Catholics are deluded

[Holly3278]

Ignore the threads title - I just wanted to get your attention!?
A mormon friend of mine sent me this after I asked her if the catholic covenents I found on the web were official; (I highlighted what she said in red)

As I see it:

The Catholic Church continues to believe they have the authority to administrate the kingdom/
The Protestents and all their decendent churches: protested that the catholic church had lost this authority and could not agree on doctrines so split into many different churches.
Our church (The Church of Jesus Christ of latter day Saints - Yes I’m a Saint and so are all the members of my church) claims that the Catholic church no longer has the authority of the original church as it had split and revolted against the authority of John and its priests and leaders mixed the philosophies of men with recorded scripture in the bible (a dead church). That the protestants did the best that they could to revive the old teachings of the church but did not have the devine authorship to do so, and that our church is lead by a living prophet who by the visitation of Jehova, Elohim, Peter James and John was given the keys of the kingdom in the last days before the second coming.

So any way this is what I sent her before hand;
“This is the official Catholic Covenants! Apparently…
Can you check for me if this is actually genuine? Please?”

1. Jesus Christ is the final covenant God made with man.
2. When God makes a covenant, He makes it with Himself, and He promises to fulfill it. He is the author and the finisher of the covenant. The covenant consists of the promises made as part of that covenant.
3. Every promise Jesus made when He was here on earth was part of that covenant. He is the Word. Everything He said is part of that covenant.
4. Jesus promised to Peter that He would build His church on that rock in Matthew 16.
5. In Matthew 16:13-20, the Greek distinguishes between when Jesus is speaking to all the disciples and to Peter alone.
6. Therefore certain promises were made to Peter apart from the rest of the disciples.
7. Jesus referred to giving Peter the keys, a reference to Isaiah 22-22, where there is the promise of the office of steward.
8. Jesus therefore gave Peter primacy over the other disciples.
9. This can be observed in the Gospels and the book of Acts, where Peter is generally mentioned first. He also speaks more than the other disciples.
10. Peter directed church activity in Acts 1:15 following. Peter gave the first Christian sermon in Acts 2:14. This primacy was clearly recognized by the other disciples. There are numerous examples of this in the book of Acts.
11. Paul recognized the primacy. In Galatians 1:18 he went to Jerusalem and visited Cephas (=Peter) only.
12. Jesus made an everlasting covenant, meaning that although Peter died, the office would continue. We see succession of apostles started in Acts 1 by Peter.
13. The covenant being everlasting, its promises are also everlasting. Therefore the office continues today.
14. There are repeated warnings in Scripture against schismatics and heretics. We see this in the early church fathers as well. Paul warns against those bringing a different Gospel in Galatians 1:6-9, for example.
15. There is therefore a divinely authorized bishopric which developed into the Papacy.
16. Neither Luther nor Calvin nor any other reformer was authorized to bring reform to the Catholic church.
17. Jesus said, “he who receives you, receives me, and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.” This was spoken to the apostles, the forebears of the bishops of the Church.
18. Jesus promised to be with us always. He does not abandon us, but He sent His Holy Spirit to guide and direct us and the Church.
19. This is all part of the Covenant Jesus made at the cross.
20. Jesus made a number of parables in which a man goes away and leaves a steward in charge. This is no coincidence. Jesus went away and left a steward in charge.
21. To reject the Church is to reject Jesus. To reject the Pope then is to reject the one He put in charge.

So what does she mean by saying “The Catholic Church continues to believe they have the authority to administrate the kingdom”?

I just want to say that I don’t think your title is a very good way of getting attention from Catholics. Sure, it might have gotten our attention but the title is rude and disrespectful. You wouldn’t like it if someone called your sect/denomination deluded would you?

 

[Zundrah]

I just want to say that I don’t think your title is a very good way of getting attention from Catholics. Sure, it might have gotten our attention but the title is rude and disrespectful. You wouldn’t like it if someone called your sect/denomination deluded would you?

Bless you… I am sorry. No I wouldn’t like it if someone called my sect/denomination deluded. I never meant to hurt any one - …forgive me? …please? (I didn’t think any one would bother to come and reply to the thread after seeing how long the first post was).

 

[guanophore]

Bless you… I am sorry. No I wouldn’t like it if someone called my sect/denomination deluded. I never meant to hurt any one - …forgive me? …please? (I didn’t think any one would bother to come and reply to the thread after seeing how long the first post was).

You are forgiven. I hope you have come to learn that we will give you whatever attention you need here, and you do not need to use such lengths to get it.