Why do Catholics receive so much hate???
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Sorry but u must have misunderstood my explanation of what happened in another forum...
Imagine starting a new job. First 6 months everyone is friendly. Then, after learning that you are Christian, one or two people start to hate on you, being hostile when ever you speak about anything simply because u are Christian. It's a form of discrimination.
And im not talking about theological disagreements or criticism of the RCC either
Imagine starting a new job. First 6 months everyone is friendly. Then, after learning that you are Christian, one or two people start to hate on you, being hostile when ever you speak about anything simply because u are Christian. It's a form of discrimination.
And im not talking about theological disagreements or criticism of the RCC either
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It is unconfessed (to God) & unrepentant sin that brings people to destruction, for it means they have rejected Jesus.
Evil doctrines are of devils that ultimately teach people to continue in sin, such as the Mass (what is called 'Eucharist' [Host]), Auricular Confessional, Indulgences, immortal soul/spirit theology (immortalizes the old man of sin, cannot die), such things like eternal torment which blaspheme God's character, &c.
Evil doctrines are of devils that ultimately teach people to continue in sin, such as the Mass (what is called 'Eucharist' [Host]), Auricular Confessional, Indulgences, immortal soul/spirit theology (immortalizes the old man of sin, cannot die), such things like eternal torment which blaspheme God's character, &c.
I was most moved by your post my friend.
I don't know much about the Christian wars in N Ireland and i don't want to know because it's just so heart wrenching to see and hear how the evil one has divided us in the past. All I know is that many Christians killed each other over there, more than anywhere else in the world, i think thats probably all i need to know... We should never be enemies but the commandment to love them is something everyone should aspire to
I don't know much about the Christian wars in N Ireland and i don't want to know because it's just so heart wrenching to see and hear how the evil one has divided us in the past. All I know is that many Christians killed each other over there, more than anywhere else in the world, i think thats probably all i need to know... We should never be enemies but the commandment to love them is something everyone should aspire to
My heart goes out to you for your pain and heart brokenness. I was raised a Catholic but not very strictly and I was saved in a church of Christ even though I had already been sprinkled as a baby. The church of Christ is a weird kind of church that doesn't believe in miracles and doesn't use musical instruments in the worship of Christ. But let me tell you that when I came up out of that water I had a love for everybody that I had never experienced before which was the love of Christ which was of course a "miracle". But I left that church because they tried to teach me stuff that was not according to the bible and they rejected me in a very ugly way when I tried to understand and did not agree with them.
Many years later at the behest of God I spent about 3 1/2 years studying the events, changes and growth of the early and I found some surprising things about the Catholic/Universal church that do not line up with the Word of God so here are a few of those facts. Firstly in the Catholic encyclopedia it say that if you are not a Catholic you are doomed to go to hell. Period with no questions asked. The Catholic leadership has elevated Mary and many other men and woman to a god like level and advocate prayer to these individuals as if they had the same power as Christ does to answer prayer and to perform miracles which is called Paganism according to the Word of God as there is only one true and living God that has the power to answer prayers. I once went on a mission trip to a small town in Mexico named Tula and when I went into the only church in the town I found that a statue of Christ was covered up with a cloth and a priest was praying over a woman on her knees with a big mural of Guadeloupe on the wall behind the priest. The leadership of the church had Christ covered up because they wanted the people to pray to the adopted patron saint of the town for one week in celebration of that "saint".
In about 300 to325 AD the Catholic church adopted pagan ritual into the worship of Christ in their efforts to appeal to the pagans which is why Easter and Christmas as we know them were never celebrated for the first 300 years of the church and Christ has never instructed us to celebrate His birthday because celebrating birthdays was and still is considered to be a pagan practice by Christ and the Jewish leadership and people. Over that last 1500 years the Catholic church has been responsible for many atrocities and paganism within the Catholic church which has more then a billion members world wide and the Catholic church in America is not the same church it is all over the rest of the world.
Just the other day some folks from the BLM movement got together and burned a pile of bibles and the BLM movement is according to their beliefs are antichrist. Do you think that you can become a member of the BLM movement/organization and not be associated with burning bibles and an antichrist person??? No you can not. There is no such a thing as a different thinking member of the BLM movement and if you do think differently then the beliefs of the leadership of the BLM movement they will run you off in short order or worse.
The same applies for the Catholic church. There is no such a thing as separate or different thinking Catholic who doesn't abide strictly by the rules, regulations and doctrinal beliefs dictated by the Catholic leadership. If you do think differently then you are not a true Catholic and if you claim to be a Catholic but think differently and do not abide by the doctrinal beliefs of the Catholic church you are rejected from both sides of the fence because the Catholic church is full of paganism.
My advise to you is get yourself away from the Catholic church and the Catholic bible, turn to a NKJ bible and strictly adhere to what the Word of God says and get yourself hooked up with a nondenominational church.
