real blood and body, bcos it didnt really turned "bloody" did it?)10. Salvation by (works (7sacraments) +faith) was never in the Bible. Real salvation is by grace through faith as seen in Bible. 11. Rosary, set repetitive prayers, hail Mary 10000 times12. Mass - putting Christ on the altar again and again13. Mary as queen of heaven 14. Mary as Ark of the new covenant. 15. Mary as the mother of heavenly Jesus thus Mary exist before Christ16. Immersion of infant for baptism17. Holy water18. Celibacy of priests (no office of priests in NT anyway, only priesthood of all believers)19. Kissing of statues20. Changing of 10 commandments. COmmandment of graven image removed by Catholic CHurch in Catholic Catechism. Splitting of another commandment into 2 commandments. 21. Catholic church changed Bible verse Gen 3:15 (And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel."). 'He' and 'His' referring to Christ. Catholics changed it to (Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; She shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise Her heel.") 'She' and 'Her' refers to Mary. 22. Catholic Church use Rev 12 to refer to Mary as 'queen of heaven', when Rev 12:6 clearly refers to Israel escaping the Great Tribulation. Mary cannot be alive to escape the Great Tribulation. 23. Catholic Church refers to Mary as 'Queen of heaven', but 'Queen of Mary' in the Bible is a demonic entity Astoreth or Ishtar, the female deity partner of Baal. 5 verses in Jeremiah as proof.24. Catholic church refers to Mary as the Mediatress, Co redemptress, helper of Christ, firstborn of all creation .. Mary cannot be the mediatress. Jesus is the one and only Mediator between God and man. Only Jesus redeems. Only the Holy Spirit is the Helper sent by Jesus. Only Jesus is the firstborn of all creation. 25. Roman Catholicism has “saints” one can pray to in order to gain a particular blessing. For example, Saint Gianna Beretta Molla is the patron saint of fertility. Francis of Assisi is the patron saint of animals. There are multiple patron saints of healing and comfort. Nowhere is even a hint of this taught in Scripture. Just as the Roman pantheon of gods had a god of love, a god of peace, a god of war, a god of strength, a god of wisdom, etc., so the Catholic Church has a saint who is “in charge” over each of these and many other categories. Many Roman cities had a god specific to the city, and the Catholic Church provided “patron saints” for cities as well.26. Mary is called the gate of heaven? Mary has keys to paradise? Here are roman pagan teachers saying their man made goddess is their savior. None of these quotes have been denounced, on the contrary they are cited. "Open to us, O Mary, the gate of Paradise, since you have its keys! " St. Ambrose "God has entrusted the keys and treasures of Heaven to Mary." St. Thomas Aquinas "No one can enter into Heaven except through Mary, as entering through a gate. " St. Bonaventure "Mary is called "The Gate of Heaven" because no one can enter Heaven but through her means." St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori Papal infallibility Immaculate Mary Assumption of Mary Perpetual Virgin Mary as Mother of God, co mediatrix, co redemptrix, new ark of covenant, Pope as vicar, Holy Water, papacy, peter as first pope, papal succession, apostolic succession, indulgences, 7 sacraments, rosary veneration of saints and statues celibacy of priesthood canonization of saints limbo submit to roman pope to be saved devote to roman Mary to be saved be in Roman religion to be saved baptise in Roman baptism to be saved partake Roman sacraments to be saved baptism of blood calling Roman pope Lord God or equal to God you said DO YOUT RESEARCH AND YOU WILL FIND OUT THAT ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH BELIEVES AND TEACHES THE SAME TRUTHS SINCE THE TIME JESUS ESTABLISHED HIS CHURCH.
@@browncony3897 The Apostles were not practicing sola scripture. They were Jewish and the Jews were not protestant sola scripture folks in their belief system.
If you try to tell a Catholic that Mary is the same as we are, an adopted child of God, they get very angry. It's like they are possessed by this spirit of "Mary". My sister try to seduce me, she kissed me on the lips (weird and awkward) and then told me to kiss the head of the statute of Mary that was right behind me. I was creeped out!
@@lunagrace2872 Yeah, I was creeped out, I don't see her much but she's the golden child in the family, so no one believes me and they don't see what I see in her.
@@Jennifera777 I’m so sorry that your family didn’t believe you. But unfortunately I know how you feel, my father looked at me sexually years ago. Weird, evil and heartbreaking but thankfully my family believed me. I know my father would never touch me but I won’t be in a room by myself with him. But it is sad how evil people can be especially when they have demons in them. Unfortunately many don’t believe or recognize demons much anymore. It can be hard to talk to people seriously about especially the people closest to you.
Jennifera if it's not biblically based (proven to be in the Bible that you should do it),,,,don't believe it and don't follow it. People will make up stuff and tell you how God wants you to worship him but read where it says these followers say you should do what they say in the bible! If it isn't in the Bible, they are lying. Walk away , politely decline and follow a biblically pathed Church/bible study group which uses the Bible (they should quote scriptures you can look up!) and above all ask God, ask his Holy Spirit, helper of Jesus Christ.
@@salachenkoforley7382 Those "kneelers" in front of those graven images in your Roman temples that make it nice to bow befor them. No idolatry there (;-D
Mary is not treated as an idol. She is blessed according to Luke 1:48. i challenge you or anyone else reading this to look up the documentation on the Blessed Virgin Mary’s 40 apparitions over the years. After you review these apparitions then let’s discuss the Blessed Virgin Mary. I believe these apparitions will change your mind. If not then you can plead ignorance. Are you up for the challenge????
@@peterzinya1 : Bowing to the statues of Mary and the Saints is NO idolatry according to the Bible. We're NOT worshipping statues of Mary and the Saints with bowing. It is a sign of honor, respect and veneration. Luke 1:28 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition 28 And the angel being come in, said unto her: *Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.* -----the angel Gabriel venerates Mary by declaring to her *"Hail, full of grace."* The heavenly angel honors the human Mary, for her perfection of grace exceeds that of the angels. Romans 13:7 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition 7 Render therefore to all men their dues. Tribute, to whom tribute is due: custom, to whom custom: fear, to whom fear: *honour, to whom honour.* ----- we are to give honor where honor is due. When we honor God's children, we honor God Himself, for He is the source of all honor. Philippians 3:17 New Catholic Bible 17 Brethren, *join in imitating me,* and take note of those who conduct themselves in accord with the model you have in us. ------ Paul says to imitate him and others, which is the goal of veneration. Veneration is not worship. Genesis 19:1 New Catholic Bible 1 The two angels arrived in Sodom toward the evening. Lot was seated at the gate to Sodom. As soon as he saw them, *Lot got up and went over to them and bowed down to the ground.* ------ *Did Lot worship the angels when he bowed down to the ground to them?.* Genesis 42:6 New Catholic Bible 6 Joseph had authority over the land, and he sold grain to all the people of the land. Therefore, *the brothers of Joseph came to him and bowed down to the earth.* ------ *Did Joseph's brother worship Joseph when they bowed down to him?.* 2 Kings 2:15 New Catholic Bible 15 The sons of the prophets from Jericho who had been watching said, “The spirit of Elijah has come to rest upon Elisha.” They came out to meet him, and *they bowed down to the ground before him.* ------ *Did the sons of the prophet worship Elisah when they bowed down to her?.* ----- And who do you bow to again?. It can't be God because you've NEVER seen God let alone believe in Him.
@judithmeray2876 *While Roman religion is the beast, Bible does not teach "worship God on Saturdays only" like what heretical SDA ct says. Book of Acts recorded believers worshipping God on all days of the week. 7th day Sabbath keeping is only for the Jews. Acts 15, Col 2, Romans 14. Gentile believers do not keep any "days months years feasts ..". Jesus is already the Sabbath Rest. Heb 4, Mat **11:28**, Col 2, Romans 14, Acts 15.* you said I dont worship the pope Nor honor his counterfeit sunday nor do i blaspheme myself and call sunday sabbath. Im so sick of the bull that its legalism to keep Gods Holy 7th day. The pope made sunday a legal day of worship. Some of us remember everything was closed on sunday except the little grocery stores and you had to wait till 12 noon ..i renember that..the woman on the beast is the Roman catholic church and her counterfeit day of worship is sunday. Satan doesn't want you to honor Gods holy day the 7th. And Who is under legalism. If you are indirectly honoring a pagan god and keeping sunday how do you expect God to say, "oh come in, i know you, when you follow a pagan day of worship. Where, where in the New Testament do you see the 1st church keeping sunday satans counterfeit day of worship. ???? They broke bread daily and fellowshipped in each others homes----BUT, THEY NEVER BROKE THE SABBATH OF GOD....I AM not getting younger and dont know how many days i have So i have to cut to the chase. How dare you call sunday sabbath ittttt issss not. !!!. The deciples etc. Honored Gods 7th day. Check the history. Better yet, the Book of Revelation tells it. 12, 14, and 22. "THOSE WHO WASH THEIR ROBES (KEEP GODS COMMANDS) AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF Yeshua shall have the right to enter in through the gates".whose commands are you honoring? Are you indirectly honoring the poop by kissing that mans feet or ring or bowing down to him by honoring his pagan day???? Just listen to the world news about the roman catholic Church . Its rising up, look at all those countries who honor him the pope. Yeuck! The woman on the beast is her. You do good to expose the false church a lot are BUT WHY DO YOU KEEP HER FALSE SUNDAY A DAY OF WORSHIP. DID OUR JEWISH SAVIOR OR THE 1ST CHURCH KEEP THE ANTI CHRISTS FALSE DAY oF WORSHIP. ? I WANT to gag when i hear you so called pastor's teach against the catholic church (the woman on the beast) and preach it on her sunday and blaspheme God by calling it sabbath . Shame on you, you are not reading the bible. If you were you would see it. Instead, oh my, you went to seminary school...when you read the New Testament, did Paul send the new church to sunday school?? Better watch out, who are you following. Jesus said, " follow me! If you love me keep my commands He horored those commands.. i pray you see the truth. Your blood will not be on my hands, the truth i have given you. One more very important note to make . I am a woman, but taught by men. Remember, the men taught and preached...woman can teach, but they have their place and its not behind the pulpit either..
@randycarson9812 *False claims again. All the points in this verse implied it's in One Family.* *- Carpenter's son - referring to Jesus being Joseph's son.* *- Mary - being Jesus's mother.* *- Jesus's brothers - clearly must mean in the Same Family too.* Mat 13:55 Is this not the *carpenter's son?* Is not His mother called Mary? And *His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?* you said This is relevant because no scripture verse states that anyone other than Jesus came from Mary's womb. Every instance where scripture mentions a "brother" or "brothers and sisters" of Jesus connects them to Him but NEVER to Mary, indicating they were not her biological children.
Point #1: Was Jesus really the "carpenter's son"? Nope. So, the people talking had no real inside knowledge. Point #2: Why are they called "His brothers" instead of "her sons"? Well, Jesus is the focal point, but NO verse of scripture refers to anyone other than Jesus as being Mary's child. Silence on that front. Consequently, you cannot use these verses to disprove the Perpetual Virginity of Mary. Sorry, your evidence won't hold up in court. Next! END OF DISCUSSION. BLOCK PENDING.
@@randycarson9812 *Yes except the verse still implied they are in One Family. So your point is invalid. NExt!* you said Point #1: Was Jesus really the "carpenter's son"? Nope. So, the people talking had no real inside knowledge.
@@randycarson9812 *It does not matter whether you are called your momma's son or your sibling's brother. You are still the same person. The point remained: the verse implied they were in One Family. So it is.* *You failed to refute anything once again.* you said Point #2: Why are they called "His brothers" instead of "her sons"? Well, Jesus is the focal point, but NO verse of scripture refers to anyone other than Jesus as being Mary's child. Silence on that front.
@@browncony3897 If the other person is a step-brother from my fathers previous marriage, he is not my mother's son. And what if he's not actually a brother at all? What if he's actually a cousin? What if he's CALLED "brother" because Aramaic has no word for "cousin" and therefore referred to ALL relatives as brother? This is fact.
@@randycarson9812 *WHy do you keep L RC? NT was written in Greek. Not Aramaic. There are Greek words for "cousin" - anepsios, sungenis. If NT writers wanted to mean "cousin", they would have used those words.* you said And what if he's not actually a brother at all? What if he's actually a cousin? What if he's CALLED "brother" because Aramaic has no word for "cousin" and therefore referred to ALL relatives as brother? This is fact.
I've already shown you that and here you are posting it again as if you didn't read my comments on the Ark of the New Covenant. You cannot win any argument if you believed in Sola Scriptura.
@@salachenkoforley7382 The problem is, YOU are the one arguing, I have been showing you that God's Word is found IN IT'S ENTIRETY in the 66 books of the Bible.
@@brianstough5286 : (The problem is, YOU are the one arguing, I have been showing you that God's Word is found IN IT'S ENTIRETY in the 66 books of the Bible.)😂😂 ------You have failed to prove any of your FALSE beliefs from the Bible and neither Jesus or His Father EVER said to read the Bible and be lost like 51,000 different denominations of Protestants out there just like you. -----Not everything Jesus preached and taught were WRITTEN in the Bible. Again, this is a FALSE assertion that you're been saying all along. John 21:25 King James Version 25 *And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.* Amen. ------This is why Jesus founded a Church so that She can hold on to His teachings til He returns. He never said to read the Bible. ------And the Bible has 73 books until Martin Luther and the Reformers came along in the 16th century and REMOVED 7 books from the OT and INVENTED "Sola Scriptura and Sola Fide" which is what you believed. You cannot find them in the Bible. -----The Bible itself WARNED of those who removed or ALTERED the Word of God. I guess you didn't wanna see that for yourself. Revelation 22:18-19 King James Version 18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, *If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:* 19 And *if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.* -----Very serious stuff and you're pretending not to see it.
@@bridgefin NOT a direct teaching - but a group of ASSUMPTIONS.! The words "ark of the covenant" are used and referenced MANY, MANY times in both the new and old testaments - but NEVER is there a mention (and there would be mentioned if it were important for us to know) Here's one for you!: Matthew 16:23 But He (Jesus) turned and SAID TO PETER, “GET BEHIND ME SATAN! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.” Now, put that IN CONTEXT!! But, since you're "on topic" - just as Moses' body was hidden to keep people from worshipping it, the REAL ARK of the Covenant was also kept out of sight to keep people from worshipping it. - so, on that account, STOP WORSHIPPING/VENERATION/HONORING Mary. You are distracting people from worshipping the TRUE God when you introduce these things!! Now, go back and explain Matthew 16:23 to me!!!?!!
I too was raised a Catholic, until…I actually seriously started to read the Bible. We can read in Scriptures that Lord Jesus commanded the Apostles to first preach the Gospel to the Jews, and after also to the Heathen or Gentiles (but never vise versa!). I found out in Scriptures who of the Apostles for the first time went to Rome .. and it wasn't Peter. In the Book of Acts it says in Chapter 28 the following: 16 "And when we came to Rome, the Centurion delivered the Prisoners to the Captain of the Guard: but Paul was allowed to live in a house, by himself, with a Roman Soldier that kept him. 17 And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the Chief of the there living Jews together: and when they came together, Paul said to them: "Men and Brethren, though I have committed nothing against our people, our customs, or against our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans 18 who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of guild in me. 19 But when the Jews spoke against that verdict, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had made any accusations against my Nation. 20 For this Hope (the Gospel of Jesus Christ) therefore I have called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because for the Hope of Israel I am bound with these chains. 21 The Chief of the Jews said to Paul: "We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning you, neither any of the Brethren that came from there shewed or spoke any harm of you. 22 But we desire to hear of you what you think: for concerning this sect, we know that it is spoken against everywhere". The Roman Catholic Church claims that it was Peter who went to Rome first to preach the Gospel there first and that it was Peter who founded the Church there. Question: who lies? God,... or the Roman Catholic Church ? And what about the Letter in the Bible from Paul to the Congregation of Galatians where it says this in Chapter 2? From verse 7 we read the following: 7 "But on the contrary, when they saw that the Gospel of the Uncircumcision (Gentiles) was committed unto me, as the Gospel of the Circumcision (Jews) was unto Peter; 8 for He that gave Peter power effectively to the Apostleship of the circumcision (again: the Jews), the Same was Mighty in me toward the Gentiles. 9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the Grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we (that are Paul and Barnabas) should go unto the Heathen, and they unto the Circumcision. Again dear Catholics: who lies? Gods Word, or the Roman Catholic Church? Bible, the book of Acts, Chapter 5, verse 29 : Then Peter and the other Apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey GOD - rather than man” ! Since the Catholic 'church' claims to be well-read on scriptures, then please point me in the direction of where in the Bible it says to pray to a woman, or to a rosary. Please show me where it says to call a mortal sinful man (the Pope) your father. Please show me where the Bible says anything about purgatory, or paying indulgences (buying yourself into heaven?). Please show me where Mary was sinless or immaculately conceived. Please show me where it says to confess your sins to a man or that he may forgive them. Show me where it says the Pope is the “vicar of Christ” on earth. Show me where it says that a preacher must be unmarried. It was the ROMAN Emperor Constantinople who was in fact the first “Pope” and he didn't allow for the common people to have Bible Scriptures !
@@mpkropf5062 Above here I have asked for proof but you cannot come up with even 1 scriptural based answer that proofs what the Roman catholic "church" claims. I give you one last warning because I love you and I don't want you to go to hell, as this following is directly from the mouth of Lord Jesus, as it is written in Revelation, Chapter 18, vers 1 - 10. 1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon (Rome/Vatican city) the great is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and has become the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird (demons, her cup full of evil, including other falls religions into her, and pedophiles, transgenders, homo and lesbian devils). 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of HER fornication (there is only one 'church' in this world who worships a woman and that is the Roman catholic ' church' - therefore Lord Jesus calls this church She and Her), and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE, THAT YOU BE NOT PARTEKERS OF HER SINS, AND THAT YOU RECEIVE NOT OF HER PLAGUES." 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. 6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she (here Lord Jesus again calls this church she and her) hath filled fill to her double. 7 How much she hath glorified herself (!), and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she said in her heart, "I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow." 8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judged her. 9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, 10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, "Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour is thy judgment come."
@@mpkropf5062 Here above I have proofed with Bible scriptural text that the Roman catholic 'church is a false church, yet you still ignore Gods Word? Please repent, or there is no hope for you.
@@Steinstra-vj7wl Without the Catholic Church you would have no Bible! If you don’t love the Catholic Church you don’t love Jesus! It IS His Church and I pray you will come back home! My hope isn’t in the false Protestant faith which was started by an ex Catholic! Repent and return Home! The Catholic Church is the Only Church Jesus Christ started. One day you will stand before Jesus and He will ask you why you left His Church! You can not receive the Eucharist outside of His Church! Protestants don’t have access to it! But the devil tries to tell them it’s a symbol which is unbiblical and a Luther doctrine. It’s very dangerous to follow a ex Catholic doctrine that has only been around for 400-500 years! And it is man-made!
@@elsemorris906why do you hate the word of the bible so much? The Hail Mary is based on passages from the Bible in Luke 1:26-28 and Luke 1:39-45: Luke 1:26-28 The angel Gabriel greets Mary, saying "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you!"
@@nosuchthing8 I think the people who "hate the word of the bible" exhibit it by making up their own doctrine that completely disregards the Holy Bible, don't you? For instance - where is the "word of the Bible" that tells the followers of Jesus Christ to pray to his mother or to any dead mortal instead of _praying directly to God, as Jesus did_ ???
Tell me one thing please. How can you pray to a Dead Woman? Show me one, only one, any one, verse that says Mary is in heaven now, can hear your prayers, and has authority to answer prayers! I repeat show one Bible Verse that confirms Mary can do Godly things?????
Hey cd.. show me a verse that contains the word Trinity, there is none, yet you believe it, don't you? Watch a few videos by professor Douglas Beaumont, MacArthur is misguided & a Calvinist. Peace
@@hamidrabiipour9707 You don’t know what I believe unless I tell you your assumptions are meaningless. I believe that Mary is dead since I have no Biblical evidence to say otherwise. God said the dead know nothing. Perhaps I am wrong but until I receive proof that confirms differently I will continue to hold this opinion! You don’t know anything about my belief concerning Trinity or otherwise. I will confirm that MAYBE Catholic Doctrine is true but “I DON’T BELIEVE IT!” However I defend your rights to believe it!
@@nosuchthing8 Maybe but there are verses that says when Jesus returns the Dead in Christ shall rise first and those of us that remain shall be caught up in the air and we shall forever be with Him. So---- if the Dead will rise first that sorta destroys the idea that when we die we go straight to Heaven. I’m willing to read any verses that you have that says differently but if those verses exist then the problem is that makes two verses that are contradictory and now we have a MAJOR problem. Also even “IF” Mary is in heaven it still doesn’t give her authority to answer prayers.
If you carefully look at Catholic beliefs you will see it is no different than the ancient Roman gods and goddesses. They just replaced the heads on their statues.
"If you carefully look at Catholic beliefs you will see it is no different than the ancient Roman gods and goddesses. They just replaced the heads on their statues." Tell us how doctrines such as the Trinity, the Incarnation, the Redemption, etc., are pagan.
Why do Protestants = not = understand the reason why Jesus incarnated as a man, died on the Cross and declare= It is Finished ? They thus arrive at doctrines that are heretical as they spell = Easy Christianity and cheap Grace = contrary to the 4 Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John which speak of Jesus' = Tough Love = message ===If you Love Me, keep My commandments, especially the Love of God and Neighbour, even enemies Jesus also defined a Christian as one who = Denies oneself, carries one's cross daily and follows Jesus. And = More = is expected of Christians as we have the greatest example of Jesus = Luke 12:48. And Jesus' parables, often prefaced by = the kingdom of Heaven = or = the reign of God = require us to multiply our talents, become more fruitful " soil " as well s wise virgins carrying oil = or else we will be denied heavenly entry thru the narrow gates = Matthew 7:14. The reason why Jesus incarnated was to redeem the = curse = caused by Adam and Eve's disobedience The Bible and OT begins with the = FALL = in the Garden of Eden of the man Adam who was given the directive by God to not eat of the forbidden =TREE= Gen 2;17. Eve, on the other hand, must have learned of this directive from Adam. The result of the Fall was to render the ground cursed and Adam and Eve dismissed from the garden Eden. The NT begins with the birth and = RISE = of Jesus, the spiritual Adam =1 Corinthians 15:21-23 = , who redeems man by His death on the TREE ( cross ) and is then buried in the Garden. What the Bible does = not = state is that God slammed the gates of Heaven shut after the Fall because Adam and Eve had taken on the nature of the devil. For when confronted by God, Adam blamed God = the woman YOU gave me = Adam also blamed Eve. Eve likewise blamed the devil ( serpent ). Instead of asking forgiveness from God who walked with them = Gen. 3:8, they played the Blame Game as children of the devil = 1 John 3:8 = and thus God had no option but to expel them from Eden and made them and their descendants ineligible for Heaven, through = Original Sin. This Original Sin is what Jesus came to pay by His death and shed Blood, as well as reverse God's curse on the ground. Thus the Tree which was the downfall of mankind now became the symbol = the Cross = of man's redemption. And the Garden where Jesus' body was laid now became the symbol of man's eligibility to Heavenly Paradise and thus has reversed the shame of his ousting from Eden and the reversal of the cursed ground. Third, the Fall of humankind began when Eve listened to and obeyed the = Fallen ANGEL =who is the devil. On the other hand, Mary listened and agreed with the = ANGEL = Gabriel to be the mother of Jesus who became the Redeemer. by His death on the TREE of the Cross. . Catholics thus believe that Eve brought about the Fall, whereas Mary contributed to the Rise of Mankind and have no problem in calling Mary = Co-Redeemer. Fourth, after Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, God called out to Adam = only = and he replied = I heard you in the garden, but I was afraid because I was NAKED, so I hid myself = Gen.3:10. On the other hand, when Jesus, the spiritual Adam, was nailed to the Tree, He was rendered NAKED = John 19:23 = with no way to hide. Fifth = 2 facts = First, Jesus was crowned with THORNS. Second =“And being in agony, Jesus prayed more earnestly. Then His SWEAT became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44). This = sweat Blood = of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, added to Jesus' thorn-crowned head, reversed and made satisfaction for God's curse in Genesis 3:17-19 = “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce THORNS and thistles for you and you will eat the plants of the field.19 By the SWEAT of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, Thus Catholics believe that Jesus came down from Heaven as a man to die and pay the penalty of Adam's sin which closed the gates of Heaven and imposed Original Sins on all Adam's descendants - you and me.=== It is Finished = was Jesus' triumphant cry of Mission accomplished and that Heaven gates were now opened. Moreover, Jesus' death and shed Blood paid for and covered the = Original Sins = of all those past, those now living as well as those yet unborn. Furthermore, Baptism is a - one-time - Grace event which washes away all our prior sins. However, we are responsible for all sins after Baptism - as confirmed by Jesus' " execution " of Ananias and Sapphira from the 1st Christian Faith community - Acts 5. And this was shortly = after = Jesus' heavenly ascent. Jesus expects = More = from Christians as we have the best example of Jesus Himself = Luke 12:48. Moreover, the Cross is the very symbol of Christianity. The long vertical beam represents our love for God and the short horizontal beam represents our love for Neighbour. For God is the God of Love and heaven is the perfect place of love. And that is why God expects and demands our practice of love whilst on earth so as to qualify for heavenly entry. Even the final judgement is based on love - Matthew 25. Thus Catholicism promotes the sacraments, especially that of Confession and Holy Communion, as well as Mass attendance, Eucharistic Adorations, Stations of the Cross, Benedictions, Novenas, etc. Most Protestants have a different belief from Catholics as to why Jesus incarnated and died on the Cross that they have consider themselves = inheritors = of Christ's saving act and thus their need to do no more than have Faith in Jesus to be " saved " which they mean to be granted Heavenly citizenship. Thus they deny the need for works as these are considered " boastful." Basically, Protestants have shifted their gaze and focus from the 4 Gospels which detail Jesus' teachings which were given by the Heavenly Father for our salvation, teachings which spell =Tough Love = and have adopted " cherry-picked " passages mainly from Paul's letters such as Romans 10:9 They believe that God will forgive all sins, not only those against God but even sins against neighbour, forever = despite Jesus' warning in Matthew 6:14-15 and Matthew 18:32-35 = and have adopted the Doctrine of = Saved by Grace = Ephesians 2:8-9 - and that all sins past, present and future are covered by the Blood of Christ. They believe that Jesus came to earth to die and take away all sins and its guilt association. His cry - It is finished - proved that human redemption from sin was completed, and that those who believe in Jesus would have their names forever written in the Lamb's Book of Life and at the time of death, they would be - absent in the flesh, present with the Lord forever - no matter how many or how grievous they committed sins. Others would be caught up and - raptured - to be with Jesus forever. Thus the promise of salvation was God's free gift - grace - to them. Protestantism is a religious philosophy - a hearer and not doer of the Word thus deceiving themselves - James 1:22. While there is belief in Christ to be sure, there is no substance, no forms of worship and thanksgiving to our God Jesus for His - WORKS - of creation and redemption. There is no Confession as per the formula that Jesus gave on the very day ( evening ) of His Resurrection from the dead , when He - empowered - His Apostles to forgive sins - or - retain them- John 20:22-23. There is no participation in Holy Communion which Jesus declared was - Real Food and Drink - for ETERNAL LIFE - John 6:53-58. Even their churches have no kneelers to kneel and bow down before our God and Maker. And there is no difference between Protestant marriages and - easy - divorce and non-Christian ones. Protestants deny the need for Good Works despite that the Great Judgement is based on Works - Matthew 25 And Jesus gave an awesome example by doing a - World of Works - John 21:25
Why do Protestants = not = understand the reason why Jesus incarnated as a man, died on the Cross and declare= It is Finished ? They thus arrive at doctrines that are heretical as they spell = Easy Christianity and cheap Grace = contrary to the 4 Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John which speak of Jesus' = Tough Love = message ===If you Love Me, keep My commandments, especially the Love of God and Neighbour, even enemies Jesus also defined a Christian as one who = Denies oneself, carries one's cross daily and follows Jesus. And = More = is expected of Christians as we have the greatest example of Jesus = Luke 12:48. And Jesus' parables, often prefaced by = the kingdom of Heaven = or = the reign of God = require us to multiply our talents, become more fruitful " soil " as well s wise virgins carrying oil = or else we will be denied heavenly entry thru the narrow gates = Matthew 7:14. The reason why Jesus incarnated was to redeem the = curse = caused by Adam and Eve's disobedience The Bible and OT begins with the = FALL = in the Garden of Eden of the man Adam who was given the directive by God to not eat of the forbidden =TREE= Gen 2;17. Eve, on the other hand, must have learned of this directive from Adam. The result of the Fall was to render the ground cursed and Adam and Eve dismissed from the garden Eden. The NT begins with the birth and = RISE = of Jesus, the spiritual Adam =1 Corinthians 15:21-23 = , who redeems man by His death on the TREE ( cross ) and is then buried in the Garden. What the Bible does = not = state is that God slammed the gates of Heaven shut after the Fall because Adam and Eve had taken on the nature of the devil. For when confronted by God, Adam blamed God = the woman YOU gave me = Adam also blamed Eve. Eve likewise blamed the devil ( serpent ). Instead of asking forgiveness from God who walked with them = Gen. 3:8, they played the Blame Game as children of the devil = 1 John 3:8 = and thus God had no option but to expel them from Eden and made them and their descendants ineligible for Heaven, through = Original Sin. This Original Sin is what Jesus came to pay by His death and shed Blood, as well as reverse God's curse on the ground. Thus the Tree which was the downfall of mankind now became the symbol = the Cross = of man's redemption. And the Garden where Jesus' body was laid now became the symbol of man's eligibility to Heavenly Paradise and thus has reversed the shame of his ousting from Eden and the reversal of the cursed ground. Third, the Fall of humankind began when Eve listened to and obeyed the = Fallen ANGEL =who is the devil. On the other hand, Mary listened and agreed with the = ANGEL = Gabriel to be the mother of Jesus who became the Redeemer. by His death on the TREE of the Cross. . Catholics thus believe that Eve brought about the Fall, whereas Mary contributed to the Rise of Mankind and have no problem in calling Mary = Co-Redeemer. Fourth, after Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, God called out to Adam = only = and he replied = I heard you in the garden, but I was afraid because I was NAKED, so I hid myself = Gen.3:10. On the other hand, when Jesus, the spiritual Adam, was nailed to the Tree, He was rendered NAKED = John 19:23 = with no way to hide. Fifth = 2 facts = First, Jesus was crowned with THORNS. Second =“And being in agony, Jesus prayed more earnestly. Then His SWEAT became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44). This = sweat Blood = of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, added to Jesus' thorn-crowned head, reversed and made satisfaction for God's curse in Genesis 3:17-19 = “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce THORNS and thistles for you and you will eat the plants of the field.19 By the SWEAT of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, Thus Catholics believe that Jesus came down from Heaven as a man to die and pay the penalty of Adam's sin which closed the gates of Heaven and imposed Original Sins on all Adam's descendants - you and me.=== It is Finished = was Jesus' triumphant cry of Mission accomplished and that Heaven gates were now opened. Moreover, Jesus' death and shed Blood paid for and covered the = Original Sins = of all those past, those now living as well as those yet unborn. Furthermore, Baptism is a - one-time - Grace event which washes away all our prior sins. However, we are responsible for all sins after Baptism - as confirmed by Jesus' " execution " of Ananias and Sapphira from the 1st Christian Faith community - Acts 5. And this was shortly = after = Jesus' heavenly ascent. Jesus expects = More = from Christians as we have the best example of Jesus Himself = Luke 12:48. Moreover, the Cross is the very symbol of Christianity. The long vertical beam represents our love for God and the short horizontal beam represents our love for Neighbour. For God is the God of Love and heaven is the perfect place of love. And that is why God expects and demands our practice of love whilst on earth so as to qualify for heavenly entry. Even the final judgement is based on love - Matthew 25. Thus Catholicism promotes the sacraments, especially that of Confession and Holy Communion, as well as Mass attendance, Eucharistic Adorations, Stations of the Cross, Benedictions, Novenas, etc. Most Protestants have a different belief from Catholics as to why Jesus incarnated and died on the Cross that they have consider themselves = inheritors = of Christ's saving act and thus their need to do no more than have Faith in Jesus to be " saved " which they mean to be granted Heavenly citizenship. Thus they deny the need for works as these are considered " boastful." Basically, Protestants have shifted their gaze and focus from the 4 Gospels which detail Jesus' teachings which were given by the Heavenly Father for our salvation, teachings which spell =Tough Love = and have adopted " cherry-picked " passages mainly from Paul's letters such as Romans 10:9 They believe that God will forgive all sins, not only those against God but even sins against neighbour, forever = despite Jesus' warning in Matthew 6:14-15 and Matthew 18:32-35 = and have adopted the Doctrine of = Saved by Grace = Ephesians 2:8-9 - and that all sins past, present and future are covered by the Blood of Christ. They believe that Jesus came to earth to die and take away all sins and its guilt association. His cry - It is finished - proved that human redemption from sin was completed, and that those who believe in Jesus would have their names forever written in the Lamb's Book of Life and at the time of death, they would be - absent in the flesh, present with the Lord forever - no matter how many or how grievous they committed sins. Others would be caught up and - raptured - to be with Jesus forever. Thus the promise of salvation was God's free gift - grace - to them. Protestantism is a religious philosophy - a hearer and not doer of the Word thus deceiving themselves - James 1:22. While there is belief in Christ to be sure, there is no substance, no forms of worship and thanksgiving to our God Jesus for His - WORKS - of creation and redemption. There is no Confession as per the formula that Jesus gave on the very day ( evening ) of His Resurrection from the dead , when He - empowered - His Apostles to forgive sins - or - retain them- John 20:22-23. There is no participation in Holy Communion which Jesus declared was - Real Food and Drink - for ETERNAL LIFE - John 6:53-58. Even their churches have no kneelers to kneel and bow down before our God and Maker. And there is no difference between Protestant marriages and - easy - divorce and non-Christian ones. Protestants deny the need for Good Works despite that the Great Judgement is based on Works - Matthew 25 And Jesus gave an awesome example by doing a - World of Works - John 21:25
@@MillionthUsernamethose are found in scripture. You’re just picking and choosing. He’s obviously talking about her assumption, praying to saints, and the idolatry
I note in the comments that there are many RC’s listening to this. That would indicate that you’re not sure of what you’re been taught and are searching for truth. I John 4:14. Thy word is truth. If it’s not in Scripture, it’s false
@@dman7668 *Google exists nobody has to be a Roman pagan anymore. Obviously Roman Catholicism is a false religion.* *R Catholicism has nothing to do with God and His Words. R Catholic Church contradicts Scriptures in every possible ways!* 1. Catholics say Mary was sinless. But BIBLE says Mary offered a sinner's offering. She was a sinner. Bible says Mary needed a Saviour. Lk 2:23-24, Lev 12:6-8, Rom 3:10. 2. Catholics say clergies must be celibate. Yet BIBLE says Peter (supposed R Church first leader) had mother in law. Bible says celibacy is not a qualification for clergies. Mat 8:14-15, Mar 1:30-31, Luk 4:38-39. 3. Catholics say Mary was forever virgin. Yet BIBLE says Jesus had brothers and sisters. Mary was not perpetually virgin. Mk 6:3, Mat 13:55, Mat 27:56, Mar 6:3, Mar 15:40, Mar 15:47. 4. Catholics say confess to R priests in a box. BIBLE says nothing about confessing to priests in a box. Bible says confess to GOD only. 1 John 1:9, Mat 6, Romans 10:9-10. 5. Catholics say drink of the physical blood of Jesus. Yet OT and NT both say do not drink blood. Acts 15, Lev 7:26. 6. Catholics say pray to passed on Mary and "saints". Yet BIBLE says do not contact the dead. NT Church did not record a single case of NT believers asking passed on saints to pray for them. Deut 18:11, Isaiah 8:19. 7. Catholics make and bow down to statues. BIBLE says do not bow down to graven images (statues). Deut 4, Exo 20:4-5. 8. Catholics sprinkles “holy water”. But NT Church of the Bible mentioned nothing about “holy water”. There was no record of any Apostles sprinkling “holy water” on believers. Catholics claimed “holy water” came from OT. Yet Num 5:17 says “holy water” was water used to test adulterous women in OT temple. Hardly the same. Those were for Old Covenant Jews. Not New Testament Christians. 9. Catholics say Peter was pope - bishop of all bishops. Yet BIBLE says Peter was just a leader of the Jerusalem Church. Bible says nothing of the office of bishop of bishops. Gal 2:9, Mat 16:18. 10. Catholics say there is a seat of Peter. Yet BIBLE says nothing about it. Jesus said “not to lord over others”. 11. Catholics has clergy priesthood. Bible says clergy priesthood was done away with in New Testament. There is no clergy priesthood in NT. Heb 7:27, 9:12, 10:10. 12. Catholics preaches Works Salvation (faith + good works + partake R sacraments + submit to R pontiff + be in R Church + devote to Mary = to be saved). Yet Bible says “believe in Jesus to be saved”. Bible says Works Salvation is cursed. Gal 1:8-9. Acts 16:30-31, John 3:16, Romans 10:9-10. 13. Catholics says they must do Penance to atone for their sins. Yet Bible says repent, confess and sins will be forgiven. Catholic Bible changes the word “repentance” in NT into “penance”. Original Greek NT does not use or mean the word penance. Penance = work to atone for sins. Repentance = change of heart. 1 John 1:9, Mat 6. 14. Catholics say Mary went straight to heaven without dying. Yet Bible says nothing about it. 15. Catholics say Islam and Christianity have the same GOD. Yet Islam doesn't believe in death and resurrection of Jesus and Trinity. you said No, we come here to have dialogue because now that Google exists nobody has to be a protestant anymore. Obviously protestantism is a false religion.
@savannahfan *It's embarrassing how RCs misquote Scriptures. That Greek word literally meant "sperm" or seed. You think believers are born of Mary?* G4690 (Thayer) σπέρμα sperma Thayer Definition: 1) from which a plant germinates 1a) the seed, i.e. the grain or kernel which contains within itself the germ of the future plants 1a1) of the grains or kernels sown 1b) metaphorically a seed, i.e. a residue, or a few survivors reserved as the germ of the next generation (just as seed is kept from the harvest for the sowing) 2) the semen virile 2a) the product of this semen, seed, children, offspring, progeny 2b) family, tribe, posterity 2c) whatever possesses vital force or life giving power 2c1) of divine energy of the Holy Spirit operating within the soul by which we are regenerated you said The actual Greek word is σπέρματος, Thayer’s Greek Lexicon translates that verse in Revelation 12:17, as “meaning the σπέρμα of the church (which is likened to a mother)”
@frankvw4819 *More fairy tales. Bible does not even mention any Roman Mass (sacrificing Jesus on the altar back to God). Bible says clergy priesthood, altars and sacrifices were already obsolete. Heb 7,9,10. So where did Roman pagan priesthood and altars come from?* *Mal **1:11** totally did not say what RCs claimed. There are at least 8 words used for sacrifice and offerings in Hebrew OT. The Hebrew word used in Mal **1:11** for offering was minchah referring to grain or meal offering like the one offered by Cain in Gen 4:3. minchah refers to bloodless offerings like grain, fruits, gift, meat, .. . Not as RC falsely claimed - blood sacrifice of Jesus.* H4503 (Strong) מִנְחָה minchâh min-khaw' you siad The highest form of worship, (the Mass) has been offered by the Catholic Church throughout the world since its beginning: THE PRIMARY MEANS CHRIST SHOWED and commanded HIS APOSTLES at the FIRST MASS, (the Last Supper), HOW WE ARE TO WORSHIP GOD and HAVE COMMUNION WITH HIM because of His great love for us: (Luke 22:19) in Greek _“Touto poieite eis tan eman anamnesin.” Translated: “Do This in memorial offering, or memorial sacrifice of Me". This is the fulfillment of the Malachi Prophecy and revealed in the DIDACHE: “Assemble on the Lord’s day, and break bread and offer the Eucharist; but first make confession of your faults, so that your sacrifice may be a pure one. Anyone who has a difference with his fellow is not to take part with you until he has been reconciled, so as to avoid any profanation of your sacrifice [Matt. 5:23-24]. For this is the offering of which the Lord has said, ‘Everywhere and always bring me a sacrifice that is undefiled, for I am a great king, says the Lord, and my name is the wonder of nations’ [Mal. 1:11, 14]” (Didache 14 [A.D. 70]).
