Doves,

You may want to pass this post to your Catholic friends and relatives.

 

Let me ask you a thought provoking question-----Is there anything more important to a Christian than his or her eternal destiny that one could risk?

 

Think about that question and eternity for a moment---- we are talking about forever and ever and ever...... 10 to the quadrillion power.

 

If every grain of sand on every beach in the world represented a million years all of that sand together wouldn't put a dent in the time frame of eternity. So why would anyone risk being on the wrong side of the eternal Christian fence?! With this in mind I think one should make every possible effort to get the facts right and insure one's final eternal destination.

 

So if your eternal destiny is at stake--- where would you or should you place your trust? Do you put that trust in God's inerrant (proven to be true through prophecy) Holy Words.... the Bible..... His "operating instructions" for mankind from the creator of the universe or do you put your trust in words that were generated by man himself that may and will "cheat you"? To me the answer is a no brainer but for over a billion so called Christians--- they have accepted man's words and not God's and indeed their eternal destiny may be at stake.

 

Considering world events and bible prophecy I feel the time is short so I would again aim an article at the billion Catholics with more than enough "facts" that show the massive difference between God's Holy Biblical Words and the words or doctrine that has been generated by man via the Roman Catholic Church.

 

Let's look at what God has to say in His inerrant Words and compare them with what the Roman Catholic Church has dreamt up over the centuries.

 

These differences and what you believe may well seal your destiny. A destiny of eternal bliss with the Lord in a place where we can't even imagine it's glory and magnificence or eternal separation from Him in the blackness of an eternal horror chamber.

 

God said in Matthew 7:14 that.... narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life (eternal salvation), and there are few who will find it. Webster defines few as not many, a small number.... as in.....a few people showed up or a few seats were left. So what are we talking about as few? 10% or less----1 out of 10 maybe. Pretty bad odds for salvation because God knew people wouldn't take the time to find the true path and would listen to man and Satan's world rather than reading God's Holy Bible for the salvation answers.

 

So I'll list a lot of facts concerning this issue and after reading them you make your eternal choice---the most important one of your life. And better yet don't take my word for it or anyone else's--- but PLEASE read the bible yourself for the answers.

 

The Roman Catholic Church doesn't advocate you do that or you might find out what a scam they have been running all these centuries. And like I have said before I am not some Catholic basher, I was a Catholic for over 40 years until I had the facts presented to me. I became very angry that I had been so badly deceived and that I could have spent eternity in that black horror chamber so I went looking for that narrow path spoken of in God's Words. And found it...... and it is easy to find if you take the time to look.

 

Lets start by comparing what God says about your salvation and what the Roman Catholic Church has to say.

 

A=What God says    B=What Catholic Church says    CC=Catholic Catechism page    RCC= Roman Catholic Church

 

A) The Gospel of Grace is revealed in Jesus Christ, His life death and resurrection       1Corinthians15:1-4

B) The Gospel of Roman Catholicism reveals a religious system of sacraments, indulgences, purgatory, and prayers for the dead.     CC-1032,1471-79,1498

 

A) Salvation in the bible is only through Christ      Acts 4:12

B) Salvation in RCC is through the RCC       CC-846

 

A) Salvation is a gift of God's grace    Ephesians 2:8,9

B) Salvation is merited by doing good works      CC-1815,1821,2010,2027

 

A) Salvation is by faith alone    Ephesians 2:8,9

B) Salvation is by faith plus the law, sacraments, and good works     CC-1129,1131

 

A) Salvation is attained by Christ    Romans 5:9

B) Salvation is attained by man        CC-2010,2027

 

A) Salvation is attained the moment a sinner believes the gospel    Ephesians 1:13,14

B) Salvation is a process from baptism to purgatory       CC-161-2,1254-55

 

A) Salvation is secured by God    John 10:27-30

B) Salvation is never assured in this life       CC-1036,2005

 

A) Sins are expiated( the penalty is paid) by Christ's blood     Romans 3:25

B) Sins are expiated(the penalty is paid) by suffering in purgatory CC-1030-31

 