Many years later at the behest of God I spent about 3 1/2 years studying the events, changes and growth of the early and I found some surprising things about the Catholic/Universal church that do not line up with the Word of God so here are a few of those facts. Firstly in the Catholic encyclopedia it say that if you are not a Catholic you are doomed to go to hell. Period with no questions asked. The Catholic leadership has elevated Mary and many other men and woman to a god like level and advocate prayer to these individuals as if they had the same power as Christ does to answer prayer and to perform miracles which is called Paganism according to the Word of God as there is only one true and living God that has the power to answer prayers. I once went on a mission trip to a small town in Mexico named Tula and when I went into the only church in the town I found that a statue of Christ was covered up with a cloth and a priest was praying over a woman on her knees with a big mural of Guadeloupe on the wall behind the priest. The leadership of the church had Christ covered up because they wanted the people to pray to the adopted patron saint of the town for one week in celebration of that "saint".
In about 300 to325 AD the Catholic church adopted pagan ritual into the worship of Christ in their efforts to appeal to the pagans which is why Easter and Christmas as we know them were never celebrated for the first 300 years of the church and Christ has never instructed us to celebrate His birthday because celebrating birthdays was and still is considered to be a pagan practice by Christ and the Jewish leadership and people. Over that last 1500 years the Catholic church has been responsible for many atrocities and paganism within the Catholic church which has more then a billion members world wide and the Catholic church in America is not the same church it is all over the rest of the world.
Just the other day some folks from the BLM movement got together and burned a pile of bibles and the BLM movement is according to their beliefs are antichrist. Do you think that you can become a member of the BLM movement/organization and not be associated with burning bibles and an antichrist person??? No you can not. There is no such a thing as a different thinking member of the BLM movement and if you do think differently then the beliefs of the leadership of the BLM movement they will run you off in short order or worse.
The same applies for the Catholic church. There is no such a thing as separate or different thinking Catholic who doesn't abide strictly by the rules, regulations and doctrinal beliefs dictated by the Catholic leadership. If you do think differently then you are not a true Catholic and if you claim to be a Catholic but think differently and do not abide by the doctrinal beliefs of the Catholic church you are rejected from both sides of the fence because the Catholic church is full of paganism.
My advise to you is get yourself away from the Catholic church and the Catholic bible, turn to a NKJ bible and strictly adhere to what the Word of God says and get yourself hooked up with a nondenominational church.
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Its sad when Christians hate catholics and not Catholicism. And not know how to separate the two . We should grieve over people who choose to go into Catholicism. It is a false Gospel and a false Jesus they teach. I'm not saying all are not saved , but this would be inspite of the teachings and not because of it .
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Yes we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, the things seen, but the unseen spiritual things.
Catholisicim hates sola scriptura .(all things written in the law and the prophets) . They have their own written source of faith (Catechism of the Catholic Church CCC) The law of the fathers as oral traditions of corrupted mankind.
Those kind of fathers making the Bible without effect. A carbon copy of the Pharisees with Sadaucesss. No faith coming from the scripture alone .
In that way no man can serve two teaching masters as Devine
They think they are saved from not having to be a "born again" Christians . A idea that does not come under their belief system . They have no confidence in Christ not seen.
If some are believers its a very dark place.
Catholisicim hates sola scriptura .(all things written in the law and the prophets) . They have their own written source of faith (Catechism of the Catholic Church CCC) The law of the fathers as oral traditions of corrupted mankind.
Those kind of fathers making the Bible without effect. A carbon copy of the Pharisees with Sadaucesss. No faith coming from the scripture alone .
In that way no man can serve two teaching masters as Devine
They think they are saved from not having to be a "born again" Christians . A idea that does not come under their belief system . They have no confidence in Christ not seen.
If some are believers its a very dark place.
I think Catholics are Christian. I don't think their "Hail Mary's" mean they're worshipping Mary. I think protestants do basically the same thing with how they hold jews up on a pedestal. It feels like hypocrisy to me. I think what we're seeing is a case of picking at the spec in your brothers eye, while ignoring the log in your own eye.
Listen, NOBODY has it all figured out 100% correctly. Every single one of us who gets to heaven is gonna see "wow, I was right about this and wrong about that." Catholics are right about some stuff and wrong about some stuff. Same with protestants. It's just very easy to bash the Catholics because they're the biggest Christian group. If Episcopalians were the biggest, then everyone would nitpick on their idiosyncrasies.
@PC123, I think it's very interesting that you posted this subject about how people hate Catholics in light of your signature:
"The further people stray from the truth
the more they will hate those who speak it"
Perhaps part of the reason that some people hate Catholics so much is because the Catholics are speaking some truth???
BTW, I am not Catholic.
Listen, NOBODY has it all figured out 100% correctly. Every single one of us who gets to heaven is gonna see "wow, I was right about this and wrong about that." Catholics are right about some stuff and wrong about some stuff. Same with protestants. It's just very easy to bash the Catholics because they're the biggest Christian group. If Episcopalians were the biggest, then everyone would nitpick on their idiosyncrasies.
