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By: theoldadam

theoldadam — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:42:55 +0000

Ask any serious Catholic theologian…the R. Church is the repository of the faith. And the priests are the gatekeepers to that faith and dole it out to those in good standing.

Yes, it’s goofy…but that’s Rome.

By: Manfred

Manfred — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:42:51 +0000

LOL! Protestant preahers are NOT mediators between man and God! The Bible is clear – Christ alone is able to fill that role.

Rome teaches that Mary is above the Lord Jesus – “Ask His mother, he will do anything she asks.” Blasphemy from Rome 7 days a week!

By: paperlessworld

paperlessworld — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:03:52 +0000

I challenge the semantics of the thesis: “Catholics are totally dependent upon priests for their salvation.”

No one who has studied Catholicism believes that the priest is anything but a mediator, in the search for the divine. The reference to “their salvation” as distinct from any other person’s salvation is archaic thinking, pre-Vatican II. Catholics trust their religion and their priests no more than the traditional Protestant churches have their ministers, to act as mediators to God. The problems of Christian denominations seem the same in the modern world — to find young people willing to work for the community in a religious institution, to speak in the language of their own generation. I was born in the baby boom and never have expected anyone to “usher” me into Heaven.

The comments left here suggest the everlasting human problem in Christianity in relationship, as people try to figure out who is most holy on earth, in the continuing division amongst Christians, with the ever increasing number of denominations, in a world beset with divorce.

The description of the Roman Catholic Church by Mike Gendron sounds more like the sermons of Jonathan Edwards read in the present day. The vestments might not have changed much, but he language inside your neighborhood Catholic Church is English.

By: Matthew Johnston

Matthew Johnston — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:07:22 +0000

I said to my wife last night when we were watching a film that was about a preist in the RCC that they [catholics] just have it all wrong.

I mean what a massive stumbling block the RCC is to those who are sincerely seeking after Christ!

Thankfully His sheep will hear His voice.

By: Manfred

Manfred — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:45:58 +0000

And anyone who depends on any human for salvation or sanctification is doomed to hell and endless frustration while on Earth.

By: theoldadam

theoldadam — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:44:04 +0000

In Catholicism, one’s relationship to the Church determines one’s relationship to Christ.

In Protestantism, it is the opposite.

By: brother Michael

brother Michael — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:23:09 +0000

Excellent quote and it is so true. This is why you will always find Catholic apologists defending not the gospel or Jesus but rather their institution (i.e. mother Rome). This is also why said apologists will always rebuff the most cogent and Scripturally sound arguments which clearly show that Catholicism is not Christianity. Because in their world (just like the JWs and Mormons), their organization cannot be allowed to fall for if she did, then so too would crumble their faith and sole means to their hoped salvation.