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These are some great points. I would have given other points totally different, but I agree with these.
Totally agree. I grew up as an RC and my experience was one of symbolism rather than substance. When I received Christ as Lord and Savior there errors became very clear to me.
Blessings, Roger Couture
Nice article. Also they have disconnected with the root – Jerusalem not Rome
Dear brother Joseph, I just have one truly honest question: What to you do with John 6? Jesus says 4 times in John 6 that he is the living bread and that we must eat his flesh if we wish to eternal life. However, many walked away, because it was too hard of a teaching. Peter was asked by Jesus if he wished to leave too. Jesus wasn’t backing down from this hard truth. He wants to feed us with the True Bread from Heaven. He would have been obliged to tell his disciples – as their teacher – that he was only speaking of a symbol. He didn’t back down. We must be willing to TRUST Jesus and believe in his word. St. Paul, says in 1 Cor. 11:23, that what he received from the Lord, he also handed on… that Jesus instituted the holy Eucharistic banquet for all believers on the night he was handed over. Paul continues that if anyone eats the bread or drinks the cup unworthily will have to answer for the body and the blood of the Lord. That is serious. Why does Paul warn the Corinthians of such a harsh reality if it just a symbol? Please my brothers in Christ. Pray, seek, knock. The bridegroom says come.
Boy, I’m so tired of continually being told by Evangelicals that Catholics worship Mary. Having a devotion to the Mother of God and asking for her prayers for oneself – and for the prayers of all the angels and saints – is just not the same as giving her the worship and adoration that rightly belongs only to God. If I can ask you, Joe, and other friends to pray for me I can surely ask the same of the Queen of Heaven, too. Though some Catholics have attempted to adumbrate a theory of a, so called, role of “co-redemptrix” for Mary, this is absolutely not, and never has been, a doctrine of the Catholic Church. So, please, Joe, in future let’s leave this moth-eaten canard on the trash heap, where it belongs. Now, for your penance please say the rosary, that wonderful collection of Gospel prayers, three times in honor of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen!
Joe, I can see you have an appreciation for the Catholic faith, but there are some misunderstandings you appear to have with Church teaching. I suggest you read the book by Scott Hahn – Rome Sweet Home. It will help you to clear up the misconceptions you and so many of the faithful, including Catholics have about the Church. Archbishop Fulton Sheen once said, “There are not more than 100 people in the world that truly hate the Catholic Church,but there are millions who hate what they perceive to be be the Catholic Church… I love being Catholic. I pray that the Holy Spirit will open your heart and mind to see the beauty of the Catholic Church.
THEY BOW TO A STATUE WHEN THEY ENTER THEIR CHURCH !
They do not read the bible. its only the priest!