@PC123, I think it's very interesting that you posted this subject about how people hate Catholics in light of your signature:
"The further people stray from the truth
the more they will hate those who speak it"
Perhaps part of the reason that some people hate Catholics so much is because the Catholics are speaking some truth???
BTW, I am not Catholic.
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Perhaps the specific term "auricular confession" has some Catholic bent to it, but Scripture tells us plainly to confess our sins to one another. There is power in doing so; it removes the shame and fear that others might find out. The Catholics have made a silly, unbiblical ritual of it though.
As for eternal torment, that is taught in many Christian churches as well.
As for eternal torment, that is taught in many Christian churches as well.
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So, I was a RCC, but after the priest abuse thing, I just dont know. But, I dont hate any religions. I think many have something to offer. I am a Christian, but I believe God is far greater than anything I can understand and that we continually learn and grow.
I was taught it is faith and works and I know Protestants say you cant work your way into Heaven ... I agree. but the thing is it is also said that when you are born again you change and you just naturally become a better person.
So is there really an argument there ... kind of like which came first, the chicken or the egg. (not that simple). the point is that whether you think that being Saved is an ongoing thing dependent on what you do OR that you are saved on a particular day in a particular moment? Call it not sinning and call that works to not sin?
I dont know. Do the differences really matter? It would be nice we catholics and protestants could just unite and accept one another.
thats all.
I was taught it is faith and works and I know Protestants say you cant work your way into Heaven ... I agree. but the thing is it is also said that when you are born again you change and you just naturally become a better person.
So is there really an argument there ... kind of like which came first, the chicken or the egg. (not that simple). the point is that whether you think that being Saved is an ongoing thing dependent on what you do OR that you are saved on a particular day in a particular moment? Call it not sinning and call that works to not sin?
I dont know. Do the differences really matter? It would be nice we catholics and protestants could just unite and accept one another.
thats all.
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You're seriously mistaken. No one prays to Jews. No one asks a Jew to intercede to the Father for them. Hail Mary's are simply wrong. There is no one, man nor woman, between us and Jesus. We can go directly to the throne because of the cross. No pope, no Mary, no priest, no preacher.
The great pity is, Catholicism started out on the right path. But greed and power took over. Yes, they are correct about some things, but the things they are wrong about will have eternal consequences. So it's important to let people know the truth.
I don't know anyone who hate Catholics. But I know people who totally disagree with the doctrine and try and show Catholics the truth. That being said I'm sure there are people who hate Catholics because of the child molestation issues. But I don't count that against all Catholics. The people who did it are the ones responsible, and the people who hid it. But when I'm on secular forums I do see people that are very angry about the abuse of children and that it was covered up by the church.
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They have another written teaching authority that they call Devine. It makes the word of God without effect. No man can serve two teaching authorities as Master (one) .
I would agree so much that not all heresies as personal opinions of gleaning the truth of the bible are damnable or judgeable. Only those that deny Christ has bought them. . Paying the full price of their sin . Catholics clearly do despite to the Grace of God.
1 Corinthians 11:19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
In that way oral traditions are acceptable except for the ones that clearly do; "despite to the grace of God" The grace by which we were bought with a price. . His own Spirit life .
They would have the pew sitters that must seek the approval of their fathers ,what they call vereable ones (worship-able) .Those who lord it over the faith of others. They teach that somehow some entity they call Mary alone received the fulness of grace .And everyone else a unknow remnant of grace . And therefore they must offer their sufferings (anything) as partial payment while still having the breath of life. . and continue after in a unknown place called "purgatory" sufferings a unknow amount pain or remnant of time.
2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
From that. . . the fruit of that kind of heresy that denies the grace of God .
A carbon copy of the Pharisees with Sadducees .Just different names same kind of fathers that lord it over the faith of others.
Galatians 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
I would agree so much that not all heresies as personal opinions of gleaning the truth of the bible are damnable or judgeable. Only those that deny Christ has bought them. . Paying the full price of their sin . Catholics clearly do despite to the Grace of God.
1 Corinthians 11:19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
In that way oral traditions are acceptable except for the ones that clearly do; "despite to the grace of God" The grace by which we were bought with a price. . His own Spirit life .
They would have the pew sitters that must seek the approval of their fathers ,what they call vereable ones (worship-able) .Those who lord it over the faith of others. They teach that somehow some entity they call Mary alone received the fulness of grace .And everyone else a unknow remnant of grace . And therefore they must offer their sufferings (anything) as partial payment while still having the breath of life. . and continue after in a unknown place called "purgatory" sufferings a unknow amount pain or remnant of time.
2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
From that. . . the fruit of that kind of heresy that denies the grace of God .
A carbon copy of the Pharisees with Sadducees .Just different names same kind of fathers that lord it over the faith of others.
Galatians 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
