The only one true Religion

[Rev. Jim Osborne]

Re: The only one true Religion

wow you must have never studied global religion. When a priest at mass prays over the Eucharist, it isn't meant to be taken literally. it is a human reminder that Jesus himself gave up his life to save us all from sin.

You must have never studied your own religion. Official Roman Catholic belief believes that the bread and wine literally become Jesus's body and blood. This is from your official catechism.

1376 The Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring: "Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation."206

When we take Mary into account, we absolutley do not worship her. we believe that she was chosen by god to be the mother of Jesus. we only worship god and jesus, mary is simply a figure, an important person within Catholiscm. We d not worship anyone else the same way we worship god.

You pray to her though. Isn't prayer worship? You don't pray to Allah or Vishnu, do you? Of course not, because you don't worship them.

[Lycia The Repentant]

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Indeed they did. The heathen Romans persecuted many early Christians until they realized it would be easier to co-opt their religion to suit their own nefarious purposes. Constantine saw the writing on the wall. He knew that the corrupt Roman pagan faith didn't have a chance against Christianity, so rather than try to exterminate it, he decided to corrupt it instead. Indeed, the Roman emperor Constantine was probably one of Satan's most successful servants.

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another thing that is totally wrong with your statement is that we are only called the Roman Catholic Church because the religion was prominent in the Areas controlled by the Romans. The majority of the Roman government actually persucuted christians and catholics until much later when emperor Constantine and Theodsious felt that it would make citizens happy if more freedom was offered.

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Re: The only one true Religion

wow you must have never studied global religion. When a priest at mass prays over the Eucharist, it isn't meant to be taken literally. it is a human reminder that Jesus himself gave up his life to save us all from sin. When we take Mary into account, we absolutley do not worship her. we believe that she was chosen by god to be the mother of Jesus. we only worship god and jesus, mary is simply a figure, an important person within Catholiscm. We d not worship anyone else the same way we worship god.

[Rev. Jim Osborne]

Re: The only one true Religion

Please lurk around this site more because your question has already been answered.

But, allow me to further comment on this matter. We, Landover Baptist Church are indeed True Christians™ because we follow all of the Bible and just the Bible. We don't insert any extra-Biblical teachings in our doctrine. We are as pure of Christians as they come.

The Roman Catholic Church, on the other hand, is a perversion of God's teachings. It's nothing more than a huge Roman mafia that seeks nothing more than to increase its wealth and power. Catholic beliefs are ancient pagan religions wrapped to look like genuine Christianity. Goddess worship became Mary worship. Ancestor worship and polytheism became the saints. The high priest performing magical rituals over the altars became the priest performing Eucharist. And so on.

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I'm currently under the impression that most leaders and members in this forum think that the Landover Baptist Church, and the Christian religion per se, is he only one true religion.

I am a proud Roman Catholic and what many of you may not realize is that our two religions have a lot in common. For example

1) We believe in the same God/Jesus
2) We believe in heaven, hell etc.
3) We believe that the 10 commandments are the roots of life morals
4) We believe that Jesus will come again
5) We believe that Jesus died for our sins
etc. etc.

If all of these things are true, why is the Roman Catholic Church looked upon as a cult? Just because there were some dark times in our faith dosen't mean that our religion is a bunch of Satanic bozos.

The same goes for Islam, just because a group of terrorists takes their holy word wayyy to seriously, does not mean that the entire religion is total garbage. Islam worships the same god in a different way.

The only reason that each religion has its differences is because of the lack of human communication between empires while these societies were devoloping. As each empire grew, religions went along with them however the religions had no influence from outside areas, therefore there was no change in the development.

If you truly believe in Jesus' grace and love, than you must believe that he is willing to save and forgive those who worship him, no matter the color of your skin, your customs or traditions, Each of the 6.5 billion people of this world are his children.