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Priestly Confession and Absolution

(1)The Catholic doctrine insists that in order to be seen as clean by God, every person must confess to a priest, who then gives them absolution for their sins. In other words, this is clearly a "salavtion by human effort" mentality, which erases the need for Christ's sacrifice completely.
“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." ~1 Timothy 2:5~
(2)The doctrine of necessary confession places the priest in divine authority, seemingly with no need to involve Jesus at all. This then raises the question, "Whom does the priest confess to when he screws up?" What makes a priest so fundamentally different from the parishioners in this way?

1. In order to be Saved, I must believe and repent. This is an effort made on my part. I am a human. This is a human effort to attain salvation, and I only attain salvation because of Christ’s salvation for me that I am rewarded for believing and repenting.

2. Christ places the priest in authority: “When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." (John 20 22:23). The priest says this: “"I absolve you from your sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." This involves Jesus acting through the priest (as per his permission in the quote above from John) and is only possible because of Christ’s sacrifice on the cross for the forgiveness of sins. We are forgiven in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
And who does the priest go to? Another priest. The Pope also confesses to a priest. Priests and parishoners are all human, all sin, all need forgiveness. There is no difference.

The 3 Vows for Nuns

Simply put, the vows every nun is required to take upon entering a convent include the following:

(1)The Vow of Poverty
(2)The Vow of Obedience
(3)The Vow of Chastity


Luckily for me, I have a great amount of experience working with, learning under, and knowing nun and monks (who are female and male versions of the same thing).

1. "A certain ruler asked him, 'Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?' Jesus said to him, 'Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: 'You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; Honor your father and mother.' He replied, 'I have kept all these since my youth.' When Jesus heard this, he said to him, 'There is still one thing lacking. Sell all that you own and distribute the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me. Jesus looked at him and said, 'How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!'" (Lk. 18:18-23)
It isn’t that one can’t own things to get close to God, so much as it is seen as a sacrifice to give up things for God. If you are not willing to give up all you own for Christ, then there may be a problem. Do you have to? No. The actual vow of poverty is that you own nothing. No property is yours. Property is shared and sparse. You have only what you need to survive.

2. The Abbess, Mother Superior (for nuns) or Abbot (for monks) does not replace Christ at all. She/He is merely the head of the body, so to speak, and seeing how all authority is given by God (none have it on their own), they obey their Abbess/Abbot. Why obey your parents? Because it is pleasing to God. In obeying your parents you are obeying God because they are the authority over you. You are not obligated to obey unjust authority, this also applies to nuns/monks. If their Abbess/Abbot tells them to do anything contrary to Scriptures, they are obligated not to do it.

3. This is a custom. This is a practice…we are all called to Chastity anyways, are we not? Chastity before marriage says we do not fornicate. Chastity within marriage says we do not commit adultery. The life of a monk/nun is the single life, so the chastity appropriate to that life is one without fornication.
Mind you, no one has to become a nun or a monk. It is a choice. One freely chooses to do this, and one freely chooses to live in poverty, obedience, and chastity. If one does not like this, they do not have to be a monk or nun.

Catholicism and Homosexuality

The Church considers homosexuality to be a disordered condition. It considers homosexual sex to be sinful. Homosexuals, the Church teaches, are called to a life of celibacy. As celibates, they must live chastely as all Christians must: that means, as people who can not be married because marriage is reserved exclusively between a man and a woman, that they are called to a life without sex since abstinence is the rule for unmarried people.

Now, priests molesting kids is a statistically very rare thing, and has no barring on what the Church teaches about homosexuality. These links may be helpful on that topic:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26955
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0405/p01s01-ussc.html
http://www.advocateweb.org/cease/csa.htm
http://www.reformation.com/CSA/startPage.html
 
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Does anyone not find it shameful that there is a specific thread devoted exclusively to Catholic Bashing? Why must you have to bash us? I have never felt more hated in my life to be perfectly honest.
 
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Who cares what a woman said? Who cares what her priest said? They are not the Church, they are members of the church and are 100% capable of being wrong. I don’t believe them, I believe what the Church teaches

I believe the Word over any earthly "religious institution". Salvation comes through Christ, not the church.......And no, no one absolves sins through anyone else...We can go directly to Christ w/o the pope or priest....

"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" 1 Timothy 2:5
 
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Does anyone not find it shameful that there is a specific thread devoted exclusively to Catholic Bashing? Why must you have to bash us? I have never felt more hated in my life to be perfectly honest.
No one hates you. It's more along the lines that we hate the evils of the Catholic church.
 