The Catholic MASS ====================================== Acts 2:42 states that the 1st Christian community - devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles, to the communal life, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers. Our Catholic Mass has originated from this, with readings from the Bible in place of the - long dead - Apostles' teachings On the other hand, most Protestants ignore this communal gathering and promote only Bible study assemblies Malachi 1:11 = For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts. Here the prophet Malachi foretold the coming of the Mass where incense is offered at every High Mass. This is an apt description as there are Catholics all over the world so thus Holy Mass is celebrated from the sun's rising to its setting. Mass is both a form of Praise and Worship. Most Catholic churches have kneelers whereby the people can bow down and worship God. Protestants don't ever offer incense. Nor do Protestant churches have kneelers. Moreover, this prophecy does not refer to the Jews who are few in number and are not represented in many nations. Malachi 1: 12 = But you profane it when you say that the Lord's table is polluted, and its fruit, that is, its food may be despised. When Protestants criticize Mass, they profane the Lord's Table and Holy Communion which is the = real = food and drink, which is the Body and Blood of Christ. Furthermore = Isaiah 45:6-25 and Psalm 113:3 = So that from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting people may know there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is no other. Mass is both a form of Praise and Worship, globally.
@loboman8029 *Hilarious claims. ROman religion came in ad300s. So it's not 2000 years. You are still pretending "Roman religion = the Universal Church or Church Christ founded" with no proof that it was so. So where is your proof?* *Existed for a long time does not prove it's "favoured". Many nations existed longer than Roman religion and they are diabolical. That completely refutes all your false logic.* *Christian Churches has raising the dead, the lame walk the blind see, water turned into wine, walking on water miracles. Just check out all the miracles by Kathrine Kulhman, Smith WIggleswworth, John G Lake, Rayhard Bonkett. Even Roman religion type Communion miracles. Totally nothing to do with Roman pagan transubstantiation (elements transforms into Jesus to be eaten by RCs) or Roman pagan Mass (sacrificing Jesus on the altar back to God).* you said Of all the religions, our = Living = God JESUS has favoured Roman Catholic Christianity, more than all others, with His presence and manifestations in the past 2,000 years.
Catholics have been favoured with Eucharistic Miracles- like the 1996 Eucharistic Miracle of Buenos Aires, Argentina & in Lanciano, Italy in the 8th C - among many other miracles (( Note - Satanists will steal a consecrated " Catholic " Holy Communion host for use in their diabolical " Black Masses'' They will keep away from the communion hosts of near-Catholic but Protestant denominations like the Anglicans, Methodists and the Lutherans precisely because these don't have the Presence of Jesus. )) In Acts 2:27 - we read - For God will not allow His Holy one to undergo corruption. Likewise, God has clothed with incorruptibility the corpses of Catholic saints who have led a holy life in conformity with Jesus. The 500 year incorrupt corpse of St. Francis Xavier, which resides in Goa, India.is one example. The incorrupt corpse of the Lebanese St. Charbel Makhlouf is another example. Fr. Albert Hebert has compiled a list of over 400 resurrections of people who died but were raised to life by many Catholic saints. His book - Raised from the Dead - is available in book-stores. Jesus, our Living God, has appeared to many saints. In the 14th C, Jesus appeared to St. Bridget of Sweden who was much desirous of knowing about his agony He endured on the Way to Calvary - in other words, His Passion & Death. For a whole year Jesus taught her 15 Prayers and attached Promises to anyone who repeats these Prayers continuously for a year - the 1st Promise being - Jesus will deliver 15 souls of his/her lineage from Purgatory. ( Note - you can check the Internet under - The 15 Prayers of St. Bridget - and also view the Promises. ) And in the 1930's, not yet a hundred years ago, Jesus appeared almost daily to a Polish Nun, Sr. Faustina, and taught her the following prayer - Eternal Father, I offer you the Body & Blood, Soul & Divinity of your dearly Beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. In atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and the whole world. - This is in line with The Lord's Prayer which is pluralistic with the words - Our, Us, We, etc.(( Note = Sr Faustina kept a Diary of Jesus visits which is available from book-stores with its Title - Divine Mercy in My Soul I urge you to purchase a copy and read it. )) In 1995, Jesus appeared to a Nigerian named Barnabas and gave him the Devotion to His Precious Blood. Mary has appeared in many places like Lourdes, France and Fatima, Portugal, and Guadalupe, Mexico City, Mexico - among many other places and at different times. Moreover, She has appeared for 3 years nightly over a Coptic Church in Zeitoun, Egypt and pictures of her are available on the Internet. Lastly, before the Catholic Church declares a person - Saint - 2 first class miracles must be attributed to that deceased person - miracles which are mostly authenticated by non-Catholic doctors and professionals. On the other hand, the agents of Satan, Communists and Masons - aka Free-Masons - have long sought to infiltrate the Catholic Church clergy and thus undermine its teachings In the 1960's, ex-Communist executive of the Communist Party of USA, Bella Dodd testified before the US Congress that the Communists had sent over a 1,000 men into Catholic seminaries (( Note - this can be checked on the Internet. )) Undoubtedly, the Catholic Church has been favoured by our Living God and at the same time has been the target of God's enemies - because she represents the Truth regarding her Doctrine. Secondly, The Bible is, historically, a dated book as it records only to the 1st Century. Thus we read only the deaths of Judas and James but not about the other 10 Apostles or of Paul as to when, where and how they died. Does it mean that, because their deaths are not recorded, that they are still alive ?? Obviously not. Paul declares the Bible - useful and profitable - in 2 Timothy 3:16, but that the = Church = is the Bulwark and Pillar of Truth - 1 Timothy 3:15. That is because the Church, the community of Believers, came first - Matthew 16:18 - and incorporates both the written word as well as the oral tradition - 2 Thessalonians 2:15. And the Bible declares that Jesus performed a = World of Works = which are unrecorded - John 21:25. As a result 2 traditions ensued - oral and written - 2 Thess. 2:15 - which are of equal merit. By "Sola Scriptura" Protestants are only receiving part of Divine Truth thus resulting in so many denominations. The Catholic Church was founded on Peter's declaration of Jesus' Divinity - Matt. 16:16 and Jesus' promise - Matt 16:17-19- and holds to both traditions. It is the Church of the Living God and the Pillar and Bulwark of Truth - 1 Timothy 3:15 On the other hand, Protestantism is a religious philosophy - a hearer and not doer of the Word thus deceiving themselves - James1:22. While there is belief in Christ to be sure, there is no substance, no forms of worship and thanksgiving to our God Jesus for His - WORKS - of creation and redemption. There is no Confession as per the formula that Jesus gave on the very day of His Resurrection from the dead , when He - empowered - His Apostles to forgive sins - or - retain them- John 20:22-23. There is no participation in Holy Communion which Jesus declared was - Real Food and Drink - for ETERNAL LIFE - John 6:53-58. Even their churches have no kneelers to kneel and bow down before our God and Maker. And there is no difference between Protestant marriage and - easy - divorce and non-Christian ones.
@@loboman8029 *THere is no Roman pagan MAss (sacrificing JEsus on the altar back to God) in Acts 2:42 or John 6 or 1 Cor 11 or any parts of the Bible. Heb 7,9,10 says altars, sacrifices and clergy priesthood was already obsolete. SO where did ROman pagan Mass come from?* you said The Catholic MASS ====================================== Acts 2:42 states that the 1st Christian community - devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles, to the communal life, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers. Our Catholic Mass has originated from this, with readings from the Bible in place of the - long dead - Apostles' teachings On the other hand, most Protestants ignore this communal gathering and promote only Bible study assemblies
@@loboman8029 *1. YEs RCs love misquoting Mal **1:11**. Mal **1:11** refers to temple. Not NT Church. How we know that? Mal 1:1-5 says it's to Israel. Not Church. 2. Mal 1: 6-14 says it's OT priests. Nothing to do with Roman pagan priests. 3. And the most important point is: the offering was not "blood sacrifice" that RCs claimed to be. Knowing the Hebrew word it uses says it refers to "meal offering". Not "blood sacrifice".* *The word Mal **1:11** uses is minchah - meal offerings* *There are at least 8 words used for sacrifice and offerings in Hebrew OT. The Hebrew word used in Mal **1:11** for offering was minchah referring to grain or meal offering like the one offered by Cain in Gen 4:3. minchah refers to bloodless offerings like grain, fruits, gift, meat, .. . Not as Rcs falsely claimed - blood sacrifice of Jesus.* H4503 (Strong) מִנְחָה minchâh min-khaw' (KJV+) For H3588 from the rising H4480 H4217 of the sun H8121 even unto H5704 the going down H3996 of the same my name H8034 shall be great H1419 among the Gentiles; H1471 and in every H3605 place H4725 incense H6999 shall be offered H5066 unto my name, H8034 and a pure H2889 *offering: H4503 * for H3588 my name H8034 shall be great H1419 among the heathen, H1471 saith H559 the LORD H3068 of hosts. H6635 Genesis 4:3 (KJV+) And in process H4480 H7093 of time H3117 it came to pass, H1961 that Cain H7014 brought H935 of the fruit H4480 H6529 of the ground H127 an offering H4503 unto the LORD. H3068 Mal 1:11 For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My name shall be great among the Gentiles; In every place incense shall be offered to My name, And a pure offering; For My name shall be great among the nations," Says the LORD of hosts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~’ The different varieties of Offerings While Animal Sacrifices(Zabach) was just one type of offering, there are also many other types of offerings, that we are not familiar with. Offerings could be divided to 2 main categories as “blood offerings” and “bloodless offerings”. BLOOD OFFERINGS mainly consisted of “Olah” translated as Burnt Offerings (H5930 - ascending, going up in smoke: - ascent, go up) “Shelem” translated as peace offering (H8002 - requital, that is, a sacrifice in thanks) “Chattath” translated as sin offering (H2403 - offence, and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also an offender: - punishment of sin, purifying for sin, sinner). Both “Sin” and “Sin Offering” is called “Chattath” (Lev 4:3). “Asham” translated as Trespass offering (H817 - guilt; by implication a fault; also a sin offering: - guiltiness, offering for sin, trespass) BLOODLESS OFFERINGS mainly consisted of “Minchah” translated as Meat/Meal Offering (H4503 - apportion, that is, bestow; a donation; euphemistically tribute; specifically a sacrificial offering. usually bloodless and voluntary: - gift, oblation, meat offering, present, sacrifice). “Nesek” translated as Drink Offering (H5262 - libation; pouring out, pour) RITUALS OF OFFERING THE ABOVE “Terumah” translated as Heave Offering (H8641 - something raised, lifted, offered up). For example, part of the Peace offering could be lifted up, and therefore called a heave offering (Lev 7:32) “Tenuphah” translated as Wave offering (H8573 - tumult; specifically the official undulation of sacrificial offerings: - offering, shaking, wave). For example, part of the Peace offering could be waved, and therefore be called a wave offering (Lev 7:30). Several offerings were waved, such as the Leper’s trespass offering (Lev 14:12), Consecration offering (Lev 8:27), Sheaf of Firstfruits (Lev 23:11) and Loaves at Pentecost (Lev 23:17). THE SIX MAIN OFFERINGS COMMANDED BY GOD 1)Burnt Offering (Olah) 2)Meal Offering (Minchah) 3)Peace Offering (Shelem) 4)Sin Offering (Chattath) 5)Trespass Offering (Asham) 6)Drink Offering (Nesek) Different combinations of these above categories of offerings were used for different instances - such as - consecration of priests, nazarite vow, cleansing of leper, person defiled with issue, women giving birth, jealousy trial, etc. Mal 1:1 📝 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. The Lord's Love for Israel Mal 1:2 "I have loved you," says the LORD. "Yet you say, 'In what way have You loved us?' Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" Says the LORD. "Yet Jacob I have loved; Mal 1:3 But Esau I have hated, And laid waste his mountains and his heritage For the jackals of the wilderness." Mal 1:4 Even though Edom has said, "We have been impoverished, But we will return and build the desolate places," Thus says the LORD of hosts: "They may build, but I will throw down; They shall be called the Territory of Wickedness, And the people against whom the LORD will have indignation forever. Mal 1:5 Your eyes shall see, And you shall say, 'The LORD is magnified beyond the border of Israel.' you said Malachi 1:11 = For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts. Here the prophet Malachi foretold the coming of the Mass where incense is offered at every High Mass. This is an apt description as there are Catholics all over the world so thus Holy Mass is celebrated from the sun's rising to its setting. Mass is both a form of Praise and Worship. Most Catholic churches have kneelers whereby the people can bow down and worship God. Protestants don't ever offer incense. Nor do Protestant churches have kneelers. Moreover, this prophecy does not refer to the Jews who are few in number and are not represented in many nations. Malachi 1: 12 = But you profane it when you say that the Lord's table is polluted, and its fruit, that is, its food may be despised.
@loboman8029 *If Roman Catholicism is truth or Church of the Bible, why was there not a single New Covenant believer saved in a Roman Catholic way in the whole Bible? Why is that so? Please explain coherently intelligently.* - submit to Roman pope to be saved - devote to Roman Mary to be saved - be in Roman Church to be saved - partake Roman sacraments to be saved - baptise in Roman baptism to be saved - do lots of works to be saved
I heard a guy say that he first called on Santa Muerte (a growing cult) when he felt he couldn’t call out to God because he felt God would be angry and disappointed. This reminds me of people going to Mary because God is too scary.
I think people don’t know what worship actually means and that’s why they deny it. The definition is this: the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity. Catholics from their own mouths state that they have reverence for Mary. By definition, they worship her.
@@geoffjs If you google the word 'veneration' you will see it is similar to worship. Maybe you guys should choose a better word. Here's my suggestion, just say "blessed".
Would it make a difference to you if they did? Honest question. If you saw evidence for Catholic doctrines in the writings of the Early Church Fathers, would you have to consider becoming Catholic?
@randycarson9812 yes it would make me need to re look at what I believe but I still don't understand why you think you are the only game in town...for example the orthodox church. I still might not join the catholic church if Francis is the head of the church.
@@wilsontexas I do understand. A lot of Catholics have issues with Francis. But I have posted on the establishment of the Catholic Church and the Perpetual Virginity of Mary in these comments. Let me know if you have any questions.
@randycarson9812 *It does not matter whether you are called your momma's son or your sibling's brother. You are still the same person. The point remained: the verse implied they were in One Family. So it is.* *You failed to refute anything once again.* you said Point #2: Why are they called "His brothers" instead of "her sons"? Well, Jesus is the focal point, but NO verse of scripture refers to anyone other than Jesus as being Mary's child. Silence on that front.
I'll explain this to you once again. A step-brother is a child of one's step-parent from a previous relationship. When applied to Jesus, this term is part of the theological debate concerning the identity of Jesus’ brothers and sisters mentioned in the New Testament. The step-brother interpretation, suggesting that these were Joseph's children from a previous marriage, is one way to understand these relationships, especially in traditions that maintain the doctrine of Mary’s perpetual virginity. END OF DISCUSSION. BLOCK PENDING.
@@browncony3897 Can you prove that they weren't? Nope. This is why your argument fails. Because the verse is not specific one way or the other, it cannot be used to prove that Mary had other children. No verse does. Case dismissed for lack of evidence.
@@randycarson9812 *I do not need specific proof that Mary was not Forever Virgin really; since it's a norm to assume everyone is so. But it is the self claim of Roman religion that Mary was a Forever Virgin (which is against the norm). Self claims and special cases need proof. So where is your proof? You have none. Since you have none, how did Roman pagan religion derive this man made doctrine? From self claims and man made traditions?* you said Can you prove that they weren't? Nope. This is why your argument fails. Because the verse is not specific one way or the other, it cannot be used to prove that Mary had other children. No verse does. Case dismissed for lack of evidence.
@frankvw4819 *Nice fairy tales. Ignatius did not once linked Roman religion with Christ's Church or the Universal Church. Not early writers ever did.* *So how is this a proof?* *"catholic" in early writings had already referred to the Christian Churches spread throughout the regions. Not once it referred to a local church called Church of Rome (or modern days Roman Catholic Church).* you said Remember, the Church had to begin somewhere; it took time to grow. The earliest document we have in which “Catholic” is used to label the Church is found in a letter from the Apostolic Father ST. IGNATIUS, ordained BISHOP of ANTIOCH, a DIRECT DISCIPLE of ST. JOHN the APOSTLE, who wrote around A.D. 107, while being taken to Rome for execution, quote: “Wherever the Bishop appears, there let the people be; as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.” The word catholic comes from the Greek word ‘catholicus’ which means ‘universal’. Undoubtedly, this term was already familiar before because St. Ignatius is not giving an explanation of the meaning of the word. The term Catholic is simply a word to give the Church an identity as it began to spread worldwide.
"catholic" in early writings had already referred to the Christian Churches spread throughout the regions. Not once it referred to a local church called Church of Rome..." You are saying that "catholic" in the writings of the early Christians refers to the churches "spread throughout the regions," but not Rome? Explain this. How can you claim there was no church in Rome, or that it wasn't part of the whole apostolic Church when Paul wrote to the Romans in the New Testament?
@@MillionthUsername *”Church” in the Bible has never meant one particular local church. Bible defines Church as “group of all local churches + all believers”. “Catholic” meant universal - spread throughout the region.* *So tell me, why would “all local churches + all believers” refers to one particular local church called Church of Rome? Since when did that happen? Which year was that?*
@@browncony3897 This is what you said: "catholic" in early writings had already referred to the Christian Churches spread throughout the regions. Not once it referred to a local church called Church of Rome" I asked you why you excluded Rome from "the Christian Churches spread throughout the regions." I marveled how you could do this when Paul wrote to the Church in Rome in the NT. What's your answer? I won't accept your typical tactic of evading the issue.
@@MillionthUsername *You lack knowledge. Church of Rome was merely one local Church out of many in history. It was not the Universal Church (referring to all local churches + all believers) or Church it claimed to be.* *You are the one evading question. Since when did this local Church called Church of Rome became the Universal Church? Which year was that?*
@@browncony3897 You see, you won't answer the very question that pertains to your own post, which I quoted TWICE, so there is no point in wasting more time.
While I have always understood that the worship of Mary and all the dogma surrounding her was false and was refuted by scripture itself, this message pours such a bright light on the absolute cult that is the Catholic Church. I lost a Catholic friend a couple of years ago over my stance against this doctrine. I pray the Holy Spirit will reveal the true Jesus to him. Lastly, I can now see how this religion my very well be the false religion spoken of in the book of Revelation. This message has me reconsidering just who the "Whore of Babylon" is... because the Mary worshiped by the Catholic church is _not_ the Mary of scripture who was the mother of Jesus!
There is nothing in Scripture which contradicts Catholic dogma, Even the Reformers taught the Catholic dogmas about Mary AS PROTESTANTS. You all are not only in heresy to the Catholic church but to the founders of your own movement!
@@bridgefin There is plenty of scripture which contradicts a great deal of Catholic dogma. All you have to do is read the scripture for yourself and compare it with dogma. BTW, the reformers were wrong about it just as the Catholics are wrong. Also, most reformed denominations have since seen the error of their forefathers' teachings and have repented (turned away from them). _I am not a reformer_ . I am a spiritual descendant of those who never joined with the Catholic hierarchy to begin with, and were, for that reason, being hunted down, persecuted, and butchered by the Catholic church long before the reformation!
@@nealwright5630 You: BTW, the reformers were wrong about it just as the Catholics are wrong. Me: I get it. Everyone is wrong except YOU! You: . I am a spiritual descendant of those who never joined with the Catholic hierarchy to begin with, and were, for that reason, being hunted down, persecuted, and butchered by the Catholic church long before the reformation! Me: Baloney. And more lies. You have no history ad no facts. Believe your fantasies all you want. And use them to reject the Catholic Church. But don't blame us when you might wind up in Hell as you die in your sins....like arrogance, pride, and rejecting Jesus in addition to your lies.
Jesus founded His One True Church Matt 16 18-19 which codified the Bible in 382 from which pope Luther removed 7 books, under whose authority Deut 4:2. Splintering of Protestantism is the bad fruit of personal interpretation as there is no authority. Jesus willed unity Jn 17:21.
You had a quote from this document whose syntax sounded strange: 'If anyone..shall dare...you are are damned...you will be excommunicated.' I got a complete copy of the 1854 document and could not find these words.
@@bridgefin John 1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it." God's Word - as quoted from the Gospels, NOT "oral traditions" from a wealthy city/state that was established, approved, and funded by the pagans that burned Christians (and fed them to lions)
@@brianstough5286 You have been deceived by the liars. Ask them for proof and you will begin to lose those satanic demons and then just maybe you will be open to Christ who IS THE truth!
How many today would martyr themselves to lions or deny Jesus? It was mostly oral tradition until people like Paul and other literate apostles started writing it down.@@brianstough5286
The purgatory were emptied out WHAT?? There is no PURGATORY period. You die you don’t get a second chance you either go to Heaven, or Hell 🔥 Catholicism is not Christianity they are not Christians.! The bible is very clear on changing the words it’s a sin you shouldn’t even change one letter…any denominations who changes the words are not true Christians, and what about nuns getting engaged to Jesus?? The stories are endless as to how many people, and countries Mary appeared to it’s been proven that the church in Vatican is responsible for it deceiving people unbelievable !? What part of idolatry is a sin they don’t understand, and they make a rosary 📿 praying in names of dead saints who are dead,and buried they can’t hear your prayers only Jesus Christ can hear your prayers cause he’s alive & sits on the right side of his Father God in Heaven,another thing that bothers me is confessions, or baptising babies it’s endless !? I refuse to call a priest father or the pope which also means FATHER, and he thinks he’s God on earth 🌍Pope wears white every one else has to wear black what is that about?? Dear Heavenly Father Lord God help us get through this dark world that’s getting darker, and people are choosing darkness instead of light 💡 I went to private French Catholic College all my life even though I’m not Catholic our nuns were from Vatican City they spoke Italian and French only believe me English is my 8th language I’m very familiar with different religions,and men made denominations I know everything about them the only thing I hated the most was confession I was so young I didn’t even know what to confess about? I became a born again Christian 18 years ago .!! Salvation is by faith not by works!! This was a great video saying g’day from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺 👏❤️✌️🌎👋
@@danielmeadows3712 Hello Daniel. I’m sorry it’s been almost 44 years, and all I remember is that they were just a traditional nuns engaged to Jesus Christ they used to wear a ring just a simple band no gems nothing on it unlike the male priests.!! English is my 8th language + Italian not as good as I used to speak it with the nuns they were from the Vatican City Italian and French was their main language, and I was 5/6 years old at that age our brain is like a sponge that’s how I learned to speak Italian, and my father used to speak 11 languages unfortunately I lost him when I was 12 years old. For example we call the nuns sister in English,but in French we call them my sister, or my father my mother without the word MY it sounds wrong in French that’s the difference!? I hope I’ve been helpful with the answer to your question?? Do you mind telling me what denomination you are, or if you are a religious person?? 🇦🇺👏❤️✌️🌍👋
LUKE 1:46,47 Romans 3:23 Mary was not 'mmaculate' she was a sinner like all human beings! After she gave birth to the Lord Jesus Christ, she had more kids. She should not be prayed to or worshipped. From your question it seems to me that you haven't read a real Bible, I say delve into it! @@stever4181
@@Blizzmatic777Mary had to be Immaculate to be able to bear Jesus, she was full of grace - sinless, all things are possible with God. Mary is the NT Ark of the Covenant. Ever Virgin, Mother of God, she was assumed into Heaven where she is Queen. Not everything is in the Bible John 21:25 - try to widen your view & don’t rely on faulty personal interpretation
You are CONTRADICTIONG the Holy Scriptures!! If anything goes against the Word Of God it should be discarded immediately!! the only sinless person that EVER lived is the Lord Jesus Christ, who paid the price for all our sins, He is our only intercessor without any help from anybody!! Mary have a bunch of kids after Jesus was born, and she is NOT the queen of Heaven, that is pure paganism!! I want you to go to Heaven forever, but the path you're on is that of deception! Faith ALONE in Jesus will save you.@@geoffjs
The worship of Mary transfers the devotion due to God to a human being, Mary! Holy, yes, human nonetheless. Any such worship or veneration is idolatry which insures the judgement of God.
John MacArthur Following God comes from your heart not your interlect which makes you a proud man Look at the saints like Padre Pio and follow their lead They are humble Where people like you Pentecostals think you understand and know God By your interlect Be very careful people Satan knows how to blind you
@savannahfan *RCs love nonsensical claims. Bible says "believers of God = children of God". Now RCs claimed "believers = children of Mary". Is God and Mary married? RCs think God and Mary are husband and wife? You are again proving Roman religion is pagan and man made.* you said the “rest of her Children” REV12:17 is obviously about the Church and its believers…
I was raised in the Catholic Church, 1st communion , confirmation and alter boy. I loved the beautiful older church's and truly believed it was the True Church.....when i started reading the Bible, studied history, and prayed God would lead me to the truth and i would follow him no matter how difficult it was.....This is the Catholic history .......The Catholic Church formed the inquisition, murdered Christians in dark ages, changed the Ten Commandments, molested tens of thousands of children , added books into the Bible, blatantly violates the word of God that says to never call any man Father. Conspired and originally supported Hitler.....HITLER!!!!!i could go on and on and on and on and on.....John Macarthur loves Catholics ....just hates the evil.....i hope you all ask God for the truth, n not what is comfortable for you. Because as of right now according to his word he does not know u if.Your under the Catholic delusion.
I am a true Catholic nothing a Protestant says one who follows a heretic like Martin Luther will change my mind. Catholics have not been perfect I guess you have. Read Matt 7 vs. 1
It was the Spanish Inquisition started by the Spanish Monarchy to drive out the Jews and Muslims. By the way any well read Protestant would know that. By the way Martin Luther was a rabid antisemite so do not start throwing stones at your neighbor. Luther also jettisoned any Bible passages that did not fit into his theology, he tried to jettison the book of Revelation but his people stopped him….he also added the word “ Alone” to the Bible passage by faith are you saved. So he did what Thomas Jefferson did he just started carving up the Bible. So please do your homework and be informed before you spread your errors across the www. Most nondenominational churches are full of ignorant Catholics that never took the time to understand what the Church really teaches these people are ripe for the picking by people like John MacArthur who also spreads misinformation about what the Catholic Church teaches.
catholics did not add 7 books to the bible that is a myth that protestants seem to continue to believe. In fact martin luther dropped the 7 books of the old testament that were written in Greek or Aramaic. In the New Testament luther originally deleted the following 4 books: James, Hebrew, Jude and Revelation The bible used by theCatholic Church is the same today as it was at the Council of Carthage in 398 AD when it was Approved!!!!!! PLEASE STOP SPREADING YOUR ERRORs!!!!!!!!!
The apparitions thing is what really pushed me away from Catholicism. I just can't see how anyone can read the gospels and letters of Paul, and think that the apparitions aren't Satan coming as an "angel of light." I mean, how much more anti-Christian can you get than some of the apparition messages like "devote yourself to *me* and *my* sacred heart" or "I am grieved by sins, so wear this piece of cloth and pay penance and you'll be delivered." I will add that most Catholics aren't personally Mariolatrists, but the church as an institution absolutely tolerates and even supports it, especially in the Latin American countries and France.
Our visual range is very limited. It's about 40000 to 70000 cm. Ask any eye doctor. So? where are the things we don't see? If you believe in the Spiritual then you believe in God. If you only believe in the physical then you are an atheist. A Jew by the name of Saul of Tarsis, taught about Jesus to the Gentiles and the racist Jews have been pissed off for 2,000 years!
Well now Bob, I was raised and baptized as a "fundie" After college I asked the wrong question to the preacher and he condemned me straight to Hell and the lake of fire. So I became an atheist for a few years. Then I met a Catholic Priest. I asked him the same sort of question and he replied "Bless You My Son" Afterward I studied two long years, some with a Jesuit from India, some more in a quiet monastery. I've been Roman Catholic now for over 50 years, I love my neighbor as I love myself but I still am not used to the pointy hats and red beanies and robes.
My Mothers family were German Lutherans and my Fathers family were Primitive Baptists from way out in a rural area of the Southland. Something happened with my Dad, I don't know what. He was one of 12 children and he ran away from home at 17 and joined the Navy. He would never cross the threshold of any kind of Church or adhere to any religion after he ran away. However i would catch him reading the Bible sometimes and I know he thought a lot of St. Paul. Mom's whole family became disenchanted with the Lutheran faith and I was raised from early childhood in the Church of Christ. (Praise God) but as I matured I could not reconcile that every word in the KJV Bible comes directly from God Himself. I was agnostic, atheist, and the Holy Spirit put me into the Roman Catholic Church. It's been that way for over 50 years now and my Soul is at rest and I m comfortable. 1st . Catholic since my people left Northern Ireland in the 1700's for the USA..
The funny thing is, if most catholics would open the Bible and READ it, they might discover that there are a LOT of women in the Bible that got MUCH MORE INK written about their story, than Mary did hers.... Yes Jesus loves her. Yes, her story is amazing - but it is NOT deserving of the worship/veneration/honor that Rome gives her (the vatican gives her) Think of Esther Think of Ruth Both of these women have entire books in the Bible. By the catholic logic, shouldn't they be worshipped as well?? Not an exhaustive list, but if you opened the Bible once in a while, you might know a few of these names! Deborah Sarai (Sarah) Rebekah Leah and Rachel Jezebel Rahab Miriam Zipporah Bathsheba Hannah Delilah Merab Michal Each one of these women had amazing stories, but the catholic church chooses to IGNORE the fact that the Entire Bible is a BIOGRAPHY of JESUS CHRIST our Savior.... In the catholic church service, one or two 'snippets' from the Bible are read, and a "homily" follows that rarely gives HOMAGE to the one who created ALL THINGS and came down to earth for a short time to teach us and sacrifice Himself for us. Jesus encourages us to listen, to read and to THINK ABOUT HIS WORD (He IS THE WORD!)
@@nosuchthing8Yes we can, but shouldn't we consider the "direct access" we have to God? You know that the VEIL (curtain) was torn, right? Do you know what purpose the veil served?? We really shouldn't be "...putting anyone or anything or anyone BEFORE God..." Deuteronomy 5:7-9 " ‘You shall have no other gods before Me. 8 ‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image-ANY LIKENESS OF ANYTHING that is IN HEAVEN ABOVE, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 9 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, AM A JEALOUS GOD,..."
The Catholic Mass literally revolves around The Crucifixion of Christ. So saying that The Catholic Church service rarely gives homage to Christ just shows your lack of knowledge of it.
Jesus said: COME UNTO ME" He NEVER said go to Mary and If you had ever read and STUDIED the word of God in the bible, instead of the catechism, you'd know that Jesus never even gave Mary the time of day in public, and I’ll show MANY examples. Not one time in the bible did he ever even call her mother, NOT ONCE! Jesus ALWAYS called her WOMAN. Even when Jesus was dying on the cross. First of all, Jesus said: When ye pray, USE NOT VAIN REPETITIONS as the heathen do for they think they will be heard for their much speaking. (Matt. 6:7) But praying the rosary IS vain repetition by saying the exact same prayers over and over again. The rosary begins Hail Mary full of Grace… But the bible reads: Jesus was the ONLY begotten of the Father full of grace and truth (John 1:14). Now if Jesus is the only begotten full of grace, how can Mary also be full of grace? The Hail Mary is also a corruption of God’s word in Luke. It DOESN’T say FULL of Grace, it DOESN'T say holy Mary, it DOESN’T say Mother of God, nor does it read: Pray for us! Christians are to pray in Jesus’ name only. Jesus was born of a Virgin, Yes, absolutely, BUT, Mary later gave birth to at least six other children in the bible. The bible reads: Joseph did not know her (have relations with her) UNTIL after she had given birth. (Matthew 1:25) If you don't do something UNTIL a certain time, doesn’t that mean that you DO do it at that time? The bible also gives us the names of Jesus four half-brothers and also mentions his sisters. Read Matthew chapter 13 verse 55. Is this not the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James and Joses, and Simon and Judas? And his sisters, are they not ALL with us? (Matt. 13:55,56). And they weren’t Joseph’s children from some so-called prior marriage as priests like to claim. There’s absolutely NO mention of this in the bible. Moreover, Psalm 69 which is clearly a messianic prophecy reads. I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my MOTHER’S children. (Psalm 69:8). The very next verse is quoted in John 2:17: The zeal for thine house hath eaten me up. Mary also lost Jesus when He was 12 for three full days. Mighty careless of her wasn't it? (Luke 2:39-50). How could Mary not know where that miracle that she had given birth to was for three days? But it certainly might make sense if James, Joses & Simon were toddlers. She has another year old brother or sister she's trying to keep an eye on, and maybe Mary's breastfeeding an infant. That certainly might explain Mary's carelessness when her FIRSTBORN son was 12. JESUS was called Mary’s FIRSTBORN son in (Matt 1:25 and Luke 2:7) When Jesus was told your Mother and brothers are outside and want to see you, He left them outside! He didn't even let His mother or brothers in the house or go out to see them. Talk about disrespecting Mary! Instead, Jesus spread His hands toward His disciples and said whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven is my brother and sister and MOTHER! (Matt. 12:46-50) And that story is repeated in THREE different gospels. Mary also said that SHE needed a savior. (Luke 1:47). When a woman cried out saying blessed is the womb which bore you and the breasts on which you nursed, referring to Mary, Jesus replied: RATHER, blessed are those who hear the word of God and do it! (Luke 11:27) Roman Catholics are biblically illiterate! It wasn't until the 5th century that a bunch of biblically illiterate brainless monks began praying to Mary. They wanted a female deity like the pagans had and Mary fit the bill. The bible also reads that there is ONE God and ONE mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus (I Tim 2:5) If there is ONE mediator, the perfect mediator that died and shed His blood on the cross for US sinners, why would we need another? Is Mary considered a saint? The bible reads: Behold, he putteth NO trust in his saints; yea the heavens are not clean in his sight. (Job 15:15). . When Paul went to Jerusalem he said he saw James, the LORD’S BROTHER (Galatians 1:19) It was James that presided over the council at Jerusalem. And James also made the final decision, which is funny considering Peter was there. Why wasn’t Peter the one to make the final decision if he was the first so-called pope? Paul, Barnabas and Peter put in their two cents, but it was James, the Lord’s brother who made the final decision. (Acts 15:6-23). The bible reads over and over again that ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and it NEVER makes an exception for Mary or for anyone but for our LORD Jesus Christ. When Mary said “They have no wine”, Jesus rebuked her! He said: WOMAN, what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come. (John 2:4) Jesus, who was a prophet, knew that one day people would be praying to Mary, so He made it very clear by both His words and actions that he didn’t want ANYONE praying to or going to Mary. Again, Jesus said: Come unto ME! He NEVER said go and pray to my mother. When the men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here. And when the queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. I believe that Mary herself shall also rise up in the judgment and she shall condemn it for praying to her instead of going to her adorable son, Jesus Christ, who was the one and ONLY one who died for us and for our sins on the cross. Salvation is a free gift. “”If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the LORD Jesus and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:9,10). The bible commands us all to: STUDY to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. (2 Tim 2:15). If you don't study the word of God for yourself, you'll be ashamed before God at the judgment. I was a Catholic. I prayed the rosary 50 years ago. But I, like many other ex-catholics read and STUDIED the word and the WORDS of God. Don't put your salvation in someone else's hands like biblically illiterate priests. How many times at mass have any priests read you ANY of these verses from the bible? As an ex-Catholic I know I never did till I read them for myself. Read and STUDY the bible for yourself. Make no mistake about it, your eternal soul depends upon it.
@@bridgefin That is just plain stupid. Jesus said "Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away" That means Mary is not included here. BTW this is one of those passages in John 6 that Catholic ignore!
@@stever4181 Proof? I'm telling you the experience of 2000 years of Catholic experience. You don't want her? Fine, we are happy to take her as our spiritual mother as we believe Jesus gave her to us from the cross.
Catholicism isn't a denomination, it's the original Church from which all the others came from, you silly ignorant fool. It's the Catholic Church that created the New Testament in the first place, but they didn't teach that in your backwater 'denomination', did they? Do you know anything about the Protestant revolution? Luther was a bipolar OCD who you used to go to confession multiple times every day and annoy the priests with his nonsense. Luther came up with the idea of 'Sola Scriptura' to justify his interpretation of salvation through faith alone. He literally wanted to remove several books from the New Testament, including the epistle of James and the Book of Revelation because they stressed the importance of doing good works. Once the heresy began, then the denominations began. Now there are well over 45,000 'denominations', mostly due to stupidity and racism. Everybody can interpret the Bible anyway they like now that the Protestants declared sola scriptura. Protestants are basically 'non-binary' Christians, each person reads the scripture and makes up their own beliefs. The only truth can be found in the authority of the Catholic Church, the original Church that Jesus himself founded.
While it's true the catholic church ignores, rejects and changes scriptures, they are not the first to do so, nor the last. Four of the ''most popular cults" in the United States: seventh day adventists; church of christ; mormons; 'christian' science; jehovah witness, and SCORES of other false religions do it as well. The most sorrowful thing to me in all of that is that most of these cults observed it first in the catholic church, then just "copied and pasted" things that they wanted to use - then harshly criticized the rest of the dogma/tradition/doctrine -control and abuse.
@@brianstough5286 all of which use thier own bible that has been written to suit their tradions and very heartbreaking I have an uncle that was a seventh day Adventist pastor for fifty years and I was always condemned for the sabbath until I read the KJV Bible myself and saw the truth they only used the NIV and I was realizing it was missing many verses not that it can’t be used by Jesus to minister but not the whole counsel of his word if it’s missing
@@Ecclesiastics102 I would not call NIV bad, but they've printed their own "version" (translation?) called "clear word" - I would stay clear of that one. Troublesome at best. Heretical at worst. Three passages, for Bible believers, to discredit seventh day adventist (SDA) doctrine Hebrews 4 Sabbath is TODAY - (every day, every hour every minute 24/7/365) we have access to God Genesis 9 (EAT MEAT) Romans 14 (EAT MEAT) If you don't believe the Bible, it doesn't matter anyhow, does it?? If you do believe the Bible, you need to question your teachers motives if they teach something OTHER than what the Bible teaches - which is a good segway to discuss: worshiping (venerating) Mary. Yes, Jesus loves her! Yes, she submitted to God for the mission He had for her If Jesus wanted us to give her so much attention, she would have been more prevalent in the Bible (disappears EARLY in the new testament) Luke 11:27 27 "And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!” If Jesus had wanted us to worship/venerate Mary, this would have been the opportunity to preach and teach that doctrine/dogma, but instead He said 28 "But He said, “MORE THAN THAT, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
@@brianstough5286 I’m not calling it bad I’m saying that they kept out key scriptures like Matthew 17:20 Jesus speaking to his deciples in a reply to thier question about why they couldn’t cast out a demon that provided the key to fighting against unbelief which was fasting and prayer his name is always enough authority for any demon however the manifestation of the demon in thier face caused unbelief and a very powerful lesson that only the devil would ever want to keep from us not to mention the red letters of Christ and adding to that the reason why there’s so many versions is because of money the Bible has been the number one selling book for a hundred years not because it wasn’t done right the first time God had his hand on it of course different languages were needed but nothing else
@@srich7503we are talking about new testament people. If she was so perfect and SINLESS. SHE SHOULD HAVE DIED FOR OUR SINS ..... Ridiculous false doctrine
@@TriciaPerry-ef7bi No, we are talking about God’s sovereign plan of salvation of man, which is ALWAYS in play, not just since the birth of Jesus. What makes you think the NT people are more special than the OT people. ALL of God’s people are created equal and have equal chance of His salvation. So please back up and answer my question above if its not too hard for you…
Catholics worship GOD and we HONOUR Mary and it is biblical and logical to do so. Luke 1:24-48. God chose her, The Holy Spirit came upon her, she is blessed among women and all generatrions will call her blessed. PROTEST-antism will always accuse and slander the catholic church, cuz that is what Luther intended when he started the protestant "reformation.
