Catholic Bible Verses

[christcnection1]

What Bible verses convince and help you support the belief that the Catholic Church is the Church founded by Christ? (Whether it’s Authority, Tradition, Sacraments, etc.)

Please have the verse(s)/passage(s) in readable form, and feel free to comment on them.

God Bless,
JB

 

[Clovis]

Luke’s opening is very Catholic, Mathew’s close is very Catholic, and also where Paul is given the keys is substantial.

P.S. (Catholicism should be looked at as an aggressive and severe pursuit of Christianity, also very scholarly.)

 

[SemperFidelis]

These are John Salza’s top ten and I think there pretty good:

From scripturecatholic.com/my_top_ten.html:

Matthew 16:18-19 / Isaiah 22:22 (Authority)
1 Timothy 3:15 (Authority)
2 Thessalonians 2:15 (Tradition)
1 Peter 3:21 (Baptism)
John 20:23 (Confession)
John 6:53-58, 66-67 (Eucharist)
1 Corinthians 11:27 (Eucharist)
James 5:14-15 (Anointing)
Colossians 1:24 (Suffering)
James 2:24 (Works)

 

[Epsilon_Omega]

Matthew 16: 13-19
13 And Jesus came into the region of Cesarea Philippi: and he asked his disciples: who do people say that the Son of man is?
14 But they said: Some John the Baptist, some Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
15 Jesus said to them: But who do you say I am?
16 Simon Peter answered and said: You are Christ, the Son of the living God.
17 And Jesus answering, said to him: Blessed are you, Simon son of Jona, because flesh and blood have not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
18 And I say to you: That you are Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.

Basically, God gave Peter authority and Peter was first pope of catholic church.

 

[briang72]

I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world."

The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us (his) flesh to eat?”

Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.

For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.

Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.

This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever."

These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?”

Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, "Does this shock you?

What if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

But there are some of you who do not believe." Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe and the one who would betray him.

And he said, “For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father.”

As a result of this, many (of) his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him.

Jesus then said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?”

Simon Peter answered him, "Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.

John 6:51-68

Nothing here indicates that the Eucharist is symbolic. Jesus says he is true food and true drink. The disciples obviously heard this and saw nothing symbolic in what Jesus said, otherwise the reaction wouldn’t have been one of unacceptance. I don’t understand why not a single Protestant denomination sees the Eucharist as the true body and blood, soul and divinity of Christ. Is it because the human senses cannot comprehend such a thing?

 

[PBPGNFWMY]

Nothing here indicates that the Eucharist is symbolic. Jesus says he is true food and true drink. The disciples obviously heard this and saw nothing symbolic in what Jesus said, otherwise the reaction wouldn’t have been one of unacceptance. I don’t understand why not a single Protestant denomination sees the Eucharist as the true body and blood, soul and divinity of Christ. Is it because the human senses cannot comprehend such a thing?

Nothing here indicates that Jesus is describing the Eucharist…fact.

He is describing our need for Him in a way that people could not comprehend because they had never sought this type of relationship with Him before. He doesn’t teach the Lord’s Prayer and Communion until the eve of his crucifixion where he makes it clear that the Lord’s Supper is symbolic…but I’m sure you’ve heard this before…

 

[fellowChristian]

The whole bible screams “Catholic” to me! I wonder why other people can’t “hear” it also?

 

[briang72]

He doesn’t teach the Lord’s Prayer and Communion until the eve of his crucifixion where he makes it clear that the Lord’s Supper is symbolic…but I’m sure you’ve heard this before…

Really? Where does he make that clear? Is it in Matthew 26:26?

Take, eat; this is My body.

Hmm, no symbolism here. Maybe it was Mark 14:22.

Take it; this is my body

Nope, not here either. Surely it is in Luke 22:19.

This is my body, which will be given for you; do this in memory of me.

Ah, there it is, in memory of me! Is that what you are referring to? So “in memory of me” is the same thing as saying “This is my body which will be given for you; but its not really my body its just a symbol of me to remember me by”? Surely this phrase “in memory of me” is not where you defend the Eucharist as symbolic. Please help us understand how you come to the conclusion that it is symbolic. The Greek word anamnesis is translated to in memory of, and it means to do again in rememberance. I can see how one might go toward symbolism off of this one verse, but it doesn’t fit the rest of scripture.

What about John? You don’t believe that the Eucharist is introduced in John 6? Please explain.

 

[EphelDuath]

Acts of the Apostles, where they choose Matthias as Judas’ replacement. It shows Apostlic Succession to happen.

