[avemaria]

Re: Why I Am Catholic

The Bible describes the concept, even if it doesn't use that exact word. Now please explain how the Bible teaches even the concept of the papacy.

Revelation 3:7-8 the key of David.
PETER THE FIRST POPE HOLDS THE KEY
Lev 16:3 Aaron puts on the miter the Pope where's a miter

Matthew 16:8-9
upon this rock I will build my Church.
Numbers 11:14-17

[Zechariah Smyth]

Re: Why I Am Catholic

Revelation 3:7-8 the key of David.
PETER THE FIRST POPE HOLDS THE KEY
Lev 16:3 Aaron puts on the miter the Pope where's a miter

Matthew 16:8-9
upon this rock I will build my Church.
Numbers 11:14-17

Peter never puts on a mitre (yes, that's the way it is spelled).

[avemaria]

Re: Why I Am Catholic

Romans 3:23: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

We've all sinned.

Psalm 51:5: Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Yes, even babies.

John 3:18: He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

No belief, no salvation.

In sin did MY MOTHER conceive me. Honestly what can a child do in the womb by itself. God created man to worship him and he knew us before we were born so babies haven't sinned yet because they can't and they know God and because they know God and he knows them they are saved.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

Re: Why I Am Catholic

Revelation 3:7-8 the key of David.
PETER THE FIRST POPE HOLDS THE KEY

Again, what does that have to do with anyone after Peter?

Lev 16:3 Aaron puts on the miter the Pope where's a miter

Pagan priests also put on mitres.



You've just proved that the Pope is a pagan priest.

Matthew 16:8-9
upon this rock I will build my Church.

Already addressed above.

Numbers 11:14-17

What does Moses have to do with it?

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

Re: Why I Am Catholic

In sin did MY MOTHER conceive me.

Congratulations: You've just denied your own church's interpretation of that verse.

[avemaria]

Re: Why I Am Catholic

Peter never puts on a mitre (yes, that's the way it is spelled).

You sir are meticulous. So it never flat out said that Jesus missed being with his Father but you know he did.

[Zechariah Smyth]

Re: Why I Am Catholic

You sir are meticulous. So it never flat out said that Jesus missed being with his Father but you know he did.

It doesn't mention Jesus wearing a mitre, either.

[avemaria]

Re: Why I Am Catholic

Congratulations: You've just denied your own church's interpretation of that verse.

How? Please explain to me. And have you read the Catholic Catechism or the apocrypha of our Bible. Maybe if you did you can prove how wrong I am and when I contradict myself.

[avemaria]

Re: Why I Am Catholic

It doesn't mention Jesus wearing a mitre, either.

Jesus doesn't have to. He is God not the pope you should know that.

[James Hutchins]

Re: Why I Am Catholic

How? Please explain to me. And have you read the Catholic Catechism or the apocrypha of our Bible. Maybe if you did you can prove how wrong I am and when I contradict myself.

Even though you ignore every post of mine to you (a decent, Godly person always speaks when spoken to) I'll continue to try to get through to you.
You interpert. You think you know better than God.

When the disciples had the Bible written for God, God reviewed it. God never told them to dumb it down further for the catlicks. No. God gave the Bible his stamp of approval and off to the printers. God felt the Bible told things just how He wanted them said.
No where in the Holy Bible are the words (or anythng like it) 'J/K' or 'Wing it' or 'Change to Suit'. No. God had it written to say what is says. Period.
Are you trying to tell everyone that a pope knows better than God? That only the current pope knows 'the truth' and all the popes before him were idiots and wrong?

[Zechariah Smyth]

Re: Why I Am Catholic

Jesus doesn't have to. He is God not the pope you should know that.

Of course I know Jesus is God, silly: it says so right in the Bible (John 10:30)!



Where does it mention popes?

(Hint: it doesn't.)

