I agree but I must add that as you say there is a difference between the PEOPLE of the catholic church and the ORGANIZATION known as the catholic church. We should not be afraid to criticize the organization but when with family and friends and individuals in the church we should offer hope and not criticize. While I don’t agree with bashing another faith, Christian or otherwise, I do think we must tell the truth and the truth is not bashing as bashing is generally made up of lies.

 

With people in that faith sometimes the truth must start as a trickle and then increase in flow strength the more they learn. You don’t hand a child just learning to eat solid food a huge hunk of roast beef. You start them slowly on little food and gradually introduce more and more complex foods till that are able to handle the roast beef.

 

As with any speaking you must tailor you speech to your audience. Not that you must lie but the truth must be presented in a way that can be processed by the audience and in amounts that the audience can handle. Bible study and Sunday school might sometime cover the same subject but in vastly different ways and depths.

 

Paul

 

David H (13 Feb 2013)
"A warning to all doves."

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To all,

With the popping up of the Popes resignation, And all the abuse the catholic church takes from end time scholars, I want to remind people that there are many Catholics who proclaim Jesus is Lord. Many prophecy writers have also suggested that the catholic church is the "Woman that rides the Beast" of revelation 17. Well IF these are true, then the People themselves that are in that church will be Victims of the Beast, and the Ten Horns (see revelation 17:16). Should not the proper approach to these people be to reach out to them in Love, Instead of tearing them apart?

 

I am not a catholic, neither do I support the Papacy, But my heart is such that none of them should perish, and That even they are one of the seven Churches spoken of in revelation, which has potential overcomers within it. Let us encourage and Witness to them, instead of the vitriol I am seeing towards these fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. Especially now, when many will begin to question their churches direction. Now is the time to be reaching out to them and not belittling them.

 

" And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing." (1 Cor. 13:2)

Let us keep this in mind first and foremost.

This comment is not directed to any one in particular here, but is an overall assessment of what I am seeing on the internet.