Hey Brooke,
The Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) church considers the Catholic Church an Apostacy. Through a fictionalized account of this so-called apostacy, they believe they now can lay claim to being the true Church that Christ established.
All protesters of the Catholic Church have to find some way to discredit the Catholic Church to give their ownselves credibility.
The SDA is correct that the Sabbath is Saturday, but so what. Jesus, Himself, said man was not made for the Sabbath, rather the Sabbath was made for man. The Catholic Church, with it’s authority given to her by Jesus Christ Himself took Sunday as the new day of worship because Sunday is the day our Lord Jesus Christ rose from the dead. And, we are followers of Jesus Christ (the New Covenant), not Moses and mosaic law (the Old Covenant).
The Catholic Church takes care of more sick people with more hospitals than any other single organization in this world; same goes for feeding the hungry.The Catholic Church set the dates and made the calendar that is in use today, called the Gregorian Calendar.
Hope this is of some help
hello jpaul and everyone else who has posted their comments… [thanks!]
yes, i understand everything you’re saying and i totally agree of course. but what i dont come to understand, though, is how can those that follow the SDA church do so? i find it hard to believe how they can believe that their church is the right one. i know everybody thinks that they’re in the real church of Jesus our savior but if you really pay attention to the scripture and you understand it and you dont “skip” or “ignore” anything in it, shouldnt you figure out that it is in fact the catholic church that was founded by our Father in heaven, through his son?
“And I say to you that you are
Peter, and on this rock will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it. I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatever is fixed by you on earth will be fixed in heaven: and whatever you make free on earth will be made free in heaven.”----- Matthew 16:18-19
“And he took him to Jesus. Looking at him fixedly Jesus said, You are Simon, the son of John; your name will be Cephas (which is to say, Peter).” ----- John 1:42
Cephas (Κηφας)
John 1:42–
He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said,
“You are Simon son of John, you shall be called Cephas”, which is translated ‘Peter’.
1 Corinthians 1:12–
But I say that each of you says “I am of Paul”, or “I am of Apollos”, or “I am of
Cephas”, or “I am of Christ”.
Galatians 1:18–
Then after three years I did go up to Jerusalem to visit
Cephas and stayed with him for fifteen days;
In these passages,
‘Cephas’ is given as the nickname of the apostle better known as Simon Peter. The Apostle Peter, also known as Saint Peter, Shimon “Keipha” Ben-Yonah/Bar-Yonah, Simon Peter,
Cephas and Keipha—original name Shimon or Simeon (Acts 15:14)—was one of the Twelve Apostles whom Jesus chose as his original disciples. His life is prominently featured in the New Testament Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles. The Greek word is transliterated *Κηφᾶς (Kēphâs). *
The apostle’s given name appears to be Simon, and he is given the Aramaic nickname, kêfâ, meaning
‘rock’. The final sigma (s) is added in Greek to make the name masculine rather than feminine. That the meaning of the name was more important than the name itself is evidenced by the universal acceptance of the Greek translation, Πέτρος (Petros). It is not known why Paul uses the Aramaic name rather than the Greek name for Simon Peter when he writes to the churches in Galatia and Corinth. He may have been writing at a time before Cephas came to be popularly known as Peter. According to some Church Fathers, such as Clement of Alexandria and Eusebius of Caesarea, there were two people named Cephas: one was Apostle Simon Peter, and the other was one of Jesus’ Seventy Apostles. Clement goes further to say it was Cephas of the Seventy who was condemned by Paul in Galatians 2 for not eating with the Gentiles.
In Aramaic, it could be (כיפא).
with all of this information and even more that can be found throughtout the bible,… why dont people come to understand that PETER is ROCK and Jesus founded his church, his catholic church, ON him?
thats quite a long time… and i would love to know what is it that made you switch? who convinced you? how? what was the primary reason you realized you wanted to be a catholic?