The Town Hall Archives

dawningoftime · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 10:43 pm Post subject:

Catholics pray to Mary and in fact some are trying to make Mary on equal level with God (not kidding). Outside of the Bible they have the Apacrypha sp? There is also confession which is where they go and confess sins to a priest. The idea of good works getting you into heaven plays very heavily into the Catholic doctrine. One thing that really bothered me about the Passion of the Christ was with some of the things that Mel Gibson said about the protestant churches supporting it.

Coralfish · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 10:47 pm Post subject:

In reply to Dawningoftime: If you'd like to start another topic dealing with Catholic theology, feel free, but this is the sort of thing I was hoping to avoid in this thread.

Thanks.

*daniel · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 10:51 pm Post subject:

GusDeHaan · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 12:22 am Post subject:

As much as I am in favour of discussing things, I think if anyone who is not catholic and considers themselves Christians with a firm sense of the message presented in the Gospel can read up on the Catholic ideologies and notice the obvious differences that have been noted as , " false".. And that would avoid people speaking things that they may or may not regret...... Then again, maybe I am not Libertarian enough for this board. [ Jokes haahahah]

Continental Admiral · Ornery Member Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 867

While discussions are fine, I think perhaps we should watch how we word things around here. Smile

There is a polite and careful way of putting things, and there is a way that harms people and causes lashing out.

Arwen · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:38 pm Post subject:

OK.

1. Christian faith rests on the fact that Jesus died and rose from the dead. If we believe that he died for our sins, and we accept His free gift: we are saved. If the pope believed that, then he is in heaven.

2. The Catholic church believes certain things that go against the Bible. Anyone who believes those things is wrong. However, they can still be Christians if they believe and accept Christ.

Catholicism in and of itself is NOT Christian, but there are such people as Catholic Christians.

GusDeHaan · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:29 pm Post subject:

*daniel · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:11 pm Post subject:

Yeah... not to embroil ourselves in unnecessary controversy (this has already happened several other place I visit), but Roman Catholic theology as a humanistic bent. The exact thing, I think, that caused the reformation and our Protestant split from Rome.

That's not to say that RC's can't have a saving faith - but it's not because of the Church's theology, but in spite of it. In fact, that a lot of Catholics don't understand their own beliefs might be their saving grace.

But it also goes to show that a lot of Protestants don't understand ours or theirs, considering how so many people are lauding the pope as a great saint, which I can't be brought around to saying.