 

[Ignatius]

What Bible verses convince and help you support the belief that the Catholic Church is the Church founded by Christ? (Whether it’s Authority, Tradition, Sacraments, etc.)

Please have the verse(s)/passage(s) in readable form, and feel free to comment on them.

God Bless,
JB

Actually, for me, it’s not particular verses, but who founded the various churches.

Do you have any idea when your church was founded and by whom? You may find this enlightening:
If you are of the Catholic faith, Jesus Christ founded your Church in the year A.D. 30.
If you are Lutheran, your religion was founded by Martin Luther, an ex-monk in the Catholic Church, in 1517.
If you are Anabaptist, your religion was founded by Nicholas Storch and Thomas Munzer in Germany in 1521.
If you belong to the Church of England (Anglican), your religion was founded by King Henry VIII in the year 1534 because the pope would not grant him a divorce with the right to remarry.
If you belong to the Mennonites, your church was started in 1536 by Menno Simons in Switzerland.
If you are a Calvinist, Jon Calvin started your belief system in 1555 in Switzerland.
If you are a Presbyterian, your religion was founded when John Knox brought the teachings of John Calvin to Scotland in the Year 1560.
If you are Unitarian, your group developed in Europe in the 1500s.
If you are a Congregationalist, your religion branched off Puritanism in the early 1600s in England.
If you are a Baptist, you owe the tenets of your religion to John Smyth, who launched it in Amsterdam in 1607.
If you are Dutch Reformed, Michaelis Jones founded your church in New York in 1628.
If you are a Methodist, your religion was founded by John and Charles Wesley in England in 1744.
If you are an Episcopalian, your church came from England to the American colonies. It formed a separate religion founded by Samuel Seabury in 1789.
If you are a Campellite Christian Church, your religion was started by Thomas and Alexander Campbell and Barton Stone at a revival held at Bushy Creek around 1836.
If you are a Mormon (Latter-day Saints), Joseph Smith started your church in Palmyra, N.Y. in 1830.
If you are Seventh Day Adventist, your religion was founded by Ellen Whitein 1844 in Washington, New Hampshire.
If you worship with the Salvation Army, your sect began with William Booth in London in 1865.
If you are a Christian Scientist, you look to 1879 as the year your religion was founded by Mary Baker Eddy.
If you are a Jehovah’s Witness, your religion was founded by Charles Taze Russell in Pennsylvania in the 1870s.
If you’re Church of Christ, your church broke of from the Campellites in 1906.
If you are Pentecostal, your religion was started in the Topeka, Kansas in 1901 by Charles F. Parkham
If you are Assemblies of God your church grew out of Pentecostalism in 1914 in Hot Springs, Az.
If you are a member of Four-square Gospel, your church was started by Aimee Semple McPherson in L.A. in 1917.
If your Church of Christ, your church broke of from the Campellites in 1906.
If you are Calvary Chapel, Chuck Smith founded your church in Costa Mesa, Ca, 1965
If your organization is “evangelical nondenominational Christian” your group started in the 1970s by protestants.

I chose to be a member of the Church founded by Jesus Christ.
Grace and peace.

 

[TarlsQtr]

Nothing here indicates that Jesus is describing the Eucharist…fact.

He is describing our need for Him in a way that people could not comprehend because they had never sought this type of relationship with Him before. He doesn’t teach the Lord’s Prayer and Communion until the eve of his crucifixion where he makes it clear that the Lord’s Supper is symbolic…but I’m sure you’ve heard this before…

In addition to the reasons pointed out by briang, your interpretation completely ignores the fact that Jesus was Jewish and fulfilled Jewish customs and law. This is very important.

Jesus was the Passover lamb. This is not merely a “symbol” in Judaism. One must eat the Passover lamb for a Jew’s sins to be remitted. Everything Jesus did was in fulfillment of Judaism. To claim otherwise is untenable.

 

[Ani_Ibi]

Nothing here indicates that Jesus is describing the Eucharist…fact.

He is describing our need for Him in a way that people could not comprehend because they had never sought this type of relationship with Him before. He doesn’t teach the Lord’s Prayer and Communion until the eve of his crucifixion where he makes it clear that the Lord’s Supper is symbolic…but I’m sure you’ve heard this before…

How does this interpretation jibe or not jibe with the historical interpretation of the fourth cup? You do remember that Jesus only shared three of the four Passover cups before His Crucifixion? Here is a scholarly look at what the fourth cup ended up being and why

we must drink of that cup
in order to live!

Here is my favourite verse: Wisdom 9:4 DRC:

Give me wisdom, that sitteth by thy throne, and cast me not off from among thy children.