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@Truth_matters20 No gymnastics needed.

@IndianaBrunner Perhaps properly articulate the Catholic position before making a ridiculous rebuttal.

Praying to anyone other than God is idolatry. Bowing to and directing prayers to a statue of anyone or anything even if you say it is depicting Jesus is idolatry.

@Reddeeva @peacepolice90 @MattTestifies That doesn’t prove anything. There are new members of every fake religion everyday

@peacepolice90 @MattTestifies @wingsnut86 And all the new members being baptized everyday.

They are afraid it might be true.

@BibleInContext1 Long way to say you can’t.

Not exactly a Mic drop for ya bud…. Luke, Matthew, Mark, John and Paul taught a symbolic Eucharist! They in no way taught the pagan aristotelian philosophy of the transubstantiation eucharist! Those men are really, the only Christian authors who’s opinion matters since they are the only ones inspired by God! But you also have Clement of Alexandria, & Tertullian. Now tell the truth about how the Jewishness of our faith was diminished after Rome demolished Jerusalem twice, and the emphasis of Bible interpretation became overrun by Greek modes of interpretation of scripture that overly spiritualized and allegorized the Bible! The early church writers are not our instruction in the faith. It’s the inspired written word of God that does that.

@MattTestifies Literally none of that makes it true. Anyone could write a book making moral demands but that doesn’t make the book true.

Book of Mormon is fan fiction Alright then explain why this so-called fan fiction spends page after page doing what shallow religious takes almost never do teaching repentance defending covenant authority clarifying baptism exalting Jesus Christ warning of apostasy and inviting every reader to ask God for revelation That is not cope lit. That is a prophetic text making demands.

@MattTestifies Same reason people think the Quran brings them to God. Just claiming it brings you to Christ doesn’t actually mean it does

@wingsnut86 Calling it fan fiction does not explain why it keeps bringing people to Christ.

@sola_chad Protestantism

@DarthHarryson He placed his interpretation first not scripture.

Thank you Dr. Luther for placing Scripture first and making us read our Bibles ❤️

@IndianaBrunner Believing the Eucharist is symbolic is 100% heresy.

Believing the Eucharist is symbolic is not heresy. Believing Jesus Christ’s life, death, and resurrection is symbolic IS heresy.

@RandomLDS It’s false.

You don't need a PhD, mountains of logical irrefutable evidence, or even blindly trust the words of the prophets to know if the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is true or not. You just need to ask God.

@VanillaDeedle @BIG_SGT_D @David_wthebeard When will you show a church teaching authorizing the selling indulgence. It has never been authorized. When will you admit your ignorant of actual fact

@wingsnut86 @BIG_SGT_D @David_wthebeard When will you admit that they absolutely did sell indulgences?? Do you actually think your church has never been in error??

Classic straw-man fallacy. The Roman Catholic Church has deviated from the original teachings of Christ and the early church.

@BibleInContext1 False. You broke from Christianity and follow your own religion, not the religion established by God. Repent of your lies.

Practicing Roman Catholics are not Christians. They are religious philosophers and pagans. They will use Christianity, the Bible and church history to manipulate its credibility and authority in any given culture. An unsaved person can pick up the New Testament read it and believe the gospel and be saved without any need for the Catholic interpretation or magisterium.

@BibleInContext1 This IS my body….seems like you need the same class Bill Clinton did

Let me explain it to you…. The Roman Catholic transubstantiated Eucharist is another Jesus! The Eucharist does not exist without the Mass. The claim that Jesus can wholly and entirely be present, even in the smallest element of a crumb (1377), is utter blasphemy, degrading the King of Kings, the Lord of Glory, down to a crumb. If Jesus is wholly present in each individual wafer, then how many Jesus's does Catholicism have? But it gets worse. They believe that by consuming their consecrated host, it actually removes sin & preserves you from sin (CCC 1393-95). We become closer to God by being sanctified by his written word. It's God's Word that washes us and cleanses us. It's God's Word that sets us apart from this world. In the Eucharistic Mysterium, it describes Jesus as immolated, a sacrificial victim! Jesus was never a victim on the cross, he was a victor on the cross. He came for the cross. It gets worse and outright heretical. In the Eucharistic Mysterium, it says that, "The celebration of the Eucharist, which takes place at Mass, is the action not only of Christ but also of the Church." It says, "The Church, the spouse and minister of Christ, performs together with him the role of priest and victim, offers him to the Father, d at the same time makes a total offering of self, the Church, together with him." In the Presbyterorum Ordinis, it says this: That, "The priests must instruct their people to offer to God the Father, the divine victim in the sacrifice of the Mass..." So they're instructing people to join to the offering of Christ on the cross their own lives. Then in the Catholic Catechism 1368 it says "...the Eucharist, the sacrifice of Christ becomes also the sacrifice of the members of his body, and that Christ's sacrifice present on the altar makes it possible for all generations of Christians to be united with his offering." The Christian does not offer themselves along with Christ on the cross. There's nothing we can do to add to the finished work of Jesus on the cross two thousand years ago. So not only is the Roman Catholic transubstantiated Eucharist blasphemy, but the entire Mass itself is heresy. Jesus himself was never a victim, but a victor on the cross, and at the Last Supper, he said, "Take and eat," not, "Make more offerings and sacrifices to the Father." Catholic theology describes the sacrifice of Christ as also the sacrifice of the Church Body! "The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice: The victim is one and the same (CCC 1367)" & "The Eucharist is also the sacrifice of the Church. The Church which is the Body of Christ participates in the offering her Head. (CCC 1368)"

@farmingandJesus Scripture no where says that.

I agree with the Bible that she, a married woman , consummated her marriage and obeyed the Lord as her and Joseph were fruitful and multiplied.

@BibleInContext1 @michaeljknowles No where in the Bible does it say that. Stop adding to scripture.

I agree with the Bible’s view! Mary honored her marriage vows with Joseph and consummated their marriage! Why do Catholics dishonor Mary and why does she have to be a virgin for your Catholic theology to operate? @michaeljknowles let’s set up a charitable conversation!

@David_wthebeard Good soild Catholic Teaching. No one can earn their salvation.

@OpStCyprian The reformation is just man rebelling against God.

Catholics really can’t discern the difference between things happening because people recognized Rome was in error and things happening because we don’t kill people we disagree with anymore. Honestly, if you can’t discern the complexity of what has happened in the West in the last 500 years, what are the chances you’ll actually be able to discern all the history required to adjudicate all the claims between Rome and the East.

@realmattcarr Scripture never says that

It’s literally salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone to the glory of God alone, as revealed in the Scriptures alone.

@5Solas2 Straw man