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Hey All

Well I just thought I'd join in the slander of God's people.. hope you don't mind.
I thought I'd quote someone far more inspirational a real Father of the Church today... lets hear what he has to say..
oh and note his wonderful use of scripture and speaking on God's behalf and true heart.


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"Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in-which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and vehming his eyes on them. God's wrath has consigned them to the presumption that their boasting, their conceit, their slander of God, their cursing of all people are a true and a great service rendered to God — all of which is very fitting and becoming to such noble blood of the fathers and circumcised saints. This they believe despite the fact that they know they are steeped in manifest vices mently, just as the devils themselves do. And where you see or hear a Jew teaching, remember that you are hearing nothing but a venomous basilisk who poisons and kills people merrily by fasten- And with all this, they claim to be doing right. Be on your guard against them!

The devil with all his angels has taken possession of this people, so that they always exalt external things their gifts, their deeds, their works before God, which is tantamount to offering God the empty shells without the kernels. These they expect God to esteem and by reason of them accept them as his people, and exalt and bless them above all Gentiles. But that he wants his laws observed and wants to be honored by them as God, this they do not want to consider. Thus the words of Moses are fulfilled when he says [Deut. 32:21] that God will not regard them as his people, since they do not regard him as their God. Hosea 2 [cf. 1:9] expresses the same thought.

Fifth, I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews. For they have no business in the countryside, since they are not lords, officials, tradesmen, or the like. Let them stay at home. I have heard it said that a rich Jew is now traveling across the country with twelve horses his ambition is to become a Kokhba devouring princes, lords, lands, and people with his usury, so that the great lords view it with jealous eyes. If you great lords and princes will not forbid such usurers the highway legally, some day a troop may gather against them, having learned from this booklet the true nature of the Jews and how one should deal with them and not protect their activities. For you, too, must not and cannot protect them unless you wish to become participants in an their abominations in the sight of God. Consider carefully what good could come from this, and prevent it.

Do not grant them protection, safe-conduct, or communion with us. Do not aid and abet them in acquiring your money or your subjects' money and property by means of usury..."

(A selection of passages taken from the papers entitled 'The Jews and their Lies' by Martin Luther founder of the Protestant Church

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Oh and it turns out quoting this guy is old news... his papers went towards the formation of ideas captured in a famous book called Mein Kampf. Seems Hitler would grow quite confident that he wouldn't have any problems or 'protests' from his 'Protestant' Christian Germany.. in fact he would launch Krystalnacht[/I] on the eve of the great Christian Author's birth who had inspired him so much...
after all Protestants can have such a passionate religious hatred for sinners and those who practice all kinds of abominations right?? (oh but they weren't real Christians were they? Real Christians.. The True believers would have done something right?

Now I LOVE all the body of Christ... Protestant AND Catholics (And if anyone has a right to hating both of you and your doctrines it's me as a Jew...

but lets not forget amongst our jubilant celebrations of all things Protestant that the Catholic Catechism includes wonderful doctrinal statements on Israel and the Jews.. that frankly Protestant churches have yet to come close in making)

SO let's re-evaluate... if someone like Martin Luther who got SO much right, can get it SO wrong maybe we too ALL can get it SO RIGHT and yet SO WRONG...

Until then I'll always be wary of those who claim to be staunch lovers and defenders of one people and their practices and yet so filled with hatred for another's and their practices...
 
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Hey All

Well I just thought I'd join in the slander of God's people.. hope you don't mind.
I thought I'd quote someone far more inspirational a real Father of the Church today... lets hear what he has to say..
oh and note his wonderful use of scripture and speaking on God's behalf and true heart.


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"Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in-which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and vehming his eyes on them. God's wrath has consigned them to the presumption that their boasting, their conceit, their slander of God, their cursing of all people are a true and a great service rendered to God — all of which is very fitting and becoming to such noble blood of the fathers and circumcised saints. This they believe despite the fact that they know they are steeped in manifest vices mently, just as the devils themselves do. And where you see or hear a Jew teaching, remember that you are hearing nothing but a venomous basilisk who poisons and kills people merrily by fasten- And with all this, they claim to be doing right. Be on your guard against them!

The devil with all his angels has taken possession of this people, so that they always exalt external things their gifts, their deeds, their works before God, which is tantamount to offering God the empty shells without the kernels. These they expect God to esteem and by reason of them accept them as his people, and exalt and bless them above all Gentiles. But that he wants his laws observed and wants to be honored by them as God, this they do not want to consider. Thus the words of Moses are fulfilled when he says [Deut. 32:21] that God will not regard them as his people, since they do not regard him as their God. Hosea 2 [cf. 1:9] expresses the same thought.

