Another woefully-ignorant statement.
If it weren’t for the Catholic Church - neither YOU nor ANY other renegade offshoot of Christianity would have ever heard about the Gospel let alone the rest of the New Testament.
Oh please.....it’s God’s word...remember? God can use whomever he wishes to carry out his will...even his enemies as he has demonstrated in the past. Since the Roman church was basically the only “Christianity” in existence when it was time to produce his complete word, he would use them to make his gospel known....the original scripture was inspired, not by the church, but by God’s spirit. I can assure you that there is a good reason why no scripture was ever penned by any member of the Catholic Church.
It was the Catholic Church that declared the Canon of Scripture ion the 4th century.
No it wasn’t....it was God who declared what was to be contained in his word....whom he used is inconsequential. He used Babylon to punish his disobedient people, but then destroyed Babylon for her own iniquities. He will destroy “Babylon the great” for the same reasons. (Rev 18:4-5)
Nope – I haven’t made a SINGLE excuse.
You never stop making them....
I’m pointing to the errors of LEADERS in the Church over the years who were just as guilty as the Protestant leaders who sanctioned the murders of countless Catholic.
That’s why I said that there was plenty of blood on everyone’s hands, Einstein . . .
And I agreed with you Einstein....the whole of Christendom is corrupt because they base their foundational beliefs on the RCC’s version of a three headed god....it’s adopted belief in an immortal soul.....and the fear mongering of eternal torment in Hell Fire.
Your church was the foundation of the devil’s counterfeit.....all who adopted her teachings, though they claim to be Christ’s disciples hold all three of those beliefs in common.....all Protestantism did was shave off the very obvious grafting of many false doctrines....the adoration of Mary which was merely mother goddess worship adopted from paganism....belief in Mary’s “immaculate conception” and bodily “assumption” to heaven....”purgatory and limbo”....and Peter’s position as the first “Pope”.
The God of Israel was not three gods in one “head” but one singular entity......and the fact that the dead are not really dead, but live on in some other place, is nothing but a continuation of the first lie told in Eden....”you surely will not die”.....and the roasting in a hell of eternal flames, which was designed to keep the ignorant masses in check....an ignorance fostered by evil men intent on gaining more and more self imposed authority. It’s all there in plain sight for those whose eyes have been opened.
The Catholic Church can be documented all the way back to the Apostles. In the FIRST century.
What utter nonsense. There is no evidence of apostolic succession because Peter was not ‘the rock upon whom Christ’s Church is built’.....Jesus himself is “the chief cornerstone” of God’s Kingdom....the 12 apostles form the rest of the foundation....Peter is not singled out as head of the church any more than any of the other apostles....most of whom made no contribution to scripture.....only Matthew, Peter and John wrote books of the Bible. Paul wrote more than they did, but he was not one of the 12.
YOUR sect can’t go back ANY further than the after the 16th century . . .
My sect? You do understand that original Christianity was viewed as a sect, which made Jesus basically the leader of an apostate cult.....those who listened to Jesus were ostracised and persecuted like Jesus was, but the persecutors were the main offenders of the God they claimed to worship. It’s nothing new.
History has repeated because humans are too ignorant and/or too lazy to inform themselves regarding the true teachings of Scripture. They simply swallow what is fed to them......so, the longer a lie is told, the greater the likelihood that it will eventually be regarded as truth, especially if all opposers are silenced.
Do you get that?
Boy – you’re FULL of idiotic historical inaccuracies today
Time for a History Lesson . . .
Not only did the pagan festivals of Saturnalia and Sol Invictus come to an END by December 23rd, they didn’t even come into practice until AFTER Christians had been celebrating the birth of Christ on December 25th. It wasn’t even adopted until the Roman Emperor Aurelian made it official in 274 AD.
Christmas, on the other hand, was being celebrated a full 70 years BEFORE (204 AD).
The Christian historian, Hippolytus of Rome, explains in his Commentary on the book of Daniel (c. A.D. 204) that the birth of Jesus was believed to have taken place on December 25th:
“For the first advent of our Lord in the flesh, when he was born in Bethlehem, was December 25th, Wednesday, while Augustus was in his forty-second year, but from Adam, five thousand and five hundred years. He suffered in the thirty-third year, March 25th, Friday, the eighteenth year of Tiberius Caesar, while Rufus and Roubellion were Consuls.”
History? You mean Catholic history? Can the words of the so called “church fathers” be regarded as completely accurate when the apostasy that Christ and his apostles foretold, was already beginning in the first century whilst many of the apostles were still alive?
Christ was not born in December for the simple reason that the shepherds to whom God’s angels appeared were out in the fields at night...something they would not be doing in the cold winter months when it often snowed. They kept their flocks indoors in winter.
Not to be forgotten is the command not to adopt the ways of the pagan nations, which the RCC ignored completely. Jews did not celebrate birthdays, which is why no birthdates are ever recorded in the Bible.
Jesus did not celebrate his own birthday, nor would he approve the pagan trappings of the celebration as it has evolved over time into the commercial greed-fest it is today. Same with Easter.....nothing about the original “Easter” is biblical....it was a festival dedicated to a fertility goddess....why else would rabbits and eggs be featured in something meant to honor Christ?
Once the last apostle John passed away, there was no longer any restraint, holding things back, and the ones who would lead the church astray were already well entrenched. From the second century onward we see the decline taking place....in the fourth century we saw where it went....
So, stop bearing FALSE witness and do your HOMEWORK . . .
It would be good if you did some homework of your own, outside of your own church’s inaccurate histories.
It is your “false witness” that shines like a beacon here with the rest of your brethren....completely hoodwinked by a religious empire that, to this day blatantly flouts is sun worshipping roots.....
How is this the bread “broken” by Christ? Who formed it into the shape of the sun?...and why?
Who changed their “holy” day into “Sunday”? A day the Romans already honored their sun god.
Who has a Babylonian sun wheel in plain view in St Peter’s Square (which is round) complete with an obelisk transported from Egypt where it was a representation of a ray of the sun in honor of Ra, the Egyptian sun god?
Only the blind can not see it.....