It seems as though there are a LOT of people that do not realize the Bible was NOT written in English - but in three major languages: Ancient Greek for the New Testament and Ancient Hebrew for the Old Testament. Translators did the best they could for the King James version (KJV), but there are many more texts available since then, including the Dead Sea Scrolls - that help to verify the Bible - as truth
@@nosuchthing8 I know better to respond when people post things that Jesus considered "GNATS" - as opposed to Camels... It is nothing more than a distraction, but here goes: and it is fitting where it is located within Matthew 23:24 (the chapter in which Jesus is saying "WOE" 7 times for the behavior that the catholics emulated from the Pharisees) "You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!" You should take a look at chapter 23 of Matthew and THINK! As far as the "gnat" of speaking Aramaic goes: God's PERFECT TIMING provided for good roads to travel between cities, and the most prolific (language of the Widest Use) language at the time was Greek - yes, there are a few phrases in Aramaic, (and they are noted in the text because it is RARE in the New Testament -i.e... John 20:16 "Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”) {In fact, there are a few places in the Old Testament in which Aramaic was used, and ALL OF THEM ARE POINTED OUT IN THE TEXT ITSELF - as they are in the New Testament - because they are RARE.} But the language of the time that the MOST PEOPLE SPOKE was Greek, and Jesus wants to reach ALL PEOPLE! 99% of the recorded language of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John (and Paul and other Epistle writers) was written down in GREEK for us to "SPREAD THE WORD" not in a dead language as Aramaic was already dying at the time Jesus walked the earth in a human body.
If we get the baptism in Jesus name and the HOLY GHOST and have the word of God the Gospels Our own salvation and relationship with God what More do we need. The problem is when people are looking for More than was already written. The Catholic Church adding and misinterpreting and Many are just NOT CALLED OR ELECTED. I want to know why I had the holy Spirit and not once lying in my bed as a teen not SEALED and WHOLE WITH THE HOLY GHOST. WHY AWAIT TILL I am older and LEAVE my parents home to move me and let me be attacked and profess to LOVE ME AND want me saved but oh I DIDN'T MAKE HELL FOR MAN. yet only elected few to be saved ... ONLY call few yet knowing from the beginning you want majority of man in hell....
@@TriciaPerry-ef7biDoing a study on the word "Baptism" is eye-opening! Look at Mark 10:38 and notice that, even though Jesus uses the 'root word' 3 times in this passage, in none of the three times does He say (or imply) "water"... "But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink from the bitter cup of suffering I am about to drink? Are you able to be BAPTIZED with the BAPTISM of suffering I must be BAPTIZED with?” Mark 10:38 To put this "in context" - as always - we need to look at the scriptures leading up to and following this passage - and that makes it even more clear that "baptize" usually DOES NOT MEAN WITH WATER!!! The word, translated, has more to do with being immersed in something - whether Spirit or Fire or Water - or SUFFERING.. John the Baptist himself said that "I must decrease and HE MUST INCREASE" (John 3:30) (I and my ministry and HE and HIS ministry) and "I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit!” Mark 1:8 Matthew 3:11, Luke 3:16 and John 1:33 also speak of baptizing with something OTHER THAN WATER. YES ALL 4 GOSPELS!! JESUS did NOT baptize!!! John 4:2 "(though Jesus himself didn’t baptize them-his disciples did)." 1 Corinthians 1:13 - 17 - If read IN CONTEXT, has Paul REGRETTING the one baptism that he did - because people were starting to REQUIRE water baptism - against the WILL OF JESUS ACTS 15:28 uses the word ONLY (NO GREATER BURDEN in some translations) referring to 'what is required as a Christian' (THE WAY) and the four things required DID NOT INCLUDE WATER (or ANY form of) Baptism.
YOU =I wish my mother in law was alive to listen. ME = On the contrary, I am glad that she did not have to listen to such clueless stuff Just check my comment headed by = @loboman8029 1 month ago Regarding why Catholics seek Mary's intercession, here are 2 cases
My dad got saved on his death bed by the elder I called to come and pray with him. There was a noticeable difference in my dad after he received Christ, he wanted to get up out the bed he'd been in for months and wanted to eat fruit which he had refused to eat anything anymore. My sister, who is Catholic and had been praying the rosary and saying hail Mary's over him every day, saw the change in my dad as well. I asked her "Do you see what happened to dad, and she looked at me with this slightly evil/dissapointed look and said yes! I thought she didn't understand what I meant because her response was puzzling, I thought she'd be excited so I asked her again and she knew what I meant and gave me the same answer only more upset. It dawned on me that she was upset because my dad received Christ through faith through a protestant man and that all of her praying to Mary didn't work. I really think she is possessed by the spirit behind the mary they worship. Please pray for her, her name is Rachel.
Of course! You become what you worship. Like their idols, they have eyes but they can't see, they have ears but they can't hear the truth. Just pray for her, we don't fight flesh and blood.
@mpkropf5062 *Yes that's what Roman religion indoctrinated you to believe in. Bible says Roman religion added 7 books. Romans 3:1-2. Scriptures is infallible. Scriptures is always correct.* ⭐Did Christians remove 7 books or did Roman Catholics added 7 books? ⭐ Romans 3:1-2 says Scriptures is of Jewish origins. Not Roman Catholic origins. Jews till this day holds OT 39 books. Not Roman religion’s OT 46 books. Scriptures is always correct. So clearly pointing to Roman religionists adding 7 books. Greek LXX was merely a translation of Original Hebrew OT. Original Hebrew OT did not contain Apocrypha 7 books. So why would a translation have Apocrypha 7 books? So clearly pointing to Roman religionists adding 7 books. you said Luther removed a lot and whole books from the Bible so if you read a Protestant Bible you are not reading the Full Gospel!
@dman7668 *You are just demonstrating RCs do not read the Bible. 180+ verses showed Jesus, APostles and NT Church all took doctrines from Scriptures Only and not from any other source. This is already Sola Scriptura.* *Sola Scriptura = Taking doctrines from Scriptures Only and not from any other source.* you said The Apostles were not practicing sola scripture. They were Jewish and the Jews were not protestant sola scripture folks in their belief system.
Hi, I’m William. I’m a Catholic apologist. I’m here to help you understand that Catholic faith and practice are much more biblical and historical than you currently believe. Is engaging in that kind of conversation with me something you’re opposed to?
@@wjtruax *Hilarious false claims. What can be more historical and biblical than the practices and teachings of the Earliest Church Fathers (Jesus, APostles and NT Church); which were all recorded in Scriptures already?* you said Catholic faith and practice are much more biblical and historical than you currently believe.
@@wjtruax *Try answering the first questions: If Roman Catholicism is truth or Church of the Bible, why was there not a single New Covenant believer saved in a Roman Catholic way in the whole Bible? Why is that so? Please explain coherently intelligently.* - submit to Roman pope to be saved - devote to Roman Mary to be saved - be in Roman Church to be saved - partake Roman sacraments to be saved - baptise in Roman baptism to be saved - do lots of works to be saved
@@browncony3897 I’m sorry. I would like to engage with someone who is actually willing to admit they might not see the whole picture. The mocking, cynical tone of your responses tells me that you already know everything and are not open to objective conversation.
In relation to the absolute of the New Testament. . . .what did the first Christians use? The NT as we know it ( put together over years by the first Catholics, btw) wasn't in existence, the first book not even being written until 70 years after Jesus died. Are they in hell for not following the scriptures that didn't yet exist? And what of the multiple interpretations and changes influenced from one language to the next, generation after generation. Come on . . .its all complicated. NO ONE is uninfluenced by error, interpretation, literalism and legalism. The early christians didnt have the NT and yet . . .like Christians today they believed in CHRIST, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, even the Catholics. I find your teaching dangerous, leading to hate a particular group.
Hey Karen, you are so right. These kinda so called preachers are poison to the Christian faith, certainly not worthy to be associated with Jesus Christ.
@savannahfan *You failed to answer again ... Where in the Bible ever said Mary is your momma? Or mother of God or Perpetual Virgin? Or Co mediatrix Co redemptrix? Where? Or Sinless Mary? Where? If you can find that I will give you a lollipop.*
Mary never said that she was a sinner. She said she had a savior. Luther preached that Mary was preserved from any sin and therefore someone SAVED her from ever sinning, not from sin committed.
@@johnyang1420 The word of God doesn't say anything of this nature In fact HE Jesus Christ SAID ALL ALL ALL ALL HAVE SINNED and fallen short of the knowledge of God. ALLLLLLALLLALLLLALLALLLL
I called myself an Athiest for many years. All through high school and into my early twenties.. then had a kind of road to Damascus experience and was left with no doubts at all about the existence of God.. I saw a vision of what I can only describe as something that looked like a knight of old. Like a crusader. It appeared in front of me resting his hands on a sword pointed to the ground. Then from the knight in Armour came Our Lady holding out the Child Jesus.. his arms outstretched towards me.. she was as the Bible describes in revelations.. dressed by the Sun.. light radiating from her. that light came through her beams lighting up everything in the room and the light was pure radiating Love.. it was the Love of God radiating from her and through her, and the Child Jesus was the purest of Gold . Holding out his hands to me as if to welcome me. My life changed in that moment.. I knew exactly who they were in the very instant I saw them.. I knew it more than I ever knew anything in my life.. So I became Christian And I looked at many different sects of Christianity to see which of them holds the Mother of Christ in the esteem that God gives her.. and it’s only in the Catholic Church that the Mother of my Saviour is given anything close to the respect she deserves.. So I can tell you honestly with my hand on my heart.. MacArthur is lying to you.. whether he knows it or not he is totally wrong about the Catholic Church.. and he is leading you all astray
@@sandradaniels3079 do we indeed? So what did Christians follow before the invention of the Printing press and the first mass-produced Bibles? And what did we follow when the majority of the population were not educated enough to read? And what did we follow before Pope Damasus called the first Council of Rome to thresh out the books of the New Testament
Paul did not follow a vision. Acts 9:7 "The men traveling with Saul stood there speechless; they heard the sound but did not see anyone." That was no vision but a real encounter. Catholics only see what they want to see and then accuse others of false interpretations.
What you refer to as the Holy Spirit is anything but. It leads you to purposefully insert enormous pipes of unbiblical garbage in between you and your savior. Does that sound like something Christ, who stands at the door and knocks, or would gather you as a mother hen does her chicks would do, or maybe something the devil might do to keep you from that which saves you?
Worship originates from the heart and manifests itself in external actions. NO man sees the heart. ONLY God sees the heart. Therefore, it is simply impossible for you to know for sure if I am not telling the truth if I deny that I worship Mary because it is Impossible for you to see my heart (which is where Worship comes from). Only God can know for sure if I am worshipping Mary or not because only He can see my heart
@@johnbrowne2170 Exactly. Only GOD and MYSELF can know for sure if I am worshipping Mary, because it is only the two of us that knows exactly what is in my heart. No one else does. Not even you. Therefore, you are not in a position to accuse me or any other Catholic of worshipping Mary
Spot on. I know this all too well from personal experience having been raised and brought up in the Catholic Church. The irony about their argument and insistence they only "venerate" Mary is that venerate literally means to worship and/or be in awe of. They try to continue to move the goal posts, but words have meaning, so whether they say venere, honor, revere...it makes no difference; it's worship.
@@DapperDilla Actually, you are wrong to claim that "venerate" is exactly identical to "worship" According to the Cambridge English dictionary, to venerate is to "show HONOUR or a lot of respect for a person or thing" Likewise, the oxford English dictionary defines venerate as "showing a lot of respect for a someone or something, especially someone or something that is considered holy or very important" So we see that "venerate" isn't all about "Worship" (in the sense of giving someone or something the kind of recognition that belongs to God alone); it is a word that can mean "honour" and/or "respect", both of which are attitudes that are not reserved for God alone (for instance, we are honour our parents and those in positions of authority in the state) Curiously, if the word "venerate" was a direct synonym of the word "Worship", why is it that there isn't any English translation of the bible that uses the word "venerate" in place of the word "Worship" ? Listen, no matter how hard you try to twist and misrepresent Catholic teaching, the fact is that the Catholic Church doesn't believe that Mary should be worshipped as a divine being
@dman7668 *Where in the Bible says "obey Christ to be saved".* *Versus "Believe in Jesus to be saved. Not By Works. Saved to obey God, John 3:16, Eph 2:8-10"?* you said It does teach obedience to Christ is necessary and part of meeting the requirements for salvation. It's not by faith alone as you know.
Ephesians 2:8-9 "For by GRACE are ye saved through FAITH and that NOT of yourselves. It is the GIFT of God NOT works lest any man should boast. " What about this aren't you understanding?
@daughteroftheMostHighGod519 *PTL. And the first thing Roman religion mislead believers in is Roman religion pretending to be the Universal Church.* you said 2024. Thank you Holy Spirit for leading me out of the Catholic Church as a child.
@@mpkropf5062 *RCs love false claims. Bible and real history did not say “Roman religion = home or Christ’s Church or the Universal Church”. So where did RCs get all these self claims?*
@@mpkropf5062 *If Roman Catholicism is truth or Church of the Bible, why was there not a single New Covenant believer saved in a Roman Catholic way in the whole Bible? Why is that so? Please explain coherently intelligently.* - submit to Roman pope to be saved - devote to Roman Mary to be saved - be in Roman Church to be saved - partake Roman sacraments to be saved - baptise in Roman baptism to be saved - do lots of works t
@@browncony3897 The Bible says Universal Church and Universal means Catholic. It started in Rome is why it got called Roman Catholic. Luther removed a lot and whole books from the Bible so if you read a Protestant Bible you are not reading the Full Gospel! RC does not make false claims, but the Protestant has a very false doctrine made by man! Many Protestants are waking up and seeing how much they have been lied to about the RC! Take a RCIA class and learn the truth of what the Church believes and has believed for over 2000 years! Jesus taught against man-made religion, which is what Protestant is and it was never His plan but the devil is happy about the 40,000 + that go against Jesus Church!
@@mpkropf5062 *Where in the Bible ever said "Roman religion = the Church of the Bible or the Universal Church or Church Christ founded or Jesus' Church"? This is the most hilarious claim of RCs. I want to see proof. Not self claims.* *You are demonstrating you do not read the Bible. Since when did Church of the Bible "started" in Rome? Lol. Bible says Church started in Jerusalem. You think Jesus was a Roman?* you said The Bible says Universal Church and Universal means Catholic. It started in Rome is why it got called Roman Catholic.
@frankvw4819 *You failed to answer once again. Where in the Bible or real history says "Roman religion = the Universal Church or Christ’s Church". So where is your proof? Only self claims?*
@@elsemorris906 If I praise my mother for being a great and holy person, does Christ get jealous? If you praise others for doing well, is your christ so petty he is insulted by praising others that help others? No, all good and godly things come from God and by praising others for their good works, God is praised who is the author of every good and all godliness. Get over yourselves.
John's gospel chapter 4:1-2 "Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John 2 (though JESUS HIMSELF did NOT BAPTIZE, but His disciples)" Context for the word "Baptism" straight from the mouth of Jesus (recorded in 2 gospels): Matthew 20:22 "But Jesus answered and said, “You do not know what you ask. Are you able to DRINK THE CUP that I am about to drink, and be BAPTIZED with the BAPTISM that I am BAPTIZED with?” They said to Him, “We are able.” Mark 10:38 "38 But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you ask. Are you able to DRINK THE CUP that I drink, and be BAPTIZED with the BAPTISM that I am BAPTIZED with?” 9 They said to Him, “We are able.” Notice the word "drink" and the word "baptize" are not always used in the context that we've been taught... Think about that with reference to the Lord's Supper (the last supper, the communion, etc...) and the way we've corrupted those thoughts into a cannabilistic ritual from pagan rituals.
YOU = the way we've corrupted those thoughts into a cannabilistic ritual from pagan rituals. ME = HOLY COMMUNION ====================== But, “Lord, Lord, we ate and drank with you.” - Luke 13:26. Not good enough. What does Jesus want? He wants us not to eat with Him, He wants us to eat Him. “This is My Body, This is My Blood.” (Mark 14:22-23) For over two thousand years our Roman Catholic tradition has boldly proclaimed and professed and taught that Jesus Christ is truly present Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity at the Holy Eucharist at Mass. We call it the miracle of transubstantiation-the changing (trans) of the substance of bread and wine into the flesh and blood of Jesus. Jesus is the God - the Living Bread = John 6:50 - that came from Heaven to teach us the Way, Truth and Life to Heaven. He has been assigned all Judgement - John 5:22. Jesus declared that to have Eternal Life, one must - Eat My Flesh, Drink My Blood - which is Real Food and Drink = John 6:53-58.Many of Jesus' disciples broke away because they could not accept this - John = 6:66 =. Because they realized that Jesus meant - Real - as evidenced by the word - Gnaw, as on a bone - which He used for - Eat. Moreover, Paul urges its - worthy - reception = 1 Cor. 11:27 = something that he would not do if it was symbolic. In fact, the earliest Christians were labelled as - cannibals - due to this fact. (NOTE - The same John who wrote the Gospel of John 6:66, also wrote the Book of Revelation and stated that the mark of the anti-Christ is number = 666 = - Rev 13:18 Truly, those who do not believe in the = real = presence of Jesus have adopted an anti-Christ mentality) When Jesus declared = “The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing, He was referring to the 2 Breads that came down from Heaven. The bread of Manna was for physical sustenance only. On the other hand, Jesus was the spiritual Bread from Heaven who came to give - eternal life - for those eating Him. And Jesus was born in Bethlehem which translates as - House of Bread. Despite this, Protestants declare this to be - symbolic - despite Jesus' disciples realizing that Jesus was talking - REAL - and that is why they broke away. That Holy Communion - Eucharist, which means Thanksgiving in Greek - is the Real Body and Blood has been confirmed by Eucharistic Miracles. Check the Internet for the 1996 Eucharistic Miracle of Buenos Aires and the 8th Century Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano, Italy NOTE - Satanists will steal a consecrated " Catholic " Communion host for use in their diabolical " Black Masses." They will not use the hosts of near-Catholic yet Protestant denominations like the Anglicans, Methodists, Lutherans among others as these don't have the " Real " Presence of Jesus Below are some of the details of the research done on the still existing Communion host of the 8 th Century. Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano, Italy In 1970-'71 and taken up again partly in 1981 there took place a scientific investigation by the most illustrious scientist Prof. Odoardo Linoli, eminent Professor in Anatomy and Pathological Histology and in Chemistry and Clinical Microscopy. He was assisted by Prof. Ruggero Bertelli of the University of Siena.The analyses were conducted with absolute and unquestionable scientific precision and they were documented with a series of microscopic photographs. These analyses sustained the following conclusions: The Flesh is real Flesh. The Blood is real Blood. The Flesh and the Blood belong to the human species. The Flesh consists of the muscular tissue of the heart. In the Flesh we see present in section: the myocardium, the endocardium, the vagus nerve and also the left ventricle of the heart for the large thickness of the myocardium. The Flesh is a "HEART" complete in its essential structure. The Flesh and the Blood have the same blood-type: AB (Blood-type identical to that which Prof. Baima Bollone uncovered in the Holy Shroud of Turin). In the Blood there were found proteins in the same normal proportions (percentage-wise) as are found in the sero-proteic make-up of the fresh normal blood. In the Blood there were also found these minerals: chlorides, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, sodium and calcium. The preservation of the Flesh and of the Blood, which were left in their natural state for twelve centuries and exposed to the action of atmospheric and biological agents, remains an extraordinary phenomenon.
@@loboman8029 I have witnessed the evidence of brainwashing before, but it seems to be COMPLETE in you... John 6:63 "The Spirit ALONE gives eternal life. HUMAN EFFORT ACCOMPLISHES NOTHING. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life." John 6:68 Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? YOU HAVE THE WORDS that give ETERNAL LIFE. 69 We believe, and we know you are the Holy One of God.” Jesus is the WORD, Jesus is the BREAD One of these is NOT LIKE THE OTHER. The Word is how John OPENS his Gospel. The Bread is symbolic. Jesus expects us to digest (think about and meditate upon) his Words. Hebrews 5: 11-14 (look at this, another comparison between word and food) " There is much more we would like to say about this, but it is difficult to explain, especially since YOU ARE SPIRITUALLY DULL and don’t seem to listen. 12 You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, YOU NEED SOMEONE TO TEACH YOU AGAIN THE BASIC THINGS ABOUT GOD'S WORD. YOU ARE LIKE BABIES WHO NEED MILK AND CANNOT EAT SOLID FOOD. 13 For someone who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn’t know how to do what is right. 14 SOLID FOOD IS FOR THOSE WHO ARE MATURE, WHO THROUGH TRAINING HAVE THE SKILL TO recognize the difference between right and wrong."
@@brianstough5286 So you are telling me that the many disciples who often witnessed the miracles of Jesus or learnt of them from the Apostles themselves, including Peter's declaration of Jesus as Messiah = Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” = Matthew 16:16-18 = and who rejoiced on their return from their mission whereby = 17 Later, the 72 disciples that Jesus had sent out returned to him. They were very happy. ‘Master,’ they said, ‘even bad spirits obey us. When we use your name, they do what we say.’ = Luke 10:17-20 would abandon Jesus ?? if they thought Jesus was talking = symbolic = ???? Who is spiritually dull ????????????????????????? And why would Paul caution the = unworthy = reception of Holy Communion if it was symbolic = 27 So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. = 1 Corinthians 11:27. Children play with =plastic= cups and food. Do their mothers require them to wash their hands first so as to worthily play in their = symbolic = setting ???? John 6:66 - Jesus' speech made many of his disciples go back to the lives they had led before they followed Jesus 18 This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666 = Revelation 13:18 Those who don't believe in the = real = presence, are unwittingly taking the spirit of anti-Christ Catholics and = true = Christians believe Jesus' words = Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day = John 6:53-58
"a cannabilistic ritual from pagan rituals." If you are referring to the Eucharist, this is blasphemy. Jesus instituted the Eucharist, not pagans. Read the New Testament. Read a history of the Church.
@@brianstough5286 "The Bread is symbolic." That's not in the Bible. Jesus and the Apostles never taught that. Jesus explained the meaning of bread in John 6. He said, "The bread I will give *is* MY FLESH for the life of the world," and "Unless you eat the FLESH of the Son of Man and drink His BLOOD, you have no life in you." Read an actual book on Christianity. Christians never believed what you believe, but what the Catholic Church always and everywhere taught and believed since the beginning. The specific heresy you are promoting against the revelation of Jesus Christ only got traction a few hundred years ago. Do you believe that God contradicted Himself, teaching one thing for 1500 years and then suddenly teaching the opposite? And why would you think that YOU are so special and "mature" that you can simply "read the Bible" and God will start giving you ridiculous 'revelations' that contradict what He gave to the Church 2000 years ago?
I think a lot of this comes fron protestants fundamentally misunderstanding "worship". Their critiques of veneration of Mary or the saints are always misrepresenting Catholicism because they seem to think of worship differently than Catholics. This in part is why I think the early church is so far removed from modern protestantism. A changing of the terms. Catholics also look at protestants today and see a lot of prayer and teaching, but very little worship. We use the terms differently. But if we were more aware of that and defined our terms, we could make far more useful and accurate arguments than stuff like this that simply misunderstands the topic and adds nothing to the conversation. Even the title is incorrect on this, and can only be mistaken in that way from a protestant view of worship. That view of course can't be applied to the Catholic view of worship. That would be an incoherent cross up leading to a bad, sophist argument. I mean this all charitably as a Catholic. We could both gain from defining our terms for eachother to engage in deeper discussion. Wish all the prots here the best.
@@stever4181 I think the main difference is protestants see prayer and devotion as worship. Thats why they can't involve anyone else in prayer, they do prayer and teaching in church etc. Catholics see worship or "worthyship" as its old world meaning of sacrifice. We also have prayer and teaching at mass, but we then have the eucharistic sacrifice, the sacred alter on which it occurrs, the priest who's office was first created as the one who carries out a sacrifice, and the high church itself is a sacrifice. These aspects of worship are entirely absent from most protestant traditions, and through the protestant lense I can see the communion of saints being more in competition with worship of Christ. In the Catholic lense, the communion of saints serves to further supplement and glorify the worship of Christ, it in no way deviates from or distracts from it. Joe Heschmeyer has a great video on this topic if its of interest to you.
@@gainsofglory6414 Thanks for your explanation. I have a question. You said, " through the protestant lense I can see the communion of saints being more in competition with worship of Christ." Can you please explain this?
@@stever4181 I think they see prayer to someone else as worship of that person instead of Christ because to them, prayer is the main source of worship. They think its avoiding Christ or making the saints a new mediator. Catholics see the communion of saints is only made possible by the body of Christ and its for us to use. When one prays for intercessory prayer from the saints, its not in competition to worship of Christ. Its seeking for the saints to pray to Christ while you also pray to Christ. It supplements and multiplies that prayer ten fold, and none of this is in competition or distraction from true worship at the lord's altar and sacrifice but in maximization of it.
@paulmurray3671 *RCs making statues to Mary and bowing down to all of them is already a form of worship. RCs are in deep denial. Lol* you said John MacArthur is a false prophet and a blasphemous liar. Catholics do NOT worship Mary.
Who is "we?" In 1996 Pope John Paul 2 declared Mary as co-mediatrix, meaning you can reach the Father by going through her, my point is most Catholics don't even know Canon law.
Reformed Christians have never excommunicated anyone because of Marian idolatry. The Catholic Church, in the 7th century, excommunicated a small group that recognized Mary as God. The Catholic Church condemns all idolatry. Why do Reformed Christians not take this as seriously.
Because they have a common agenda. Negate everything that is Catholic. why? Because they have to defend their rebellious break from Roman Catholicism. That’s all.
The best connection that the humaman race has to Jesus, is his human mother Mary. When people ignore or belittle her, they are attacking the link that connects them to Jesus. Insulting a man's mother. goes against logic & against the bond which the Father puts between a mother and her son. Belittling a man's mother is a grave insult to any man, and will never acheive a favourable response from any man. Protestantism is not logical, & protestantism has nothing to do with Jesus.
@frankvw4819 *Your endless self claims is useless. Still nowhere says the Church refers to Roman religion. So where is your proof? Only self claims?* *Bible never once defined Church the way Roman religion defined it. Bible says Church refers to "all local churches + all believers". Church is the assembly of believers. Church has always been there since the start of it. There was not an era without a true believer.* you said It is obvious Jesus didn't say to his Apostles "Now, I want you to start the Catholic Church"!! HOWEVER, it is clear that Jesus spent three years preparing His Apostles and ordained successors to go on mission to spread the Gospel. You CANNOT ARGUE that Jesus didn't want a Church established worldwide (hence - UNIVERSAL) having ONE BAPTISM, ONE FAITH, TEACHING ONE TRUTH, ONE MEANS OF PRAYER and WORSHIP, ETC.(see John 17:20-23) It means that His Church must be unified under the One Holy Faith, Teaching and Believing the Same Truths, guided by the same rules when it comes to faith and morals; in other words, how we are to live. Before his ascension, Jesus GAVE THEM AUTHORITY AND INSTRUCTED the apostles, as church, “GO THEREFORE AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you” (Matt. 28:19-20). More than just this commissioning, “He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me” (Luke 10:16). As a guarantee that the Church will not fall into error Jesus promised them the Holy Spirit: “But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.” (John 14:26) We also see this authority being handed on beyond the Twelve, to Paul and others. “God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers” (1 Cor. 12:28; cf. Eph. 4:11). This passage from St. Paul is reminiscent of the prophet Malachi: “For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and men should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts” (Mal.2:7). CHRIST'S CHURCH WILL LAST FOREVER AND IS TO BE INFALLIBLE when it comes to FAITH and MORALS: "AND I TELL YOU you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
YOU = CHRIST'S CHURCH WILL LAST FOREVER AND IS TO BE INFALLIBLE when it comes to FAITH and MORALS ME = Of all the religions, our = Living = God JESUS has favoured Roman Catholic Christianity, more than all others, with His presence and manifestations in the past 2,000 years.
Catholics have been favoured with Eucharistic Miracles- like the 1996 Eucharistic Miracle of Buenos Aires, Argentina & in Lanciano, Italy in the 8th C - among many other miracles (( Note - Satanists will steal a consecrated " Catholic " Holy Communion host for use in their diabolical " Black Masses'' They will keep away from the communion hosts of near-Catholic but Protestant denominations like the Anglicans, Methodists and the Lutherans precisely because these don't have the Presence of Jesus. )) In Acts 2:27 - we read - For God will not allow His Holy one to undergo corruption. Likewise, God has clothed with incorruptibility the corpses of Catholic saints who have led a holy life in conformity with Jesus. The 500 year incorrupt corpse of St. Francis Xavier, which resides in Goa, India.is one example. The incorrupt corpse of the Lebanese St. Charbel Makhlouf is another example. Fr. Albert Hebert has compiled a list of over 400 resurrections of people who died but were raised to life by many Catholic saints. His book - Raised from the Dead - is available in book-stores. Jesus, our Living God, has appeared to many saints. In the 14th C, Jesus appeared to St. Bridget of Sweden who was much desirous of knowing about his agony He endured on the Way to Calvary - in other words, His Passion & Death. For a whole year Jesus taught her 15 Prayers and attached Promises to anyone who repeats these Prayers continuously for a year - the 1st Promise being - Jesus will deliver 15 souls of his/her lineage from Purgatory. ( Note - you can check the Internet under - The 15 Prayers of St. Bridget - and also view the Promises. ) And in the 1930's, not yet a hundred years ago, Jesus appeared almost daily to a Polish Nun, Sr. Faustina, and taught her the following prayer - Eternal Father, I offer you the Body & Blood, Soul & Divinity of your dearly Beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. In atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and the whole world. - This is in line with The Lord's Prayer which is pluralistic with the words - Our, Us, We, etc.(( Note = Sr Faustina kept a Diary of Jesus visits which is available from book-stores with its Title - Divine Mercy in My Soul I urge you to purchase a copy and read it. )) In 1995, Jesus appeared to a Nigerian named Barnabas and gave him the Devotion to His Precious Blood. Mary has appeared in many places like Lourdes, France and Fatima, Portugal, and Guadalupe, Mexico City, Mexico - among many other places and at different times. Moreover, She has appeared for 3 years nightly over a Coptic Church in Zeitoun, Egypt and pictures of her are available on the Internet. Lastly, before the Catholic Church declares a person - Saint - 2 first class miracles must be attributed to that deceased person - miracles which are mostly authenticated by non-Catholic doctors and professionals. On the other hand, the agents of Satan, Communists and Masons - aka Free-Masons - have long sought to infiltrate the Catholic Church clergy and thus undermine its teachings In the 1960's, ex-Communist executive of the Communist Party of USA, Bella Dodd testified before the US Congress that the Communists had sent over a 1,000 men into Catholic seminaries (( Note - this can be checked on the Internet. )) Undoubtedly, the Catholic Church has been favoured by our Living God and at the same time has been the target of God's enemies - because she represents the Truth regarding her Doctrine. Secondly, The Bible is, historically, a dated book as it records only to the 1st Century. Thus we read only the deaths of Judas and James but not about the other 10 Apostles or of Paul as to when, where and how they died. Does it mean that, because their deaths are not recorded, that they are still alive ?? Obviously not. Paul declares the Bible - useful and profitable - in 2 Timothy 3:16, but that the = Church = is the Bulwark and Pillar of Truth - 1 Timothy 3:15. That is because the Church, the community of Believers, came first - Matthew 16:18 - and incorporates both the written word as well as the oral tradition - 2 Thessalonians 2:15. And the Bible declares that Jesus performed a = World of Works = which are unrecorded - John 21:25. As a result 2 traditions ensued - oral and written - 2 Thess. 2:15 - which are of equal merit. By "Sola Scriptura" Protestants are only receiving part of Divine Truth thus resulting in so many denominations. The Catholic Church was founded on Peter's declaration of Jesus' Divinity - Matt. 16:16 and Jesus' promise - Matt 16:17-19- and holds to both traditions. It is the Church of the Living God and the Pillar and Bulwark of Truth - 1 Timothy 3:15 On the other hand, Protestantism is a religious philosophy - a hearer and not doer of the Word thus deceiving themselves - James1:22. While there is belief in Christ to be sure, there is no substance, no forms of worship and thanksgiving to our God Jesus for His - WORKS - of creation and redemption. There is no Confession as per the formula that Jesus gave on the very day of His Resurrection from the dead , when He - empowered - His Apostles to forgive sins - or - retain them- John 20:22-23. There is no participation in Holy Communion which Jesus declared was - Real Food and Drink - for ETERNAL LIFE - John 6:53-58. Even their churches have no kneelers to kneel and bow down before our God and Maker. And there is no difference between Protestant marriage and - easy - divorce and non-Christian ones.
@scootahscoot9389 *Bible does not say "Mary = ark of new covenant". So where did RCs get all your ns?* you said Protestants misunderstanding of Ark of the New Covenant almost as bad as their rejection of the Eucharist (Jn 6:53)
Do you really think that Jesus is jealous of his own mother period if someone honors your mother? I think it makes you happy. I think that it makes our lord happy when we show honor to his mother.. I think I'd be very careful when criticizing the mother of god.
Mary IS NOT THE MOTHER OF GOD!!! mary was merely a human womb for the Holy Spirit, who is God, to create Jesus' fleshly body!!! Mary is DEAD IN HER GRAVE!!! You catholics are so deluded and deceived! Mary had 4 other sons and at least 2 sisters, as SCRIPTURE TELLS US!!! DUH!!
John McArthur lead me back to the Catholic Church, because I caught him telling falsehoods about the Catholic Church. John stated there there are no Bible verses supporting the Catholic Church teachings on Mary. He brings up Ineffabilis Deus The Immaculate Conception. These are the footnotes which reference to the Bible from that document, (John, why did you miss these footnotes) So out of 29 footnotes, there are 13 direct references to the Bible. 13. Gn 3:15. 15. Cf. Gn. 6:9. 16. Cf. Gn 28:12. 17. Cf. Ex 3:2. 18. Cf. Sg 4:4. 19. Cf. Sg 4:12. 20. Cf. Ps 87:1. 21. Cf. Is 6:1-4. 22. Cf. Lk 1:28. 23. Ibid., 42. 24. Cf. St. Augustine: De Natura et Gratia, c. 36. 25. Gn 3:15. 26. Cf. Ex 31:2. 27. Cf. Ibid., n. 19ff. 28. Cf. Ibid., n. 27ff.
could you be more specific please? where in scriptures is mary sinless, assumed, to be prayed to, is a mediator, or has anything to do with mans salvation?
@@stever4181 the post is about John McArthur's claim of the lack of support in the Bible for the Catholics Church teachings. If you have a question that deals with those scriptures, send it my way. If you want to play scattagories, then say so upfront
"Beware lest anyone cheat you THROUGH PHILOSOPHY AND EMPTY DECEIT, according to the TRADITION OF MEN, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ." Colossians 2:8 NKJV A few verses later: "Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in FALSE HUMILITY and WORSHIP OF ANGELS, intruding into those things which he has not seen, VAINLY PUFFED UP by his fleshly mind,..." Colossians 2:18 NKJV And, a little farther down: "...why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations- 21 “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” 22 which all concern THINGS WHICH PERISH with the using-according to the commandments and DOCTRINES OF MEN? 23 These things indeed have AN APPEARANCE OF WISDOM IN SELF-IMPOSED RELIGION, FALSE HUMILITY AND NEGLECT OF THE BODY, but are OF NO VALUE against the indulgence of the flesh." Colossians 2:20-23 NKJV it's almost as if Paul and Peter agreed on these things that they witnessed "forming in the bud" (2 Peter chapter 2)
Maybe the Catholics who believe all of this about Mary should seriously open their Bible themselves and read Matthew 12: 46-50. These words came from Jesus himself when he was told that his mother and brothers were wanting to speak with him. Someone told him, " Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you." He replied to them, " Who is my mother, and who are my brothers? " Pointing to his disciples, he said, " Here are my mother and my brothers. He declares that anyone who does the will of His Father in Heaven is his brother and sisters and mother. It's all about loving your neighbors as yourselves and obeying the commandments. Faith in Jesus alone is how you enter into Heaven. Nowhere in the Bible does it even hint that it has anything to do with his mother, Mary. God bless, and I sincerely pray for us all 🙏❤
Who said it Has to be in the Bible. The church is the pillar of truth that is in the Bible. Not all Christian doctrine can be found in the Bible. Jesus never gave the 12 apostles a Bible it didn’t exist for 400 years how did the entire Roman empire become Christian in 400 years without a Bible. If you cannot answer that question how can you be expected to understand anything about Christianity. The 10 Commandments are in the Bible do you know them all onto your father and your mother she only come out with a promise and a curse. You are condemning the mother of Jesus you are opening up yourself or a curse. That’s in the Bible.
You’ll believe more stuff about Maryann talks to you make up stuff about what Catholics believe. That makes you a hypocrite. God frowns on people who say things that he did not say and proclaim things that God did not. Car usually punishes those people who do so so be careful at what you say. He will not disgrace the mother of Jesus and have Jesus let you get away with it. There’s a MacArthur guy is spawn of Satan. Follow him and you follow Lucifer. That’s in the Bible
@@IG88AAAYeah, the CREATOR is being represented by MacArthur Romans 1:25 (for context, start at verse 18 and go through the remainder of the chapter) 25 "... They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and WORSHIPPED AND SERVED CREATED THINGS rather than THE CREATOR -who is forever praised. Amen. - the Creation (catholic [man-made] organization) is condemning you for believing (or even listening) in THE CREATOR's WORD (remember, WORD became flesh) I think I would rather listen and see what THE BIBLE says instead of some Man-Made dogma/tradition!!
“He’s just a carpenter, the SON of Mary and the BROTHER (of the same womb, or 'born of the same parent or parents") of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon. And his sisters live right here among us.” They were deeply offended and refused to believe in him. 4 Then Jesus told them, “A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and AMONG HIS RELATIVES AND HIS OWN FAMILY.” Mark 6:3-4
@savannahfan *You are making false claims again RC. Where in the Bible ever said Michael and John “venerated Mary”? Where? If you can find that I will give you a lollipop.* you said Like I said, if the Archangel Gabriel and John the Baptist are willing to venerate our Lady, that’s good enough for me
Someone told him, "Your mother and brothers are standing outside wanting to see you". He replied, "My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and obey it"(Luke 8:20,21)
"And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him." HEBREWS 11:6
We come to Christ because he called us first… we do not rightly have the ability to seek him first….
@@ariston5433he calls all to reconciliation. It is true man cannot first seek God unless God Himself first sent out the invite to reconcile with him. 1 John 2:2, Titus 2:11, Romans 10:11-13, Revelation 22:17, 1 Timothy 2:4-6
@@brianstough5286 I appreciate you getting the message out but throwing a Bible verses to smack someone over the head really doesn’t help. For instance how much faith do you need no one can measure the depth of faith in some else’s soul as a matter of fact they can’t measure it in their own soul. There is no way to measure it! So my answer is always this to the question are you saved ? I am being saved. Besides it’s none of your business. I think that is an honest answer to a question that cannot really be answered with a definitive yes. Only God knows that answer. No other human has the knowledge, power or ability to know if God has saved another’s soul. If you say someone else is not saved I would not want to be you in judgement day. And that is my honest answer to you.
@@ariston5433 honest answer to what question?
@@brianstough5286 Are you saved. I think the proper question is have you accepted Christ into your heart? If yes then great ! But salvation is a life long process that never ends until we die even then we’re are not perfection. God knows the heart of each person. Each life is different each person has had different struggles and problems , some very much worse than others. So no one has the right to ask are you saved? Only God knows that. To tell someone they are not saved is totally arrogant and down right demonic because it shows you are full of pride thinking you are better.
thou shall not have ANY Gods before me!