A) Salvation glorifies God alone     Ephesians 1

B) Mary and all the saints are also glorified       CC-1476-77

 

A) The work of salvation is finished     John 19:30

B) The work of salvation continues with daily sacrifices      CC-611,1405

 

God's Words concerning the Virgin Mary

 

Lets focus for a minute on Mary the beloved mother of Jesus from what God's word tells us. She was found to be the highly favored one, blessed among women, whom the Lord was with . A virgin woman who God chose to be the vessel to accomplish the birth of Jesus conceived in her by the Holy Spirit. A woman who all generations hence would recognize as blessed by God to have been chosen the earthly birth mother of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Then there are brief glimpses of her life up to and soon after Jesus' death. There is nothing in God's word about her death or her husband Joseph's or their children's deaths. With those details and the lack of details of many of the early saints one can using God's Word be assured that after their deaths that their souls (again using God's Words of) ----absent from the body and present with the Lord--- determine that Mary and Joseph's and their children's souls are present with the Lord in heaven but waiting with millions of others who are dead to receive their immortal bodies at the Rapture of the Church.

 

Man's words or more specifically the RCC words concerning the Virgin Mary

 

Now lets see what completely unbiblical and blasphemous details the RCC has created for Mary the earthly mother of God throughout the centuries turning her into this "false Mary" for the benefit of the RCC.

 

1)In 1854 Pope Pius IX proclaimed the Immaculate Conception of Mary meaning she was born without sin. There is nothing in God's word to substantiate this and it was dreamt up by RCC.

 

2) The RCC teaches the "Perpetual Virginity of Mary" saying that she was a virgin before, during and after the birth of Jesus. Nowhere is this found in God's word . RCC made it up. In fact God's word says Jesus had siblings born to Mary. His brother James for one example. Matthew 1:24 talks about Joseph not having any sexual relations with her "until" after Jesus was born.

 

3) The RCC declared in 1950 by Pope Pius XII "The Assumption of Mary" that she was raptured or ascended into heaven. Absolutely nothing to back this up in God's word. Made up by RCC

 

4) The RCC declared Mary as "The Mother of All Christians", the mother of all believers. Absolutely unbiblical---dreamt up by RCC.

 

5) The RCC declared Mary is "The Mediatrix" and that she intercedes for all believers between them and God when the bible very clearly states in 1Timothy 2:5 and 1 John 2:1 that Jesus Christ is the only mediator between men and God the Father. Again the RCC merely made this up with no biblical foundation for their actions.

 

6) The RCC in 1922 under Pope Benedict XV declared Mary to be "The Co-Redemptrix" meaning that she gets co-credit for the redemption of man's sins that Jesus paid for on the cross. Completely unbiblical---complete blasphemy. Conjured up by RCC

 

7) The RCC has declared Mary to be "Queen of Heaven". That she has risen to a level of divinity with our triune Godhead. Not biblical and absolutely baseless fabrication and blasphemy on the part of RCC.

 

8) And to go along with #7 the RCC has declared Mary to be "The Mother of God" not just His earthly mother but also His heavenly mother. Complete blasphemy again dreamt up by RCC.

 

According to the RCC Jesus did not fully pay our sin debt on the cross and they (RCC) through the mass continue to pay that cost. (Unbelievable heresy) The bible says "by one offering He has forever perfected those who are being sanctified" Hebrews 10:14 and "Unlike the other high priests, He (Jesus) does not need to offer daily sacrifices" Hebrews 7:27,28.

 

RCC denies Jesus' sacrifice is finished. They say--"the sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist (Mass) are one single sacrifice---the same Christ who offered Himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and offered in an un-bloody manner CC 1367 "Every time this "mystery" in the Mass is celebrated the work of our redemption is carried on" CC1405 The sacrifice is "offered in reparation for the sins of the living and the dead" CC1414

 

If you didn't follow all that-- the RCC is saying to Jesus "you didn't do it right on the cross" so we'll pick up your slack by re-sacrificing you daily in the Mass until somewhere down the road the price of the sins of mankind are paid. Can you imagine poking a stick in Jesus' face millions of times a day with the Masses going on around the planet telling Him He failed on the cross and did not do it correctly--- and we the RCC will pick up your slack. I have no words to describe how our precious Lord must feel with daily torment of those proportions. Only a demonically controlled Satanic church would revel in that degree of abuse to our Lord and Savior.

