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@A_wild_fez @AnCapWI @RevivedThoughts His body contains His blood

@AnCapWI @SepsSteve @RevivedThoughts Do you need to have the blood for a full communion?

Church history is on the protestants side. But we have to actually teach it.

@JDunlap1974 It is his OPINION, not doctrine. Learn Catholicism, then talk.

Catholic Pope Leo XIV says God rejects the prayers of those waging war in Iran, stating their hands are full of blood. I guess the pope thinks that he has authority as a mere man to a special access to God that we do not. It's Narcissistic and untrue. Man needs no mediator between himself and God. These are man-made rituals.

@UcheMaryOkoli You are member of the Catholic Church. That's all that matters. Enjoy the Maronite rite!

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@conservmillen That's his OPINION. It is not doctrine. Learn Catholicism.

Pope Leo: “[Jesus] does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.” There is absolutely no biblical basis for this whatsoever. Christians should strive for peace, yes. We don’t revel in death and destruction. And a Christian could make a sound argument against the particulars of many wars throughout history, including the war with Iran today. A Christian could also agree that God shouldn’t be used to justify unjust wars. But to say that God is against war per se is flat out false. All throughout the Old Testament God calls for war in defense of His people. Exodus 15:3 declares, “The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is His name.” David constantly prayed to the Lord while battling his enemies. He says his cries to the Lord “reached His ears” and God answered him. God didn’t just answer David by hiding him away but by giving him lethal strength: “He trains my hands for war” (Psalm 18:6, 34). If you discount these examples because they’re in the Old Testament, you don’t understand Scripture or God. Jesus is God; therefore everything God has ever done Jesus has fully agreed with and participated in, and He does not change (Hebrews 13:8). Mind you also that Jesus Himself promises to come back as a warrior to wage war against evildoers. There are categories of people whose prayers God does not answer: the self-righteous, those who pray with selfish motives. People who wage war are not automatically in one of these categories. I’m so glad our founders did not believe this way. I love this retelling of the story of the pacifist Quaker who allegedly heard Washington praying in the woods at Valley Forge: “He was at Prayer to the God of the Armies, beseeching to interpose with his Divine aid, as it was His crisis, and the cause of the country, of humanity, and of the world.” Sometimes force is necessary to defeat evil and advance good. When it comes to these matters, Pope Leo has repeatedly proven that he is not wise.

@BibleInContext1 "The Roman Catholic transubstantiated Eucharist is another Jesus!" So you claim there are more than one Jesus? Wow. This must be a parody account. No sane person believes there is more than one Jesus.

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 So now it is Lizzie the scholar. You continue to lose every argument against Catholicism. Keep posting. In reality you convert others to Catholicism. Thank you.

Study the Bible and pray to God for wisdom and you will not be a Roman Catholic.

@AnCapWI @Ukrwarviewing @RevivedThoughts It is what He did.

@SepsSteve @Ukrwarviewing @RevivedThoughts When did he say that?

@AnCapWI @Ukrwarviewing @RevivedThoughts You have no Apostolic succession. Christ gave the ability for transubstantiation to His Apostles, not everyone.

@Ukrwarviewing @SepsSteve @RevivedThoughts Many catholic churches don't

@RevivedThoughts You don't teach them about the Eucharist: "heretics abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not admit that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ."

@SepsSteve I not only read it but teach part of it to my students. It's a great aid to showing that our faith and the Scriptures are not man-made.

@abbythelibb_ Laughable. Catholic = one doctrine, forever, never wrong, growing and never opposing itself Protestant = believe whatever you want, church shop, oppose each other, always wrong

Catholic: "Our world leader preached bad theology, but it's okay, he was speaking pastorally, not ex Cathedra, so we can just disagree." Same Catholic: "A Protestant pastor preached bad theology, and this is why I'm Catholic." ...Ex Cathedra does not exist in Protestantism. All Protestant pastors, whether preaching good or bad theology are preaching pastorally, and none of them, not even the likes of John MacArthur, have as much influence over the wordwide understanding of theology as the Pope. Catholics, when you defend your positions with such dishonesty, you show more loyalty to the Father of Lies than the God you claim to love and serve.

@nienna121 The Catholic Church forbids any sex before marriage between a man and a woman. Your church does not.

The idea that Protestants object to Catholicism because of premarital sex is laughable. The data shows that Protestants oppose premarital sex far more than Catholics do.