Mary isn't a god before Yahweh, ignorant
The only God for Catholics is God. Honoring and asking the prayers of the women who said "yes" to God's invitation to carry, give birth to, and raise the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, is not idolatry. What is idolatry is your worship of your private interpretation of Scripture. The practice by its very nature is prideful, and the fruits of this pride is doctrinal confusions and continual division. "the church is the pillar and foundation of the truth" (1 Tim 3:15) and not the private interpretations of an individual/group.
Mary is NOT God, She is a creation of God and therefore NOT equal to God. She is the "mother of God".
Matthew 12:48-50
Jesus Christ said whoever does the will of my Father in Heaven is my mother,brother,and sister!?
Catholics are not true Christians they believe salvation is by works alone WRONG 😑
Salvation is by Faith!
Catholicism is a man made religion & denominations they never refer themselves as Christians only by denominations they either know the difference,or pretend not to know??
Rosary 📿 is full of idolatry!!
There’s one more extremely important thing they never teach about being born again?
You will not inherit the kingdom of our Heavenly Father Lord God unless you’re born of the spirit & fire?
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Tell that to Catholics !
Which part of idolatry is a sin they don’t understand??
They pray the rosary 📿 John MacArthur said Mary is dead,and buried so are the saints they can’t hear their prayers the only one that can hear you is our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth cause he’s alive sitting on the right side of his Father Lord God in Heaven!!
Men made religion they never say I’m a Christian my denomination is catholic?
Bless you brother your sister in Christ Jesus ✝️
Edit: Salvation is by Faith alone not by works!?
“My soul magnifies The Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my savior.” (Mary mother of Jesus.)
She knew who The Savior was.
It wasn’t her!
It is only ignorant, bigoted 'Protestants' who believe that Catholics believe Mary is divine.
Mary NEVER said anything about being a Savior. But She is referred to as "Mother of our Redeemer".
Galatians 4:4-5
New King James Version
4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, *born under the law,*
5 *to redeem those who were under the law,* that we might receive the adoption as sons.*
-----God sent His Son, born of a woman, to redeem us. Mary is the woman with the redeemer. By calling Mary co-redemptrix, we are simply calling Mary "the woman with the redeemer." This is because "co" is from the Latin word "cum" which means "with." Therefore, "co-redemptrix" means "woman with the redeemer." Mary had a unique but subordinate role to Jesus in salvation.
@@salachenkoforley7382you are saying she is co redeemer but that is NOT WHAT THE WORD OF GOD IS SAYING .....it says nothing about her being our mother or anything you saying......SHE IS NOT QUEEN OF HEAVEN
@@TriciaPerry-ef7bi : You may now show me your evidence from the Bible where it says Mary is not a co-redeemer, not our mother and she's not the queen of heaven.
@@salachenkoforley7382 Mark. 3:31-35 would be one.
There is only one mediator between God and man.
Then why do people ask other people to pray for them???
@@srich7503 we ask prayer to each others when we are alive only. When we die we will be waiting for God's judgment. Every one is personal that we cannot ask or pray for the deceased. For this we must obey God's commandment and do the good works for salvation.
@@srich7503 What brings people to God? It is God's word and the Holy Spirit. When people speak they speak what God has already said. It is then not the speaker that brings a person to God but His(God's ) word. Do you have remorse for things that you have done? That is the Holy Spirit convicting you. When we pray for others that brings glory to God, it builds faith in the person asking for prayer, and for the person being asked all of this brings glory to God. Our very lives 24/7 should bring glory to God. That is the meaning of the 10 commandments. We fail at this which is called sin and fall from God's graces. We need someone that can present us back to God and that can only happen through Jesus. No church, religion, Mary, or anything man can do or say will bring us back to God. Only Jesus can accomplish this. This is why knowing what the Bible says is vitally important. More important than what any religion has to say!
@@stever4181 You said “when we pray for others that brings glory to God, it builds faith in the person asking for prayers, and the person being asked…” There is the answer to the OP. Thank you Steve!!!
The rest of Steves answer is just becomes stawman by definition
@@srich7503 What is "OP?
No strawman but truth. Can you not see this? It is in the Bible.
I heard a Catholic say Satan is more afraid of Mary than God. That was all I needed to hear to turn the other way. I've read the marian prayers, remove the name Mary and add the name Jesus and people would say its worship. Words are practically the same. I've read many of them and they are too much for me.
A Catholic is not the “ deposit of faith”
@@PInk77W1 I think part of the issue is with protestant songs such as the one that goes "hail Jesus you're my king". Well it's not biblical though to say "Hail Jesus". The Bible says "Hail Mary". (Luke 1:28)
@@PInk77W1that's not catholic canon.
@@nosuchthing8
What is not ?
We can perform the same actions, doesn't mean it has the same intentions behind it. From the outside it may look like worship, but in reality it is not.
Jesus said more about Mary Magdalene than he did about his mother. When she anointed the feet of Jesus, He said that she would be remembered wherever the gospel was preached because of it. Wasn't she the first one Jesus appeared to after the resurrection. Catholicism likes to read a lot of things into their teachings. Mariology desecrates the position of Jesus Christ and His sacrifice.
But his mother is called "blessed" by all generations. His mother consented to Jesus' incarnation, not Mary Magdalene.
Read the Early Fathers
"Jesus said more about Mary Magdalene than he did about his mother."
How do you know??? John says there wouldn't be enough books in the whole earth to record all that Jesus said and did. You were there listening to Jesus for 33 years?
"Mariology desecrates the position of Jesus Christ and His sacrifice."
That's absurd.
@@bridgefinblessed is same a worshipped? Are you trying to be clever?
@@inthemiddleof
Mary is called "blessed" by all generations. That is high praise which Mary Magdalene does not receive. Magdalene was a saved sinner. Mary participated in salvation by mothering the one who would deliver it. Worship has no place except in relation to God, not to any creature, including Mary.
@hamidrabiipour9707 *There are many who converted to luciferianism or atheism after years of study too. How does "conversion" prove it's truth? Bible says God's Word is truth. Jn **17:17**. Not "conversion" is truth. Roman religion has no truth. 95% of Roman doctrines did not come from Scriptures.*
1. Catholics say Mary was sinless. But BIBLE says Mary offered a sinner's offering. She was a sinner. Bible says Mary needed a Saviour. Lk 2:23-24, Lev 12:6-8, Rom 3:10.
2. Catholics say clergies must be celibate. Yet BIBLE says Peter (supposed R Church first leader) had mother in law. Bible says celibacy is not a qualification for clergies. Mat 8:14-15, Mar 1:30-31, Luk 4:38-39.
3. Catholics say Mary was forever virgin. Yet BIBLE says Jesus had brothers and sisters. Mary was not perpetually virgin. Mk 6:3, Mat 13:55, Mat 27:56, Mar 6:3, Mar 15:40, Mar 15:47.
4. Catholics say confess to R priests in a box. BIBLE says nothing about confessing to priests in a box. Bible says confess to GOD only. 1 John 1:9, Mat 6, Romans 10:9-10.
5. Catholics say drink of the physical blood of Jesus. Yet OT and NT both say do not drink blood. Acts 15, Lev 7:26.
6. Catholics say pray to passed on Mary and "saints". Yet BIBLE says do not contact the dead. NT Church did not record a single case of NT believers asking passed on saints to pray for them. Deut 18:11, Isaiah 8:19.
7. Catholics make and bow down to statues. BIBLE says do not bow down to graven images (statues). Deut 4, Exo 20:4-5.
8. Catholics sprinkles “holy water”. But NT Church of the Bible mentioned nothing about “holy water”. There was no record of any Apostles sprinkling “holy water” on believers. Catholics claimed “holy water” came from OT. Yet Num 5:17 says “holy water” was water used to test adulterous women in OT temple. Hardly the same. Those were for Old Covenant Jews. Not New Testament Christians.
9. Catholics say Peter was pope - bishop of all bishops. Yet BIBLE says Peter was just a leader of the Jerusalem Church. Bible says nothing of the office of bishop of bishops. Gal 2:9, Mat 16:18.
10. Catholics say there is a seat of Peter. Yet BIBLE says nothing about it. Jesus said “not to lord over others”.
11. Catholics has clergy priesthood. Bible says clergy priesthood was done away with in New Testament. There is no clergy priesthood in NT. Heb 7:27, 9:12, 10:10.
12. Catholics preaches Works Salvation (faith + good works + partake R sacraments + submit to R pontiff + be in R Church + devote to Mary = to be saved). Yet Bible says “believe in Jesus to be saved”. Bible says Works Salvation is cursed. Gal 1:8-9. Acts 16:30-31, John 3:16, Romans 10:9-10.
13. Catholics says they must do Penance to atone for their sins. Yet Bible says repent, confess and sins will be forgiven. Catholic Bible changes the word “repentance” in NT into “penance”. Original Greek NT does not use or mean the word penance. Penance = work to atone for sins. Repentance = change of heart. 1 John 1:9, Mat 6.
14. Catholics say Mary went straight to heaven without dying. Yet Bible says nothing about it.
15. Catholics say Islam and Christianity have the same GOD. Yet Islam doesn't believe in death and resurrection of Jesus and Trinity.
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For your own scrutiny please look up dr. John Bergsma, a highly educated Protestant preacher who after years of studying & research left his denomination, salary, & some friends for the sake of the Truth and finally joined the Catholic Church. He explains the reason in plain language so all can relate to & understand. Do it for your own spiritual development & leave the false preachers like MacArthur at the bottom of the pit where they belong.
*Salvation for Gentile believers:*
*Two third of New Testament says Salvation is Not By Works (Faith Alone Doctrine)*
Luke 23:43 - the thief at the Cross believed in Jesus and he was in Paradise thereafter. NOT WORKS! John 1:29 - Christ the Lamb of GOD who takes away the sins of the world ... (NOT OUR WORKS) John 3:16 - saved by believing in Jesus. NOT WORKS! Acts 16:30-31 - saved by believing in Jesus. NOT WORKS! Rom 4. Vs 1-2 - justified NOT BY WORKS! Vs 3 - Abraham believed (FAITH) and was accounted as RIGHTEOUSNESS. Vs 4 - WORKS are debts . Vs 5 - he who DOES NOT WORK is JUSTIFIED . Vs 5 - God justifies the ungodly, Vs 5 - FAITH was accounted as RIGHTEOUSNESS. Vs 6 - Blessedness Apart from WORKS! Imputation of RIGHTEOUSNESS by FAITH. Vs 8 - imputation of RIGHTEOUSNESS apart from WORKS! Vs 9-10 - Abraham was made RIGHTEOUS BY FAITH BEFORE ANY WORKS! Vs 9-10 - Abraham received seal of RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE FAITH by imputation. NOT WORKS! Vs 11 - Promise to Abraham was through RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE FAITH. Vs 14-15 - Faith is made void by works of the law, works of the Law brings Wrath, Not salvation. Vs 22 - Abraham believed (FAITH) and was accounted as RIGHTEOUSNESS . Vs 22 - RIGHTEOUSNESS imputed on those who believed. Not those who WORKS! Rom 11:6 - IF IT IS WORKS, IT’S NO LONGER GRACE . 2 Cor 5:21 - GOD made Jesus who knew no sin to become sin for us, that we might become the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD. Gal 2:16 - not justified by WORKS OF THE LAW, BUT BY FAITH IN JESUS. BY WORKS OF THE LAW, NO MAN IS JUSTIFIED! Gal 2:21 - if RIGHTEOUSNESS comes through the law, then Christ died in vain. Gal 3:1-5 - Paul said Christians who started by faith, why end up following WORKS of law (not only Mosaic laws)? Are you made perfect by flesh (WORKS)? Gal 3:1-5 - Did God do miracles by your faith believing or by your WORKS of law? Eph 2:8-9 - saved by grace through faith NOT BY WORKS. Eph 2: 8-9 - salvation is a GIFT. NOT WORKS! 2 Tim 1:9 - saved NOT according to our WORKS. Titus 3:5 - saved NOT BY WORKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. 1 Pet 2:24 - Christ (the Lamb of GOD) bore our sins … (NOT OUR WORKS).
But faith withOUT works IS DEAD.
@@rnbham39 *RCs are the usual lack of knowledge. Faith Alone come with Good Works, Eph **2:10**.*
*Faith Alone doctrine:*
- Eph 2:8-9. Salvation is not by works.
- Eph 2:10. Saved to do good works.
@@rnbham39don’t just choose one poorly interpreted verse to justify an abominable position. Catholics love doing that. They’ll always resort to quoting one Bible verse bc they can’t find multiple so they twist the one they got. Not to mention the idolatry of the church, Mary, accessories, popes, etc.
Genuine salvation comes when we humble ourselves before Christ and place our faith in him. For it is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone we are saved. It’s all about the relationship not the religion. John 3:16, Acts 16:31, Romans 10:9, John 8:12, Ephesians 2:8-9, and the entirety of Romans and Galatians are abundantly clear. Jesus can save you! Just come to him and trust that he alone is worthy and powerful enough to save you! I speak not out of pride but out of love, knowing that you are God’s creation and knowing that Jesus brings us out of the flames. I pray this helps! Christ bless!
unbeLlEver - Firstly Our Lord was Born Of a Virgin Mary Miraculous way - to NOT to disrupt her Virginity - He was born AS A LIGHT - as a stream of Holy Light - thus His MOTHER Mary was and is an EVER-VIRGIN!
@@mikehawthorne1396 *Nice fairy tales. Where in the Bible says "blah blah blah, thus thus His MOTHER Mary was and is an EVER-VIRGIN"? If you can find that i will give you are lollipop. Lol*
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Firstly Our Lord was Born Of a Virgin Mary Miraculous way - to NOT to disrupt her Virginity - He was born AS A LIGHT - as a stream of Holy Light - thus His MOTHER Mary was and is an EVER-VIRGIN!
His teaching is amazing and shockingly true.
YESHUA be praised!
He is a shocking heretic! Wake up. Don't follow cults just because their shows are based more on entertainment and their version of Christianity is easier to follow...just pay the ticket for the show.
He’s a bigot
I left the Catholic church when I was 13 because I actually read the bible for myself and realized that what they taught was nothing but lies.
Praise the Lord Jesus Christ! I am rejoicing over the fact that you actually read your Bible and God showed you all the falseness!
I meant to say all the falseness of Catholicism!
Why single out Catholics
Well, if you want an example of selfless faith, the kid from Nazareth was a pretty good example. Luke 1: 46"Then Mary said: 'My soul magnifies the Lord, 47and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior!'"
Yes, Mary was an example of selfless faith. But, notice Mary also called God *my Savior* . This proves that Roman Catholic Catechism is in _COMPLETE CONTRADICTION OF SCRIPTURE_ by claiming Mary remained sinless her whole life long. *MARY WOULD NOT NEED A SAVIOR IF SHE WAS SINLESS* .
Only Almighty God is sinless.
Nit picky, nit picky! There is tons of stuff in the Bible that would send you to Hell, but I won't try and name them, I'll just forgive you.@@elsemorris906
@TheGuitarReb I don't need your forgiveness- I don't worship and pray to a mortal woman, I worship Almighty God.
I have no idea what you are ranting about. Every creature that has ever lived on planet Earth has been "mortal" What "mortal woman?" Almighty God made everything! The stars in the night sky, everything! Yes, even you. @@elsemorris906
@@elsemorris906 : But we never said that Mary is our Savior.
Romans 3:23 For "ALL" have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.
And Mary was saved from that sin prior to Her conception. Blessed art Mary amongst women. The Queen Mother of our Church. The Ark of the New Covenant now clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
@@billpletikapich5640 Respectfully the Bible is the only true reference datum (a point at which all points are measured from) and not any church's teachings. Mary falls under the curse of sin because she is a descendent of Adam. By the working law of genetics which is identical in principal to gravity. She inherited from Adam a broken fallen sinful nature. She had sinful propensities which we all suffer from in varying degree's. Mankind looks upon the outward appearance to measure a person but God sees inwardly upon the human heart and by which spirit we are actuated. In Mary God found someone he could trust with his precious beloved son.
@@davidsowens I respectfully disagree that the Bible is the only true data point. This enters the debate of where and when the bible and its cannon originated and numerous other issues. Using just the bible and the cannon that MacArthur uses, we see that Mary is immaculately conceived. We see her sinless acceptance of a Virgin birth and declaration of Blessed amongst women to be in stark contrast to Abraham the Father Faith who needed several covenants to come around to God's way of thinking. Mary's role as explicated in the bible is as the Ark of The New Covenant. She birthed Jesus, taught and mothered Jesus, She interceded at His First Miracle, She was at His death on the Cross where she was declared to be our Mother and She was in the upper room during Pentecost where she was made the Queen Mother of the Church and She is seated on a throne in Heaven. I don't assign limits and timing to God and His ability to save Mary at Conception for Her to be immaculately conceived. In fact, The Immaculate conception was the norm in Christianity until late into the Reformation; Martin Luther along with numerous church fathers in the early church wrote that Mary was Immaculately Conceived: Mary is the New Eve who produced the fruit of our Salvation . MARTIN LUTHER wrote: "Mary is the Mother of Jesus and the Mother of all of us even though it was Christ alone who reposed on her knees . . . If he is ours, we ought to be in his situation; there where he is, we ought also to be and all that he has ought to be ours, and his mother is also our mother.
(Sermon, Christmas, 1529)
It is a sweet and pious belief that the infusion of Mary's soul was effected without original sin; so that in the very infusion of her soul she was also purified from original sin and adorned with God's gifts, receiving a pure soul infused by God; thus from the first moment she began to live she was free from all sin"
(Sermon: "On the Day of the Conception of the Mother of God," 1527)
She is full of grace, proclaimed to be entirely without sin- something exceedingly great. For God's grace fills her with everything good and makes her devoid of all evil.
(Personal {"Little"} Prayer Book, 1522)"
God Bless You !
@@davidsowens Martin Luther certainly had more depth and breadth in his read of the bible. Numerous early church fathers wrote on Mary's Immaculate Conception. There was no real objection until the 1800's. The eminent Lutheran scholar Arthur Carl Piepkorn (1907-73) has also confirmed that Luther believed in the Immaculate Conception even as a Protestant. Here is Martin Luther in his own words:
“It is a sweet and pious belief that the infusion of Mary’s soul was effected without original sin; so that in the very infusion of her soul she was also purified from original sin and adorned with God’s gifts, receiving a pure soul infused by God; thus from the first moment she began to live she was free from all sin”
- Martin Luther’s Sermon “On the Day of the Conception of the Mother of God,” 1527.
“She is full of grace, proclaimed to be entirely without sin-something exceedingly great. For God’s grace fills her with everything good and makes her devoid of all evil.
- Martin Luther’s Little Prayer Book, 1522.
Both quotations derive from Luther’s writings after his break from Rome.
@@davidsowens And God saved Mary from that curse at conception so she could be "immaculately conceived" - His fully human, fully divine child never touched sin. Martin Luther held this same exegesis and wrote on it along with numerous church fathers. All writings are easily searched on-line. Next, search on typology of Mary and you can confirm all the bible VS. from which Mary gets Her titles such as The New Eve, Ark of The New Covenant, Queen Mother of The Church. etc. Its alarming that MacArthur doesn't know this or chooses to ignore it. I certainly was surprised when I studied more deeply into Mary.
Im sure if Mary has been "assumed " into heaven,it would be in scripture,yet she is not mentioned again after Pentecost.
She is blessed among women Luke 1
I do not worship her but do believe She is close to her son in heaven as she was on earth. It is called faith
i would recommend you read Revelation 12:1-9. The woman in Rev 12is the mother of the Messiah. She also represents the faithful of Israel crying. out for. the Messiah (Rev12.2). The depiction of the woman is rich in biblical symbolism:
1.Antagonism between the woman and the dragon (the ancient serpent (12:9)recalls Gen 3:15, the first prophecy inScripture to foretell the demise of the devil through the Messiah.
2. Images of the sun, moon and stars call to mind Gen 37:9-10where they symbolizes the family of Israel,namely Jacob, his wife and his twelve sons.
3. Because the woman is a queen who wears a crown and a mother who beards royal male child she is also the Queen Mother of the Davidic Kingdom established by Jesus.
I hope this help you understand where Mary is in the Bible.
@@mikecrawford8394 excellent thsnk you
@@mikecrawford8394nope .. that's the tribe of Judah
Blessed are you among women!!! Being full of God’s grace meant there wasn’t a single part of her that had any sin. At the moment of her death she was assumed both soul and body into heaven. Since she was
Sinless in both soul and body she was assumed complete not needing a new glorified body because she was already complete. Where as the rest of us sinners will get a glorified body,
Just out of curiosity , if Mary is all merciful , mediator , and basically makes Jesus take a “ back seat “ to redemption then what did Jesus die for ?
I don’t mean this in a nasty way way , but how can anyone read the Bible ( if they do ) and believe this tripe ?
Don’t you practice mercy ? Don’t you pray / intercede / mediate for others ?
Nowhere does the Catholic Church she is above Jesus. Her existence is to promote her Son as lord and savior
YOU = what did Jesus die for ?
ME = The reason why Jesus incarnated and died on the Cross was to redeem the = curse = caused by Adam and Eve's disobedience
The Bible and OT begins with the = FALL = in the Garden of Eden of the man Adam who was given the directive by God to not eat of the forbidden =TREE= Gen 2;17. Eve, on the other hand, must have learned of this directive from Adam. The result of the Fall was to render the ground cursed and Adam and Eve dismissed from the garden Eden.
The NT begins with the birth and = RISE = of Jesus, the spiritual Adam =1 Corinthians 15:21-23 = , who redeems man by His death on the TREE ( cross ) and is then buried in the Garden.
What the Bible does = not = state is that God slammed the gates of Heaven shut after the Fall because Adam and Eve had taken on the nature of the devil. For when confronted by God, Adam blamed God = the woman YOU gave me = Adam also blamed Eve. Eve likewise blamed the devil ( serpent ). Instead of asking forgiveness from God who walked with them = Gen. 3:8, they played the Blame Game as children of the devil = 1 John 3:8 = and thus God had no option but to expel them from Eden and made them and their descendants ineligible for Heaven, through = Original Sin. This Original Sin is what Jesus came to pay by His death and shed Blood, as well as reverse God's curse on the ground. Thus the Tree which was the downfall of mankind now became the symbol = the Cross = of man's redemption. And the Garden where Jesus' body was laid now became the symbol of man's eligibility to Heavenly Paradise and thus has reversed the shame of his ousting from Eden and the reversal of the cursed ground.
Third, the Fall of humankind began when Eve listened to and obeyed the = Fallen ANGEL =who is the devil. On the other hand, Mary listened and agreed with the = ANGEL = Gabriel to be the mother of Jesus who became the Redeemer. by His death on the TREE of the Cross. . Catholics thus believe that Eve brought about the Fall, whereas Mary contributed to the Rise of Mankind and have no problem in calling Mary = Co-Redeemer.
Fourth, after Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, God called out to Adam = only = and he replied = I heard you in the garden, but I was afraid because I was NAKED, so I hid myself = Gen.3:10. On the other hand, when Jesus, the spiritual Adam, was nailed to the Tree, He was rendered NAKED = John 19:23 = with no way to hide.
Fifth = 2 facts = First, Jesus was crowned with THORNS.
Second =“And being in agony, Jesus prayed more earnestly. Then His SWEAT became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44).
This = sweat Blood = of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, added to Jesus' thorn-crowned head, reversed and made satisfaction for God's curse in Genesis 3:17-19 = “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce THORNS and thistles for you and you will eat the plants of the field.19 By the SWEAT of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground,
Thus Catholics believe that Jesus came down from Heaven as a man to die and pay the penalty of Adam's sin which closed the gates of Heaven and imposed Original Sins on all Adam's descendants - you and me.
=== It is Finished = was Jesus' triumphant cry of Mission accomplished and that Heaven gates were now opened.
Moreover, Jesus' death and shed Blood paid for and covered the = Original Sins = of all those past, those now living as well as those yet unborn. Furthermore, Baptism is a - one-time - Grace event which washes away all our prior sins. However, we are responsible for all sins after Baptism - as confirmed by Jesus' " execution " of Ananias and Sapphira from the 1st Christian Faith community - Acts 5. And this was shortly = after = Jesus' heavenly ascent.
Jesus expects = More = from Christians as we have the best example of Jesus Himself = Luke 12:48.
Moreover, the Cross is the very symbol of Christianity. The long vertical beam represents our love for God and the short horizontal beam represents our love for Neighbour. For God is the God of Love and heaven is the perfect place of love. And that is why God expects and demands our practice of love whilst on earth so as to qualify for heavenly entry. Even the final judgement is based on love - Matthew 25. Thus Catholicism promotes the sacraments, especially that of Confession and Holy Communion, as well as Mass attendance, Eucharistic Adorations, Stations of the Cross, Benedictions, Novenas, etc.
Most Protestants have a different belief from Catholics as to why Jesus incarnated and died on the Cross that they have consider themselves = inheritors = of Christ's saving act and thus their need to do no more than have Faith in Jesus to be " saved " which they mean to be granted Heavenly citizenship. Thus they deny the need for works as these are considered " boastful." Basically, Protestants have shifted their gaze and focus from the 4 Gospels which detail Jesus' teachings which were given by the Heavenly Father for our salvation, teachings which spell =Tough Love = and have adopted " cherry-picked " passages mainly from Paul's letters such as Romans 10:9 They believe that God will forgive all sins, not only those against God but even sins against neighbour, forever = despite Jesus' warning in Matthew 6:14-15 and Matthew 18:32-35 = and have adopted the Doctrine of = Saved by Grace = Ephesians 2:8-9 - and that all sins past, present and future are covered by the Blood of Christ.
They believe that Jesus came to earth to die and take away all sins and its guilt association. His cry - It is finished - proved that human redemption from sin was completed, and that those who believe in Jesus would have their names forever written in the Lamb's Book of Life and at the time of death, they would be - absent in the flesh, present with the Lord forever - no matter how many or how grievous they committed sins. Others would be caught up and - raptured - to be with Jesus forever. Thus the promise of salvation was God's free gift - grace - to them.
Protestantism is a religious philosophy - a hearer and not doer of the Word thus deceiving themselves - James 1:22. While there is belief in Christ to be sure, there is no substance, no forms of worship and thanksgiving to our God Jesus for His - WORKS - of creation and redemption. There is no Confession as per the formula that Jesus gave on the very day ( evening ) of His Resurrection from the dead , when He - empowered - His Apostles to forgive sins - or - retain them- John 20:22-23. There is no participation in Holy Communion which Jesus declared was - Real Food and Drink - for ETERNAL LIFE - John 6:53-58. Even their churches have no kneelers to kneel and bow down before our God and Maker. And there is no difference between Protestant marriages and - easy - divorce and non-Christian ones. Protestants deny the need for Good Works despite that the Great Judgement is based on Works - Matthew 25 And Jesus gave an example by doing a - World of Works - John 21:25
@christopherton
Everything the catholic church does with Mary usurps the authority and sacrifice of Jesus.
@@zenyattamondatta7757 2 Facts
First = Check my comment headed by
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Regarding why Catholics seek Mary's intercession, here are 2 cases.
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Second = Why do Protestants not understand the reason why Jesus incarnated as a man, died on the Cross and declare= It is Finished ? They thus arrive at doctrines that are heretical as they spell = Easy Christianity and cheap Grace = contrary to the 4 Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John which speak of Jesus' = Tough Love = message ===If you Love Me, keep My commandments, especially the Love of God and Neighbour.
Jesus also defined a Christian as one who = Denies oneself, carries one's cross daily and follows Jesus.
And = More = is expected of Christians as we have the greatest example of Jesus = Luke 12:48.
And Jesus' parables, often prefaced by = the kingdom of Heaven = or = the reign of God = require us to multiply our talents, become more fruitful " soil " as well s wise virgins carrying oil = or else we will be denied heavenly entry
The reason why Jesus incarnated was to redeem the = curse = caused by Adam and Eve's disobedience
The Bible and OT begins with the = FALL = in the Garden of Eden of the man Adam who was given the directive by God to not eat of the forbidden =TREE= Gen 2;17. Eve, on the other hand, must have learned of this directive from Adam. The result of the Fall was to render the ground cursed and Adam and Eve dismissed from the garden Eden.
The NT begins with the birth and = RISE = of Jesus, the spiritual Adam =1 Corinthians 15:21-23 = , who redeems man by His death on the TREE ( cross ) and is then buried in the Garden. What the Bible does = not = state is that God slammed the gates of Heaven shut after the Fall because Adam and Eve had taken on the nature of the devil. For when confronted by God, Adam blamed God = the woman YOU gave me = Adam also blamed Eve. Eve likewise blamed the devil ( serpent ). Instead of asking forgiveness from God who walked with them = Gen. 3:8, they played the Blame Game as children of the devil = 1 John 3:8 = and thus God had no option but to expel them from Eden and made them and their descendants ineligible for Heaven, through = Original Sin. This Original Sin is what Jesus came to pay by His death and shed Blood, as well as reverse God's curse on the ground. Thus the Tree which was the downfall of mankind now became the symbol = the Cross = of man's redemption. And the Garden where Jesus' body was laid now became the symbol of man's eligibility to Heavenly Paradise and thus has reversed the shame of his ousting from Eden and the reversal of the cursed ground.
Third, the Fall of humankind began when Eve listened to and obeyed the = Fallen ANGEL =who is the devil. On the other hand, Mary listened and agreed with the = ANGEL = Gabriel to be the mother of Jesus who became the Redeemer. by His death on the TREE of the Cross. . Catholics thus believe that Eve brought about the Fall, whereas Mary contributed to the Rise of Mankind and have no problem in calling Mary = Co-Redeemer. *****
Fourth, after Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, God called out to Adam = only = and he replied = I heard you in the garden, but I was afraid because I was NAKED, so I hid myself = Gen.3:10. On the other hand, when Jesus, the spiritual Adam, was nailed to the Tree, He was rendered NAKED = John 19:23 = with no way to hide.
Fifth = 2 facts = First, Jesus was crowned with THORNS. Second =“And being in agony, Jesus prayed more earnestly. Then His SWEAT became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44). This = sweat Blood = of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, added to Jesus' thorn-crowned head, reversed and made satisfaction for God's curse in Genesis 3:17-19 = “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce THORNS and thistles for you and you will eat the plants of the field.19 By the SWEAT of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground,
Thus Catholics believe that Jesus came down from Heaven as a man to die and pay the penalty of Adam's sin which closed the gates of Heaven and imposed Original Sins on all Adam's descendants - you and me.=== It is Finished = was Jesus' triumphant cry of Mission accomplished and that Heaven gates were now opened. Moreover, Jesus' death and shed Blood paid for and covered the = Original Sins = of all those past, those now living as well as those yet unborn. Furthermore, Baptism is a - one-time - Grace event which washes away all our prior sins. However, we are responsible for all sins after Baptism - as confirmed by Jesus' " execution " of Ananias and Sapphira from the 1st Christian Faith community - Acts 5. And this was shortly = after = Jesus' heavenly ascent.
Jesus expects = More = from Christians as we have the best example of Jesus Himself = Luke 12:48. Moreover, the Cross is the very symbol of Christianity. The long vertical beam represents our love for God and the short horizontal beam represents our love for Neighbour. For God is the God of Love and heaven is the perfect place of love. And that is why God expects and demands our practice of love whilst on earth so as to qualify for heavenly entry. Even the final judgement is based on love - Matthew 25. Thus Catholicism promotes the sacraments, especially that of Confession and Holy Communion, as well as Mass attendance, Eucharistic Adorations, Stations of the Cross, Benedictions, Novenas, etc.
@@zenyattamondatta7757 obviously just your uniformed ignorant opinion You don’t know the first thing about what and why Catholics believe about the mother of God
I believe the WORD OF GOD ALMIGHTY.❤KJV. COME LORD JESUS. Amen! Pray often.
@@HenryGibbs-u2r depends on what you the mean by the word of God if you mean the Logos made flesh then I agree with you but if you mean a book no. If you worship a book then that is putting a material good before God. God never told Jesus or the 12 apostles to write a book. Jesus had two commands love God with your whole heart mind and soul the second. Love your neighbor as yourself . That’s it! Sounds easy but very difficult to do in truth. The Bible was not completed for a very long time in the form we know today. So tired of Bible Thumpers who just throw scripture verse at people with no real love or charity in their hearts. And then pull scripture out of context not really understanding what it means.
@ariston5433 I agree with you. GOD BLESS!
It's hard to hear God's voice when you've already decided what you want Him to say! (reading with Pretext instead of CONTEXT)
True.
Scripure tells us that only after Mary gave birth,did Joseph "know" her.In other words Mary and Joseph had a sex life.For those who say she didnt have other children,scripture tells us Jesus was her "first born son".
Then why did Jesus say to John at the crucifixion behold thy mother and said to Mary behold thy son? Normally in a Jewish family the relatives would have taken care of Jesus’s body and funeral not strangers. Jesus could have had step brothers and sisters that belonged to Joseph and not Mary. Widowers do and did marry again if their first wife died. Scripture is silent on this but it does not mean it wasn’t possible. History written in Biblical times did not give details like modern historical biographies as any well read Bible scholar knows.
Joseph could have had children with another wife who may have died scripture is silent on this so yes Jesus could have had step siblings from Joseph that were not Mary’s biological children. Mary had her first born son it does not mean she had a second born son. A first born son just means in Jewish culture the son who opens the womb.
@@ariston5433 It is stated IN SCRIPTURE, that after Jesus was born ,Joseph 'knew' his wife,it's a polite way to say they had sexual relations,which is NORMAL.IT is also stated in scripture that wives are to 'submit' to their husband.Read the bible,and quit regurgitating.
@@ariston5433 More regurgitation.
@@pattiliba8188 where really?
@savannahfan *Roman pagans really love ridiculous claims. In 99% of all the usages of the word Hail (chairo) in the Bible, none referred to what you claimed. And the only case that referred to a royalty was of Negative Connotation (Pharisees mocking Jesus as King of the Jews).*
*Chairo is just a normal greeting. Not some claim of "royalty". If you claim otherwise, then the rest of the 99% verses that used Chairo must mean Queens of heaven too. Or Kings of heaven. If what you claimed were true, Jesus must be calling these people royalties and queens of heaven too in Mat 28:9. Lol*
Matthew 28:9
9 And behold, Jesus met them and said, "Greetings (Chairo)!" And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him.
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G5463 (Strong)
χαίρω
chairō
khah'ee-ro
A primary verb; to be full of “cheer”, that is, calmly happy or well off; impersonal especially as a salutation (on meeting or parting), be well: - farewell, be glad, God speed, greeting, hail, joy (-fully), rejoice.
Total KJV occurrences: 74
G5463 (KJC)
χαίρω
chairō
Total KJV Occurrences: 74
rejoice, 26
Mat 5:12, Luk 1:14, Luk 6:23, Luk 10:20 (2), Luk 19:37, Jhn 4:36, Jhn 14:28, Jhn 16:20, Jhn 16:22, Rom 12:15 (2), 1Co 7:30, 2Co 2:3, 2Co 7:9, 2Co 7:16, Php 1:18 (2), Php 2:28, Php 3:1, Php 4:4 (2), Col 1:24, 1Th 5:16, 1Pe 4:13, Rev 11:10
glad, 14
Mrk 14:10-11 (2), Luk 15:32, Luk 22:5, Luk 23:8, Jhn 8:56, Jhn 11:15, Jhn 20:20, Act 11:23, Act 13:48, Rom 16:19, 1Co 16:17, 2Co 13:9, 1Pe 4:13, Rev 19:7
rejoiced, 8
Mat 2:10, Luk 13:17, Act 15:31, 1Co 7:30, 2Co 7:7, Php 4:10, 2Jn 1:4, 3Jn 1:3
hail, 6
Mat 26:49, Mat 27:29, Mat 28:9, Mrk 15:18, Luk 1:28, Jhn 19:3
rejoicing, 5
Luk 15:5, Act 5:41, Act 8:39, Rom 12:12, 2Co 6:10
greeting, 3
Act 15:23, Act 23:26, Jas 1:1
joy, 3
Php 2:17-18 (2), 1Th 3:9
rejoiceth, 3
Mat 18:13, Jhn 3:29, 1Co 13:6
speed, 2
2Jn 1:10-11 (2)
farewell, 1
2Co 13:11
joyed, 1
2Co 7:13
joyfully, 1
Luk 19:6
joying, 1
Col 2:5
G5463 (Thayer)
χαίρω
chairō
Thayer Definition:
1) to rejoice, be glad
2) to rejoice exceedingly
3) to be well, thrive
4) in salutations, hail!
5) at the beginning of letters: to give one greeting, salute
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(Luke 1:28) And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
1. Gabriel greets her with “Hail”. A reverential salutation meant to display a high degree of respect (Ie: “Hail to the Chief”, or “Hail Caesar”)
Very needed teaching, well done. The leadership is wicked as a man can be but the blind followers are lost and should be prayed for and shaken from they're slumber
Why…? All one needs is Faith and they are saved
How can be Catholic change that ?
Unless you are wrong 🤔
The followers chose it & refuse to look into or study the history of their religion. It takes an indepenant study not a vatican sponsored study. Satan as roaring lion has devoured the weak minded
I feel sympathy and heart break for the billion people who follow this religion. I pray that they will awake from their slumber and see what is going on around them.
I suggest you get the log out of your eye before you feel sympathy. Every Catholic is, at least, in the ONLY church established by Christ for salvation. You are in a rebellious sect waging war against Christ and too blind to see what you are doing., We are praying for you and hoping that you come out of your fog!
History shows us that Jesus didn't leave us a bible, the apostles didn't tell us which books belong in the bible, the church fathers never agreed on the 27 books of the NT through the 4th century, not only did they not agree but their list of would-be NT canons were GROWING during this time. So, if it wasn't the Catholic/Orthodox church, guided by the Holy Spirit, that compiled the 27 books of the NT in the 5th century, just 75 years AFTER the council of Nicaea which began the Trinitarian doctrine, and then with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and preserved these scriptures by laboriously hand copying them over and over throughout the centuries before the invention of the printing press, the “rule of faith” for many, please tell us, show us, who did? And if this church no longer exists today, what good is the text which came forth from her if she couldn't sustain herself?
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@@srich7503 god wrote and put the bible togther. the filthy catholic church forbid people to own bibles and killed and tortured those who had them. your holymen will never remind you of that. they are busy in the back room with little boys.
You’ve learned nothing. Mary worship is idolatry. That alone discredits the Catholic Church
It is interesting to note that apart from the 4 gospels, Mary is never mentioned anywhere in the epistles and writings of the apostles. If the beliefs about Mary are so important as the Catholics say they are, you would at least expect Paul or Peter to mention them.
Exactly! Jesus had numerous occasions to exalt Mary but didn't nor did anyone else in the Bible!
Just good ole cult religions like the Catholics.
Was she a righteous woman? Absolutely, that's why she was chosen by God, but she was a sinner like everyone else in need of a savior and by the way, those were her words.
God knew that would have turned you off to all of the bible. This was maybe a few of you can be saved,
Paul? He never met Jesus.
And, Joseph from the Egypt days (son of Jacob, Prime Minister of Egypt) is mentioned in the New Testament many more times than is Joseph, husband of Mary (and father of Several of her Children)
@@nosuchthing8 Actually, he did, on the Road to Damascus.
What Bible do they use in the Catholic Church? Any Bible at all?
They use a bible called th Apocrypha, it has about seven other books in it including writings from the Maccabees that were written during the 400 silent years before Jesus was born, that is where the Catholics some up with a lot of foolish doctrines like Limbo etc. and by the way, they did do away with Limbo. Always wondered where those poor babies are stored now!
The Catholic Church uses derivatives of the Duoay Rheims that was first published in the 16th century.which included 73 books (first and second canons). The church put together the bible in the councils. The first one was in Rome (382), the next one was in Hippo in 393 and the final one was in Carthage in 397.(same 73 books). Now let’s look at protestant bibles. The first one was the Geneva Bible which was published in 1565 with 80 books! The next bible was the King James version published in 1611 with 80 books also. In 1881 the powers to be decided to delete 14 books from the Geneva Bible. In 1885 the King James deleted the same 14 books! Surprise, Surprise!!
