There are several points, that when pointed out, the Catholic in question (of the faith not the person) the person gets amazingly defensive and refuses to answer or only gives a generic answer.
In my experience, I only see people get defensive when positions are misrepresented, over and over and over again.
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These questions are such things like the worship of Mary.
THIS is one of those misrepresentations. To keep doing this is slander on your part. Just so that you know, slander is a deadly sin.
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It doesn’t matter how its worded, its worship. The worship of Mary wasn’t even accepted until prayer to Mary was accepted in 600AD. 600 years after the death of Jesus.
The gospels were accepted in the first century, not the 7th. The Hail Mary prayer is from the gospel of Luke.
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That has no direct link to the bible.
The Church of Rome has a direct link to the bible and the apostles. You know, Pauls letter to the Church of Rome?
And Peter writing his first epistle from Rome
And we know God completes what He starts.
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Why add things to the religion AFTER the completion of the bible. .
That specifically pertains to you.
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Also, the 2nd commandment, the original, which is in Hebrew, states not to have an carven images. So bowing and praying to a statue falls into that.
Did God break His own law when
the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.” So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived. (Numbers 21:8-9)
Or how about the angels made of gold, that covered the ark of the covenent? The ark that God told them specifically how to make and that followed the Israelites into battle. And the ark was kept in the holy of holies
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Another topic is the Last Supper. Called the Eucharist in the Catholic Church.
It’s called in scripture “Eucharisteo” (to give thanks) in Greek. You find that Greek word recounting the last supper, in Mt 26:27, Mk14:23, Lk 22:17 & 19, and also 1 Cor 11:24
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The dogma is that the literal flesh and blood of Jesus Christ is in the bread and wine. IF that was to be true, that would be cannibalism. Plain and simply.
Plain and simply, in Jn 6:66 many of Jesus followers had argued with God to His face, and were obviousy not going to be taught by God. They thought they knew better than God. And they left God over His instruction on the Eucharist.
What is rather chilling, God didn’t go after them when they left. He didn’t explain it in different terms so they would understand better, He had already spent alot of time with them. They were stiff necked and He let them go. He let them make their choice. The wrong choice, but their choice just the same. That’s how people become culpable for their choices.
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Added to that, and this is why people should read the bible themselves and not depend on what others tell them, Christ spoke of that AS He broke the bread and poured the wine, thus showing that it was symbolic.
- you’re merely parroting back what someone taught YOU. And it is wrong.
- The Eucharist is NOT symbolic. Besides the bread of life discourse, in Jn 6, there is
1 Cor 11:
27Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. 28A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. 29For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself."
Still think the Eucharist is a symbol? If you DO then you WILL bring condemnation down on yourself.
