
Originally Posted by
rainewex
The Catholic Church is NO church at all because they teach manmade doctrines. A perfect example is the Assumption of Mary doctrine officially establish by the Vatican in 1950, by Pope Pius XII. There is no such Biblical teaching, nor is it even found in the Catholic's magisterium (church traditions). You can't just make up your own rules. The Bible teaches in John 10:1-9 that you MUST enter through the gate to get into Heaven. That gate (or door) is Jesus! Anyone who tries to get into Heaven some other way is a thief and a robber. You can't break into Heaven with a jack hammer, nor use a grappling hook to scale it's walls, nor dig under the wall; you MUST enter freely through the gate in Jesus' precious name. Amen!
I recently watched a Catholic program on EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network). The entire show was all about praising Mary... Mary, Mary, Mary, that's all Catholics talk about. A standard Rosary recital requires 53 “Hail Marys.” That's vain repetitions which the Bible condemns.
As I watched the EWTN, a few words were spoken and then they all started chanting like zombies. The priest would make a statement praising Mary and then dozens of Catholics in robes would follow with “we pray to thee.” It was a cult ceremony, surely not resemblant of anything which Jesus taught in the Scriptures.
Here's what I heard on the Catholic EWTN . . .
Mary, Queen of Heaven... we pray to thee
Mary, Queen of the Rosary...
we pray to thee
Mary, Queen of the Church...
we pray to thee
and so on...it lasted for about 5 minutes
we pray to thee
Mary, Queen of all saints...
we pray to thee
Mary, Queen of angels...
How arrogant and blasphemous against God Almighty! Everything about Roman Catholicism is contrary to the plain teachings of the Word of God. No where in Scriptures are we directed in any way to praise, hail or show ANY devotion whatsoever to Mary (or any other dirty, rotten sinner like Mary). Yes, Mary was a sinner. She was not without “original sin” as Catholicism claims (what they call “Immaculate Conception”).
The Catholic religion is so rebellious against the Bible that they even teach that Mary was a “perpetual virgin.” Mark 6:3 tells us that Jesus had brothers and sisters, so Mary was NO virgin after she married Joseph. Joseph was Mary's husband. In Matthew 1:20, the Angel of the Lord comforted Joseph concerning his “wife” to be, “...fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.” Mary did NOT remain a virgin! So stop calling her a “virgin.”
Roman Catholicism leads people to pray lifeless and empty vain repetitions!
The Bible speaks about making merry melody in our hearts to the Lord (Ephesians 5:19), not the dead and morbid chants of the Catholic religion. If the dead could sing, I think it would sound like the Rosary being chanted by a bunch of nuns. Why don't we ever see Catholic men chanting the Rosary?
God wants us to pray and sing from our hearts. Roman Catholics are duped by the extravagance, formalism and mystic of the Catholic religion. If the Pope is speaking in Latin, he must really know his stuff, right? Folks, it's all a big show to sucker you and your money into the Catholic cult. The Pope speaks in Latin to impress everybody, while no one has any idea what he's saying. The priests drink their wine from golden cups. Candles are placed into golden candlesticks. Gold, gold and more gold. The Vatican spares no expense. The Vatican is impeccably designed and decked out with wealth and beauty. Yet, they are as beautiful graves filled with dead men's bones just as Jesus said...