Now let’s take a look at the Reformation and the instigator Martin Luther. His bible deleted. the second canon books in the Old Testament and the following books in the New Testament: James, Hebrews, Jude and Revelation. Was it wrong to delete books from the bible? The answer can be found in Revelation 22:18-20. Enjoy !!!!
You know so little about the Catholic Church. refer to my comment below (mike crawford 8394) about the Catholic Bible! You might learn something!!!’
Mainly it is used as an adornment on a table and that is if they have a Bible. Catholics who read and study the Bible become protestants. Catholics who say they read the bible actually read the Catechism's version of the Bible.
@@stever4181 You are so wrong. You show the world how ignorant you are you are about Catholic Bibles. Now let me educate you,besides the Latin Vulgate translated by St Jerome there is the Duoay Rheims bible that was published before the King James Bible. the Catholic bible was agreed upon at the Council of Carthage in 397 with 73 books! If you pick up a Catholic bible today, the same 73 books will be included. There have been no additions or deletions. There have been several attempts to add/delete to the bible but we’re all unsuccessful including Martin Luther’s attempt during the Council of Trent. Now, let’s look at the King James version. It was first published in 1611 with 80 books. in 1885 the powers to be with the Bible Society decided to delete 14 books from the KJV. Take a look at Revelation 22: 18-20. After you read that you could use your bible as an adornment on a table!!!!
I hope this helps you to know some of the basics of Catholic Bibles and the history associated with it.
By the way I almost forgot to tell you that we read from the bible during each Mass. I bet you didn’t know that!
It is a universal tragedy that so many people have been deceived by Satan. I read the obits from back home to see if anyone I know has passed away. It's always gives me a sinking feeling when I read of anyone who were "devoted Catholics." I can't imagine a worse feeling when you find yourself in hell and realize that your religion was that of Satan.
You are talking about Jesus Church! Shame on you! Many Protestants are lost, thinking they are going to heaven when they may not if they don’t keep His Commandments and stay faithful to His Church! Your Communion is blasphemy! It is NOT the Eucharist! You can only receive the Eucharist in a Catholic Church ( Eastern or Western), so if you are outside of His Church you are not keeping Jesus last Command! Catholic means Christian and many are closer to Jesus than any Protestant can ever be! Praying for you that you will come home!
What a judgmental comment. You can’t know when someone is in heaven or hell. Catholic religion is from Jesus! He started the Church! You will stand before Jesus one day. Protestants believe the lies about Jesus only Church!! That’s what Satan wants to deceive the Protestants and keep them from His True Church!
@f5062 *Where in the Bible or real history ever said "Roman religion = Jesus' Church or the Church or the Universal Church or the true church"? Where? Chap verse? Self claims is Not a proof for doctrines RC. Where is your proof?*
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You are talking about Jesus Church! Jesus only Church! Catholic religion is from Jesus! He started the Church! His True Church!
YOU = It's always gives me a sinking feeling when I read of anyone who were "devoted Catholics." I can't imagine a worse feeling when you find yourself in hell and realize that your religion was that of Satan.
ME = Of all the religions, our = Living = God JESUS has favoured Roman Catholic Christianity, more than all others, with His presence and manifestations in the past 2,000 years.
Catholics have been favoured with Eucharistic Miracles- like the 1996 Eucharistic Miracle of Buenos Aires, Argentina & in Lanciano, Italy in the 8th C - among many other miracles
(( Note - Satanists will steal a consecrated " Catholic " Holy Communion host for use in their diabolical " Black Masses'' They will keep away from the communion hosts of near-Catholic but Protestant denominations like the Anglicans, Methodists and the Lutherans precisely because these don't have the Presence of Jesus. ))
In Acts 2:27 - we read - For God will not allow His Holy one to undergo corruption. Likewise, God has clothed with incorruptibility the corpses of Catholic saints who have led a holy life in conformity with Jesus. The 500 year incorrupt corpse of St. Francis Xavier, which resides in Goa, India.is one example. The incorrupt corpse of the Lebanese St. Charbel Makhlouf is another example.
Fr. Albert Hebert has compiled a list of over 400 resurrections of people who died but were raised to life by many Catholic saints. His book - Raised from the Dead - is available in book-stores.
Jesus, our Living God, has appeared to many saints.
In the 14th C, Jesus appeared to St. Bridget of Sweden who was much desirous of knowing about his agony He endured on the Way to Calvary - in other words, His Passion & Death. For a whole year Jesus taught her 15 Prayers and attached Promises to anyone who repeats these Prayers continuously for a year - the 1st Promise being - Jesus will deliver 15 souls of his/her lineage from Purgatory. ( Note - you can check the Internet under - The 15 Prayers of St. Bridget - and also view the Promises. )
And in the 1930's, not yet a hundred years ago, Jesus appeared almost daily to a Polish Nun, Sr. Faustina, and taught her the following prayer - Eternal Father, I offer you the Body & Blood, Soul & Divinity of your dearly Beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. In atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and the whole world. - This is in line with The Lord's Prayer which is pluralistic with the words - Our, Us, We, etc.(( Note = Sr Faustina kept a Diary of Jesus visits which is available from book-stores with its Title - Divine Mercy in My Soul
I urge you to purchase a copy and read it. ))
In 1995, Jesus appeared to a Nigerian named Barnabas and gave him the Devotion to His Precious Blood.
Mary has appeared in many places like Lourdes, France and Fatima, Portugal, and Guadalupe, Mexico City, Mexico - among many other places and at different times. Moreover, She has appeared for 3 years nightly over a Coptic Church in Zeitoun, Egypt and pictures of her are available on the Internet.
Lastly, before the Catholic Church declares a person - Saint - 2 first class miracles must be attributed to that deceased person - miracles which are mostly authenticated by non-Catholic doctors and professionals.
On the other hand, the agents of Satan, Communists and Masons - aka Free-Masons - have long sought to infiltrate the Catholic Church clergy and thus undermine its teachings In the 1960's, ex-Communist executive of the Communist Party of USA, Bella Dodd testified before the US Congress that the Communists had sent over a 1,000 men into Catholic seminaries (( Note - this can be checked on the Internet. ))
Undoubtedly, the Catholic Church has been favoured by our Living God and at the same time has been the target of God's enemies - because she represents the Truth regarding her Doctrine.
Secondly, The Bible is, historically, a dated book as it records only to the 1st Century. Thus we read only the deaths of Judas and James but not about the other 10 Apostles or of Paul as to when, where and how they died. Does it mean that, because their deaths are not recorded, that they are still alive ?? Obviously not.
Paul declares the Bible - useful and profitable - in 2 Timothy 3:16, but that the = Church = is the Bulwark and Pillar of Truth - 1 Timothy 3:15. That is because the Church, the community of Believers, came first - Matthew 16:18 - and incorporates both the written word as well as the oral tradition - 2 Thessalonians 2:15.
And the Bible declares that Jesus performed a = World of Works = which are unrecorded - John 21:25. As a result 2 traditions ensued - oral and written - 2 Thess. 2:15 - which are of equal merit.
By "Sola Scriptura" Protestants are only receiving part of Divine Truth thus resulting in so many denominations.
The Catholic Church was founded on Peter's declaration of Jesus' Divinity - Matt. 16:16 and Jesus' promise - Matt 16:17-19- and holds to both traditions. It is the Church of the Living God and the Pillar and Bulwark of Truth - 1 Timothy 3:15
On the other hand, Protestantism is a religious philosophy - a hearer and not doer of the Word thus deceiving themselves - James1:22. While there is belief in Christ to be sure, there is no substance, no forms of worship and thanksgiving to our God Jesus for His - WORKS - of creation and redemption. There is no Confession as per the formula that Jesus gave on the very day of His Resurrection from the dead , when He - empowered - His Apostles to forgive sins - or - retain them- John 20:22-23. There is no participation in Holy Communion which Jesus declared was - Real Food and Drink - for ETERNAL LIFE - John 6:53-58. Even their churches have no kneelers to kneel and bow down before our God and Maker. And there is no difference between Protestant marriage and - easy - divorce and non-Christian ones.
@@loboman8029 *Hilarious claims. ROman religion came in ad300s. So it's not 2000 years. You are still pretending "Roman religion = the Universal Church or Church Christ founded" with no proof that it was so. So where is your proof?*
*Existed for a long time does not prove it's "favoured". Many nations existed longer than Roman religion and they are diabolical. That completely refutes all your false logic.*
*Christian Churches has raising the dead, the lame walk the blind see, water turned into wine, walking on water miracles. Just check out all the miracles by Kathrine Kulhman, Smith WIggleswworth, John G Lake, Rayhard Bonkett. Even Roman religion type Communion miracles. Totally nothing to do with Roman pagan transubstantiation (elements transforms into Jesus to be eaten by RCs) or Roman pagan Mass (sacrificing Jesus on the altar back to God).*
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Of all the religions, our = Living = God JESUS has favoured Roman Catholic Christianity, more than all others, with His presence and manifestations in the past 2,000 years.
Catholics have been favoured with Eucharistic Miracles- like the 1996 Eucharistic Miracle of Buenos Aires, Argentina & in Lanciano, Italy in the 8th C - among many other miracles
(( Note - Satanists will steal a consecrated " Catholic " Holy Communion host for use in their diabolical " Black Masses'' They will keep away from the communion hosts of near-Catholic but Protestant denominations like the Anglicans, Methodists and the Lutherans precisely because these don't have the Presence of Jesus. ))
In Acts 2:27 - we read - For God will not allow His Holy one to undergo corruption. Likewise, God has clothed with incorruptibility the corpses of Catholic saints who have led a holy life in conformity with Jesus. The 500 year incorrupt corpse of St. Francis Xavier, which resides in Goa, India.is one example. The incorrupt corpse of the Lebanese St. Charbel Makhlouf is another example.
Fr. Albert Hebert has compiled a list of over 400 resurrections of people who died but were raised to life by many Catholic saints. His book - Raised from the Dead - is available in book-stores.
Jesus, our Living God, has appeared to many saints.
In the 14th C, Jesus appeared to St. Bridget of Sweden who was much desirous of knowing about his agony He endured on the Way to Calvary - in other words, His Passion & Death. For a whole year Jesus taught her 15 Prayers and attached Promises to anyone who repeats these Prayers continuously for a year - the 1st Promise being - Jesus will deliver 15 souls of his/her lineage from Purgatory. ( Note - you can check the Internet under - The 15 Prayers of St. Bridget - and also view the Promises. )
And in the 1930's, not yet a hundred years ago, Jesus appeared almost daily to a Polish Nun, Sr. Faustina, and taught her the following prayer - Eternal Father, I offer you the Body & Blood, Soul & Divinity of your dearly Beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. In atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and the whole world. - This is in line with The Lord's Prayer which is pluralistic with the words - Our, Us, We, etc.(( Note = Sr Faustina kept a Diary of Jesus visits which is available from book-stores with its Title - Divine Mercy in My Soul
I urge you to purchase a copy and read it. ))
In 1995, Jesus appeared to a Nigerian named Barnabas and gave him the Devotion to His Precious Blood.
Mary has appeared in many places like Lourdes, France and Fatima, Portugal, and Guadalupe, Mexico City, Mexico - among many other places and at different times. Moreover, She has appeared for 3 years nightly over a Coptic Church in Zeitoun, Egypt and pictures of her are available on the Internet.
Lastly, before the Catholic Church declares a person - Saint - 2 first class miracles must be attributed to that deceased person - miracles which are mostly authenticated by non-Catholic doctors and professionals.
On the other hand, the agents of Satan, Communists and Masons - aka Free-Masons - have long sought to infiltrate the Catholic Church clergy and thus undermine its teachings In the 1960's, ex-Communist executive of the Communist Party of USA, Bella Dodd testified before the US Congress that the Communists had sent over a 1,000 men into Catholic seminaries (( Note - this can be checked on the Internet. ))
Undoubtedly, the Catholic Church has been favoured by our Living God and at the same time has been the target of God's enemies - because she represents the Truth regarding her Doctrine.
Secondly, The Bible is, historically, a dated book as it records only to the 1st Century. Thus we read only the deaths of Judas and James but not about the other 10 Apostles or of Paul as to when, where and how they died. Does it mean that, because their deaths are not recorded, that they are still alive ?? Obviously not.
Paul declares the Bible - useful and profitable - in 2 Timothy 3:16, but that the = Church = is the Bulwark and Pillar of Truth - 1 Timothy 3:15. That is because the Church, the community of Believers, came first - Matthew 16:18 - and incorporates both the written word as well as the oral tradition - 2 Thessalonians 2:15.
And the Bible declares that Jesus performed a = World of Works = which are unrecorded - John 21:25. As a result 2 traditions ensued - oral and written - 2 Thess. 2:15 - which are of equal merit.
By "Sola Scriptura" Protestants are only receiving part of Divine Truth thus resulting in so many denominations.
The Catholic Church was founded on Peter's declaration of Jesus' Divinity - Matt. 16:16 and Jesus' promise - Matt 16:17-19- and holds to both traditions. It is the Church of the Living God and the Pillar and Bulwark of Truth - 1 Timothy 3:15
On the other hand, Protestantism is a religious philosophy - a hearer and not doer of the Word thus deceiving themselves - James1:22. While there is belief in Christ to be sure, there is no substance, no forms of worship and thanksgiving to our God Jesus for His - WORKS - of creation and redemption. There is no Confession as per the formula that Jesus gave on the very day of His Resurrection from the dead , when He - empowered - His Apostles to forgive sins - or - retain them- John 20:22-23. There is no participation in Holy Communion which Jesus declared was - Real Food and Drink - for ETERNAL LIFE - John 6:53-58. Even their churches have no kneelers to kneel and bow down before our God and Maker. And there is no difference between Protestant marriage and - easy - divorce and non-Christian ones.
When the Emperor Constantine declared himself to be the Summus Pontifex, what followed was more than ten centuries of Dark Ages, during which time people who professed Christ rather than Mary or the Popes, people who denied transubstantiation, were fed to lions or burned at the stake. During the Dark Ages, for a common person to read the Bible was a sin for which there was no forgiveness; and so the people were spoon-fed from the papist pulpit. The Bible was said to exist only in the Latin text and the common and largely illiterate people could learn the stories that were in the Bible from paintings and stained glass windows. Those who first made the Bible available in the language of the people were killed for their trouble; but when Martin Luther quoted Paul, of all people, the Protestant Reformation began.
The gospel that saves is that Christ accomplished everything needed to save you from sin and death when he died on the cross for sins.
YOU = The gospel that saves is that Christ accomplished everything needed to save you from sin and death when he died on the cross for sins.
ME = Why do Protestants = not = understand the = REAL = reason why Jesus incarnated as a man, died on the Cross and declare= It is Finished ?
Protestants thus arrive at doctrines that are heretical as they spell = Easy Christianity and cheap Grace = contrary to the 4 Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John which speak of Jesus' = Tough Love = message ===If you Love Me, keep My commandments, especially the Love of God and Neighbour, even enemies
Jesus also defined a Christian as one who = Denies oneself, carries one's cross daily and follows Jesus.
And = More = is expected of Christians as we have the greatest example of Jesus = Luke 12:48.
And Jesus' parables, often prefaced by = the kingdom of Heaven = or = the reign of God = require us to multiply our talents, become more fruitful " soil " as well s wise virgins carrying oil = or else we will be denied heavenly entry thru the narrow gates = Matthew 7:14.
The reason why Jesus incarnated was to redeem the = curse = caused by Adam and Eve's disobedience
The Bible and OT begins with the = FALL = in the Garden of Eden of the man Adam who was given the directive by God to not eat of the forbidden =TREE= Gen 2;17. Eve, on the other hand, must have learned of this directive from Adam. The result of the Fall was to render the ground cursed and Adam and Eve dismissed from the garden Eden.
The NT begins with the birth and = RISE = of Jesus, the spiritual Adam =1 Corinthians 15:21-23 = , who redeems man by His death on the TREE ( cross ) and is then buried in the Garden.
What the Bible does = not = state is that God slammed the gates of Heaven shut after the Fall because Adam and Eve had taken on the nature of the devil. For when confronted by God, Adam blamed God = the woman YOU gave me = Adam also blamed Eve. Eve likewise blamed the devil ( serpent ). Instead of asking forgiveness from God who walked with them = Gen. 3:8, they played the Blame Game as children of the devil = 1 John 3:8 = and thus God had no option but to expel them from Eden and made them and their descendants ineligible for Heaven, through = Original Sin. This Original Sin is what Jesus came to pay by His death and shed Blood, as well as reverse God's curse on the ground. Thus the Tree which was the downfall of mankind now became the symbol = the Cross = of man's redemption. And the Garden where Jesus' body was laid now became the symbol of man's eligibility to Heavenly Paradise and thus has reversed the shame of his ousting from Eden and the reversal of the cursed ground.
Third, the Fall of humankind began when Eve listened to and obeyed the = Fallen ANGEL =who is the devil. On the other hand, Mary listened and agreed with the = ANGEL = Gabriel to be the mother of Jesus who became the Redeemer. by His death on the TREE of the Cross. . Catholics thus believe that Eve brought about the Fall, whereas Mary contributed to the Rise of Mankind and have no problem in calling Mary = Co-Redeemer.
Fourth, after Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, God called out to Adam = only = and he replied = I heard you in the garden, but I was afraid because I was NAKED, so I hid myself = Gen.3:10. On the other hand, when Jesus, the spiritual Adam, was nailed to the Tree, He was rendered NAKED = John 19:23 = with no way to hide.
Fifth = 2 facts = First, Jesus was crowned with THORNS. Second =“And being in agony, Jesus prayed more earnestly. Then His SWEAT became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44). This = sweat Blood = of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, added to Jesus' thorn-crowned head, reversed and made satisfaction for God's curse in Genesis 3:17-19 = “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce THORNS and thistles for you and you will eat the plants of the field.19 By the SWEAT of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground,
Thus Catholics believe that Jesus came down from Heaven as a man to die and pay the penalty of Adam's sin which closed the gates of Heaven and imposed Original Sins on all Adam's descendants - you and me.=== It is Finished = was Jesus' triumphant cry of Mission accomplished and that Heaven gates were now opened. Moreover, Jesus' death and shed Blood paid for and covered the = Original Sins = of all those past, those now living as well as those yet unborn. Furthermore, Baptism is a - one-time - Grace event which washes away all our prior sins. However, we are responsible for all sins after Baptism - as confirmed by Jesus' " execution " of Ananias and Sapphira from the 1st Christian Faith community - Acts 5. And this was shortly = after = Jesus' heavenly ascent.
Jesus expects = More = from Christians as we have the best example of Jesus Himself = Luke 12:48.
Moreover, the Cross is the very symbol of Christianity. The long vertical beam represents our love for God and the short horizontal beam represents our love for Neighbour. For God is the God of Love and heaven is the perfect place of love. And that is why God expects and demands our practice of love whilst on earth so as to qualify for heavenly entry. Even the final judgement is based on love - Matthew 25.
Thus Catholicism promotes the sacraments, especially that of Confession and Holy Communion, as well as Mass attendance, Eucharistic Adorations, Stations of the Cross, Benedictions, Novenas, etc.
Most Protestants have a different belief from Catholics as to why Jesus incarnated and died on the Cross that they have consider themselves = inheritors = of Christ's saving act and thus their need to do no more than have Faith in Jesus to be " saved " which they mean to be granted Heavenly citizenship. Thus they deny the need for works as these are considered " boastful."
Basically, Protestants have shifted their gaze and focus from the 4 Gospels which detail Jesus' teachings which were given by the Heavenly Father for our salvation, teachings which spell =Tough Love = and have adopted " cherry-picked " passages mainly from Paul's letters such as Romans 10:9 They believe that God will forgive all sins, not only those against God but even sins against neighbour, forever = despite Jesus' warning in Matthew 6:14-15 and Matthew 18:32-35 = and have adopted the Doctrine of = Saved by Grace = Ephesians 2:8-9 - and that all sins past, present and future are covered by the Blood of Christ.
They believe that Jesus came to earth to die and take away all sins and its guilt association. His cry - It is finished - proved that human redemption from sin was completed, and that those who believe in Jesus would have their names forever written in the Lamb's Book of Life and at the time of death, they would be - absent in the flesh, present with the Lord forever - no matter how many or how grievous they committed sins. Others would be caught up and - raptured - to be with Jesus forever. Thus the promise of salvation was God's free gift - grace - to them.
Protestantism is a religious philosophy - a hearer and not doer of the Word thus deceiving themselves - James 1:22. While there is belief in Christ to be sure, there is no substance, no forms of worship and thanksgiving to our God Jesus for His - WORKS - of creation and redemption. There is no Confession as per the formula that Jesus gave on the very day ( evening ) of His Resurrection from the dead , when He - empowered - His Apostles to forgive sins - or - retain them- John 20:22-23. There is no participation in Holy Communion which Jesus declared was - Real Food and Drink - for ETERNAL LIFE - John 6:53-58. Even their churches have no kneelers to kneel and bow down before our God and Maker. And there is no difference between Protestant marriages and - easy - divorce and non-Christian ones. Protestants deny the need for Good Works despite that the Great Judgement is based on Works - Matthew 25
And Jesus gave an awesome example by doing a - World of Works - John 21:25
The amount that is wrong with this paragraph is genuinely hilarious 😂😂
@EzeBall1710 was going to say this, it's like he watched a ton of Hollywood movies and got his info from there
You are operating with out a full deck, i.e. with an abridged bible.
Who gave Luther authority to remove 7 books from the biblical canon?
And under Constantine the biblical canon was determined, and 50 bibles...
@loboman8029 *1. Yes while it is true "not everything is in the Bible". That does not mean you can take anything or any Roman pagan traditions as doctrines.*
*2. Scriptures only Accepts "traditions of JEsus and Apostles", 2 Thes **2:15**; but Rejects all "traditions of men", Col 2:8, Mark 7:8. Bible calls any doctrines not commanded by God/Jesus "traditions of men", Col 2:8, Mark 7:8.*
*3. 95% of Roman pagan doctrines were not even from commands/commandments of Jesus/God. They were "traditions of men".*
*4. Jesus, APostles and NT CHurch all practised taking doctrines from Scriptures/Written Word Only. 180+ verses say so. Are you telling me they were all false teachers?*
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YOU = More fairy tales. Bible does not even mention any Roman Mass
ME = Is the Bible the = only = source of Christianity ? And can omnipotent Jesus who did a = World = of works = John 21:25 = fit into one book ?
Jesus is the Word and Spokesman of The Father = John 1:1 = and words can be = both = written and spoken The Bible contains only the written word.
Moreover, there was a period after the death of Jesus between 30 and 40 AD to the time when the earliest Gospels of Mark and Matthew were written 30 years or so later during which time Oral Tradition or the Spoken Word reigned supreme.
And in = 2 Thess. 2:15 = Paul implies the equality of both the Oral and written traditions.
And the Bible declares that the ( Catholic ) church of the Living God is the Pillar and Bulwark of Truth - 1 Timothy 3:1 = and holds to both the Oral and Written traditions.
Jesus was the = Word = and spokesperson of The Father who sent Him to both be as well as teach us the Truth, Way and Life to the Father.
Jesus' message was TOUGH LOVE =If you love Me, keep My Commandments. Especially, the love of God and Neighbour. With Love being a verb or action word.
If you wish to be My disciple = thus defining who's Christian = take up your Cross daily, deny yourself and follow Me
The gate to Heaven is narrow and = few = find it = Matthew 7:14 & Luke 13:23-24Jesus warned = Matthew 24:13-14 = He who endures to the = end = will be saved.
And declared that = More = is expected of Christians to whom much has been entrusted = Luke 12:48.
Jesus updated the = letter = of Moses' 10 Commandments to include the = spirit = by requiring not only the forbidding of murder, but also getting angry, not only adultery, but also looking with lust.
Jesus fasted 40 days/nights. He prayed daily. He also did a = world = of unrecorded works = John 21:25.
Jesus spoke of The Father's reward for Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving and Good Works done in secret = Matthew 6.
And Jesus' various Parables prefaced with = the Kingdom of Heaven = or = the Reign of God = require us to multiply our talents, become more fruitful " soil " and wise virgins carrying oil, or we will be excluded from Heaven
Even Paul, like a good Christian, boasted of the Cross = Galatians 6:14
Paul urged = WORK out your own salvation with fear and trembling. = Philippians 2:12
Paul warned that those Christians who do works of the flesh would not inherit Heaven = Galatian 5:19-21
Hebrews 12:6 warned that The Father chastens and disciplines = every = child before He will accept them into His Kingdom.
When Martin Loser, I mean Martin Luther broke away from Catholicism and started Protestantism, he promoted "Sola Scriptura" - or the authority of the Bible alone as well as the doctrine of " Faith alone." He also took the focus of Protestantism = away = from the 4 Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and onto " cherry-picked " verses such as Romans 10:8-10 and Ephesians 2:8-10.
Luther thus ignored Jesus' and other NT Tough Love passages and brought about doctrines that spell = Easy Christianity and cheap grace.
Sadly, Protestants and non-Catholics have embraced Luther's errors despite the fact that they proclaim " Sola Scriptura " and read the Bible often, even daily. By declaring that only Faith is necessary for Salvation, they have effectively cancelled the Cross = the very symbol of Christianity.
Protestantism is = only = a religious philosophy - a hearer and not doer of the Word thus deceiving themselves - James 1:22. While there is belief in Christ to be sure, there is no substance, no forms of worship and thanksgiving to our God Jesus for His - WORKS - of creation and redemption. There is no Confession as per the formula that Jesus gave on the very day ( evening ) of His Resurrection from the dead , when He - empowered - His Apostles to forgive sins - or - retain them- John 20:22-23. There is no participation in Holy Communion which Jesus declared was - Real Food and Drink - for ETERNAL LIFE - John 6:53-58. Even their churches have no kneelers to kneel and bow down before our God and Maker. And there is no difference between Protestant marriages and - easy - divorce and non-Christian ones. Protestants deny the need for Good Works despite that the Great Judgement is based on Works - Matthew 25. And Jesus gave an example by doing a - World of Works - John 21:25
Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
Key is graven image or one you worship. If you take this literally throw away your phone, tv, pictures, snd make yourself blind
Then please explain to me why there were graven images inside the Jerusalem temple ??? There were two Cherubim inside the temple with their wings over the Ark of the Covenant and the Mercy Seat! So explain that one away…
@@ariston5433the thing is that of you make a statue is supposed to be for decoration the sinful thing about it is things such as praying directly to it bowing down to it kissing it thinking it somehow has divine power or taking it in procession a image is supposed to be still and untouched nobody at all worshipped venerated or bowed down to the golden cherubim or the serpent of moses
what is your definition of a graven image ? do you have pictures of your family members? If you do are they graven images?
Isiahsaldivar christian game
Man the Catholic dogma was like Islam dogma on a level like no other , it was horrible beyond words.
Funny thing is - your dogma is just as bad.
@@rdleahey I don't have a dogma, nice try son.
@@8kiganaYou have your own dogma that you don’t call dogma. Woof woof!
@@rdleahey you can woof woof all you want kid I am not stopping you.
Catholic teaching and Islam are the complete opposite. The Catholic Church teaches that God can come into our lives and the Holy Spirit can can work with human nature to transform our lives the divine and human work together resulting in salvation of the human soul. Islam teaches that God is separate and has no participation in human salvation Islam is a set of outward rules with no possibility of salvation. Kind of sounds like the what many so called heretical “ churches” teach. No wonder the Byzantine Empire fell so easily to Islam because this exactly what the Byzantine embraced. It was basically a heresy that crept into the Byzantine Church. A sort separation between church and state which allowed many heresies to creep in. Islam was the result. When you do not have the ruling body of the church heresies of all types spring up. So no you can not have a layman just start up a church and hang a sign over a strip mall building and have a Church that is both orthodox in its teachings because there is no magesterium to keep it from error.
@savannahfan *Where in the Bible says RCs can "venerate Mary and make statues for her"? WHere? Cite me one example of a believer in NT who "venerate Mary and make statues for her"? WHere?*
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What is a synonym for venerate?
Some common synonyms of venerate are adore, reverence, revere, and worship. While all these words mean "to honor and admire profoundly and respectfully," venerate implies a holding as holy or sacrosanct because of character, association, or age.
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1. Catholics don’t Worship anyone other than the Blessed Trinity. Anyone that worships anything other than Almighty God is not a Catholic, they are a Heretic
2. Catholics do not have any idols in their Church or Home, anyone that does is committing Idolatry and is not a Catholic, they are a Heretic
3. There is a difference between an Idol and an Icon. And Idol represents something FAKE, an Icon represents something or someone REAL.
4. There is no prohibition whatsoever in the Bible against Icons, in fact there are examples of Icons used (Exodus 25:18-20, Exodus 20:31, Hebrews 9:5)
5. Catholics do not pray to a painting or plaster statue anymore than Protestants pray to the paper and cover of their Bible… You pray to and think of our Savior when you look at a painting of the Madonna, not the paint and Canvas
6. We are commanded by God to honor our Father and Mother. We honor the Mother of our Savior
7. Blessed Mary is the first Christian and first to devote her life to our Lord, who knew our Savior better than anyone. She was the eyewitness to, and storyteller of his miraculous Life leading up to his public ministry. She was there for the Passion, Resurrection and Pentecost. Our Lady is the one, that helped all of us better know and understand our Savior through Scripture
8. Our Lady is a perfect example of obedience to and acceptance of God’s Will. Almighty God CHOSE her and her alone for the most important thing any woman has ever done, and she was ready to do his bidding without hesitation.
As if that wasn’t enough reason to honor The Blessed Virgin
9. Our Lady was VENERATED by the Archangel Gabriel, who greeted her with a respectful salutation of “Hail Mary, Full of Grace” Gabriel made it clear that our Lady was FAVORED BY GOD, and that our LORD WAS WITH HER (Luke 1:28)
10. Our Lady was also VENERATED by Elizabeth and John the Baptist as her voice alone (filled with the Holy Spirit) made him leap, and cause Elizabeth to exclaim that Mary was (Most) Blessed among (All) Woman (Luke 1:41-42)
So when Protestants give Catholics a hard time about Venerating our Lady, or Calling her “Mother of God” it shows poor knowledge of Scripture
11. Why pray to Blessed Mary…? because she has and will intercede on our behalf with her Son… Who can and will do miraculous things for whom she advocates for (John 2:1-11)
12. Our Lady is in Heaven, cloaked in the Glory of her Son, Crowned as Queen of the 12 Apostles, and ready to defeat the Dragon by bringing forth Christ again. (Revelation 12). Blessed Mary, of the House of David, Tribe of Judah, and a true Daughter of Zion is by Hebrew tradition Queen as her Son reigns as King of the Jews. Blessed Mary is Israel.
Mary IS the most important woman in the Bible, veneration of her IS Biblical. Her Soul Magnifies our Lord, and allows us to know him better, and brings us closer to Her Son with her example of how to truly love and serve our Lord and Savior
@frankvw4819 *You failed to answer to your Ls again. This is of course a L. 95% of R Church doctrines were unheard of in 1st century and not from traditions of Jesus and Apostles or Scriptures or contradicts Scriptures! Jesus, Apostles and Nt Church of the Bible had not heard or practised any of these Rc doctrines.*
1. Purgatory 2. Confessing to priests 3. Office of pope or priests4. Pope being the vicar (representation of Christ, usurping the authority of God)5. Praying to Mary, saints6. Penance 7. Worshipping idols/images, placing idols images in church8. Church in the Bible is not building, but the body of believers9. Sacrament was never the real body and blood of Christ as RC church claimed (Real meaning real blood and body, bcos it didnt really turned "bloody" did it?)10. Salvation by (works (7sacraments) +faith) was never in the Bible. Real salvation is by grace through faith as seen in Bible. 11. Rosary, set repetitive prayers, hail Mary 10000 times12. Mass - putting Christ on the altar again and again13. Mary as queen of heaven 14. Mary as Ark of the new covenant. 15. Mary as the mother of heavenly Jesus thus Mary exist before Christ16. Immersion of infant for baptism17. Holy water18. Celibacy of priests (no office of priests in NT anyway, only priesthood of all believers)19. Kissing of statues20. Changing of 10 commandments. COmmandment of graven image removed by Catholic CHurch in Catholic Catechism. Splitting of another commandment into 2 commandments. 21. Catholic church changed Bible verse Gen 3:15 (And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel."). 'He' and 'His' referring to Christ.
Catholics changed it to (Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; She shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise Her heel.") 'She' and 'Her' refers to Mary. 22. Catholic Church use Rev 12 to refer to Mary as 'queen of heaven', when Rev 12:6 clearly refers to Israel escaping the Great Tribulation. Mary cannot be alive to escape the Great Tribulation. 23. Catholic Church refers to Mary as 'Queen of heaven', but 'Queen of Mary' in the Bible is a demonic entity Astoreth or Ishtar, the female deity partner of Baal. 5 verses in Jeremiah as proof.24. Catholic church refers to Mary as the Mediatress, Co redemptress, helper of Christ, firstborn of all creation ..
Mary cannot be the mediatress. Jesus is the one and only Mediator between God and man. Only Jesus redeems. Only the Holy Spirit is the Helper sent by Jesus. Only Jesus is the firstborn of all creation. 25. Roman Catholicism has “saints” one can pray to in order to gain a particular blessing. For example, Saint Gianna Beretta Molla is the patron saint of fertility. Francis of Assisi is the patron saint of animals. There are multiple patron saints of healing and comfort.
Nowhere is even a hint of this taught in Scripture. Just as the Roman pantheon of gods had a god of love, a god of peace, a god of war, a god of strength, a god of wisdom, etc., so the Catholic Church has a saint who is “in charge” over each of these and many other categories. Many Roman cities had a god specific to the city, and the Catholic Church provided “patron saints” for cities as well.26. Mary is called the gate of heaven? Mary has keys to paradise?
Here are roman pagan teachers saying their man made goddess is their savior. None of these quotes have been denounced, on the contrary they are cited.
"Open to us, O Mary, the gate of Paradise, since you have its keys! " St. Ambrose
"God has entrusted the keys and treasures of Heaven to Mary." St. Thomas Aquinas
"No one can enter into Heaven except through Mary, as entering through a gate. " St. Bonaventure
"Mary is called "The Gate of Heaven" because no one can enter Heaven but through her means." St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori
Papal infallibility
Immaculate Mary
Assumption of Mary
Perpetual Virgin
Mary as Mother of God,
co mediatrix,
co redemptrix,
new ark of covenant,
Pope as vicar,
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peter as first pope,
papal succession,
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indulgences,
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veneration of saints and statues
celibacy of priesthood
canonization of saints
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devote to roman Mary to be saved
be in Roman religion to be saved
baptise in Roman baptism to be saved
partake Roman sacraments to be saved
baptism of blood
calling Roman pope Lord God or equal to God
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DO YOUT RESEARCH AND YOU WILL FIND OUT THAT ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH BELIEVES AND TEACHES THE SAME TRUTHS SINCE THE TIME JESUS ESTABLISHED HIS CHURCH.
In the 1st century where do we find Sola scripture being taught?
@@dman7668 *Jesus Apostles and NT Church were all from 1st century and they practised Sola Scriptura. You need knowledge.*
@@dman7668 Acts 2. 33 AD. Also Jesus Quoted. Scripture . It is written . Also. Jesus fulfilled. Scripture . Isaiah 53
@@douggauzy6258 Jesus qouted scripture is really just proof Jesus qouted scripture right?
@@browncony3897 The Apostles were not practicing sola scripture. They were Jewish and the Jews were not protestant sola scripture folks in their belief system.
If you try to tell a Catholic that Mary is the same as we are, an adopted child of God, they get very angry. It's like they are possessed by this spirit of "Mary". My sister try to seduce me, she kissed me on the lips (weird and awkward) and then told me to kiss the head of the statute of Mary that was right behind me. I was creeped out!
You’re actually real sister try to kiss you!!! That is incredible creepy and evil. I would feel really awkward to ever be near her for a long time.
@@lunagrace2872 Yeah, I was creeped out, I don't see her much but she's the golden child in the family, so no one believes me and they don't see what I see in her.
@@Jennifera777 I’m so sorry that your family didn’t believe you. But unfortunately I know how you feel, my father looked at me sexually years ago. Weird, evil and heartbreaking but thankfully my family believed me. I know my father would never touch me but I won’t be in a room by myself with him.
But it is sad how evil people can be especially when they have demons in them. Unfortunately many don’t believe or recognize demons much anymore. It can be hard to talk to people seriously about especially the people closest to you.
Jennifera if it's not biblically based (proven to be in the Bible that you should do it),,,,don't believe it and don't follow it. People will make up stuff and tell you how God wants you to worship him but read where it says these followers say you should do what they say in the bible! If it isn't in the Bible, they are lying. Walk away , politely decline and follow a biblically pathed Church/bible study group which uses the Bible (they should quote scriptures you can look up!) and above all ask God, ask his Holy Spirit, helper of Jesus Christ.
Mary would be appalled at what people have made her. An idol. God shares his glory with no one.
Please explain to us Catholics what idolatry means?. Cause I don't think you have the slightest idea what it meant.
@@salachenkoforley7382 Those "kneelers" in front of those graven images in your Roman temples that make it nice to bow befor them. No idolatry there (;-D
Mary is not treated as an idol. She is blessed according to Luke 1:48. i challenge you or anyone else reading this to look up the documentation on the Blessed Virgin Mary’s 40 apparitions over the years. After you review these apparitions then let’s discuss the Blessed Virgin Mary. I believe these apparitions will change your mind. If not then you can plead ignorance. Are you up for the challenge????
@@mikecrawford8394 I dont need no documentation. Im not bowing befor stone and wood.
@@peterzinya1 : Bowing to the statues of Mary and the Saints is NO idolatry according to the Bible. We're NOT worshipping statues of Mary and the Saints with bowing. It is a sign of honor, respect and veneration.
Luke 1:28
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
28 And the angel being come in, said unto her: *Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.*
-----the angel Gabriel venerates Mary by declaring to her *"Hail, full of grace."* The heavenly angel honors the human Mary, for her perfection of grace exceeds that of the angels.
Romans 13:7
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
7 Render therefore to all men their dues. Tribute, to whom tribute is due: custom, to whom custom: fear, to whom fear: *honour, to whom honour.*
----- we are to give honor where honor is due. When we honor God's children, we honor God Himself, for He is the source of all honor.
Philippians 3:17
New Catholic Bible
17 Brethren, *join in imitating me,* and take note of those who conduct themselves in accord with the model you have in us.
------ Paul says to imitate him and others, which is the goal of veneration. Veneration is not worship.
Genesis 19:1
New Catholic Bible
1 The two angels arrived in Sodom toward the evening. Lot was seated at the gate to Sodom. As soon as he saw them, *Lot got up and went over to them and bowed down to the ground.*
------ *Did Lot worship the angels when he bowed down to the ground to them?.*
Genesis 42:6
New Catholic Bible
6 Joseph had authority over the land, and he sold grain to all the people of the land. Therefore, *the brothers of Joseph came to him and bowed down to the earth.*
------ *Did Joseph's brother worship Joseph when they bowed down to him?.*
2 Kings 2:15
New Catholic Bible
15 The sons of the prophets from Jericho who had been watching said, “The spirit of Elijah has come to rest upon Elisha.” They came out to meet him, and *they bowed down to the ground before him.*
------ *Did the sons of the prophet worship Elisah when they bowed down to her?.*
----- And who do you bow to again?. It can't be God because you've NEVER seen God let alone believe in Him.
