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I am not a hater of the Catholic Church, this is just an extract from a site which I would post below.
Here's a sermon from
Brother Hardwick:
Anyone can call himself a Christian, but that doesn’t make it so.
Anyone can quote the Bible, but that doesn’t make him saved.
Anyone can build a giant, elaborate cathedral, with stained glass
windows and ornate sculptures, but that doesn’t make him
Heaven-bound. Friends, the number of Hell-bound heathens
claiming to believe in Jesus is countless. They go by names like
Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Moonies and Branch Davidians. No
matter the name, they will roast on a spit above Satan’s hot coals
for eternity while we sip Rothschild’s finest with our Savior in
Heaven. But perhaps the most dangerous cult, whose members will be the first
plunged into Lucifer’s fiery abyss, is also one of the most popular. I am, of course,
referring to the Catholics.
Catholics claim to be Christians despite the fact that much of what they believe
constitutes the essence of blasphemy. They spit in Jesus’ face every time they hold
mass, yet many saved Christians still believe Catholics will be ascending to Heaven
with us. How could our colleagues be fooled by a religion that is so obviously anti-
Christian? They assume that, because the Catholics have millions of followers
worldwide, they must believe something right. Well, let me tell you something –
popularity means nothing. Sixty million Americans eat Spam but that hardly makes it
good.
The ways in which Catholics defy God’s word are too numerous to describe in this
sermon. So let me just focus on a few. First, they worship mortals, something God
expressly admonished against. Catholics claim to love Jesus and claim to believe in the
Holy Trinity. But they don’t limit their worship to God, as the Bible demands (Exodus
20:3). Instead, they pray to mere mortals – Mary, Joseph and the so-called “saints” –
humans, whom they have made gods in their own right. Humans, who they believe
can perform the miracles of our Savior. I once saw a Catholic woman praying beside
her car in a mall parking lot. When I asked her if she was praying to the Lord, she
said, “no,” she was praying to Saint Anthony to help her find her car keys.
This is idolatry, pure and simple. The Bible orders us not to pray to dead men (Psalms
106:28), and Jesus instructs us not to pray to angels (Colossians 2:18). We are to have
one God, and one God alone. The Catholics actually worship a woman! Mary, the
woman who was selected at random to serve as the incubator for Christ. There are
actually documents written by popes that say Mary, a mortal female, is the key to
salvation. Blasphemy doesn’t get more blatant than that.
But the Catholics don’t stop there. They actually bow before and pray to statues –
graven images not only of God but of these mortals they (not God) have declared to be
saints. Bowing to images is the essence of idolatry (Exodus 20:5; Deuteronomy 5;9;
Isaiah 44:17; Daniel 3:5, 10, 15), even if the image is of God (Exodus 32:4-6 with
Psalms 106:19-20). What happens to those who practice idolatry? They never enter the
Kingdom of Heaven (Galatians 5:19-21; Ephesians 5:5; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10).
There are numerous other Catholic beliefs that run afoul of God’s word. The Catholics
believe some people neither go to Heaven nor Hell, but instead wind up in an
imaginary fantasyland they call “purgatory” (even though there is no such place
described in the Bible). The Catholics believe we cannot confess our sins to God
directly, but instead have to recite them to a pedophile intermediary, despite the fact
that the Bible never suggests this. They think, in order to be forgiven of sin, we have
to recite rote prayers over and over (like some elementary school kid ordered to write,
“I will not talk in class” 100 times on the blackboard), even though such nonsense
finds no support in the Bible. They baptize babies before they know the difference
between Jesus and Pampers. Even worse, they reject the Bible in favor of the
statements of some nelly queen in a dress and a Madonna bosom-cup hat, believing
anything that idol says while in the cathedral comes from God. That is blasphemy if
the term has any meaning! And worst of all, they don’t believe one must be born
again to enter the Kingdom of Heaven!
The bottom line is that the Catholic church is nothing more than a cult that happened
to catch on. Granted, the pope has a greater following than Jim Jones did, but the
distinction ends there. One need only watch an altar boy walk bowlegged from a
priest’s chambers to recognize theirs is hardly the “true faith.” Homosexuality is not
merely something the Catholics have overlooked and ignored. It is something they
have actively promoted . And if all of that isn’t enough to convince you of the truth,
bear in mind that Catholics claim to have seen visions of the face of Mary bleeding on
objects ranging from an adobe wall to a bowel movement . They might as well be
Elvis-spotters. And for all the good the pomp and circumstance of their services will
do them, the Catholics might as well just sacrifice pets on their front lawns. That
would give them the same shot at Heaven -- none.
So say “farewell,” “goodbye,” “hope the heat doesn’t get to you” to all your Catholic
friends. For one thing is certain. There is no room in Heaven for Mary-loving, incense-
burning, Pope-adoring, candle-lighting, apparition-seeing, statue-slobbering, ring-
kissing, wafer-eating, stained glass-loving, altar-boy banging, mackarel-snapping idol-
worshipers!
Sincerely I have many catholic friends but when I try to get across to them I am termed as a hater.. These are pure facts. I'm only expressing my opinion, if you have any contrary thing to say. Please use the comment box
Source : Landoverbaptist.org
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