I am not a hater of the Catholic Church, this is just
an extract from a site which I would post below.
Here's a sermon from
Brother Hardwick:
Anyone can call himself a Christian, but that
doesn’t make it so.
Anyone can quote the Bible, but that doesn’t make
him saved.
Anyone can build a giant, elaborate cathedral,
with stained glass
windows and ornate sculptures, but that doesn’t
make him
Heaven-bound. Friends, the number of Hell-bound
heathens
claiming to believe in Jesus is countless. They go by
names like
Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Moonies and Branch
Davidians. No
matter the name, they will roast on a spit above
Satan’s hot coals
for eternity while we sip Rothschild’s finest with our
Savior in
Heaven. But perhaps the most dangerous cult, whose
members will be the first
plunged into Lucifer’s fiery abyss, is also one of the
most popular. I am, of course,
referring to the Catholics.
Catholics claim to be Christians despite the fact that
much of what they believe
constitutes the essence of blasphemy. They spit in
Jesus’ face every time they hold
mass, yet many saved Christians still believe
Catholics will be ascending to Heaven
with us. How could our colleagues be fooled by a
religion that is so obviously anti-
Christian? They assume that, because the Catholics
have millions of followers
worldwide, they must believe something right. Well,
let me tell you something –
popularity means nothing. Sixty million Americans
eat Spam but that hardly makes it
good.
The ways in which Catholics defy God’s word are too
numerous to describe in this
sermon. So let me just focus on a few. First, they
worship mortals, something God
expressly admonished against. Catholics claim to
love Jesus and claim to believe in the
Holy Trinity. But they don’t limit their worship to
God, as the Bible demands (Exodus
20:3). Instead, they pray to mere mortals – Mary,
Joseph and the so-called “saints” –
humans, whom they have made gods in their own
right. Humans, who they believe
can perform the miracles of our Savior. I once saw a
Catholic woman praying beside
her car in a mall parking lot. When I asked her if
she was praying to the Lord, she
said, “no,” she was praying to Saint Anthony to help
her find her car keys.
This is idolatry, pure and simple. The Bible orders us
not to pray to dead men (Psalms
106:28), and Jesus instructs us not to pray to angels
(Colossians 2:18). We are to have
one God, and one God alone. The Catholics actually
worship a woman! Mary, the
woman who was selected at random to serve as the
incubator for Christ. There are
actually documents written by popes that say Mary,
a mortal female, is the key to
salvation. Blasphemy doesn’t get more blatant than
that.
But the Catholics don’t stop there. They actually bow
before and pray to statues –
graven images not only of God but of these mortals
they (not God) have declared to be
saints. Bowing to images is the essence of idolatry
(Exodus 20:5; Deuteronomy 5;9;
Isaiah 44:17; Daniel 3:5, 10, 15), even if the image is
of God (Exodus 32:4-6 with
Psalms 106:19-20). What happens to those who
practice idolatry? They never enter the
Kingdom of Heaven (Galatians 5:19-21; Ephesians
5:5; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10).
There are numerous other Catholic beliefs that run
afoul of God’s word. The Catholics
believe some people neither go to Heaven nor Hell, but
instead wind up in an
imaginary fantasyland they call “purgatory” (even
though there is no such place
described in the Bible). The Catholics believe we
cannot confess our sins to God
directly, but instead have to recite them to a
pedophile intermediary, despite the fact
that the Bible never suggests this. They think, in
order to be forgiven of sin, we have
to recite rote prayers over and over (like some
elementary school kid ordered to write,
“I will not talk in class” 100 times on the
blackboard), even though such nonsense
finds no support in the Bible. They baptize babies
before they know the difference
between Jesus and Pampers. Even worse, they reject
the Bible in favor of the
statements of some nelly queen in a dress and a
Madonna bosom-cup hat, believing
anything that idol says while in the cathedral
comes from God. That is blasphemy if
the term has any meaning! And worst of all, they
don’t believe one must be born
again to enter the Kingdom of Heaven!
The bottom line is that the Catholic church is
nothing more than a cult that happened
to catch on. Granted, the pope has a greater
following than Jim Jones did, but the
distinction ends there. One need only watch an altar
boy walk bowlegged from a
priest’s chambers to recognize theirs is hardly the
“true faith.” Homosexuality is not
merely something the Catholics have overlooked and
ignored. It is something they
have actively promoted . And if all of that isn’t
enough to convince you of the truth,
bear in mind that Catholics claim to have seen
visions of the face of Mary bleeding on
objects ranging from an adobe wall to a bowel
movement . They might as well be
Elvis-spotters. And for all the good the pomp and
circumstance of their services will
do them, the Catholics might as well just sacrifice
pets on their front lawns. That
would give them the same shot at Heaven -- none.
So say “farewell,” “goodbye,” “hope the heat doesn’t
get to you” to all your Catholic
friends. For one thing is certain. There is no room in
Heaven for Mary-loving, incense-
burning, Pope-adoring, candle-lighting, apparition-
seeing, statue-slobbering, ring-
kissing, wafer-eating, stained glass-loving, altar-boy
banging, mackarel-snapping idol-
worshipers!
Source : http://..com.es/2014/10/why-catholics-might-miss-heaven.html?m=1

LMAO! Threads like this makes me laugh! Let me see how they will fight themselves.

*Following*

What does the Bible say about judging?? "Judge not... Condemn not..."

MaleoPearls:
What does the Bible say about judging?? "Judge not... Condemn not..."

with due respect i'm not judging.. Certain beliefs ought to be scrutinized properly

Lame story

luigiajah:
with due respect i'm not judging.. Certain beliefs ought to be scrutinized properly

Trying so hard to sugarcoat eh . This is not scrutiny! The whole post reeks of ''Judging'' and total condemnation. Stinks of it a lot!

Lol. This is really very funny.
Christians fighting among themselves and struggling for who will inherit heaven. I'm sure that if this OP finally gets to heaven and sees Pope John Paul II there, he will scream foul-play from heaven's "rooftops" and maybe even indict God for allowing John Paul II into heaven.

I wonder how they intend to convert non-Christians to their faith. With these internal squabbles and quarrels, I wonder how they manage to preach about love of neighbour. But I know that their Bible said that a kingdom divided against itself will surely fall.

One question I've always asked Christians is: what happened to Jesus' Prayer for unity and against divisions among his followers. Is it that the prayer wasn't answered or what? The Holy Spirit that the Christians profess is at work in them, is it the spirit of discord and disunity?

luigiajah:
with due respect i'm not judging.. Certain beliefs ought to be scrutinized properly

Maybe you just copied and pasted all these that you didn't notice that it's judgemental and condemning

MaleoPearls:
Maybe you just copied and pasted all these that you didn't notice that it's judgemental and condemning

copy and paste is correct , judgemental is true but since i wasn't the original author , d blame doesn't fall on me

luigiajah:
copy and paste is correct , judgemental is true but since i wasn't the original author , d blame doesn't fall on me

Young man, you brought this topic here. Na you I sabi. At least you should have dissociated yourself from all the comments but you didn't. Did you??

MaleoPearls:
Young man, you brought this topic here. Na you I sabi. At least you should have dissociated yourself from all the comments but you didn't. Did you??

probably not but you ought to view to blog where it was posted before turning to me

luigiajah:
probably not but you ought to view to blog where it was posted before turning to me

Na only me waka come yet ooo. Wait till others come. Until then, I rest my case. #Shalom

Summary:
Catholics fighting hard to convert non Christians to Christianity while Protestants fighting real hard to convert Catholics to Protestants.

who is deceiving who?

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