@judithmeray2876 *While Roman religion is the beast, Bible does not teach "worship God on Saturdays only" like what heretical SDA ct says. Book of Acts recorded believers worshipping God on all days of the week. 7th day Sabbath keeping is only for the Jews. Acts 15, Col 2, Romans 14. Gentile believers do not keep any "days months years feasts ..". Jesus is already the Sabbath Rest. Heb 4, Mat **11:28**, Col 2, Romans 14, Acts 15.*
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I dont worship the pope Nor honor his counterfeit sunday nor do i blaspheme myself and call sunday sabbath. Im so sick of the bull that its legalism to keep Gods Holy 7th day. The pope made sunday a legal day of worship. Some of us remember everything was closed on sunday except the little grocery stores and you had to wait till 12 noon ..i renember that..the woman on the beast is the Roman catholic church and her counterfeit day of worship is sunday. Satan doesn't want you to honor Gods holy day the 7th. And Who is under legalism. If you are indirectly honoring a pagan god and keeping sunday how do you expect God to say, "oh come in, i know you, when you follow a pagan day of worship. Where, where in the New Testament do you see the 1st church keeping sunday satans counterfeit day of worship. ???? They broke bread daily and fellowshipped in each others homes----BUT, THEY NEVER BROKE THE SABBATH OF GOD....I AM not getting younger and dont know how many days i have So i have to cut to the chase. How dare you call sunday sabbath ittttt issss not. !!!. The deciples etc. Honored Gods 7th day. Check the history. Better yet, the Book of Revelation tells it. 12, 14, and 22. "THOSE WHO WASH THEIR ROBES (KEEP GODS COMMANDS) AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF Yeshua shall have the right to enter in through the gates".whose commands are you honoring? Are you indirectly honoring the poop by kissing that mans feet or ring or bowing down to him by honoring his pagan day???? Just listen to the world news about the roman catholic
Church . Its rising up, look at all those countries who honor him the pope. Yeuck! The woman on the beast is her. You do good to expose the false church a lot are BUT WHY DO YOU KEEP HER FALSE SUNDAY A DAY OF WORSHIP. DID OUR JEWISH SAVIOR OR THE 1ST CHURCH KEEP THE ANTI CHRISTS FALSE DAY oF WORSHIP. ? I WANT to gag when i hear you so called pastor's teach against the catholic church (the woman on the beast) and preach it on her sunday and blaspheme God by calling it sabbath . Shame on you, you are not reading the bible. If you were you would see it. Instead, oh my, you went to seminary school...when you read the New Testament, did Paul send the new church to sunday school?? Better watch out, who are you following. Jesus said, " follow me! If you love me keep my commands
He horored those commands.. i pray you see the truth. Your blood will not be on my hands, the truth i have given you. One more very important note to make . I am a woman, but taught by men. Remember, the men taught and preached...woman can teach, but they have their place and its not behind the pulpit either..
@randycarson9812 *False claims again. All the points in this verse implied it's in One Family.*
*- Carpenter's son - referring to Jesus being Joseph's son.*
*- Mary - being Jesus's mother.*
*- Jesus's brothers - clearly must mean in the Same Family too.*
Mat 13:55 Is this not the *carpenter's son?* Is not His mother called Mary? And *His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?*
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This is relevant because no scripture verse states that anyone other than Jesus came from Mary's womb. Every instance where scripture mentions a "brother" or "brothers and sisters" of Jesus connects them to Him but NEVER to Mary, indicating they were not her biological children.
Point #1: Was Jesus really the "carpenter's son"? Nope. So, the people talking had no real inside knowledge.
Point #2: Why are they called "His brothers" instead of "her sons"? Well, Jesus is the focal point, but NO verse of scripture refers to anyone other than Jesus as being Mary's child. Silence on that front.
Consequently, you cannot use these verses to disprove the Perpetual Virginity of Mary. Sorry, your evidence won't hold up in court. Next!
END OF DISCUSSION. BLOCK PENDING.
@@randycarson9812 *Yes except the verse still implied they are in One Family. So your point is invalid. NExt!*
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Point #1: Was Jesus really the "carpenter's son"? Nope. So, the people talking had no real inside knowledge.
@@randycarson9812 *It does not matter whether you are called your momma's son or your sibling's brother. You are still the same person. The point remained: the verse implied they were in One Family. So it is.*
*You failed to refute anything once again.*
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Point #2: Why are they called "His brothers" instead of "her sons"? Well, Jesus is the focal point, but NO verse of scripture refers to anyone other than Jesus as being Mary's child. Silence on that front.
@@browncony3897 If the other person is a step-brother from my fathers previous marriage, he is not my mother's son.
And what if he's not actually a brother at all? What if he's actually a cousin? What if he's CALLED "brother" because Aramaic has no word for "cousin" and therefore referred to ALL relatives as brother? This is fact.
@@randycarson9812 *WHy do you keep L RC? NT was written in Greek. Not Aramaic. There are Greek words for "cousin" - anepsios, sungenis. If NT writers wanted to mean "cousin", they would have used those words.*
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And what if he's not actually a brother at all? What if he's actually a cousin? What if he's CALLED "brother" because Aramaic has no word for "cousin" and therefore referred to ALL relatives as brother? This is fact.
(Please take the time to show me where the words "ark of the covenant" are used in the Bible to refer to Mary!!?!!)
I've already shown you that and here you are posting it again as if you didn't read my comments on the Ark of the New Covenant. You cannot win any argument if you believed in Sola Scriptura.
@@salachenkoforley7382 The problem is, YOU are the one arguing, I have been showing you that God's Word is found IN IT'S ENTIRETY in the 66 books of the Bible.
@@brianstough5286 : (The problem is, YOU are the one arguing, I have been showing you that God's Word is found IN IT'S ENTIRETY in the 66 books of the Bible.)😂😂
------You have failed to prove any of your FALSE beliefs from the Bible and neither Jesus or His Father EVER said to read the Bible and be lost like 51,000 different denominations of Protestants out there just like you.
-----Not everything Jesus preached and taught were WRITTEN in the Bible. Again, this is a FALSE assertion that you're been saying all along.
John 21:25
King James Version
25 *And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.* Amen.
------This is why Jesus founded a Church so that She can hold on to His teachings til He returns. He never said to read the Bible.
------And the Bible has 73 books until Martin Luther and the Reformers came along in the 16th century and REMOVED 7 books from the OT and INVENTED "Sola Scriptura and Sola Fide" which is what you believed. You cannot find them in the Bible.
-----The Bible itself WARNED of those who removed or ALTERED the Word of God. I guess you didn't wanna see that for yourself.
Revelation 22:18-19
King James Version
18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, *If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:*
19 And *if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.*
-----Very serious stuff and you're pretending not to see it.
Luke chapter 1 (Mary visits Elizabeth) shows so many similarities to the ark of the covenant in 2 Samuel 6 that you have to be blind not to see it.
@@bridgefin
NOT a direct teaching - but a group of ASSUMPTIONS.! The words "ark of the covenant" are used and referenced MANY, MANY times in both the new and old testaments - but NEVER is there a mention (and there would be mentioned if it were important for us to know)
Here's one for you!:
Matthew 16:23 But He (Jesus) turned and SAID TO PETER,
“GET BEHIND ME SATAN! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.”
Now, put that IN CONTEXT!!
But, since you're "on topic" - just as Moses' body was hidden to keep people from worshipping it, the REAL ARK of the Covenant was also kept out of sight to keep people from worshipping it. - so, on that account, STOP WORSHIPPING/VENERATION/HONORING Mary. You are distracting people from worshipping the TRUE God when you introduce these things!!
Now, go back and explain Matthew 16:23 to me!!!?!!
I too was raised a Catholic, until…I actually seriously started to read the Bible. We can read in Scriptures that Lord Jesus commanded the Apostles to first preach the Gospel to the Jews, and after also to the Heathen or Gentiles (but never vise versa!). I found out in Scriptures who of the Apostles for the first time went to Rome .. and it wasn't Peter. In the Book of Acts it says in Chapter 28 the following: 16 "And when we came to Rome, the Centurion delivered the Prisoners to the Captain of the Guard: but Paul was allowed to live in a house, by himself, with a Roman Soldier that kept him. 17 And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the Chief of the there living Jews together: and when they came together, Paul said to them: "Men and Brethren, though I have committed nothing against our people, our customs, or against our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans 18 who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of guild in me. 19 But when the Jews spoke against that verdict, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had made any accusations against my Nation. 20 For this Hope (the Gospel of Jesus Christ) therefore I have called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because for the Hope of Israel I am bound with these chains. 21 The Chief of the Jews said to Paul: "We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning you, neither any of the Brethren that came from there shewed or spoke any harm of you. 22 But we desire to hear of you what you think: for concerning this sect, we know that it is spoken against everywhere". The Roman Catholic Church claims that it was Peter who went to Rome first to preach the Gospel there first and that it was Peter who founded the Church there. Question: who lies? God,... or the Roman Catholic Church ? And what about the Letter in the Bible from Paul to the Congregation of Galatians where it says this in Chapter 2? From verse 7 we read the following: 7 "But on the contrary, when they saw that the Gospel of the Uncircumcision (Gentiles) was committed unto me, as the Gospel of the Circumcision (Jews) was unto Peter; 8 for He that gave Peter power effectively to the Apostleship of the circumcision (again: the Jews), the Same was Mighty in me toward the Gentiles. 9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the Grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we (that are Paul and Barnabas) should go unto the Heathen, and they unto the Circumcision. Again dear Catholics: who lies? Gods Word, or the Roman Catholic Church? Bible, the book of Acts, Chapter 5, verse 29 : Then Peter and the other Apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey GOD - rather than man” !
Since the Catholic 'church' claims to be well-read on scriptures, then please point me in the direction of where in the Bible it says to pray to a woman, or to a rosary. Please show me where it says to call a mortal sinful man (the Pope) your father. Please show me where the Bible says anything about purgatory, or paying indulgences (buying yourself into heaven?). Please show me where Mary was sinless or immaculately conceived. Please show me where it says to confess your sins to a man or that he may forgive them. Show me where it says the Pope is the “vicar of Christ” on earth. Show me where it says that a preacher must be unmarried. It was the ROMAN Emperor Constantinople who was in fact the first “Pope” and he didn't allow for the common people to have Bible Scriptures !
@@mpkropf5062 Above here I have asked for proof but you cannot come up with even 1 scriptural based answer that proofs what the Roman catholic "church" claims. I give you one last warning because I love you and I don't want you to go to hell, as this following is directly from the mouth of Lord Jesus, as it is written in Revelation, Chapter 18, vers 1 - 10.
1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon (Rome/Vatican city) the great is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and has become the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird (demons, her cup full of evil, including other falls religions into her, and pedophiles, transgenders, homo and lesbian devils).
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of HER fornication (there is only one 'church' in this world who worships a woman and that is the Roman catholic ' church' - therefore Lord Jesus calls this church She and Her), and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE, THAT YOU BE NOT PARTEKERS OF HER SINS, AND THAT YOU RECEIVE NOT OF HER PLAGUES."
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she (here Lord Jesus again calls this church she and her) hath filled fill to her double.
7 How much she hath glorified herself (!), and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she said in her heart, "I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow."
8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judged her.
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, "Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour is thy judgment come."
@@mpkropf5062 Here above I have proofed with Bible scriptural text that the Roman catholic 'church is a false church, yet you still ignore Gods Word? Please repent, or there is no hope for you.
@@Steinstra-vj7wl Without the Catholic Church you would have no Bible! If you don’t love the Catholic Church you don’t love Jesus! It IS His Church and I pray you will come back home! My hope isn’t in the false Protestant faith which was started by an ex Catholic! Repent and return Home! The Catholic Church is the Only Church Jesus Christ started. One day you will stand before Jesus and He will ask you why you left His Church! You can not receive the Eucharist outside of His Church! Protestants don’t have access to it! But the devil tries to tell them it’s a symbol which is unbiblical and a Luther doctrine. It’s very dangerous to follow a ex Catholic doctrine that has only been around for 400-500 years! And it is man-made!
This is why you leave the interpretation of Script to those who know how to do it. You don't.
So Christ's church is a fraud? Your cult leaders' churches all the 60 thousand of them, are all the real ones?
Please!
Hail Mary, Full of Grace! Proud Catholic
Why would you venerate a dead woman? Do you venerate your dead relatives?
Holy Mary, Mother of God... Word made flesh through your womb
Yup
@@elsemorris906why do you hate the word of the bible so much?
The Hail Mary is based on passages from the Bible in Luke 1:26-28 and Luke 1:39-45:
Luke 1:26-28
The angel Gabriel greets Mary, saying "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you!"
@@nosuchthing8 I think the people who "hate the word of the bible" exhibit it by making up their own doctrine that completely disregards the Holy Bible, don't you?
For instance - where is the "word of the Bible" that tells the followers of Jesus Christ to pray to his mother or to any dead mortal instead of _praying directly to God, as Jesus did_ ???
Tell me one thing please. How can you pray to a Dead Woman? Show me one, only one, any one, verse that says Mary is in heaven now, can hear your prayers, and has authority to answer prayers! I repeat show one Bible Verse that confirms Mary can do Godly things?????
Hey cd.. show me a verse that contains the word Trinity, there is none, yet you believe it, don't you? Watch a few videos by professor Douglas Beaumont, MacArthur is misguided & a Calvinist. Peace
@@hamidrabiipour9707 You don’t know what I believe unless I tell you your assumptions are meaningless. I believe that Mary is dead since I have no Biblical evidence to say otherwise. God said the dead know nothing. Perhaps I am wrong but until I receive proof that confirms differently I will continue to hold this opinion! You don’t know anything about my belief concerning Trinity or otherwise. I will confirm that MAYBE Catholic Doctrine is true but “I DON’T BELIEVE IT!” However I defend your rights to believe it!
The Father, The Son , and The Holy Spirit are God. Jesus tells us to Baptize this Way. Mary is not mentioned after Pentecost in the Holy Scripture
Shes in heaven
@@nosuchthing8 Maybe but there are verses that says when Jesus returns the Dead in Christ shall rise first and those of us that remain shall be caught up in the air and we shall forever be with Him. So---- if the Dead will rise first that sorta destroys the idea that when we die we go straight to Heaven. I’m willing to read any verses that you have that says differently but if those verses exist then the problem is that makes two verses that are contradictory and now we have a MAJOR problem. Also even “IF” Mary is in heaven it still doesn’t give her authority to answer prayers.
If you carefully look at Catholic beliefs you will see it is no different than the ancient Roman gods and goddesses. They just replaced the heads on their statues.
You're pathetic!
"If you carefully look at Catholic beliefs you will see it is no different than the ancient Roman gods and goddesses. They just replaced the heads on their statues."
Tell us how doctrines such as the Trinity, the Incarnation, the Redemption, etc., are pagan.
Why do Protestants = not = understand the reason why Jesus incarnated as a man, died on the Cross and declare= It is Finished ?
They thus arrive at doctrines that are heretical as they spell = Easy Christianity and cheap Grace = contrary to the 4 Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John which speak of Jesus' = Tough Love = message ===If you Love Me, keep My commandments, especially the Love of God and Neighbour, even enemies
Jesus also defined a Christian as one who = Denies oneself, carries one's cross daily and follows Jesus.
And = More = is expected of Christians as we have the greatest example of Jesus = Luke 12:48.
And Jesus' parables, often prefaced by = the kingdom of Heaven = or = the reign of God = require us to multiply our talents, become more fruitful " soil " as well s wise virgins carrying oil = or else we will be denied heavenly entry thru the narrow gates = Matthew 7:14.
The reason why Jesus incarnated was to redeem the = curse = caused by Adam and Eve's disobedience
The Bible and OT begins with the = FALL = in the Garden of Eden of the man Adam who was given the directive by God to not eat of the forbidden =TREE= Gen 2;17. Eve, on the other hand, must have learned of this directive from Adam. The result of the Fall was to render the ground cursed and Adam and Eve dismissed from the garden Eden.
The NT begins with the birth and = RISE = of Jesus, the spiritual Adam =1 Corinthians 15:21-23 = , who redeems man by His death on the TREE ( cross ) and is then buried in the Garden.
What the Bible does = not = state is that God slammed the gates of Heaven shut after the Fall because Adam and Eve had taken on the nature of the devil. For when confronted by God, Adam blamed God = the woman YOU gave me = Adam also blamed Eve. Eve likewise blamed the devil ( serpent ). Instead of asking forgiveness from God who walked with them = Gen. 3:8, they played the Blame Game as children of the devil = 1 John 3:8 = and thus God had no option but to expel them from Eden and made them and their descendants ineligible for Heaven, through = Original Sin. This Original Sin is what Jesus came to pay by His death and shed Blood, as well as reverse God's curse on the ground. Thus the Tree which was the downfall of mankind now became the symbol = the Cross = of man's redemption. And the Garden where Jesus' body was laid now became the symbol of man's eligibility to Heavenly Paradise and thus has reversed the shame of his ousting from Eden and the reversal of the cursed ground.
Third, the Fall of humankind began when Eve listened to and obeyed the = Fallen ANGEL =who is the devil. On the other hand, Mary listened and agreed with the = ANGEL = Gabriel to be the mother of Jesus who became the Redeemer. by His death on the TREE of the Cross. . Catholics thus believe that Eve brought about the Fall, whereas Mary contributed to the Rise of Mankind and have no problem in calling Mary = Co-Redeemer.
Fourth, after Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, God called out to Adam = only = and he replied = I heard you in the garden, but I was afraid because I was NAKED, so I hid myself = Gen.3:10. On the other hand, when Jesus, the spiritual Adam, was nailed to the Tree, He was rendered NAKED = John 19:23 = with no way to hide.
Fifth = 2 facts = First, Jesus was crowned with THORNS. Second =“And being in agony, Jesus prayed more earnestly. Then His SWEAT became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44). This = sweat Blood = of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, added to Jesus' thorn-crowned head, reversed and made satisfaction for God's curse in Genesis 3:17-19 = “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce THORNS and thistles for you and you will eat the plants of the field.19 By the SWEAT of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground,
Thus Catholics believe that Jesus came down from Heaven as a man to die and pay the penalty of Adam's sin which closed the gates of Heaven and imposed Original Sins on all Adam's descendants - you and me.=== It is Finished = was Jesus' triumphant cry of Mission accomplished and that Heaven gates were now opened. Moreover, Jesus' death and shed Blood paid for and covered the = Original Sins = of all those past, those now living as well as those yet unborn. Furthermore, Baptism is a - one-time - Grace event which washes away all our prior sins. However, we are responsible for all sins after Baptism - as confirmed by Jesus' " execution " of Ananias and Sapphira from the 1st Christian Faith community - Acts 5. And this was shortly = after = Jesus' heavenly ascent.
Jesus expects = More = from Christians as we have the best example of Jesus Himself = Luke 12:48.
Moreover, the Cross is the very symbol of Christianity. The long vertical beam represents our love for God and the short horizontal beam represents our love for Neighbour. For God is the God of Love and heaven is the perfect place of love. And that is why God expects and demands our practice of love whilst on earth so as to qualify for heavenly entry. Even the final judgement is based on love - Matthew 25.
Thus Catholicism promotes the sacraments, especially that of Confession and Holy Communion, as well as Mass attendance, Eucharistic Adorations, Stations of the Cross, Benedictions, Novenas, etc.
Most Protestants have a different belief from Catholics as to why Jesus incarnated and died on the Cross that they have consider themselves = inheritors = of Christ's saving act and thus their need to do no more than have Faith in Jesus to be " saved " which they mean to be granted Heavenly citizenship. Thus they deny the need for works as these are considered " boastful."
Basically, Protestants have shifted their gaze and focus from the 4 Gospels which detail Jesus' teachings which were given by the Heavenly Father for our salvation, teachings which spell =Tough Love = and have adopted " cherry-picked " passages mainly from Paul's letters such as Romans 10:9 They believe that God will forgive all sins, not only those against God but even sins against neighbour, forever = despite Jesus' warning in Matthew 6:14-15 and Matthew 18:32-35 = and have adopted the Doctrine of = Saved by Grace = Ephesians 2:8-9 - and that all sins past, present and future are covered by the Blood of Christ.
They believe that Jesus came to earth to die and take away all sins and its guilt association. His cry - It is finished - proved that human redemption from sin was completed, and that those who believe in Jesus would have their names forever written in the Lamb's Book of Life and at the time of death, they would be - absent in the flesh, present with the Lord forever - no matter how many or how grievous they committed sins. Others would be caught up and - raptured - to be with Jesus forever. Thus the promise of salvation was God's free gift - grace - to them.
Protestantism is a religious philosophy - a hearer and not doer of the Word thus deceiving themselves - James 1:22. While there is belief in Christ to be sure, there is no substance, no forms of worship and thanksgiving to our God Jesus for His - WORKS - of creation and redemption. There is no Confession as per the formula that Jesus gave on the very day ( evening ) of His Resurrection from the dead , when He - empowered - His Apostles to forgive sins - or - retain them- John 20:22-23. There is no participation in Holy Communion which Jesus declared was - Real Food and Drink - for ETERNAL LIFE - John 6:53-58. Even their churches have no kneelers to kneel and bow down before our God and Maker. And there is no difference between Protestant marriages and - easy - divorce and non-Christian ones. Protestants deny the need for Good Works despite that the Great Judgement is based on Works - Matthew 25
And Jesus gave an awesome example by doing a - World of Works - John 21:25
Why do Protestants = not = understand the reason why Jesus incarnated as a man, died on the Cross and declare= It is Finished ?
They thus arrive at doctrines that are heretical as they spell = Easy Christianity and cheap Grace = contrary to the 4 Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John which speak of Jesus' = Tough Love = message ===If you Love Me, keep My commandments, especially the Love of God and Neighbour, even enemies
Jesus also defined a Christian as one who = Denies oneself, carries one's cross daily and follows Jesus.
And = More = is expected of Christians as we have the greatest example of Jesus = Luke 12:48.
And Jesus' parables, often prefaced by = the kingdom of Heaven = or = the reign of God = require us to multiply our talents, become more fruitful " soil " as well s wise virgins carrying oil = or else we will be denied heavenly entry thru the narrow gates = Matthew 7:14.
The reason why Jesus incarnated was to redeem the = curse = caused by Adam and Eve's disobedience
The Bible and OT begins with the = FALL = in the Garden of Eden of the man Adam who was given the directive by God to not eat of the forbidden =TREE= Gen 2;17. Eve, on the other hand, must have learned of this directive from Adam. The result of the Fall was to render the ground cursed and Adam and Eve dismissed from the garden Eden.
The NT begins with the birth and = RISE = of Jesus, the spiritual Adam =1 Corinthians 15:21-23 = , who redeems man by His death on the TREE ( cross ) and is then buried in the Garden.
What the Bible does = not = state is that God slammed the gates of Heaven shut after the Fall because Adam and Eve had taken on the nature of the devil. For when confronted by God, Adam blamed God = the woman YOU gave me = Adam also blamed Eve. Eve likewise blamed the devil ( serpent ). Instead of asking forgiveness from God who walked with them = Gen. 3:8, they played the Blame Game as children of the devil = 1 John 3:8 = and thus God had no option but to expel them from Eden and made them and their descendants ineligible for Heaven, through = Original Sin. This Original Sin is what Jesus came to pay by His death and shed Blood, as well as reverse God's curse on the ground. Thus the Tree which was the downfall of mankind now became the symbol = the Cross = of man's redemption. And the Garden where Jesus' body was laid now became the symbol of man's eligibility to Heavenly Paradise and thus has reversed the shame of his ousting from Eden and the reversal of the cursed ground.
Third, the Fall of humankind began when Eve listened to and obeyed the = Fallen ANGEL =who is the devil. On the other hand, Mary listened and agreed with the = ANGEL = Gabriel to be the mother of Jesus who became the Redeemer. by His death on the TREE of the Cross. . Catholics thus believe that Eve brought about the Fall, whereas Mary contributed to the Rise of Mankind and have no problem in calling Mary = Co-Redeemer.
Fourth, after Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, God called out to Adam = only = and he replied = I heard you in the garden, but I was afraid because I was NAKED, so I hid myself = Gen.3:10. On the other hand, when Jesus, the spiritual Adam, was nailed to the Tree, He was rendered NAKED = John 19:23 = with no way to hide.
Fifth = 2 facts = First, Jesus was crowned with THORNS. Second =“And being in agony, Jesus prayed more earnestly. Then His SWEAT became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44). This = sweat Blood = of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, added to Jesus' thorn-crowned head, reversed and made satisfaction for God's curse in Genesis 3:17-19 = “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce THORNS and thistles for you and you will eat the plants of the field.19 By the SWEAT of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground,
Thus Catholics believe that Jesus came down from Heaven as a man to die and pay the penalty of Adam's sin which closed the gates of Heaven and imposed Original Sins on all Adam's descendants - you and me.=== It is Finished = was Jesus' triumphant cry of Mission accomplished and that Heaven gates were now opened. Moreover, Jesus' death and shed Blood paid for and covered the = Original Sins = of all those past, those now living as well as those yet unborn. Furthermore, Baptism is a - one-time - Grace event which washes away all our prior sins. However, we are responsible for all sins after Baptism - as confirmed by Jesus' " execution " of Ananias and Sapphira from the 1st Christian Faith community - Acts 5. And this was shortly = after = Jesus' heavenly ascent.
Jesus expects = More = from Christians as we have the best example of Jesus Himself = Luke 12:48.
Moreover, the Cross is the very symbol of Christianity. The long vertical beam represents our love for God and the short horizontal beam represents our love for Neighbour. For God is the God of Love and heaven is the perfect place of love. And that is why God expects and demands our practice of love whilst on earth so as to qualify for heavenly entry. Even the final judgement is based on love - Matthew 25.
Thus Catholicism promotes the sacraments, especially that of Confession and Holy Communion, as well as Mass attendance, Eucharistic Adorations, Stations of the Cross, Benedictions, Novenas, etc.
Most Protestants have a different belief from Catholics as to why Jesus incarnated and died on the Cross that they have consider themselves = inheritors = of Christ's saving act and thus their need to do no more than have Faith in Jesus to be " saved " which they mean to be granted Heavenly citizenship. Thus they deny the need for works as these are considered " boastful."
Basically, Protestants have shifted their gaze and focus from the 4 Gospels which detail Jesus' teachings which were given by the Heavenly Father for our salvation, teachings which spell =Tough Love = and have adopted " cherry-picked " passages mainly from Paul's letters such as Romans 10:9 They believe that God will forgive all sins, not only those against God but even sins against neighbour, forever = despite Jesus' warning in Matthew 6:14-15 and Matthew 18:32-35 = and have adopted the Doctrine of = Saved by Grace = Ephesians 2:8-9 - and that all sins past, present and future are covered by the Blood of Christ.
They believe that Jesus came to earth to die and take away all sins and its guilt association. His cry - It is finished - proved that human redemption from sin was completed, and that those who believe in Jesus would have their names forever written in the Lamb's Book of Life and at the time of death, they would be - absent in the flesh, present with the Lord forever - no matter how many or how grievous they committed sins. Others would be caught up and - raptured - to be with Jesus forever. Thus the promise of salvation was God's free gift - grace - to them.
Protestantism is a religious philosophy - a hearer and not doer of the Word thus deceiving themselves - James 1:22. While there is belief in Christ to be sure, there is no substance, no forms of worship and thanksgiving to our God Jesus for His - WORKS - of creation and redemption. There is no Confession as per the formula that Jesus gave on the very day ( evening ) of His Resurrection from the dead , when He - empowered - His Apostles to forgive sins - or - retain them- John 20:22-23. There is no participation in Holy Communion which Jesus declared was - Real Food and Drink - for ETERNAL LIFE - John 6:53-58. Even their churches have no kneelers to kneel and bow down before our God and Maker. And there is no difference between Protestant marriages and - easy - divorce and non-Christian ones. Protestants deny the need for Good Works despite that the Great Judgement is based on Works - Matthew 25
And Jesus gave an awesome example by doing a - World of Works - John 21:25
@@MillionthUsernamethose are found in scripture. You’re just picking and choosing. He’s obviously talking about her assumption, praying to saints, and the idolatry
I note in the comments that there are many RC’s listening to this. That would indicate that you’re not sure of what you’re been taught and are searching for truth.
I John 4:14. Thy word is truth. If it’s not in Scripture, it’s false
No, we come here to have dialogue because now that Google exists nobody has to be a protestant anymore. Obviously protestantism is a false religion.
@@dman7668 *Google exists nobody has to be a Roman pagan anymore. Obviously Roman Catholicism is a false religion.*
*R Catholicism has nothing to do with God and His Words. R Catholic Church contradicts Scriptures in every possible ways!*
1. Catholics say Mary was sinless. But BIBLE says Mary offered a sinner's offering. She was a sinner. Bible says Mary needed a Saviour. Lk 2:23-24, Lev 12:6-8, Rom 3:10.
2. Catholics say clergies must be celibate. Yet BIBLE says Peter (supposed R Church first leader) had mother in law. Bible says celibacy is not a qualification for clergies. Mat 8:14-15, Mar 1:30-31, Luk 4:38-39.
3. Catholics say Mary was forever virgin. Yet BIBLE says Jesus had brothers and sisters. Mary was not perpetually virgin. Mk 6:3, Mat 13:55, Mat 27:56, Mar 6:3, Mar 15:40, Mar 15:47.
4. Catholics say confess to R priests in a box. BIBLE says nothing about confessing to priests in a box. Bible says confess to GOD only. 1 John 1:9, Mat 6, Romans 10:9-10.
5. Catholics say drink of the physical blood of Jesus. Yet OT and NT both say do not drink blood. Acts 15, Lev 7:26.
6. Catholics say pray to passed on Mary and "saints". Yet BIBLE says do not contact the dead. NT Church did not record a single case of NT believers asking passed on saints to pray for them. Deut 18:11, Isaiah 8:19.
7. Catholics make and bow down to statues. BIBLE says do not bow down to graven images (statues). Deut 4, Exo 20:4-5.
8. Catholics sprinkles “holy water”. But NT Church of the Bible mentioned nothing about “holy water”. There was no record of any Apostles sprinkling “holy water” on believers. Catholics claimed “holy water” came from OT. Yet Num 5:17 says “holy water” was water used to test adulterous women in OT temple. Hardly the same. Those were for Old Covenant Jews. Not New Testament Christians.
9. Catholics say Peter was pope - bishop of all bishops. Yet BIBLE says Peter was just a leader of the Jerusalem Church. Bible says nothing of the office of bishop of bishops. Gal 2:9, Mat 16:18.
10. Catholics say there is a seat of Peter. Yet BIBLE says nothing about it. Jesus said “not to lord over others”.
11. Catholics has clergy priesthood. Bible says clergy priesthood was done away with in New Testament. There is no clergy priesthood in NT. Heb 7:27, 9:12, 10:10.
12. Catholics preaches Works Salvation (faith + good works + partake R sacraments + submit to R pontiff + be in R Church + devote to Mary = to be saved). Yet Bible says “believe in Jesus to be saved”. Bible says Works Salvation is cursed. Gal 1:8-9. Acts 16:30-31, John 3:16, Romans 10:9-10.
13. Catholics says they must do Penance to atone for their sins. Yet Bible says repent, confess and sins will be forgiven. Catholic Bible changes the word “repentance” in NT into “penance”. Original Greek NT does not use or mean the word penance. Penance = work to atone for sins. Repentance = change of heart. 1 John 1:9, Mat 6.
14. Catholics say Mary went straight to heaven without dying. Yet Bible says nothing about it.
15. Catholics say Islam and Christianity have the same GOD. Yet Islam doesn't believe in death and resurrection of Jesus and Trinity.
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No, we come here to have dialogue because now that Google exists nobody has to be a protestant anymore. Obviously protestantism is a false religion.
Amen
Or we just need a laugh.
I always love people that promote irrational views. Like sola scriptura. Which isn't in the bible.
@savannahfan *It's embarrassing how RCs misquote Scriptures. That Greek word literally meant "sperm" or seed. You think believers are born of Mary?*
G4690 (Thayer)
σπέρμα
sperma
Thayer Definition:
1) from which a plant germinates
1a) the seed, i.e. the grain or kernel which contains within itself the germ of the future plants
1a1) of the grains or kernels sown
1b) metaphorically a seed, i.e. a residue, or a few survivors reserved as the germ of the next generation (just as seed is kept from the harvest for the sowing)
2) the semen virile
2a) the product of this semen, seed, children, offspring, progeny
2b) family, tribe, posterity
2c) whatever possesses vital force or life giving power
2c1) of divine energy of the Holy Spirit operating within the soul by which we are regenerated
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The actual Greek word is σπέρματος,
Thayer’s Greek Lexicon translates that verse in Revelation 12:17, as “meaning the σπέρμα of the church (which is likened to a mother)”
@frankvw4819 *More fairy tales. Bible does not even mention any Roman Mass (sacrificing Jesus on the altar back to God). Bible says clergy priesthood, altars and sacrifices were already obsolete. Heb 7,9,10. So where did Roman pagan priesthood and altars come from?*
*Mal **1:11** totally did not say what RCs claimed. There are at least 8 words used for sacrifice and offerings in Hebrew OT. The Hebrew word used in Mal **1:11** for offering was minchah referring to grain or meal offering like the one offered by Cain in Gen 4:3. minchah refers to bloodless offerings like grain, fruits, gift, meat, .. . Not as RC falsely claimed - blood sacrifice of Jesus.*
H4503 (Strong)
מִנְחָה
minchâh
min-khaw'
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The highest form of worship, (the Mass) has been offered by the Catholic Church throughout the world since its beginning: THE PRIMARY MEANS CHRIST SHOWED and commanded HIS APOSTLES at the FIRST MASS, (the Last Supper), HOW WE ARE TO WORSHIP GOD and HAVE COMMUNION WITH HIM because of His great love for us: (Luke 22:19) in Greek _“Touto poieite eis tan eman anamnesin.” Translated: “Do This in memorial offering, or memorial sacrifice of Me". This is the fulfillment of the Malachi Prophecy and revealed in the DIDACHE:
“Assemble on the Lord’s day, and break bread and offer the Eucharist; but first make confession of your faults, so that your sacrifice may be a pure one. Anyone who has a difference with his fellow is not to take part with you until he has been reconciled, so as to avoid any profanation of your sacrifice [Matt. 5:23-24]. For this is the offering of which the Lord has said, ‘Everywhere and always bring me a sacrifice that is undefiled, for I am a great king, says the Lord, and my name is the wonder of nations’ [Mal. 1:11, 14]” (Didache 14 [A.D. 70]).
The Catholic MASS
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Acts 2:42 states that the 1st Christian community - devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles, to the communal life, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.
Our Catholic Mass has originated from this, with readings from the Bible in place of the - long dead - Apostles' teachings
On the other hand, most Protestants ignore this communal gathering and promote only Bible study assemblies
Malachi 1:11 = For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts.
Here the prophet Malachi foretold the coming of the Mass where incense is offered at every High Mass. This is an apt description as there are Catholics all over the world so thus Holy Mass is celebrated from the sun's rising to its setting. Mass is both a form of Praise and Worship. Most Catholic churches have kneelers whereby the people can bow down and worship God. Protestants don't ever offer incense. Nor do Protestant churches have kneelers.
Moreover, this prophecy does not refer to the Jews who are few in number and are not represented in many nations.
Malachi 1: 12 = But you profane it when you say that the Lord's table is polluted, and its fruit, that is, its food may be despised.
When Protestants criticize Mass, they profane the Lord's Table and Holy Communion which is the = real = food and drink, which is the Body and Blood of Christ.
Furthermore = Isaiah 45:6-25 and Psalm 113:3 = So that from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting people may know there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is no other. Mass is both a form of Praise and Worship, globally.
@loboman8029 *Hilarious claims. ROman religion came in ad300s. So it's not 2000 years. You are still pretending "Roman religion = the Universal Church or Church Christ founded" with no proof that it was so. So where is your proof?*
*Existed for a long time does not prove it's "favoured". Many nations existed longer than Roman religion and they are diabolical. That completely refutes all your false logic.*
*Christian Churches has raising the dead, the lame walk the blind see, water turned into wine, walking on water miracles. Just check out all the miracles by Kathrine Kulhman, Smith WIggleswworth, John G Lake, Rayhard Bonkett. Even Roman religion type Communion miracles. Totally nothing to do with Roman pagan transubstantiation (elements transforms into Jesus to be eaten by RCs) or Roman pagan Mass (sacrificing Jesus on the altar back to God).*
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Of all the religions, our = Living = God JESUS has favoured Roman Catholic Christianity, more than all others, with His presence and manifestations in the past 2,000 years.
Catholics have been favoured with Eucharistic Miracles- like the 1996 Eucharistic Miracle of Buenos Aires, Argentina & in Lanciano, Italy in the 8th C - among many other miracles
(( Note - Satanists will steal a consecrated " Catholic " Holy Communion host for use in their diabolical " Black Masses'' They will keep away from the communion hosts of near-Catholic but Protestant denominations like the Anglicans, Methodists and the Lutherans precisely because these don't have the Presence of Jesus. ))
In Acts 2:27 - we read - For God will not allow His Holy one to undergo corruption. Likewise, God has clothed with incorruptibility the corpses of Catholic saints who have led a holy life in conformity with Jesus. The 500 year incorrupt corpse of St. Francis Xavier, which resides in Goa, India.is one example. The incorrupt corpse of the Lebanese St. Charbel Makhlouf is another example.
Fr. Albert Hebert has compiled a list of over 400 resurrections of people who died but were raised to life by many Catholic saints. His book - Raised from the Dead - is available in book-stores.
Jesus, our Living God, has appeared to many saints.
In the 14th C, Jesus appeared to St. Bridget of Sweden who was much desirous of knowing about his agony He endured on the Way to Calvary - in other words, His Passion & Death. For a whole year Jesus taught her 15 Prayers and attached Promises to anyone who repeats these Prayers continuously for a year - the 1st Promise being - Jesus will deliver 15 souls of his/her lineage from Purgatory. ( Note - you can check the Internet under - The 15 Prayers of St. Bridget - and also view the Promises. )
And in the 1930's, not yet a hundred years ago, Jesus appeared almost daily to a Polish Nun, Sr. Faustina, and taught her the following prayer - Eternal Father, I offer you the Body & Blood, Soul & Divinity of your dearly Beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. In atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and the whole world. - This is in line with The Lord's Prayer which is pluralistic with the words - Our, Us, We, etc.(( Note = Sr Faustina kept a Diary of Jesus visits which is available from book-stores with its Title - Divine Mercy in My Soul
I urge you to purchase a copy and read it. ))
In 1995, Jesus appeared to a Nigerian named Barnabas and gave him the Devotion to His Precious Blood.
Mary has appeared in many places like Lourdes, France and Fatima, Portugal, and Guadalupe, Mexico City, Mexico - among many other places and at different times. Moreover, She has appeared for 3 years nightly over a Coptic Church in Zeitoun, Egypt and pictures of her are available on the Internet.
Lastly, before the Catholic Church declares a person - Saint - 2 first class miracles must be attributed to that deceased person - miracles which are mostly authenticated by non-Catholic doctors and professionals.
On the other hand, the agents of Satan, Communists and Masons - aka Free-Masons - have long sought to infiltrate the Catholic Church clergy and thus undermine its teachings In the 1960's, ex-Communist executive of the Communist Party of USA, Bella Dodd testified before the US Congress that the Communists had sent over a 1,000 men into Catholic seminaries (( Note - this can be checked on the Internet. ))
Undoubtedly, the Catholic Church has been favoured by our Living God and at the same time has been the target of God's enemies - because she represents the Truth regarding her Doctrine.
Secondly, The Bible is, historically, a dated book as it records only to the 1st Century. Thus we read only the deaths of Judas and James but not about the other 10 Apostles or of Paul as to when, where and how they died. Does it mean that, because their deaths are not recorded, that they are still alive ?? Obviously not.
Paul declares the Bible - useful and profitable - in 2 Timothy 3:16, but that the = Church = is the Bulwark and Pillar of Truth - 1 Timothy 3:15. That is because the Church, the community of Believers, came first - Matthew 16:18 - and incorporates both the written word as well as the oral tradition - 2 Thessalonians 2:15.
And the Bible declares that Jesus performed a = World of Works = which are unrecorded - John 21:25. As a result 2 traditions ensued - oral and written - 2 Thess. 2:15 - which are of equal merit.
By "Sola Scriptura" Protestants are only receiving part of Divine Truth thus resulting in so many denominations.
