Another area where the covenant relationship with Christ is replaced is the area where they worship Mary. When many of them say “Hail Mary” they mean it as the highest form of praise. They spend more time praying to Mary than with Christ. (Though in fact they pray and worship the goddess Diana under another name) It is yet another trick to keep people away from Jesus.
No catholic worships Mary. Such an act would be anathema to the church and all its members.
By the way, “hail” anything is not a form of worship at all. I suggest you crack open a dictionary and look up the definition of the word “hail.” I think you’ll find that it’s a common form of greeting, similar to the word “hello”
Third, it is incorrect to state that catholics spend more time praying to Mary than to Christ, both because it is untrue and because you couldn’t possibly have a source which describes the prayer patterns of all 1.2 billion catholics. Although, by the comment about “dianna”, it’s obvious you’re a fan of the terrible liar and hateful jack chick… a man who’s tracts are so despicable that even most protestant book stores won’t carry them.
The Roman Catholic Church has also invented the doctrine of Mary’s immaculate conception, claiming she was sinless. If the logic of the doctrine is taken to its full course then there would have had to have been a whole line of immaculate conceptions until prior to the fall. It is a nonsensical doctrine.
wrong on both counts. Mary is tabernacle, ergo, she must have been pure in order to meet the REQUIREMENTS specified by scriptures. This is another case where it’s apparent you aren’t very well read in the scriptures.
Further, the requirement was not that pure flesh had to come from pure flesh, but rather that DIVINE flesh had to be housed in pure substance. Ergo, Mary had no requirement to have had an immaculately conceived mother. In a strange form of irony, your assertion that this is non-sensical doctrine based on unending progression of requirement is, in fact, nonsensical in itself.
Also because of the covenant we are justified by faith in Christ alone. The Roman Catholic Church believe we can also be justified by penance, indulgency and good works too. So as under the covenant we are brought by Jesus blood and are saved. Within Roman Catholicism you can buy your salvation off The Church.
Patent lies. The catholic church has never taught justification by works, penance, indulgence, or anything other than GRACE. We are all sinners. We are all bound for hell but by the grace of God. No penance, indulgence, or works can save us from hell.
As to the very first sentence in that paragraph… that is unscriptural heresy. The scripture states that we are saved “BY GRACE through faith” not that we are saved by our faith. In other words, this is another place where you 1) obviously need to read more scripture and 2) need to stop lying about things you obviously do not understand.
Also, because of the covenant Christ took our punishment on The Cross. The Roman catholic Church disagrees. They believe that when we die we must enter a place of temporal punishment called Purgatory. (Unless you buy or someone on your behalf buys an indulgency) The belief in purgatory means that Calvary wasn’t enough and the ultimate objective of Calvary was not achieved. It is a rather nasty doctrine .
Incorrect and lies. First, Christ eliminated the punishment of sin, which was DEATH (funny, then, that you think the saints are dead… apparently you don’t believe that Christ’s sacrifice was sufficient to defeat death). This does not alleviate the other things that were taken from us (pain, suffering, impurity and the like).
Further, purgatory is not a PLACE at all. It is a process of purification. Since the book of revelations states that nothing unclean can enter heaven, you MUST recognize that there is some process by which we are purified as we enter heaven. In other words, you believe in purgatory (aka, purgation) too, you just don’t know it. Purgation is, in fact, a declaration of the supreme success of the sacrifice on calvary.
The belief in purgatory is yet another medieval superstition. The Superstition is based on an earlier Pagan belief from Plato which went like this. - When you die your soul goes to a place of burning to be purged. After the purging has taken place your soul then leaves that place and is regenerated. After this your soul is put in somebody else.
This belief was adapted to make it fit into Christian thought. The regeneration part had to go because it messed up the belief in Baptismal regeneration and the reincarnation bit also had to go so that you go to Heaven instead. But the rest remained. The origins of the belief in purgatory are purely pagan and do not fit in Jewish or Christian theology.
So what you’re saying is that they’re the same… except that everything about them is different… BRILLIANCE, doctor watson.