Fifth, I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews. For they have no business in the countryside, since they are not lords, officials, tradesmen, or the like. Let them stay at home. I have heard it said that a rich Jew is now traveling across the country with twelve horses his ambition is to become a Kokhba devouring princes, lords, lands, and people with his usury, so that the great lords view it with jealous eyes. If you great lords and princes will not forbid such usurers the highway legally, some day a troop may gather against them, having learned from this booklet the true nature of the Jews and how one should deal with them and not protect their activities. For you, too, must not and cannot protect them unless you wish to become participants in an their abominations in the sight of God. Consider carefully what good could come from this, and prevent it.

Do not grant them protection, safe-conduct, or communion with us. Do not aid and abet them in acquiring your money or your subjects' money and property by means of usury..."

(A selection of passages taken from the papers entitled 'The Jews and their Lies' by Martin Luther founder of the Protestant Church

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Oh and it turns out quoting this guy is old news... his papers went towards the formation of ideas captured in a famous book called Mein Kampf. Seems Hitler would grow quite confident that he wouldn't have any problems or 'protests' from his 'Protestant' Christian Germany.. in fact he would launch Krystalnacht[/I] on the eve of the great Christian Author's birth who had inspired him so much...
after all Protestants can have such a passionate religious hatred for sinners and those who practice all kinds of abominations right?? (oh but they weren't real Christians were they? Real Christians.. The True believers would have done something right?

Now I LOVE all the body of Christ... Protestant AND Catholics (And if anyone has a right to hating both of you and your doctrines it's me as a Jew...

but lets not forget amongst our jubilant celebrations of all things Protestant that the Catholic Catechism includes wonderful doctrinal statements on Israel and the Jews.. that frankly Protestant churches have yet to come close in making)

SO let's re-evaluate... if someone like Martin Luther who got SO much right, can get it SO wrong maybe we too ALL can get it SO RIGHT and yet SO WRONG...

Until then I'll always be wary of those who claim to be staunch lovers and defenders of one people and their practices and yet so filled with hatred for another's and their practices...


That's funny because the Catholic church is super antisemetic and Luther himself hated the Jews. Which is why I am glad I am neither Catholic nor Protestant.
 
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That's funny because the Catholic church is super antisemetic and Luther himself hated the Jews. Which is why I am glad I am neither Catholic nor Protestant.
No I just wish you wouldnt write what you do with the israeli flag as your avatar.
 
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The Church isn't anti-semetic. Mel Gibson's dad might me, he might be, but the Church is not. Catholics in the past were on an individual basis. Catholic rulers (Emporers, Kings, Queens, etc) certainly were in the history of the world. Im sure a few individual popes were also. The Church is not. She merely prays that Jews (along with all non-Christians) will accept that Jesus is the messiah like Christians do. Anti-semetism is not taught by the church. It is learned from culture (which changes over time).

Luther hated the Jews a whole lot, but I wouldn't actually say that Lutherans are anti-semetic. Like us, some of their leaders were, unfortunately.
 
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No I just wish you wouldnt write what you do with the israeli flag as your avatar.
O I love the Jews very much so and am one by heritage. I can't stand anti-semetism against God's chosen people. I respect Luther for his role in the reformation, but he had alot of problems. As does anyone who makes anti-semetic remarks now.
 
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I for one, can't respect anyone who is racist. Anti-semitism is a form of racism, and it is inexcusable for a Christian to partake in it. I know. I've been told my whole life that all Southern white people are racist and hate black people. I never knew what that meant because no one was really racist around me when I grew up here in the South. Then my dad and I took a trip to Wisconsin to visit a very distant relative we found out we had. He went with us out to eat, and these black people came in to sit down and he starts going on about "look at these blacks! they think they own the place! bunch of monkeys, most ignorant people I ever meat...etc" I was so shocked he would say this. I was like "Well, I know my friends are the best people I know, and most of them are black." That shut him up a while. I just never understand how someone would ever think skin color / ethnicity would determine the worth of a person.
 
