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Catholic Mistake #18 Mary is the Mediatrix and Co-Redemptrix This is another one that catholics will deny and say that Mary's role as co-redeemer and mediatrix is not a formally defined dogma of the RCC. Really? It's right here in the catechism. 969 This motherhood of Mary in the order of grace...

John 3: 5-6 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh: and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. What is obvious to most people from these two verses is...

Catholic Mistake #17 Repetitive Prayers The rosary prayer also breaks the word of God by using vain repetitions. Matt 6: 7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do; for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. But catholics will say that the rosary is not...

Catholic Mistake #16 The Rosary Prayer...praying "to" Mary Catholics claim that they are not praying to Mary, but rather asking her to pray for us. Really! Then why is it called the rosary prayer and not the rosary ask? If this is not praying to Mary, then the person is not praying to God the...

Catholic Mistake #15 Idol Worship, Bowing to the Pope and to Mary Catholics love to bow down to the Pope and statues or pictures of Mary or other saints. Exodus 20: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the...

Catholic Mistake #14 The Pope is the Vicar of Christ What does this mean? The word vicar comes from the Latin word vicarius, meaning substitution. The pocket dictionary written by John A. Harden defines the vicar of Christ as the Pope, the visible head of the church on earth acting for and in...

Catholic Mistake #13 The RCC and Sola Scripture The RCC does not rely on the bible only for their teaching and preaching. They also rely on the catechism. Catechism is the name given to this written work that contains a summary of all the beliefs of the faith and is used as a teaching tool. If...

Catholic Mistake #12 The Catholic Church and Sacred Traditions One of the key differences between Catholics and Protestants is over whether the bible alone is sufficient in the final authority or the bible plus extra biblical sacred traditions. This might be the most important point in this...

Catholic Mistake #11 The Thirty Years War The 30 years war was a 17th century religious conflict fought primarily in central Europe. It remains as the longest and brutal wars in human history with more than eight million casualties resulting from military battles as well as from famine and...

Catholic Mistake #10 The RCC and the Inquisitions The RCC killed countless innocent christians and non-christians during the different inquisitions. The inquisition was a powerful office set up within the RCC to root out and punish heresy throughout Europe and the Amereicas. Beginning in the...

To us, if an entity is born with a human body, then born of water, meaning a human birth, seems superfluous. In God's world there are entities without bodies, with non-human bodies, and humans who have not been born yet. Also, what you wrote in your post about both water and Spirit representing...

Catholic Mistake #9 The RCC burned William Tyndale at the stake William Tyndale completed a translation of the new testament from greek to English in 1525 which the RCC in England tried to confiscate and burn. After issuing a revised edition in 1535, he was arrested, spent over a year in jail...

Catholic Mistake #8 The Catholic Church burned the Lollards John Wycliffe led a movement that became known as the Lollard movement or the Lollards. The Lollards opposed many practices of the RCC. So what did the RCC do? They burned a couple of the Lollards leaders. They burned John Babbie while...

Catholic Mistake #7 The Catholic Church burned Jan Hus at the stake Jan Hus (1372-1415), one of Wycliffe's followers actively promoted Wycliffe's ideas. So what did the RCC do? They burned him at the stake in 1415. They used Wycliffe's bibles as kindling for the fire.

The Holy Spirit is the mind, power, and presence of the invisible God the Father. Where the Holy Spirit is, the Father is. Isaiah 63: 9-10. When we are filled with the Holy Spirit, God resides in us. 1 Cor 3: 16. Old Testament prophets, when filled with the Holy Spirit, were able to speak God's...

Catholic Mistake #6 The RCC burned Wycliffe's bones John Wycliffe was the most famous priest of his day. His learning was immense. He had been a leading scholar at Oxford and a chaplain to the king of England. More to the point, he spoke out boldly against the heirs of the popes, the...

Catholic Mistake #5 The Catholic Church prohibited Bible reading in other languages and in other translations. The catholic church actually tried to stop the common man from possessing or reading the bible on their own and this intensified through the middle ages and later. Many catholics try...

Catholic Mistake #4 Catholics wrote/gave us the Bible God gave us the bible. The bible was written over a time period of 1500 years by 40 people who were all hand-picked by God. These books of the bible were written down on papyrus scrolls. Then what the catholic church did was gather all these...

Catholic Mistake #3 Catholics must have been in the Bible because of the word Saint. Saint does not equal catholic. The Roman Catholic Church has hijacked the word saint and has turned its meaning into something entirely different than what it means in the bible. In the bible, all saved...

Catholic Mistake #2 Catholics were the first Christians If catholics were to read their bibles, they would know that the first christians were at Antioch. Acts 11: 22, 26 Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem; and they sent forth Barnabas, that he...