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

Re: Why I Am Catholic

False beliefs anti Catholics have against the Churchurch is adamant in stopping this.
WE WORSHIP MARY- Not true. In the days of David the queen was the the mother of the king. By respecting the queen mother you were honoring the king. Jesus gave us Mary as our mother when he said, " John take my mother. Mary take John as your son." Jesus would honor his mother and if we like to be like Jesus and honor his mother we also honor him. Also Mary never said she was a goddess. She is the mother who prays for us to God. And she always leads us to God.

You pray to Mary. Please don't try to deny it.

http://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?s=31

Mary is a dead woman. (Ecclesiates 9:5) She is not "Mother of God"; Jesus was not half-Mary. He is all God. She was just the vessel.

When your mother bakes a tasty cake, do you praise the oven?

ALL PRIESTS RAPE BOYS AND HIDE IT.- Just because all kids go to school it does
not mean that all children are smart. There will always be a few bad people.
And for that we should pray for them. The church is adamant about this.

The Pope himself participated in covering up and enabling kiddie-rapists. Why would you respect him?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8587082.stm

Pope Benedict XVI failed to act over complaints during the 1990s about a priest in the US who is thought to have abused some 200 deaf boys, victims say.
As head of the Vatican office dealing with sex abuses, the then Cardinal Ratzinger allegedly did not respond to letters from an archbishop on the case.

THE CHURCH WAS STARTED BY PAGANS- Jesus started it. Peter his disciple helped
it to grow. If the Catholic church had never begun. There would be no schism
and therefore no Baptists.

Wrong. The early Christians weren't Catholics; they did not wear dresses and pray to Mary and engage in ritual cannibalism. Those are all later traditions of the Catholic Cult, post-Council of Trent.

I am Catholic because never have I come across a church that emphasizes love for
all Christians and all of Gods creation.

So . .. that makes no sense whatsoever.

I fully believe the Eucharist because call me crazy or not.

That's not a reason, either. Why do you believe that crackers and wine turn into flesh and blood in your tummy?

Why do you believe that a priest has the ability to call Jesus down from Heaven into a cracker for you to eat?

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

Re: Why I Am Catholic

You sir are meticulous. So it never flat out said that Jesus missed being with his Father but you know he did.

Considering Jesus is God, why would He miss Himself? Where do you get these ridiculous ideas?

[avemaria]

Re: Why I Am Catholic

Considering Jesus is God, why would He miss Himself? Where do you get these ridiculous ideas?

Because of the Trinity. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Three persons, one God, and Man will never be able to understand that. Tis a mystery

Now you're right we do pray to Mary, but pray and worship are two different things. We pray and honor her.

"I am Catholic because never have I come across a church that emphasizes love for
all Christians and all of Gods creation."
As you pointed out it doesn't make since because it's written wrong. I meant "i haven't come across another church" meaning that the Catholic Church is the first church I've been to that emphasizes love for all Christians and all of Gods creation.

You're right the early Christians weren't Catholics. Jesus and all of his disciples were Jewish.

The pope is busy with the whole church. Why the bishops didn't take care of those boys I don't know. But instead of arguing why the pope and the bishops didn't take care of it, why didn't their teachers or friends and peers notice something wrong? They are just as responsible as the priests for prolonging the victims' suffering.

Mary was taken up body and soul. She isn't alive on earth but she is very much alive in heaven.

And there is a difference between my mother's oven and Mary's womb. For one Mary at the young age accepted to be pregnant and brought our savior onto earth. Cookies just relieve hunger.

[Faith_Machine]

Re: Why I Am Catholic

And when he is saying "Woman" to Mary it is not out of disrespect. He would never dishonor his mother which would violate the commandment t and therefore would make him imperfect. Jesus is the new Adam come to revive the world. And when he says "Woman " to Mary he is referring g to her as the new Eve.

You understand Mary was Jesus' mother, right?

And you do understand Eve was Adam's wife, right?

So you're telling us Jesus was married to his own mother!?!?!