 

In the Mass the RCC holds up the golden cup to re-sacrifice our Lord mocking Him that He didn't do it correctly. As I stated above the RCC calls this Mass or Eucharist a "mystery" CC1405. What does God have to say about this "mystery" in Rev.17? God says in Rev.17 that this "mystery" will be performed by someone wearing the colors of purple and scarlet (the colors of the RCC) they will be in fine attire adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls (fancy vestments of the RC clergy) and they will be holding a golden cup (chalice) and these cups will be full of the abominations and the filthiness of her (RCC) worldwide fornication. That seems like a pretty accurate biblical Rev. description of what the RCC is doing to Jesus on a daily basis and the millions of other abominations they have dispensed over the centuries.

 

It also (Rev.17) says the ones (RCC) who are performing this "mystery" will have the blood of untold true Christians and martyrs of Jesus on it's hands. For anyone who needs a history review the RCC murdered over 50 million innocent true Christians, Jews and others who would not bow and come under the Roman Catholic papal state which dominated Europe in the Middle ages. The butchery and brutality was unbelievable.

 

 I could write books about the unbiblical writings and actions of the RCC and the extreme evil of the Popes throughout the centuries or about the completely pervasive homosexual climate that has putrefied it's ranks and preys daily on our children. One more issue......are you aware that the RCC chose to leave out one of God's 10 commandments? Most people are not aware of this. And that the RCC has broken and completely ignored this clearly stated 3rd commandment all these years. A totally unbelievable, disobedient, treasonous act on the part of the RCC. An "in you face" refusal to honor God's wishes and laws.

 

That's right you won't find God's 3rd commandment He gave to Moses on Mount Sinai anywhere in the RCC.

 

 As per Exodus 20:4,5,6-- God's 3rd commandment states-----"You shall not make for yourself a carved image(statue)---any likeness of "anything" that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate ME, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep my commandments".

 

Now think about the RCC and some of it's most prominent features......that's right......statues. Statues everywhere.......millions of them paying homage to a myriad of RCC saints and especially the "false Mary". And untold millions of Roman Catholics and others kneeling and paying homage to them just as God specifically warned us not to do. He's jealous, He admits it. He is to be worshiped by you, not you bowing down and paying homage to statues of creatures He created especially when they are vile from a vile church.

 

If you haven't been intrigued to do your own search or convinced by now that the RCC is a complete scam of unprecedented proportions, than 20 or 100 more pages on my part would be fruitless.

 

But I will give you a final warning from God Himself written in Revelation 18:4 where a heavenly voice practically begs Catholics to......."Come out of her (the RCC) my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her (RCC) sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities".

 

There are entire ministries set up to try to reach Roman Catholics with the truth. A couple I would recommend would be.......

 

Proclaiming the Gospel

Mike Gendron--Director

www.pro-gospel.org

 

And Dave Hunt of the "Berean Call" has a video entitled "A Woman Rides the Beast", which is an outstanding witnessing tool to Catholics.

 

And as Mike Gendron states........"It is important to realize that most of the clergy and lay people that teach Roman Catholic doctrine are not deceiving people with malicious intent. They are simply passing on what has been passed on to them, sincerely believing they have the truth. Catholics must believe all dogmas of their church or be anathema (eternally cursed). Prayer, love, compassion, and understanding are needed along with the Word of God to penetrate their hearts. Patience is needed to untangle Roman Catholics from the dogmatic web in which they are held captive".

 

Colossians 2:8---Beware lest anyone"cheat you" through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

 

Millions believe that Jesus is coming for His Church soon so please share the true gospel with your Catholic friends and relatives before the Rapture door closes and it's too late.

 

Praying this article is an effective message and an effective witnessing tool........

 

In Christ Our Lord and Savior,

John B