The Catholic Church was founded on Peter's declaration of Jesus' Divinity - Matt. 16:16 and Jesus' promise - Matt 16:17-19- and holds to both traditions. It is the Church of the Living God and the Pillar and Bulwark of Truth - 1 Timothy 3:15
On the other hand, Protestantism is a religious philosophy - a hearer and not doer of the Word thus deceiving themselves - James1:22. While there is belief in Christ to be sure, there is no substance, no forms of worship and thanksgiving to our God Jesus for His - WORKS - of creation and redemption. There is no Confession as per the formula that Jesus gave on the very day of His Resurrection from the dead , when He - empowered - His Apostles to forgive sins - or - retain them- John 20:22-23. There is no participation in Holy Communion which Jesus declared was - Real Food and Drink - for ETERNAL LIFE - John 6:53-58. Even their churches have no kneelers to kneel and bow down before our God and Maker. And there is no difference between Protestant marriage and - easy - divorce and non-Christian ones.
@@loboman8029 *THere is no Roman pagan MAss (sacrificing JEsus on the altar back to God) in Acts 2:42 or John 6 or 1 Cor 11 or any parts of the Bible. Heb 7,9,10 says altars, sacrifices and clergy priesthood was already obsolete. SO where did ROman pagan Mass come from?*
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The Catholic MASS
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Acts 2:42 states that the 1st Christian community - devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles, to the communal life, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.
Our Catholic Mass has originated from this, with readings from the Bible in place of the - long dead - Apostles' teachings
On the other hand, most Protestants ignore this communal gathering and promote only Bible study assemblies
@@loboman8029 *1. YEs RCs love misquoting Mal **1:11**. Mal **1:11** refers to temple. Not NT Church. How we know that? Mal 1:1-5 says it's to Israel. Not Church. 2. Mal 1: 6-14 says it's OT priests. Nothing to do with Roman pagan priests. 3. And the most important point is: the offering was not "blood sacrifice" that RCs claimed to be. Knowing the Hebrew word it uses says it refers to "meal offering". Not "blood sacrifice".*
*The word Mal **1:11** uses is minchah - meal offerings*
*There are at least 8 words used for sacrifice and offerings in Hebrew OT. The Hebrew word used in Mal **1:11** for offering was minchah referring to grain or meal offering like the one offered by Cain in Gen 4:3. minchah refers to bloodless offerings like grain, fruits, gift, meat, .. . Not as Rcs falsely claimed - blood sacrifice of Jesus.*
H4503 (Strong)
מִנְחָה
minchâh
min-khaw'
(KJV+) For H3588 from the rising H4480 H4217 of the sun H8121 even unto H5704 the going down H3996 of the same my name H8034 shall be great H1419 among the Gentiles; H1471 and in every H3605 place H4725 incense H6999 shall be offered H5066 unto my name, H8034 and a pure H2889 *offering: H4503 * for H3588 my name H8034 shall be great H1419 among the heathen, H1471 saith H559 the LORD H3068 of hosts. H6635
Genesis 4:3
(KJV+) And in process H4480 H7093 of time H3117 it came to pass, H1961 that Cain H7014 brought H935 of the fruit H4480 H6529 of the ground H127 an offering H4503 unto the LORD. H3068
Mal 1:11 For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My name shall be great among the Gentiles; In every place incense shall be offered to My name, And a pure offering; For My name shall be great among the nations," Says the LORD of hosts.
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The different varieties of Offerings
While Animal Sacrifices(Zabach) was just one type of offering, there are also many other types of offerings, that we are not familiar with. Offerings could be divided to 2 main categories as “blood offerings” and “bloodless offerings”.
BLOOD OFFERINGS mainly consisted of
“Olah” translated as Burnt Offerings (H5930 - ascending, going up in smoke: - ascent, go up)
“Shelem” translated as peace offering (H8002 - requital, that is, a sacrifice in thanks)
“Chattath” translated as sin offering (H2403 - offence, and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also an offender: - punishment of sin, purifying for sin, sinner). Both “Sin” and “Sin Offering” is called “Chattath” (Lev 4:3).
“Asham” translated as Trespass offering (H817 - guilt; by implication a fault; also a sin offering: - guiltiness, offering for sin, trespass)
BLOODLESS OFFERINGS mainly consisted of
“Minchah” translated as Meat/Meal Offering (H4503 - apportion, that is, bestow; a donation; euphemistically tribute; specifically a sacrificial offering. usually bloodless and voluntary: - gift, oblation, meat offering, present, sacrifice).
“Nesek” translated as Drink Offering (H5262 - libation; pouring out, pour)
RITUALS OF OFFERING THE ABOVE
“Terumah” translated as Heave Offering (H8641 - something raised, lifted, offered up). For example, part of the Peace offering could be lifted up, and therefore called a heave offering (Lev 7:32)
“Tenuphah” translated as Wave offering (H8573 - tumult; specifically the official undulation of sacrificial offerings: - offering, shaking, wave). For example, part of the Peace offering could be waved, and therefore be called a wave offering (Lev 7:30). Several offerings were waved, such as the Leper’s trespass offering (Lev 14:12), Consecration offering (Lev 8:27), Sheaf of Firstfruits (Lev 23:11) and Loaves at Pentecost (Lev 23:17).
THE SIX MAIN OFFERINGS COMMANDED BY GOD
1)Burnt Offering (Olah)
2)Meal Offering (Minchah)
3)Peace Offering (Shelem)
4)Sin Offering (Chattath)
5)Trespass Offering (Asham)
6)Drink Offering (Nesek)
Different combinations of these above categories of offerings were used for different instances - such as - consecration of priests, nazarite vow, cleansing of leper, person defiled with issue, women giving birth, jealousy trial, etc.
Mal 1:1 📝 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
The Lord's Love for Israel
Mal 1:2 "I have loved you," says the LORD. "Yet you say, 'In what way have You loved us?' Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" Says the LORD. "Yet Jacob I have loved;
Mal 1:3 But Esau I have hated, And laid waste his mountains and his heritage For the jackals of the wilderness."
Mal 1:4 Even though Edom has said, "We have been impoverished, But we will return and build the desolate places," Thus says the LORD of hosts: "They may build, but I will throw down; They shall be called the Territory of Wickedness, And the people against whom the LORD will have indignation forever.
Mal 1:5 Your eyes shall see, And you shall say, 'The LORD is magnified beyond the border of Israel.'
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Malachi 1:11 = For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts.
Here the prophet Malachi foretold the coming of the Mass where incense is offered at every High Mass. This is an apt description as there are Catholics all over the world so thus Holy Mass is celebrated from the sun's rising to its setting. Mass is both a form of Praise and Worship. Most Catholic churches have kneelers whereby the people can bow down and worship God. Protestants don't ever offer incense. Nor do Protestant churches have kneelers.
Moreover, this prophecy does not refer to the Jews who are few in number and are not represented in many nations.
Malachi 1: 12 = But you profane it when you say that the Lord's table is polluted, and its fruit, that is, its food may be despised.
@loboman8029 *If Roman Catholicism is truth or Church of the Bible, why was there not a single New Covenant believer saved in a Roman Catholic way in the whole Bible? Why is that so? Please explain coherently intelligently.*
- submit to Roman pope to be saved
- devote to Roman Mary to be saved
- be in Roman Church to be saved
- partake Roman sacraments to be saved
- baptise in Roman baptism to be saved
- do lots of works to be saved
I heard a guy say that he first called on Santa Muerte (a growing cult) when he felt he couldn’t call out to God because he felt God would be angry and disappointed. This reminds me of people going to Mary because God is too scary.
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That's a toddler's logic. C'mon, you can do better than that.
Protestants, please read your bibles
@@jmorr1780 Diana worshipper
I think people don’t know what worship actually means and that’s why they deny it. The definition is this: the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity. Catholics from their own mouths state that they have reverence for Mary. By definition, they worship her.
Have you heard of veneration. Only God is worshiped
@@geoffjs If you google the word 'veneration' you will see it is similar to worship. Maybe you guys should choose a better word. Here's my suggestion, just say "blessed".
Nope. Just respect.
How you think Jesus is going to let you into heaven after disrespecting his mother Mary is amazing.
They definitely worship her.
16:38 so they just making this up as they go along?
none of the early church fathers mention Mary as being anything more than the human parent of Jesus. They did not call her a queen nor pray to her.
Would it make a difference to you if they did? Honest question. If you saw evidence for Catholic doctrines in the writings of the Early Church Fathers, would you have to consider becoming Catholic?
@randycarson9812 yes it would make me need to re look at what I believe but I still don't understand why you think you are the only game in town...for example the orthodox church. I still might not join the catholic church if Francis is the head of the church.
@@wilsontexas I do understand. A lot of Catholics have issues with Francis. But I have posted on the establishment of the Catholic Church and the Perpetual Virginity of Mary in these comments. Let me know if you have any questions.
Wait a minute! If Mary was allegedly without sin, then why did she die a physical death at all since DEATH is the result of SIN?!?
She was assumed bodily into Heaven where she is the Queen of Rev 12. If she died, there would be evidence of her gravei
@@geoffjs This is a typical response one would express by those who have chosen to drink the Kool-Aid of RCC false traditions!
@@musicinspire1745the CC is the One True Church founded by Jesus Matt 16 18-19’
@@geoffjs Yeah, we've all heard that through the years, and yet the evidence simply isn't there.
@@geoffjsjesus called her woman. Not mom queen or saint
@randycarson9812 *It does not matter whether you are called your momma's son or your sibling's brother. You are still the same person. The point remained: the verse implied they were in One Family. So it is.*
*You failed to refute anything once again.*
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Point #2: Why are they called "His brothers" instead of "her sons"? Well, Jesus is the focal point, but NO verse of scripture refers to anyone other than Jesus as being Mary's child. Silence on that front.
I'll explain this to you once again. A step-brother is a child of one's step-parent from a previous relationship. When applied to Jesus, this term is part of the theological debate concerning the identity of Jesus’ brothers and sisters mentioned in the New Testament. The step-brother interpretation, suggesting that these were Joseph's children from a previous marriage, is one way to understand these relationships, especially in traditions that maintain the doctrine of Mary’s perpetual virginity.
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@@randycarson9812 *You have no proof they were “step brothers”. So Roman pagan theory of “Forever Virgin” is not established. Next!*
@@browncony3897 Can you prove that they weren't? Nope.
This is why your argument fails. Because the verse is not specific one way or the other, it cannot be used to prove that Mary had other children. No verse does.
Case dismissed for lack of evidence.
@@randycarson9812 *I do not need specific proof that Mary was not Forever Virgin really; since it's a norm to assume everyone is so. But it is the self claim of Roman religion that Mary was a Forever Virgin (which is against the norm). Self claims and special cases need proof. So where is your proof? You have none. Since you have none, how did Roman pagan religion derive this man made doctrine? From self claims and man made traditions?*
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Can you prove that they weren't? Nope.
This is why your argument fails. Because the verse is not specific one way or the other, it cannot be used to prove that Mary had other children. No verse does.
Case dismissed for lack of evidence.
@frankvw4819 *Nice fairy tales. Ignatius did not once linked Roman religion with Christ's Church or the Universal Church. Not early writers ever did.*
*So how is this a proof?*
*"catholic" in early writings had already referred to the Christian Churches spread throughout the regions. Not once it referred to a local church called Church of Rome (or modern days Roman Catholic Church).*
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Remember, the Church had to begin somewhere; it took time to grow. The earliest document we have in which “Catholic” is used to label the Church is found in a letter from the Apostolic Father ST. IGNATIUS, ordained BISHOP of ANTIOCH, a DIRECT DISCIPLE of ST. JOHN the APOSTLE, who wrote around A.D. 107, while being taken to Rome for execution, quote: “Wherever the Bishop appears, there let the people be; as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.” The word catholic comes from the Greek word ‘catholicus’ which means ‘universal’. Undoubtedly, this term was already familiar before because St. Ignatius is not giving an explanation of the meaning of the word.
The term Catholic is simply a word to give the Church an identity as it began to spread worldwide.
"catholic" in early writings had already referred to the Christian Churches spread throughout the regions. Not once it referred to a local church called Church of Rome..."
You are saying that "catholic" in the writings of the early Christians refers to the churches "spread throughout the regions," but not Rome? Explain this. How can you claim there was no church in Rome, or that it wasn't part of the whole apostolic Church when Paul wrote to the Romans in the New Testament?
@@MillionthUsername *”Church” in the Bible has never meant one particular local church. Bible defines Church as “group of all local churches + all believers”. “Catholic” meant universal - spread throughout the region.*
*So tell me, why would “all local churches + all believers” refers to one particular local church called Church of Rome? Since when did that happen? Which year was that?*
@@browncony3897 This is what you said:
"catholic" in early writings had already referred to the Christian Churches spread throughout the regions. Not once it referred to a local church called Church of Rome"
I asked you why you excluded Rome from "the Christian Churches spread throughout the regions." I marveled how you could do this when Paul wrote to the Church in Rome in the NT.
What's your answer? I won't accept your typical tactic of evading the issue.
@@MillionthUsername *You lack knowledge. Church of Rome was merely one local Church out of many in history. It was not the Universal Church (referring to all local churches + all believers) or Church it claimed to be.*
*You are the one evading question. Since when did this local Church called Church of Rome became the Universal Church? Which year was that?*
@@browncony3897 You see, you won't answer the very question that pertains to your own post, which I quoted TWICE, so there is no point in wasting more time.
While I have always understood that the worship of Mary and all the dogma surrounding her was false and was refuted by scripture itself, this message pours such a bright light on the absolute cult that is the Catholic Church. I lost a Catholic friend a couple of years ago over my stance against this doctrine. I pray the Holy Spirit will reveal the true Jesus to him. Lastly, I can now see how this religion my very well be the false religion spoken of in the book of Revelation. This message has me reconsidering just who the "Whore of Babylon" is... because the Mary worshiped by the Catholic church is _not_ the Mary of scripture who was the mother of Jesus!
Protestantism lies. We do not worship Mary. You don’t understand worship because you don’t offer sacrifice Jn 6 51-58
There is nothing in Scripture which contradicts Catholic dogma, Even the Reformers taught the Catholic dogmas about Mary AS PROTESTANTS. You all are not only in heresy to the Catholic church but to the founders of your own movement!
@@bridgefin There is plenty of scripture which contradicts a great deal of Catholic dogma. All you have to do is read the scripture for yourself and compare it with dogma. BTW, the reformers were wrong about it just as the Catholics are wrong. Also, most reformed denominations have since seen the error of their forefathers' teachings and have repented (turned away from them). _I am not a reformer_ . I am a spiritual descendant of those who never joined with the Catholic hierarchy to begin with, and were, for that reason, being hunted down, persecuted, and butchered by the Catholic church long before the reformation!
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You: BTW, the reformers were wrong about it just as the Catholics are wrong.
Me: I get it. Everyone is wrong except YOU!
You: . I am a spiritual descendant of those who never joined with the Catholic hierarchy to begin with, and were, for that reason, being hunted down, persecuted, and butchered by the Catholic church long before the reformation!
Me: Baloney. And more lies. You have no history ad no facts. Believe your fantasies all you want. And use them to reject the Catholic Church. But don't blame us when you might wind up in Hell as you die in your sins....like arrogance, pride, and rejecting Jesus in addition to your lies.
@@bridgefin Your response is that of a schoolboy. I don't imagine you can see it though.
Praying for my Roman Catholic relatives and friends.
Jesus founded His One True Church Matt 16 18-19 which codified the Bible in 382 from which pope Luther removed 7 books, under whose authority Deut 4:2. Splintering of Protestantism is the bad fruit of personal interpretation as there is no authority. Jesus willed unity Jn 17:21.
@@geoffjs Prove what you say and I will listen. Good luck you are going to need it.
Be assured that your Roman Catholic relatives And friends are also praying for YOU!
Thank you for praying for us Catholics. It is wonderful of you to do so.
Hey Maria, praying is always good, but thank goodness you have some relatives with common sense. Learn from them!
You had a quote from this document whose syntax sounded strange: 'If anyone..shall dare...you are are damned...you will be excommunicated.' I got a complete copy of the 1854 document and could not find these words.
Matthew 4:4 """Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on EVERY WORD that comes from the mouth of God.’”""
Thank you. From the MOUTH. That's oral tradition and not necessarily Scripture.
@@bridgefin John 1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it."
God's Word - as quoted from the Gospels, NOT "oral traditions" from a wealthy city/state that was established, approved, and funded by the pagans that burned Christians (and fed them to lions)
@@brianstough5286
You have been deceived by the liars. Ask them for proof and you will begin to lose those satanic demons and then just maybe you will be open to Christ who IS THE truth!
How many today would martyr themselves to lions or deny Jesus? It was mostly oral tradition until people like Paul and other literate apostles started writing it down.@@brianstough5286
@@bridgefinHis word is Scriptures. You don't make sense. Catholic Sir
The purgatory were emptied out WHAT??
There is no PURGATORY period.
You die you don’t get a second chance you either go to Heaven, or Hell 🔥 Catholicism is not Christianity they are not Christians.!
The bible is very clear on changing the words it’s a sin you shouldn’t even change one letter…any denominations who changes the words are not true Christians, and what about nuns getting engaged to Jesus??
The stories are endless as to how many people, and countries Mary appeared to it’s been proven that the church in Vatican is responsible for it deceiving people unbelievable !?
What part of idolatry is a sin they don’t understand, and they make a rosary 📿 praying in names of dead saints who are dead,and buried they can’t hear your prayers only Jesus Christ can hear your prayers cause he’s alive & sits on the right side of his Father God in Heaven,another thing that bothers me is confessions, or baptising babies it’s endless !?
I refuse to call a priest father or the pope which also means FATHER, and he thinks he’s God on earth 🌍Pope wears white every one else has to wear black what is that about??
Dear Heavenly Father Lord God help us get through this dark world that’s getting darker, and people are choosing darkness instead of light 💡
I went to private French Catholic College all my life even though I’m not Catholic our nuns were from Vatican City they spoke Italian and French only believe me English is my 8th language I’m very familiar with different religions,and men made denominations I know everything about them the only thing I hated the most was confession I was so young I didn’t even know what to confess about?
I became a born again Christian 18 years ago .!!
Salvation is by faith not by works!!
This was a great video saying g’day from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
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What order of nuns taught you?
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@@arpysetrakian8806 Not sure what the hand gesture means, but it was a harmless question, which order of nuns taught you ?
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Hello Daniel.
I’m sorry it’s been almost 44 years, and all I remember is that they were just a traditional nuns engaged to Jesus Christ they used to wear a ring just a simple band no gems nothing on it unlike the male priests.!!
English is my 8th language + Italian not as good as I used to speak it with the nuns they were from the Vatican City Italian and French was their main language, and I was 5/6 years old at that age our brain is like a sponge that’s how I learned to speak Italian, and my father used to speak 11 languages unfortunately I lost him when I was 12 years old.
For example we call the nuns sister in English,but in French we call them my sister, or my father my mother without the word MY it sounds wrong in French that’s the difference!?
I hope I’ve been helpful with the answer to your question??
Do you mind telling me what denomination you are, or if you are a religious person??
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@@arpysetrakian8806 Hi , hope you and your family are well. I am Catholic, I was taught by the Sisters of St Joesph and Patrician Brothers .
Mary was a saved Christian, and God loves us all equally.
Where does it say this or are you assuming this?
LUKE 1:46,47 Romans 3:23 Mary was not 'mmaculate' she was a sinner like all human beings! After she gave birth to the Lord Jesus Christ, she had more kids. She should not be prayed to or worshipped. From your question it seems to me that you haven't read a real Bible, I say delve into it! @@stever4181
@@Blizzmatic777Mary had to be Immaculate to be able to bear Jesus, she was full of grace - sinless, all things are possible with God. Mary is the NT Ark of the Covenant. Ever Virgin, Mother of God, she was assumed into Heaven where she is Queen. Not everything is in the Bible John 21:25 - try to widen your view & don’t rely on faulty personal interpretation
You are CONTRADICTIONG the Holy Scriptures!! If anything goes against the Word Of God it should be discarded immediately!! the only sinless person that EVER lived is the Lord Jesus Christ, who paid the price for all our sins, He is our only intercessor without any help from anybody!! Mary have a bunch of kids after Jesus was born, and she is NOT the queen of Heaven, that is pure paganism!! I want you to go to Heaven forever, but the path you're on is that of deception! Faith ALONE in Jesus will save you.@@geoffjs
Mary was wondering girl! Bath she wasn’t Good s mother! She was Jesus Christ mother❤️
The worship of Mary transfers the devotion due to God to a human being, Mary! Holy, yes, human nonetheless. Any such worship or veneration is idolatry which insures the judgement of God.
John MacArthur
Following God comes from your heart not your interlect which makes you a proud man
Look at the saints like Padre Pio and follow their lead
They are humble
Where people like you Pentecostals think you understand and know God
By your interlect
Be very careful people
Satan knows how to blind
you
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You: "Be very careful people Satan knows how to blind you"
Me: That is so true and he has been doing it to Catholics for 2000 years!
Hes not a pentacostal
@@stever4181EXACTLY
Pio was a fraud. Thats why idolatrous catholics love him.
How fantastic and far fetched is this deceitful snare. Continue to preach it Brother...
@savannahfan *RCs love nonsensical claims. Bible says "believers of God = children of God". Now RCs claimed "believers = children of Mary". Is God and Mary married? RCs think God and Mary are husband and wife? You are again proving Roman religion is pagan and man made.*
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the “rest of her Children” REV12:17 is obviously about the Church and its believers…
Mary is dead. All humans suffer the same condition and result; sin and death. There are no exemptions.
Ha, ha, ha markmeyer - U R WRONG!!
I was raised in the Catholic Church, 1st communion , confirmation and alter boy. I loved the beautiful older church's and truly believed it was the True Church.....when i started reading the Bible, studied history, and prayed God would lead me to the truth and i would follow him no matter how difficult it was.....This is the Catholic history .......The Catholic Church formed the inquisition, murdered Christians in dark ages, changed the Ten Commandments, molested tens of thousands of children , added books into the Bible, blatantly violates the word of God that says to never call any man Father. Conspired and originally supported Hitler.....HITLER!!!!!i could go on and on and on and on and on.....John Macarthur loves Catholics ....just hates the evil.....i hope you all ask God for the truth, n not what is comfortable for you. Because as of right now according to his word he does not know u if.Your under the Catholic delusion.
I am a true Catholic nothing a Protestant says one who follows a heretic like Martin Luther will change my mind. Catholics have not been perfect I guess you have. Read Matt 7 vs. 1
It was the Spanish Inquisition started by the Spanish Monarchy to drive out the Jews and Muslims. By the way any well read Protestant would know that. By the way Martin Luther was a rabid antisemite so do not start throwing stones at your neighbor. Luther also jettisoned any Bible passages that did not fit into his theology, he tried to jettison the book of Revelation but his people stopped him….he also added the word “ Alone” to the Bible passage by faith are you saved. So he did what Thomas Jefferson did he just started carving up the Bible. So please do your homework and be informed before you spread your errors across the www. Most nondenominational churches are full of ignorant Catholics that never took the time to understand what the Church really teaches these people are ripe for the picking by people like John MacArthur who also spreads misinformation about what the Catholic Church teaches.
Absolute 💯truth
yeah no PROTESTANTISM REMOVED books from the actual bible Catholicism maintained true orthodoxy
catholics did not add 7 books to the bible that is a myth that protestants seem to continue to believe. In fact martin luther dropped the 7 books of the old testament that were written in Greek or Aramaic. In the New Testament luther originally deleted the following 4 books: James, Hebrew, Jude and Revelation
The bible used by theCatholic Church is the same today as it was at the Council of Carthage in 398 AD when it was Approved!!!!!!
PLEASE STOP SPREADING YOUR ERRORs!!!!!!!!!
The apparitions thing is what really pushed me away from Catholicism. I just can't see how anyone can read the gospels and letters of Paul, and think that the apparitions aren't Satan coming as an "angel of light." I mean, how much more anti-Christian can you get than some of the apparition messages like "devote yourself to *me* and *my* sacred heart" or "I am grieved by sins, so wear this piece of cloth and pay penance and you'll be delivered."
I will add that most Catholics aren't personally Mariolatrists, but the church as an institution absolutely tolerates and even supports it, especially in the Latin American countries and France.
Our visual range is very limited. It's about 40000 to 70000 cm. Ask any eye doctor. So? where are the things we don't see? If you believe in the Spiritual then you believe in God. If you only believe in the physical then you are an atheist.
A Jew by the name of Saul of Tarsis, taught about Jesus to the Gentiles and the racist Jews have been pissed off for 2,000 years!
@@Robert-55 Singer is a liar and simple minded fools believe him.
Yet Jesus made a point of passing on the torch to Peter and the later popes
Well now Bob, I was raised and baptized as a "fundie" After college I asked the wrong question to the preacher and he condemned me straight to Hell and the lake of fire. So I became an atheist for a few years.
Then I met a Catholic Priest. I asked him the same sort of question and he replied "Bless You My Son"
Afterward I studied two long years, some with a Jesuit from India, some more in a quiet monastery.
I've been Roman Catholic now for over 50 years, I love my neighbor as I love myself but I still am not used to the pointy hats and red beanies and robes.
My Mothers family were German Lutherans and my Fathers family were Primitive Baptists from way out in a rural area of the Southland. Something happened with my Dad, I don't know what. He was one of 12 children and he ran away from home at 17 and joined the Navy. He would never cross the threshold of any kind of Church or adhere to any religion after he ran away. However i would catch him reading the Bible sometimes and I know he thought a lot of St. Paul. Mom's whole family became disenchanted with the Lutheran faith and I was raised from early childhood in the Church of Christ. (Praise God) but as I matured I could not reconcile that every word in the KJV Bible comes directly from God Himself. I was agnostic, atheist, and the Holy Spirit put me into the Roman Catholic Church. It's been that way for over 50 years now and my Soul is at rest and I m comfortable.
1st . Catholic since my people left Northern Ireland in the 1700's for the USA..
The funny thing is, if most catholics would open the Bible and READ it, they might discover that there are a LOT of women in the Bible that got MUCH MORE INK written about their story, than Mary did hers.... Yes Jesus loves her. Yes, her story is amazing - but it is NOT deserving of the worship/veneration/honor that Rome gives her (the vatican gives her)
Think of Esther
Think of Ruth
Both of these women have entire books in the Bible. By the catholic logic, shouldn't they be worshipped as well??
Not an exhaustive list, but if you opened the Bible once in a while, you might know a few of these names!
Deborah
Sarai (Sarah)
Rebekah
Leah and Rachel
Jezebel
Rahab
Miriam
Zipporah
Bathsheba
Hannah
Delilah
Merab
Michal
Each one of these women had amazing stories, but the catholic church chooses to IGNORE the fact that the Entire Bible is a BIOGRAPHY of JESUS CHRIST our Savior....
In the catholic church service, one or two 'snippets' from the Bible are read, and a "homily" follows that rarely gives HOMAGE to the one who created ALL THINGS and came down to earth for a short time to teach us and sacrifice Himself for us.
Jesus encourages us to listen, to read and to THINK ABOUT HIS WORD (He IS THE WORD!)
We can ask anyone to pray for us.
@@nosuchthing8Yes we can, but shouldn't we consider the "direct access" we have to God?
You know that the VEIL (curtain) was torn, right? Do you know what purpose the veil served??
We really shouldn't be "...putting anyone or anything or anyone BEFORE God..."
Deuteronomy 5:7-9 " ‘You shall have no other gods before Me.
8 ‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image-ANY LIKENESS OF ANYTHING that is IN HEAVEN ABOVE, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 9 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, AM A JEALOUS GOD,..."
@@nosuchthing8the dead know nothing. No one is resurrected until Hesus return. You’re asking the dead to pray for you.
@@letsgococo288 they are in heaven
The Catholic Mass literally revolves around The Crucifixion of Christ.
So saying that The Catholic Church service rarely gives homage to Christ just shows your lack of knowledge of it.
Jesus said: COME UNTO ME" He NEVER said go to Mary and If you had ever read and STUDIED the word of God in the bible, instead of the catechism, you'd know that Jesus never even gave Mary the time of day in public, and I’ll show MANY examples. Not one time in the bible did he ever even call her mother, NOT ONCE! Jesus ALWAYS called her WOMAN. Even when Jesus was dying on the cross.
First of all, Jesus said: When ye pray, USE NOT VAIN REPETITIONS as the heathen do for they think they will be heard for their much speaking. (Matt. 6:7) But praying the rosary IS vain repetition by saying the exact same prayers over and over again. The rosary begins Hail Mary full of Grace… But the bible reads: Jesus was the ONLY begotten of the Father full of grace and truth (John 1:14). Now if Jesus is the only begotten full of grace, how can Mary also be full of grace? The Hail Mary is also a corruption of God’s word in Luke. It DOESN’T say FULL of Grace, it DOESN'T say holy Mary, it DOESN’T say Mother of God, nor does it read: Pray for us! Christians are to pray in Jesus’ name only.
Jesus was born of a Virgin, Yes, absolutely, BUT, Mary later gave birth to at least six other children in the bible. The bible reads: Joseph did not know her (have relations with her) UNTIL after she had given birth. (Matthew 1:25) If you don't do something UNTIL a certain time, doesn’t that mean that you DO do it at that time? The bible also gives us the names of Jesus four half-brothers and also mentions his sisters. Read Matthew chapter 13 verse 55. Is this not the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James and Joses, and Simon and Judas? And his sisters, are they not ALL with us? (Matt. 13:55,56). And they weren’t Joseph’s children from some so-called prior marriage as priests like to claim. There’s absolutely NO mention of this in the bible. Moreover, Psalm 69 which is clearly a messianic prophecy reads. I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my MOTHER’S children. (Psalm 69:8). The very next verse is quoted in John 2:17: The zeal for thine house hath eaten me up.
Mary also lost Jesus when He was 12 for three full days. Mighty careless of her wasn't it? (Luke 2:39-50). How could Mary not know where that miracle that she had given birth to was for three days? But it certainly might make sense if James, Joses & Simon were toddlers. She has another year old brother or sister she's trying to keep an eye on, and maybe Mary's breastfeeding an infant. That certainly might explain Mary's carelessness when her FIRSTBORN son was 12. JESUS was called Mary’s FIRSTBORN son in (Matt 1:25 and Luke 2:7)
When Jesus was told your Mother and brothers are outside and want to see you, He left them outside! He didn't even let His mother or brothers in the house or go out to see them. Talk about disrespecting Mary! Instead, Jesus spread His hands toward His disciples and said whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven is my brother and sister and MOTHER! (Matt. 12:46-50) And that story is repeated in THREE different gospels. Mary also said that SHE needed a savior. (Luke 1:47).
When a woman cried out saying blessed is the womb which bore you and the breasts on which you nursed, referring to Mary, Jesus replied: RATHER, blessed are those who hear the word of God and do it! (Luke 11:27) Roman Catholics are biblically illiterate! It wasn't until the 5th century that a bunch of biblically illiterate brainless monks began praying to Mary. They wanted a female deity like the pagans had and Mary fit the bill.
The bible also reads that there is ONE God and ONE mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus (I Tim 2:5) If there is ONE mediator, the perfect mediator that died and shed His blood on the cross for US sinners, why would we need another? Is Mary considered a saint? The bible reads: Behold, he putteth NO trust in his saints; yea the heavens are not clean in his sight. (Job 15:15).
. When Paul went to Jerusalem he said he saw James, the LORD’S BROTHER (Galatians 1:19) It was James that presided over the council at Jerusalem. And James also made the final decision, which is funny considering Peter was there. Why wasn’t Peter the one to make the final decision if he was the first so-called pope? Paul, Barnabas and Peter put in their two cents, but it was James, the Lord’s brother who made the final decision. (Acts 15:6-23).
The bible reads over and over again that ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and it NEVER makes an exception for Mary or for anyone but for our LORD Jesus Christ. When Mary said “They have no wine”, Jesus rebuked her! He said: WOMAN, what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come. (John 2:4) Jesus, who was a prophet, knew that one day people would be praying to Mary, so He made it very clear by both His words and actions that he didn’t want ANYONE praying to or going to Mary. Again, Jesus said: Come unto ME! He NEVER said go and pray to my mother.
When the men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here. And when the queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. I believe that Mary herself shall also rise up in the judgment and she shall condemn it for praying to her instead of going to her adorable son, Jesus Christ, who was the one and ONLY one who died for us and for our sins on the cross.
Salvation is a free gift. “”If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the LORD Jesus and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:9,10).
The bible commands us all to: STUDY to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. (2 Tim 2:15). If you don't study the word of God for yourself, you'll be ashamed before God at the judgment. I was a Catholic. I prayed the rosary 50 years ago. But I, like many other ex-catholics read and STUDIED the word and the WORDS of God. Don't put your salvation in someone else's hands like biblically illiterate priests. How many times at mass have any priests read you ANY of these verses from the bible? As an ex-Catholic I know I never did till I read them for myself. Read and STUDY the bible for yourself. Make no mistake about it, your eternal soul depends upon it.
He gave us Mary as our spiritual mother from the cross. We go to Mary to get to Jesus faster. And it appears to be working.
@@bridgefin That is just plain stupid. Jesus said "Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away" That means Mary is not included here. BTW this is one of those passages in John 6 that Catholic ignore!
@@stever4181
Mary gets us to Jesus.
@@bridgefin Prove your comment.
@@stever4181
Proof? I'm telling you the experience of 2000 years of Catholic experience. You don't want her? Fine, we are happy to take her as our spiritual mother as we believe Jesus gave her to us from the cross.
The only denomination that completely ignores and rejects and changes the scriptures
Catholicism isn't a denomination, it's the original Church from which all the others came from, you silly ignorant fool. It's the Catholic Church that created the New Testament in the first place, but they didn't teach that in your backwater 'denomination', did they? Do you know anything about the Protestant revolution? Luther was a bipolar OCD who you used to go to confession multiple times every day and annoy the priests with his nonsense. Luther came up with the idea of 'Sola Scriptura' to justify his interpretation of salvation through faith alone. He literally wanted to remove several books from the New Testament, including the epistle of James and the Book of Revelation because they stressed the importance of doing good works.
Once the heresy began, then the denominations began. Now there are well over 45,000 'denominations', mostly due to stupidity and racism. Everybody can interpret the Bible anyway they like now that the Protestants declared sola scriptura. Protestants are basically 'non-binary' Christians, each person reads the scripture and makes up their own beliefs. The only truth can be found in the authority of the Catholic Church, the original Church that Jesus himself founded.
While it's true the catholic church ignores, rejects and changes scriptures, they are not the first to do so, nor the last. Four of the ''most popular cults" in the United States: seventh day adventists; church of christ; mormons; 'christian' science; jehovah witness, and SCORES of other false religions do it as well.
The most sorrowful thing to me in all of that is that most of these cults observed it first in the catholic church, then just "copied and pasted" things that they wanted to use - then harshly criticized the rest of the dogma/tradition/doctrine -control and abuse.
@@brianstough5286 all of which use thier own bible that has been written to suit their tradions and very heartbreaking I have an uncle that was a seventh day Adventist pastor for fifty years and I was always condemned for the sabbath until I read the KJV Bible myself and saw the truth they only used the NIV and I was realizing it was missing many verses not that it can’t be used by Jesus to minister but not the whole counsel of his word if it’s missing
@@Ecclesiastics102 I would not call NIV bad, but they've printed their own "version" (translation?) called "clear word" - I would stay clear of that one. Troublesome at best. Heretical at worst.
Three passages, for Bible believers, to discredit seventh day adventist (SDA) doctrine
Hebrews 4 Sabbath is TODAY - (every day, every hour every minute 24/7/365) we have access to God
Genesis 9 (EAT MEAT)
Romans 14 (EAT MEAT)
If you don't believe the Bible, it doesn't matter anyhow, does it??
If you do believe the Bible, you need to question your teachers motives if they teach something OTHER than what the Bible teaches - which is a good segway to discuss:
worshiping (venerating) Mary.
Yes, Jesus loves her! Yes, she submitted to God for the mission He had for her
If Jesus wanted us to give her so much attention, she would have been more prevalent in the Bible (disappears EARLY in the new testament)
Luke 11:27 27 "And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!”
If Jesus had wanted us to worship/venerate Mary, this would have been the opportunity to preach and teach that doctrine/dogma, but instead He said
28 "But He said, “MORE THAN THAT, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
@@brianstough5286 I’m not calling it bad I’m saying that they kept out key scriptures like Matthew 17:20 Jesus speaking to his deciples in a reply to thier question about why they couldn’t cast out a demon that provided the key to fighting against unbelief which was fasting and prayer his name is always enough authority for any demon however the manifestation of the demon in thier face caused unbelief and a very powerful lesson that only the devil would ever want to keep from us not to mention the red letters of Christ and adding to that the reason why there’s so many versions is because of money the Bible has been the number one selling book for a hundred years not because it wasn’t done right the first time God had his hand on it of course different languages were needed but nothing else
If Mary was immaculately conceived and siness, then she should have died on the cross! Nonsense.
Do you mean like Adam and Eve? Do you think they should have died on the cross instead of Jesus? 😮
@@srich7503we are talking about new testament people. If she was so perfect and SINLESS. SHE SHOULD HAVE DIED FOR OUR SINS .....
Ridiculous false doctrine
@@TriciaPerry-ef7bi No, we are talking about God’s sovereign plan of salvation of man, which is ALWAYS in play, not just since the birth of Jesus. What makes you think the NT people are more special than the OT people. ALL of God’s people are created equal and have equal chance of His salvation. So please back up and answer my question above if its not too hard for you…
And what about HER mom?
That is MADE UP, out of whole cloth.
one (of many) Bible passages on PRIDE "If you THINK you are strong, you should be careful not to fall." 1 Cor 10:12
Catholics worship GOD and we HONOUR Mary and it is biblical and logical to do so. Luke 1:24-48. God chose her, The Holy Spirit came upon her, she is blessed among women and all generatrions will call her blessed. PROTEST-antism will always accuse and slander the catholic church, cuz that is what Luther intended when he started the protestant "reformation.
It seems as though there are a LOT of people that do not realize the Bible was NOT written in English - but in three major languages: Ancient Greek for the New Testament and Ancient Hebrew for the Old Testament. Translators did the best they could for the King James version (KJV), but there are many more texts available since then, including the Dead Sea Scrolls - that help to verify the Bible - as truth
And Jesus spoke Aramaic.
@@nosuchthing8 I know better to respond when people post things that Jesus considered "GNATS" - as opposed to Camels... It is nothing more than a distraction, but here goes: and it is fitting where it is located within Matthew 23:24 (the chapter in which Jesus is saying "WOE" 7 times for the behavior that the catholics emulated from the Pharisees) "You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!"
You should take a look at chapter 23 of Matthew and THINK!
As far as the "gnat" of speaking Aramaic goes:
God's PERFECT TIMING provided for good roads to travel between cities, and the most prolific (language of the Widest Use) language at the time was Greek - yes, there are a few phrases in Aramaic, (and they are noted in the text because it is RARE in the New Testament -i.e...
John 20:16
"Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”)
{In fact, there are a few places in the Old Testament in which Aramaic was used, and ALL OF THEM ARE POINTED OUT IN THE TEXT ITSELF - as they are in the New Testament - because they are RARE.}
But the language of the time that the MOST PEOPLE SPOKE was Greek, and Jesus wants to reach ALL PEOPLE! 99% of the recorded language of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John (and Paul and other Epistle writers) was written down in GREEK for us to "SPREAD THE WORD" not in a dead language as Aramaic was already dying at the time Jesus walked the earth in a human body.
So glad you were there and could speak all of these tongues and explain it to us Catholics Gods peace be with you.@@brianstough5286
If we get the baptism in Jesus name and the HOLY GHOST and have the word of God the Gospels
Our own salvation and relationship with God what More do we need. The problem is when people are looking for More than was already written. The Catholic Church adding and misinterpreting and Many are just NOT CALLED OR ELECTED. I want to know why I had the holy Spirit and not once lying in my bed as a teen not SEALED and WHOLE WITH THE HOLY GHOST. WHY AWAIT TILL I am older and LEAVE my parents home to move me and let me be attacked and profess to LOVE ME AND want me saved but oh I DIDN'T MAKE HELL FOR MAN. yet only elected few to be saved ... ONLY call few yet knowing from the beginning you want majority of man in hell....