@_jonbowlin Another mindless Protestant post. Chapter and verse? There is none. You made it up. That's what Protestants do.

Mary has never once heard a prayer from anyone. Whoever claims Mary has answered their prayer has been deceived by an evil spirit

@UcheMaryOkoli It is amazing. You can feel the filth washed away instantly. I feel sorry for Protestants who will never experience such freedom from sin.

I went for confession today, and my priest absolved me of all of my sins. The best words I've ever heard; "I absolve you of your sins in the name of the father, son, and the Holy spirit." Guys!!! This is one of the best things ever. It is only in the Catholic Church that you get absolved of your sins, and you feel like a new creature. I go for confession weekly because I know that i struggle with sin. I'm not a perfect hunan being. Never will, never claimed to be. I was born in sin. I sin every day. I struggle with sin. But I'm glad and grateful for the sacrament of reconciliation 🤝. Jesus ate with this. Going for confession is way better than going for therapy. And confessing to your priest who is also your friend is the best. I recommend!! Go for confession! It is good.

@5Solas2 So says the devil.

Eat meat to the glory of God and don't pray the rosary.

@sola_chad You mean it’s your completely wrong interpretation of the bible that holds you back

Actually, the Bible is the #1 thing holding me back from becoming Catholic.

@farmingandJesus For once you are correct: It’s your completely wrong interpretation of the Bible that holds you back from the church that Jesus founded, the Catholic Church

No, it’s the Bible.

@BibleInContext1 Yeah right. Millions have come to Jesus because of Fatima. You are a clown.

Fatima Is A Counterfeit Demon Spirit! The Roman Catholic Mary is not the humble Jewish mother of our Lord Jesus. The Roman Catholic Mary is an invention of men centuries after the apostles!

@ProtPhilosopher The Latin Vulgate, published by St Jerome ~400 AD, has 73 books. You lose.

I noticed several errors in Dr. Taylor Marshall's letter to Protestants. So I offer a corrected version below, addressed to Catholics. Dear Catholics, Your Bible contains 7 non-canonical books, added by the Council of Trent in 1546 over the objections of your own best bible scholar. Marshall says Jerome "changed his mind" about the deuterocanonical books around 402 AD in obedience to Pope Damasus. I've read Jerome's prefaces. This doesn't hold up. Damasus died in 384. Jerome wrote his famous Prologus Galeatus in 391. It excluded the deuterocanonicals as part of the canon. He labels these books as apocrypha. That's 7 years after Damasus was gone. That's not obedience to a living pope. The quote Marshall uses from Against Rufinus, which reads "What sin have I committed if I followed the judgment of the churches?", isn't about the canon. It's about Jerome's decision to translate from the Hebrew instead of the Septuagint. Rufinus attacked him for it. Jerome defended himself. In context, he's talking about translation method, not about which books belong in the Bible. And Jerome didn't stop his take. I've quoted these before, but here he is for the next 24 years of his life: 391: "Whatever is outside of these is set aside among the apocrypha." 398: The Church reads Tobit and the Maccabees "not for the authoritative confirmation of ecclesiastical doctrines." 405: Tobit is excluded from "the catalogue of Divine Scriptures." Judith is "considered among the apocrypha." 406: Cites the Book of Wisdom with "if one wishes to accept this book." 415: Still distinguishing Wisdom ("lest you gainsay this volume") from Ecclesiastes ("about which there can be no doubt"). This is one of his last works. Gallagher, a top scholar on Jerome on the canon, explains, "All of our evidence indicates that he always considered them outside the canon." Jerome never retracted. He never published a revised list. Never wrote "I was wrong." He translated Tobit and Judith under pressure, finished each in a single day, and attached prefaces denying them canonical status. That's not submission. That's a scholar doing what he's told while making sure everyone knows what he thinks. Dear Catholics, please drop the fan fiction that Jerome submitted to Rome on the canon. He held the same position from 391 until he died in 420. And Trent overruled him 15 centuries later by a vote of 24(Y)-15(N)-16(A). It passed by 44%. Not exactly a passing grade. Surely not one I'd write letters to Protestants about.

@farmingandJesus So now you're correcting the Bible. Martin Luther would be proud. From the latin vulgate, Matt. 1:19 Joseph autem vir ejus = And Joseph her husband

Why do people think Joseph and Mary were married when Mary conceived Christ by the spirit of God? Betrothal was binding but not married until consummation….