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I for one, can't respect anyone who is racist. Anti-semitism is a form of racism, and it is inexcusable for a Christian to partake in it. I know. I've been told my whole life that all Southern white people are racist and hate black people. I never knew what that meant because no one was really racist around me when I grew up here in the South. Then my dad and I took a trip to Wisconsin to visit a very distant relative we found out we had. He went with us out to eat, and these black people came in to sit down and he starts going on about "look at these blacks! they think they own the place! bunch of monkeys, most ignorant people I ever meat...etc" I was so shocked he would say this. I was like "Well, I know my friends are the best people I know, and most of them are black." That shut him up a while. I just never understand how someone would ever think skin color / ethnicity would determine the worth of a person.
We're all many nations, one blood. Only race is the human race.
 
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Miah45

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Baptist... you're 23... and got a while to figure this out...I'm not the oldest and wisest here by a long shot.. but if you truly love the Jews and hate anti-semitism then you'll learn to hate the kind of writing that goes on here. In Israel we say 'If you love the Jew with a soulish love then you will hate the Arab with a soulish hate' We teach Israeli believers to have a two-eyed vision. Love Israel and Ishmael. Loving Israel from God's heart not our own shows us how to love everyone else realizing they all have a special place in his heart. If I can forgive and not generalize nations who have tried to kill me.. then you can make the smaller step in learning to love Catholics. If you realize that God has not rejected Israel, then you need to realize he has not rejected the Catholic Church nor any other denomination.
 
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P.S. You should see what goes on in Israel!

We've aborted more babies since the holocaust than those that died in it!

That's an issue to make a stand against!
 
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Baptist... you're 23... and got a while to figure this out...I'm not the oldest and wisest here by a long shot.. but if you truly love the Jews and hate anti-semitism then you'll learn to hate the kind of writing that goes on here. In Israel we say 'If you love the Jew with a soulish love then you will hate the Arab with a soulish hate' We teach Israeli believers to have a two-eyed vision. Love Israel and Ishmael. Loving Israel from God's heart not our own shows us how to love everyone else realizing they all have a special place in his heart. If I can forgive and not generalize nations who have tried to kill me.. then you can make the smaller step in learning to love Catholics. If you realize that God has not rejected Israel, then you need to realize he has not rejected the Catholic Church nor any other denomination.
I love the people, I'm a missionary to them with the desire that they place their faith in Christ alone for salvation, I just hate the evils of the Catholic church as I have said above. They have been and still are the worst persecutors of the Baptist church (since before the reformation til today) but we still work with them.
 
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P.S. You should see what goes on in Israel!

We've aborted more babies since the holocaust than those that died in it!

That's an issue to make a stand against!
Yeah I live in the state that does the most late term abortions in the world.
 
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Yup hate seems to be a pretty good word to describe what's going on here, however unaware of it they may be. Someone in cc I heard say once it's pretty hard to hate someone when you're praying for them. I think that's good advice. I would like to offer an open prayer for all my brothers and sisters here to the Lord I ask that you soften all of our hearts, help us be accepting of one another even with each individual's beliefs, please guide us on our own path and keep us focused on what we need to do as an individual to be a better Christian, help us to see the wrong in our ways, help us to see where we are in darkness and don't really even know it, help us to grow in your love to be confident in our faith so we can keep our fears from leading us astray, help us to love one another as ourself and to love you, amen.
 
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I always ask God to help me understand so that I may be understood. Help me listen better so that I may be heard. Help me forgive so that I may be forgiven. Help me love so that I may be loved.
 
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I guess what we protestants fail to realise is that the catholic's identity is very much a part of the organisation/structure itself of the Roman Catholic church. So we can't really speak against the structure of the Roman Catholic Church without offending the members of it.
 
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"But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." John 4:23-24

Truth means no compromise to the truth in God's Word......God doesn't like apostasy. The one truth that is the most important is the truth of salvation through Christ ALONE for forgiveness of sins! Salvation is not found in religion, the church, man's good works, going to church, rituals etc....Its found SOLELY by the blood of Jesus Christ! Dont think for a moment you did anything to deserve heaven. It is by the merits of Christ ALONE!


“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: NOT OF WORKS, lest any man should boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9

The popular teaching that man cooperates with Christ in order to attain his salvation is heresy.....We serve the Lord because be love him and its our reasonable service, not to get salvation!(Romans 12:1, Ephesians 2:10) Its either 100% works or 100% grace, its not partly grace and partly works......The Word says its completely grace!

“And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But IF IT BE OF WORKS, THEN IT IS NO MORE GRACE: otherwise work is no more work.” Romans 11:6


To believe that you merit heaven even partly by good works will not save anyone!
 
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But roaring, what do you think happened to all the christians who lived prior to the reformation? Before the idea of sola fide etc really took off?
do you think they went to hell?
 
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