@@TriciaPerry-ef7biDoing a study on the word "Baptism" is eye-opening!
Look at Mark 10:38 and notice that, even though Jesus uses the 'root word' 3 times in this passage, in none of the three times does He say (or imply) "water"...
"But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink from the bitter cup of suffering I am about to drink? Are you able to be BAPTIZED with the BAPTISM of suffering I must be BAPTIZED with?” Mark 10:38
To put this "in context" - as always - we need to look at the scriptures leading up to and following this passage - and that makes it even more clear that "baptize" usually DOES NOT MEAN WITH WATER!!!
The word, translated, has more to do with being immersed in something - whether Spirit or Fire or Water - or SUFFERING..
John the Baptist himself said that "I must decrease and HE MUST INCREASE" (John 3:30) (I and my ministry and HE and HIS ministry)
and
"I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit!” Mark 1:8
Matthew 3:11, Luke 3:16 and John 1:33 also speak of baptizing with something OTHER THAN WATER.
YES ALL 4 GOSPELS!!
JESUS did NOT baptize!!!
John 4:2
"(though Jesus himself didn’t baptize them-his disciples did)."
1 Corinthians 1:13 - 17 - If read IN CONTEXT, has Paul REGRETTING the one baptism that he did - because people were starting to REQUIRE water baptism - against the WILL OF JESUS
ACTS 15:28 uses the word ONLY (NO GREATER BURDEN in some translations) referring to 'what is required as a Christian' (THE WAY) and the four things required DID NOT INCLUDE WATER (or ANY form of) Baptism.
Thankyou Pastor. This is invaluable and I wish my mother in law was alive to listen. Blessings
YOU =I wish my mother in law was alive to listen.
ME = On the contrary, I am glad that she did not have to listen to such clueless stuff
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@loboman8029
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Regarding why Catholics seek Mary's intercession, here are 2 cases
My dad got saved on his death bed by the elder I called to come and pray with him. There was a noticeable difference in my dad after he received Christ, he wanted to get up out the bed he'd been in for months and wanted to eat fruit which he had refused to eat anything anymore. My sister, who is Catholic and had been praying the rosary and saying hail Mary's over him every day, saw the change in my dad as well. I asked her "Do you see what happened to dad, and she looked at me with this slightly evil/dissapointed look and said yes! I thought she didn't understand what I meant because her response was puzzling, I thought she'd be excited so I asked her again and she knew what I meant and gave me the same answer only more upset. It dawned on me that she was upset because my dad received Christ through faith through a protestant man and that all of her praying to Mary didn't work. I really think she is possessed by the spirit behind the mary they worship. Please pray for her, her name is Rachel.
Of course! You become what you worship. Like their idols, they have eyes but they can't see, they have ears but they can't hear the truth. Just pray for her, we don't fight flesh and blood.
Because it's not the biblical Miriam they're looking to but the fake one that was created in Rome named Semiramis.
@mpkropf5062 *Yes that's what Roman religion indoctrinated you to believe in. Bible says Roman religion added 7 books. Romans 3:1-2. Scriptures is infallible. Scriptures is always correct.*
⭐Did Christians remove 7 books or did Roman Catholics added 7 books? ⭐
Romans 3:1-2 says Scriptures is of Jewish origins. Not Roman Catholic origins. Jews till this day holds OT 39 books. Not Roman religion’s OT 46 books. Scriptures is always correct. So clearly pointing to Roman religionists adding 7 books. Greek LXX was merely a translation of Original Hebrew OT. Original Hebrew OT did not contain Apocrypha 7 books. So why would a translation have Apocrypha 7 books? So clearly pointing to Roman religionists adding 7 books.
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Luther removed a lot and whole books from the Bible so if you read a Protestant Bible you are not reading the Full Gospel!
@dman7668 *You are just demonstrating RCs do not read the Bible. 180+ verses showed Jesus, APostles and NT Church all took doctrines from Scriptures Only and not from any other source. This is already Sola Scriptura.*
*Sola Scriptura = Taking doctrines from Scriptures Only and not from any other source.*
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The Apostles were not practicing sola scripture. They were Jewish and the Jews were not protestant sola scripture folks in their belief system.
Hi, I’m William. I’m a Catholic apologist. I’m here to help you understand that Catholic faith and practice are much more biblical and historical than you currently believe.
Is engaging in that kind of conversation with me something you’re opposed to?
@@wjtruax *Hilarious false claims. What can be more historical and biblical than the practices and teachings of the Earliest Church Fathers (Jesus, APostles and NT Church); which were all recorded in Scriptures already?*
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Catholic faith and practice are much more biblical and historical than you currently believe.
@@wjtruax *Try answering the first questions: If Roman Catholicism is truth or Church of the Bible, why was there not a single New Covenant believer saved in a Roman Catholic way in the whole Bible? Why is that so? Please explain coherently intelligently.*
- submit to Roman pope to be saved
- devote to Roman Mary to be saved
- be in Roman Church to be saved
- partake Roman sacraments to be saved
- baptise in Roman baptism to be saved
- do lots of works to be saved
@@browncony3897 I’m sorry. I would like to engage with someone who is actually willing to admit they might not see the whole picture. The mocking, cynical tone of your responses tells me that you already know everything and are not open to objective conversation.
@@wjtruax *Stop giving silly excuses for your lack of knowledge. It’s embarrassing. Seem to me you know nothing. Go your way.*
Thank you Pastor for the truth .. Blessings 🙏♥️🙏
Dissing Jesus mother ain't getting no one into heaven friend
@@nosuchthing8 Getting on your knees befor queen of heaven graven images wont get you into heaven.
In relation to the absolute of the New Testament. . . .what did the first Christians use? The NT as we know it ( put together over years by the first Catholics, btw) wasn't in existence, the first book not even being written until 70 years after Jesus died. Are they in hell for not following the scriptures that didn't yet exist? And what of the multiple interpretations and changes influenced from one language to the next, generation after generation. Come on . . .its all complicated. NO ONE is uninfluenced by error, interpretation, literalism and legalism. The early christians didnt have the NT and yet . . .like Christians today they believed in CHRIST, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, even the Catholics. I find your teaching dangerous, leading to hate a particular group.
Hey Karen, you are so right. These kinda so called preachers are poison to the Christian faith, certainly not worthy to be associated with Jesus Christ.
@savannahfan *You failed to answer again ... Where in the Bible ever said Mary is your momma? Or mother of God or Perpetual Virgin? Or Co mediatrix Co redemptrix? Where? Or Sinless Mary? Where? If you can find that I will give you a lollipop.*
Mary admitted that she was a sinner and she needed a Savior. She is no different than any other woman
There are lots of Mary's that are sinners and need a Savior.
Mary never said that she was a sinner. She said she had a savior. Luther preached that Mary was preserved from any sin and therefore someone SAVED her from ever sinning, not from sin committed.
Mary was sinless
@@johnyang1420 The word of God doesn't say anything of this nature
In fact HE Jesus Christ SAID ALL ALL ALL ALL HAVE SINNED and fallen short of the knowledge of God. ALLLLLLALLLALLLLALLALLLL
This is false and a blasphemy. Support your claim with proof. Be careful what you say about the vessel God created to deliver the Savior to the world.
I called myself an Athiest for many years. All through high school and into my early twenties.. then had a kind of road to Damascus experience and was left with no doubts at all about the existence of God.. I saw a vision of what I can only describe as something that looked like a knight of old. Like a crusader. It appeared in front of me resting his hands on a sword pointed to the ground. Then from the knight in Armour came Our Lady holding out the Child Jesus.. his arms outstretched towards me.. she was as the Bible describes in revelations.. dressed by the Sun.. light radiating from her. that light came through her beams lighting up everything in the room and the light was pure radiating Love.. it was the Love of God radiating from her and through her, and the Child Jesus was the purest of Gold . Holding out his hands to me as if to welcome me. My life changed in that moment.. I knew exactly who they were in the very instant I saw them.. I knew it more than I ever knew anything in my life.. So I became Christian And I looked at many different sects of Christianity to see which of them holds the Mother of Christ in the esteem that God gives her.. and it’s only in the Catholic Church that the Mother of my Saviour is given anything close to the respect she deserves.. So I can tell you honestly with my hand on my heart.. MacArthur is lying to you.. whether he knows it or not he is totally wrong about the Catholic Church.. and he is leading you all astray
Glad u had the experience but Christians follow the BIBLE..not subjective dreams and visions..
@@sandradaniels3079 do we indeed? So what did Christians follow before the invention of the Printing press and the first mass-produced Bibles? And what did we follow when the majority of the population were not educated enough to read? And what did we follow before Pope Damasus called the first Council of Rome to thresh out the books of the New Testament
@@sandradaniels3079 imagine if St Paul had not followed his vision.. and remained as a persecutor of the Church..
@@Bobby-xr4bo They followed the letters and communications that were distributed that eventually became the NT.
Paul did not follow a vision. Acts 9:7 "The men traveling with Saul stood there speechless; they heard the sound but did not see anyone." That was no vision but a real encounter. Catholics only see what they want to see and then accuse others of false interpretations.
Thank u holy spirit for leading me out of r c church,
Your loss. The Holy Spirit would never lead you out of His Churvh, you’ve been mislead
@@geoffjs Prove it is his church.
What you refer to as the Holy Spirit is anything but.
It leads you to purposefully insert enormous pipes of unbiblical garbage in between you and your savior. Does that sound like something Christ, who stands at the door and knocks, or would gather you as a mother hen does her chicks would do, or maybe something the devil might do to keep you from that which saves you?
"Piles," not "pipes."
@@geoffjs I left the Church when I was 11. I had it figured out by then.
Did the apostles pray to her?
If she was still with us today, would people pray to her?
Catholics deny they worship Mary. They call it venerate, but as a former Catholic I know the truth.
Worship originates from the heart and manifests itself in external actions. NO man sees the heart. ONLY God sees the heart.
Therefore, it is simply impossible for you to know for sure if I am not telling the truth if I deny that I worship Mary because it is Impossible for you to see my heart (which is where Worship comes from).
Only God can know for sure if I am worshipping Mary or not because only He can see my heart
@@jerome2642 You know if you are worshiping Mary or not and so does God.
@@johnbrowne2170 Exactly. Only GOD and MYSELF can know for sure if I am worshipping Mary, because it is only the two of us that knows exactly what is in my heart. No one else does. Not even you.
Therefore, you are not in a position to accuse me or any other Catholic of worshipping Mary
Spot on. I know this all too well from personal experience having been raised and brought up in the Catholic Church. The irony about their argument and insistence they only "venerate" Mary is that venerate literally means to worship and/or be in awe of. They try to continue to move the goal posts, but words have meaning, so whether they say venere, honor, revere...it makes no difference; it's worship.
@@DapperDilla
Actually, you are wrong to claim that "venerate" is exactly identical to "worship"
According to the Cambridge English dictionary, to venerate is to "show HONOUR or a lot of respect for a person or thing"
Likewise, the oxford English dictionary defines venerate as "showing a lot of respect for a someone or something, especially someone or something that is considered holy or very important"
So we see that "venerate" isn't all about "Worship" (in the sense of giving someone or something the kind of recognition that belongs to God alone); it is a word that can mean "honour" and/or "respect", both of which are attitudes that are not reserved for God alone (for instance, we are honour our parents and those in positions of authority in the state)
Curiously, if the word "venerate" was a direct synonym of the word "Worship", why is it that there isn't any English translation of the bible that uses the word "venerate" in place of the word "Worship" ?
Listen, no matter how hard you try to twist and misrepresent Catholic teaching, the fact is that the Catholic Church doesn't believe that Mary should be worshipped as a divine being
@dman7668 *Where in the Bible says "obey Christ to be saved".*
*Versus "Believe in Jesus to be saved. Not By Works. Saved to obey God, John 3:16, Eph 2:8-10"?*
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It does teach obedience to Christ is necessary and part of meeting the requirements for salvation. It's not by faith alone as you know.
Ephesians 2:8-9
"For by GRACE are ye saved through FAITH and that NOT of yourselves. It is the GIFT of God NOT works lest any man should boast. "
What about this aren't you understanding?
2024. Thank you Holy Spirit for leading me out of the Catholic Church as a child.
@daughteroftheMostHighGod519 *PTL. And the first thing Roman religion mislead believers in is Roman religion pretending to be the Universal Church.*
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2024. Thank you Holy Spirit for leading me out of the Catholic Church as a child.
@@mpkropf5062 *RCs love false claims. Bible and real history did not say “Roman religion = home or Christ’s Church or the Universal Church”. So where did RCs get all these self claims?*
@@mpkropf5062 *If Roman Catholicism is truth or Church of the Bible, why was there not a single New Covenant believer saved in a Roman Catholic way in the whole Bible? Why is that so? Please explain coherently intelligently.*
- submit to Roman pope to be saved
- devote to Roman Mary to be saved
- be in Roman Church to be saved
- partake Roman sacraments to be saved
- baptise in Roman baptism to be saved
- do lots of works t
@@browncony3897 The Bible says Universal Church and Universal means Catholic. It started in Rome is why it got called Roman Catholic. Luther removed a lot and whole books from the Bible so if you read a Protestant Bible you are not reading the Full Gospel! RC does not make false claims, but the Protestant has a very false doctrine made by man! Many Protestants are waking up and seeing how much they have been lied to about the RC! Take a RCIA class and learn the truth of what the Church believes and has believed for over 2000 years! Jesus taught against man-made religion, which is what Protestant is and it was never His plan but the devil is happy about the 40,000 + that go against Jesus Church!
@@mpkropf5062 *Where in the Bible ever said "Roman religion = the Church of the Bible or the Universal Church or Church Christ founded or Jesus' Church"? This is the most hilarious claim of RCs. I want to see proof. Not self claims.*
*You are demonstrating you do not read the Bible. Since when did Church of the Bible "started" in Rome? Lol. Bible says Church started in Jerusalem. You think Jesus was a Roman?*
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The Bible says Universal Church and Universal means Catholic. It started in Rome is why it got called Roman Catholic.
@frankvw4819 *You failed to answer once again. Where in the Bible or real history says "Roman religion = the Universal Church or Christ’s Church". So where is your proof? Only self claims?*
I never seen a single person healed in the name of Mary in my lifetime
Mary gives not glory to herself but to her son.
@@polycarpsmith1419 So give the glory directly to the one who deserves it - Jesus Christ.
@@elsemorris906 If I praise my mother for being a great and holy person, does Christ get jealous? If you praise others for doing well, is your christ so petty he is insulted by praising others that help others? No, all good and godly things come from God and by praising others for their good works, God is praised who is the author of every good and all godliness. Get over yourselves.
@@elsemorris906 How true, indeed all of Mary's goodness comes from God the origin of all heavenly mercies, love and every good work.
@@polycarpsmith1419 To Whom did Jesus pray?
John's gospel chapter 4:1-2 "Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John 2 (though JESUS HIMSELF did NOT BAPTIZE, but His disciples)"
Context for the word "Baptism" straight from the mouth of Jesus (recorded in 2 gospels):
Matthew 20:22 "But Jesus answered and said, “You do not know what you ask. Are you able to DRINK THE CUP that I am about to drink, and be BAPTIZED with the BAPTISM that I am BAPTIZED with?” They said to Him, “We are able.”
Mark 10:38 "38 But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you ask. Are you able to DRINK THE CUP that I drink, and be BAPTIZED with the BAPTISM that I am BAPTIZED with?” 9 They said to Him, “We are able.”
Notice the word "drink" and the word "baptize" are not always used in the context that we've been taught... Think about that with reference to the Lord's Supper (the last supper, the communion, etc...) and the way we've corrupted those thoughts into a cannabilistic ritual from pagan rituals.
YOU = the way we've corrupted those thoughts into a cannabilistic ritual from pagan rituals.
ME = HOLY COMMUNION
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But, “Lord, Lord, we ate and drank with you.” - Luke 13:26. Not good enough. What does Jesus want? He wants us not to eat with Him, He wants us to eat Him. “This is My Body, This is My Blood.” (Mark 14:22-23) For over two thousand years our Roman Catholic tradition has boldly proclaimed and professed and taught that Jesus Christ is truly present Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity at the Holy Eucharist at Mass. We call it the miracle of transubstantiation-the changing (trans) of the substance of bread and wine into the flesh and blood of Jesus.
Jesus is the God - the Living Bread = John 6:50 - that came from Heaven to teach us the Way, Truth and Life to Heaven. He has been assigned all Judgement - John 5:22. Jesus declared that to have Eternal Life, one must - Eat My Flesh, Drink My Blood - which is Real Food and Drink = John 6:53-58.Many of Jesus' disciples broke away because they could not accept this - John = 6:66 =. Because they realized that Jesus meant - Real - as evidenced by the word - Gnaw, as on a bone - which He used for - Eat. Moreover, Paul urges its - worthy - reception = 1 Cor. 11:27 = something that he would not do if it was symbolic.
In fact, the earliest Christians were labelled as - cannibals - due to this fact.
(NOTE - The same John who wrote the Gospel of John 6:66, also wrote the Book of Revelation and stated that the mark of the anti-Christ is number = 666 = - Rev 13:18 Truly, those who do not believe in the = real = presence of Jesus have adopted an anti-Christ mentality)
When Jesus declared = “The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing, He was referring to the 2 Breads that came down from Heaven. The bread of Manna was for physical sustenance only. On the other hand, Jesus was the spiritual Bread from Heaven who came to give - eternal life - for those eating Him. And Jesus was born in Bethlehem which translates as - House of Bread.
Despite this, Protestants declare this to be - symbolic - despite Jesus' disciples realizing that Jesus was talking - REAL - and that is why they broke away.
That Holy Communion - Eucharist, which means Thanksgiving in Greek - is the Real Body and Blood has been confirmed by Eucharistic Miracles. Check the Internet for the 1996 Eucharistic Miracle of Buenos Aires and the 8th Century Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano, Italy
NOTE - Satanists will steal a consecrated " Catholic " Communion host for use in their diabolical " Black Masses." They will not use the hosts of near-Catholic yet Protestant denominations like the Anglicans, Methodists, Lutherans among others as these don't have the " Real " Presence of Jesus
Below are some of the details of the research done on the still existing Communion host of the 8 th Century. Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano, Italy
In 1970-'71 and taken up again partly in 1981 there took place a scientific investigation by the most illustrious scientist Prof. Odoardo Linoli, eminent Professor in Anatomy and Pathological Histology and in Chemistry and Clinical Microscopy. He was assisted by Prof. Ruggero Bertelli of the University of Siena.The analyses were conducted with absolute and unquestionable scientific precision and they were documented with a series of microscopic photographs.
These analyses sustained the following conclusions:
The Flesh is real Flesh. The Blood is real Blood.
The Flesh and the Blood belong to the human species.
The Flesh consists of the muscular tissue of the heart.
In the Flesh we see present in section: the myocardium, the endocardium, the vagus nerve and also the left ventricle of the heart for the large thickness of the myocardium.
The Flesh is a "HEART" complete in its essential structure.
The Flesh and the Blood have the same blood-type: AB (Blood-type identical to that which Prof. Baima Bollone uncovered in the Holy Shroud of Turin).
In the Blood there were found proteins in the same normal proportions (percentage-wise) as are found in the sero-proteic make-up of the fresh normal blood.
In the Blood there were also found these minerals: chlorides, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, sodium and calcium.
The preservation of the Flesh and of the Blood, which were left in their natural state for twelve centuries and exposed to the action of atmospheric and biological agents, remains an extraordinary phenomenon.
@@loboman8029 I have witnessed the evidence of brainwashing before, but it seems to be COMPLETE in you...
John 6:63 "The Spirit ALONE gives eternal life. HUMAN EFFORT ACCOMPLISHES NOTHING. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life."
John 6:68 Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? YOU HAVE THE WORDS that give ETERNAL LIFE. 69 We believe, and we know you are the Holy One of God.”
Jesus is the WORD, Jesus is the BREAD One of these is NOT LIKE THE OTHER. The Word is how John OPENS his Gospel. The Bread is symbolic. Jesus expects us to digest (think about and meditate upon) his Words.
Hebrews 5: 11-14 (look at this, another comparison between word and food)
" There is much more we would like to say about this, but it is difficult to explain, especially since YOU ARE SPIRITUALLY DULL and don’t seem to listen. 12 You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, YOU NEED SOMEONE TO TEACH YOU AGAIN THE BASIC THINGS ABOUT GOD'S WORD.
YOU ARE LIKE BABIES WHO NEED MILK AND CANNOT EAT SOLID FOOD. 13 For someone who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn’t know how to do what is right. 14 SOLID FOOD IS FOR THOSE WHO ARE MATURE, WHO THROUGH TRAINING HAVE THE SKILL TO recognize the difference between right and wrong."
@@brianstough5286 So you are telling me that the many disciples who often witnessed the miracles of Jesus or learnt of them from the Apostles themselves, including Peter's declaration of Jesus as Messiah =
Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” = Matthew 16:16-18 =
and who rejoiced on their return from their mission whereby =
17 Later, the 72 disciples that Jesus had sent out returned to him. They were very happy. ‘Master,’ they said, ‘even bad spirits obey us. When we use your name, they do what we say.’ = Luke 10:17-20
would abandon Jesus ?? if they thought Jesus was talking = symbolic = ????
Who is spiritually dull ?????????????????????????
And why would Paul caution the = unworthy = reception of Holy Communion if it was symbolic =
27 So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. = 1 Corinthians 11:27.
Children play with =plastic= cups and food. Do their mothers require them to wash their hands first so as to worthily play in their = symbolic = setting ????
John 6:66 - Jesus' speech made many of his disciples go back to the lives they had led before they followed Jesus
18 This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666 = Revelation 13:18
Those who don't believe in the = real = presence, are unwittingly taking the spirit of anti-Christ
Catholics and = true = Christians believe Jesus' words =
Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day = John 6:53-58
"a cannabilistic ritual from pagan rituals."
If you are referring to the Eucharist, this is blasphemy. Jesus instituted the Eucharist, not pagans. Read the New Testament. Read a history of the Church.
@@brianstough5286 "The Bread is symbolic."
That's not in the Bible. Jesus and the Apostles never taught that. Jesus explained the meaning of bread in John 6. He said, "The bread I will give *is* MY FLESH for the life of the world," and "Unless you eat the FLESH of the Son of Man and drink His BLOOD, you have no life in you."
Read an actual book on Christianity. Christians never believed what you believe, but what the Catholic Church always and everywhere taught and believed since the beginning. The specific heresy you are promoting against the revelation of Jesus Christ only got traction a few hundred years ago. Do you believe that God contradicted Himself, teaching one thing for 1500 years and then suddenly teaching the opposite? And why would you think that YOU are so special and "mature" that you can simply "read the Bible" and God will start giving you ridiculous 'revelations' that contradict what He gave to the Church 2000 years ago?
In short, Mary is Semiramis
I think a lot of this comes fron protestants fundamentally misunderstanding "worship".
Their critiques of veneration of Mary or the saints are always misrepresenting Catholicism because they seem to think of worship differently than Catholics.
This in part is why I think the early church is so far removed from modern protestantism. A changing of the terms.
Catholics also look at protestants today and see a lot of prayer and teaching, but very little worship.
We use the terms differently. But if we were more aware of that and defined our terms, we could make far more useful and accurate arguments than stuff like this that simply misunderstands the topic and adds nothing to the conversation.
Even the title is incorrect on this, and can only be mistaken in that way from a protestant view of worship. That view of course can't be applied to the Catholic view of worship. That would be an incoherent cross up leading to a bad, sophist argument.
I mean this all charitably as a Catholic. We could both gain from defining our terms for eachother to engage in deeper discussion.
Wish all the prots here the best.
What is the Catholic view of worship? What does it entail and what does it not entail?
@@stever4181 I think the main difference is protestants see prayer and devotion as worship. Thats why they can't involve anyone else in prayer, they do prayer and teaching in church etc. Catholics see worship or "worthyship" as its old world meaning of sacrifice. We also have prayer and teaching at mass, but we then have the eucharistic sacrifice, the sacred alter on which it occurrs, the priest who's office was first created as the one who carries out a sacrifice, and the high church itself is a sacrifice.
These aspects of worship are entirely absent from most protestant traditions, and through the protestant lense I can see the communion of saints being more in competition with worship of Christ. In the Catholic lense, the communion of saints serves to further supplement and glorify the worship of Christ, it in no way deviates from or distracts from it.
Joe Heschmeyer has a great video on this topic if its of interest to you.
@@gainsofglory6414 Thanks for your explanation.
I have a question. You said, " through the protestant lense I can see the communion of saints being more in competition with worship of Christ."
Can you please explain this?
@@stever4181 I think they see prayer to someone else as worship of that person instead of Christ because to them, prayer is the main source of worship. They think its avoiding Christ or making the saints a new mediator.
Catholics see the communion of saints is only made possible by the body of Christ and its for us to use. When one prays for intercessory prayer from the saints, its not in competition to worship of Christ. Its seeking for the saints to pray to Christ while you also pray to Christ. It supplements and multiplies that prayer ten fold, and none of this is in competition or distraction from true worship at the lord's altar and sacrifice but in maximization of it.
@@gainsofglory6414 You use the words, "I think". What are you basing your thinking on?
We don't idolize Mary. We honor her just as Jesis did.
@paulmurray3671 *RCs making statues to Mary and bowing down to all of them is already a form of worship. RCs are in deep denial. Lol*
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John MacArthur is a false prophet and a blasphemous liar. Catholics do NOT worship Mary.
@@jediv9910 that is exactly who he is he has a spiritOf anAntichrist.
Who is "we?" In 1996 Pope John Paul 2 declared Mary as co-mediatrix, meaning you can reach the Father by going through her, my point is most Catholics don't even know Canon law.
You worship her. Stop kidding yourself.
@can my prayers not reach the father by asking YOU to pray for me?
Mary is in a deep sleep til Jesus returns!
But Moses and Elijah took flying lessons in the great beyond?
I hope she dosen't snore and wake me up.
@@TheGuitarReb
If I were Jesus and you disrespected y mother I would kick your butt all around the universe until you learned some respect!
She's up in heaven
@@bridgefinstrange doctrine..... perpetual virginity. SINLESS birth
Mother of God
Spouse of the holy Spirit
None in SCRIPTURE..... none
Reformed Christians have never excommunicated anyone because of Marian idolatry. The Catholic Church, in the 7th century, excommunicated a small group that recognized Mary as God. The Catholic Church condemns all idolatry. Why do Reformed Christians not take this as seriously.
Because they have a common agenda. Negate everything that is Catholic. why? Because they have to defend their rebellious break from Roman Catholicism. That’s all.
Because its ludicrous to think that someone would believe Mary is God, so why even bother.
@@the-hollywood-dog-says-6072 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyridianism
Reformed Christians have false doctrines that need internal, medicinal correction.
The best connection that the humaman race has to Jesus, is his human mother Mary. When people ignore or belittle her, they are attacking the link that connects them to Jesus. Insulting a man's mother. goes against logic & against the bond which the Father puts between a mother and her son. Belittling a man's mother is a grave insult to any man, and will never acheive a favourable response from any man. Protestantism is not logical, & protestantism has nothing to do with Jesus.
@frankvw4819 *Your endless self claims is useless. Still nowhere says the Church refers to Roman religion. So where is your proof? Only self claims?*
*Bible never once defined Church the way Roman religion defined it. Bible says Church refers to "all local churches + all believers". Church is the assembly of believers. Church has always been there since the start of it. There was not an era without a true believer.*
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It is obvious Jesus didn't say to his Apostles "Now, I want you to start the Catholic Church"!! HOWEVER, it is clear that Jesus spent three years preparing His Apostles and ordained successors to go on mission to spread the Gospel. You CANNOT ARGUE that Jesus didn't want a Church established worldwide (hence - UNIVERSAL) having ONE BAPTISM, ONE FAITH, TEACHING ONE TRUTH, ONE MEANS OF PRAYER and WORSHIP, ETC.(see John 17:20-23)
It means that His Church must be unified under the One Holy Faith, Teaching and Believing the Same Truths, guided by the same rules when it comes to faith and morals; in other words, how we are to live.
Before his ascension, Jesus GAVE THEM AUTHORITY AND INSTRUCTED the apostles, as church, “GO THEREFORE AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you” (Matt. 28:19-20).
More than just this commissioning, “He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me” (Luke 10:16).
As a guarantee that the Church will not fall into error Jesus promised them the Holy Spirit: “But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.” (John 14:26)
We also see this authority being handed on beyond the Twelve, to Paul and others. “God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers” (1 Cor. 12:28; cf. Eph. 4:11). This passage from St. Paul is reminiscent of the prophet Malachi: “For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and men should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts” (Mal.2:7).
CHRIST'S CHURCH WILL LAST FOREVER AND IS TO BE INFALLIBLE when it comes to FAITH and MORALS: "AND I TELL YOU you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
YOU = CHRIST'S CHURCH WILL LAST FOREVER AND IS TO BE INFALLIBLE when it comes to FAITH and MORALS
ME = Of all the religions, our = Living = God JESUS has favoured Roman Catholic Christianity, more than all others, with His presence and manifestations in the past 2,000 years.
Catholics have been favoured with Eucharistic Miracles- like the 1996 Eucharistic Miracle of Buenos Aires, Argentina & in Lanciano, Italy in the 8th C - among many other miracles
(( Note - Satanists will steal a consecrated " Catholic " Holy Communion host for use in their diabolical " Black Masses'' They will keep away from the communion hosts of near-Catholic but Protestant denominations like the Anglicans, Methodists and the Lutherans precisely because these don't have the Presence of Jesus. ))
In Acts 2:27 - we read - For God will not allow His Holy one to undergo corruption. Likewise, God has clothed with incorruptibility the corpses of Catholic saints who have led a holy life in conformity with Jesus. The 500 year incorrupt corpse of St. Francis Xavier, which resides in Goa, India.is one example. The incorrupt corpse of the Lebanese St. Charbel Makhlouf is another example.
Fr. Albert Hebert has compiled a list of over 400 resurrections of people who died but were raised to life by many Catholic saints. His book - Raised from the Dead - is available in book-stores.
Jesus, our Living God, has appeared to many saints.
In the 14th C, Jesus appeared to St. Bridget of Sweden who was much desirous of knowing about his agony He endured on the Way to Calvary - in other words, His Passion & Death. For a whole year Jesus taught her 15 Prayers and attached Promises to anyone who repeats these Prayers continuously for a year - the 1st Promise being - Jesus will deliver 15 souls of his/her lineage from Purgatory. ( Note - you can check the Internet under - The 15 Prayers of St. Bridget - and also view the Promises. )
And in the 1930's, not yet a hundred years ago, Jesus appeared almost daily to a Polish Nun, Sr. Faustina, and taught her the following prayer - Eternal Father, I offer you the Body & Blood, Soul & Divinity of your dearly Beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. In atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and the whole world. - This is in line with The Lord's Prayer which is pluralistic with the words - Our, Us, We, etc.(( Note = Sr Faustina kept a Diary of Jesus visits which is available from book-stores with its Title - Divine Mercy in My Soul
I urge you to purchase a copy and read it. ))
In 1995, Jesus appeared to a Nigerian named Barnabas and gave him the Devotion to His Precious Blood.
Mary has appeared in many places like Lourdes, France and Fatima, Portugal, and Guadalupe, Mexico City, Mexico - among many other places and at different times. Moreover, She has appeared for 3 years nightly over a Coptic Church in Zeitoun, Egypt and pictures of her are available on the Internet.
Lastly, before the Catholic Church declares a person - Saint - 2 first class miracles must be attributed to that deceased person - miracles which are mostly authenticated by non-Catholic doctors and professionals.
On the other hand, the agents of Satan, Communists and Masons - aka Free-Masons - have long sought to infiltrate the Catholic Church clergy and thus undermine its teachings In the 1960's, ex-Communist executive of the Communist Party of USA, Bella Dodd testified before the US Congress that the Communists had sent over a 1,000 men into Catholic seminaries (( Note - this can be checked on the Internet. ))
Undoubtedly, the Catholic Church has been favoured by our Living God and at the same time has been the target of God's enemies - because she represents the Truth regarding her Doctrine.
Secondly, The Bible is, historically, a dated book as it records only to the 1st Century. Thus we read only the deaths of Judas and James but not about the other 10 Apostles or of Paul as to when, where and how they died. Does it mean that, because their deaths are not recorded, that they are still alive ?? Obviously not.
Paul declares the Bible - useful and profitable - in 2 Timothy 3:16, but that the = Church = is the Bulwark and Pillar of Truth - 1 Timothy 3:15. That is because the Church, the community of Believers, came first - Matthew 16:18 - and incorporates both the written word as well as the oral tradition - 2 Thessalonians 2:15.
And the Bible declares that Jesus performed a = World of Works = which are unrecorded - John 21:25. As a result 2 traditions ensued - oral and written - 2 Thess. 2:15 - which are of equal merit.
By "Sola Scriptura" Protestants are only receiving part of Divine Truth thus resulting in so many denominations.
The Catholic Church was founded on Peter's declaration of Jesus' Divinity - Matt. 16:16 and Jesus' promise - Matt 16:17-19- and holds to both traditions. It is the Church of the Living God and the Pillar and Bulwark of Truth - 1 Timothy 3:15
On the other hand, Protestantism is a religious philosophy - a hearer and not doer of the Word thus deceiving themselves - James1:22. While there is belief in Christ to be sure, there is no substance, no forms of worship and thanksgiving to our God Jesus for His - WORKS - of creation and redemption. There is no Confession as per the formula that Jesus gave on the very day of His Resurrection from the dead , when He - empowered - His Apostles to forgive sins - or - retain them- John 20:22-23. There is no participation in Holy Communion which Jesus declared was - Real Food and Drink - for ETERNAL LIFE - John 6:53-58. Even their churches have no kneelers to kneel and bow down before our God and Maker. And there is no difference between Protestant marriage and - easy - divorce and non-Christian ones.
@scootahscoot9389 *Bible does not say "Mary = ark of new covenant". So where did RCs get all your ns?*
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Protestants misunderstanding of Ark of the New Covenant almost as bad as their rejection of the Eucharist (Jn 6:53)
Do you really think that Jesus is jealous of his own mother period if someone honors your mother? I think it makes you happy. I think that it makes our lord happy when we show honor to his mother.. I think I'd be very careful when criticizing the mother of god.
Mary IS NOT THE MOTHER OF GOD!!! mary was merely a human womb for the Holy Spirit, who is God, to create Jesus' fleshly body!!! Mary is DEAD IN HER GRAVE!!! You catholics are so deluded and deceived! Mary had 4 other sons and at least 2 sisters, as SCRIPTURE TELLS US!!! DUH!!
John McArthur lead me back to the Catholic Church, because I caught him telling falsehoods about the Catholic Church.
John stated there there are no Bible verses supporting the Catholic Church teachings on Mary.
He brings up Ineffabilis Deus
The Immaculate Conception.
These are the footnotes which reference to the Bible from that document, (John, why did you miss these footnotes)
So out of 29 footnotes, there are 13 direct references to the Bible.
13. Gn 3:15.
15. Cf. Gn. 6:9.
16. Cf. Gn 28:12.
17. Cf. Ex 3:2.
18. Cf. Sg 4:4.
19. Cf. Sg 4:12.
20. Cf. Ps 87:1.
21. Cf. Is 6:1-4.
22. Cf. Lk 1:28.
23. Ibid., 42.
24. Cf. St. Augustine: De Natura et Gratia, c. 36.
25. Gn 3:15.
26. Cf. Ex 31:2.
27. Cf. Ibid., n. 19ff.
28. Cf. Ibid., n. 27ff.
could you be more specific please? where in scriptures is mary sinless, assumed, to be prayed to, is a mediator, or has anything to do with mans salvation?
@@stever4181 the post is about John McArthur's claim of the lack of support in the Bible for the Catholics Church teachings. If you have a question that deals with those scriptures, send it my way.
If you want to play scattagories, then say so upfront
@@Myfreddiemac And so I did ask and you have not answered.
@@stever4181 Luke 1
@@Myfreddiemac Which part of Luke 1? That was an incomplete answer.
"Beware lest anyone cheat you THROUGH PHILOSOPHY AND EMPTY DECEIT, according to the TRADITION OF MEN, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ." Colossians 2:8 NKJV
A few verses later:
"Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in FALSE HUMILITY and WORSHIP OF ANGELS, intruding into those things which he has not seen, VAINLY PUFFED UP by his fleshly mind,..." Colossians 2:18 NKJV
And, a little farther down:
"...why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations- 21 “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” 22 which all concern THINGS WHICH PERISH with the using-according to the commandments and DOCTRINES OF MEN? 23 These things indeed have AN APPEARANCE OF WISDOM IN SELF-IMPOSED RELIGION, FALSE HUMILITY AND NEGLECT OF THE BODY, but are OF NO VALUE against the indulgence of the flesh." Colossians 2:20-23 NKJV
it's almost as if Paul and Peter agreed on these things that they witnessed "forming in the bud" (2 Peter chapter 2)
Maybe the Catholics who believe all of this about Mary should seriously open their Bible themselves and read Matthew 12: 46-50. These words came from Jesus himself when he was told that his mother and brothers were wanting to speak with him.
Someone told him, " Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you." He replied to them, " Who is my mother, and who are my brothers? " Pointing to his disciples, he said, " Here are my mother and my brothers. He declares that anyone who does the will of His Father in Heaven is his brother and sisters and mother. It's all about loving your neighbors as yourselves and obeying the commandments. Faith in Jesus alone is how you enter into Heaven. Nowhere in the Bible does it even hint that it has anything to do with his mother, Mary. God bless, and I sincerely pray for us all 🙏❤
Who said it Has to be in the Bible. The church is the pillar of truth that is in the Bible. Not all Christian doctrine can be found in the Bible. Jesus never gave the 12 apostles a Bible it didn’t exist for 400 years how did the entire Roman empire become Christian in 400 years without a Bible. If you cannot answer that question how can you be expected to understand anything about Christianity. The 10 Commandments are in the Bible do you know them all onto your father and your mother she only come out with a promise and a curse. You are condemning the mother of Jesus you are opening up yourself or a curse. That’s in the Bible.
You’ll believe more stuff about Maryann talks to you make up stuff about what Catholics believe. That makes you a hypocrite. God frowns on people who say things that he did not say and proclaim things that God did not. Car usually punishes those people who do so so be careful at what you say. He will not disgrace the mother of Jesus and have Jesus let you get away with it. There’s a MacArthur guy is spawn of Satan. Follow him and you follow Lucifer. That’s in the Bible
AND, the greek word in Matthew 13:55 used for "Brothers" means "of the SAME WOMB"
Luke 2:7 "...Firstborn son..."
Terri
Great news! We do not believe what MacArthur says we believe. If we did, we would be condemned by the Catholic Church for idolatry. God bless!
@@IG88AAAYeah, the CREATOR is being represented by MacArthur
Romans 1:25 (for context, start at verse 18 and go through the remainder of the chapter)
25 "... They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and WORSHIPPED AND SERVED CREATED THINGS rather than THE CREATOR -who is forever praised. Amen.
- the Creation (catholic [man-made] organization) is condemning you for believing (or even listening) in THE CREATOR's WORD (remember, WORD became flesh)
I think I would rather listen and see what THE BIBLE says instead of some Man-Made dogma/tradition!!
“He’s just a carpenter, the SON of Mary and the BROTHER (of the same womb, or 'born of the same parent or parents") of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon. And his sisters live right here among us.” They were deeply offended and refused to believe in him.
4 Then Jesus told them, “A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and AMONG HIS RELATIVES AND HIS OWN FAMILY.” Mark 6:3-4
@savannahfan *You are making false claims again RC. Where in the Bible ever said Michael and John “venerated Mary”? Where? If you can find that I will give you a lollipop.*
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Like I said, if the Archangel Gabriel and John the Baptist are willing to venerate our Lady, that’s good enough for me