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Romans 10:9-10 KJV — That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

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PaulsCorner-VerseQuest@TNTJohn1717·9h

🚨‼️This is a perfect example of how Catholic apologetics works. Take an early writer, extract one tradition from him, then inflate it into “biblical, apostolic, and hell fears it.” That is quite a promotion. Tertullian mentioned tracing the sign, yes. But he also admitted these kinds of practices were not based on a positive Scripture command, but on tradition and custom. So no, quoting Tertullian does not prove the sign of the cross is a biblical spiritual weapon. It proves some early Christians had customs. Big difference. The Bible never says demons flee because someone moves his hand from forehead to chest to shoulder. That sounds less like apostolic warfare and more like Catholic hokey-pokey with incense. And since Catholics love floating early church fathers’ names around as if they settle every argument, maybe it would help to read the rest of Tertullian instead of only the one sentence Rome likes. Tertullian repeatedly appeals to Scripture, argues from Scripture, defends doctrine by Scripture, and says some traditions have no direct Scripture command. That is not exactly the slam dunk Rome thinks it is. The real power is not in hand motions. It is not in tracing a symbol over your body. It is not in ancient custom, church fathers, or religious choreography. The power is in the Lord Jesus Christ, the blood of Christ, the word of God, prayer, faith, and the armour of God. Paul did not say, “Trace the sign slowly and hell will fear it.” He said, “Put on the whole armour of God” (Ephesians 6:11). He said take “the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God” (Ephesians 6:17). So if someone wants to make the sign of the cross as a personal reminder, that is between them and God. But do not sell it as biblical doctrine or apostolic demon repellent. The apostles preached Christ crucified. They did not teach Christians to fight devils with forehead-hand-shoulder choreography. Here is the chart. Since we are bringing up Tertullian, let’s bring up more than the part Rome wants quoted.

RosarySon@SkyVirginSon

MOST CATHOLICS DON'T KNOW THIS ABOUT THE SIGN OF THE CROSS Every time you make the Sign of the Cross, you are performing an act of spiritual warfare that demons cannot stand. Most Catholics don't know why, and the enemy would prefer it stay that way. Here is what you are actually doing: ✝️ You are professing the Holy Trinity. “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” Three Divine Persons. One God. The central mystery of the Christian faith. ✝️ You are claiming the victory of Calvary. By tracing the Cross upon your body, you proclaim that Jesus Christ died and rose again for your salvation. You are declaring: “I belong to Christ.” ✝️ You are taking up a powerful spiritual weapon. St. John Chrysostom called the Sign of the Cross “a trophy against the demons and a weapon against sin.” For centuries, Christians have used it in moments of temptation, fear, suffering, and danger. ✝️ You are marking yourself with the sign of God's faithful. Many Church Fathers saw a connection between the cross-shaped “tau” mark in Ezekiel 9:4 and the saving sign of the Cross borne by God's people. ✝️ You are practicing one of Christianity's oldest traditions. Around 200 AD, Tertullian wrote: “At every forward step and movement, at every going in and out, when we put on our clothes and shoes, when we bathe, when we sit at table, when we light the lamps, on couch and seat, in all the ordinary actions of daily life, we trace upon the forehead the sign.” The Sign of the Cross is not superstition. It is biblical, ancient, apostolic, and deeply rooted in Christian tradition. The next time you make the Sign of the Cross, do it slowly. Do it reverently. Do it with faith. Heaven recognizes it. And hell fears what it represe QN: Do you make the Sign of the Cross with full awareness? A) Yes, always with intention B) I rush through it C) I didn't know this depth before D) I will start praying it differently now

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PaulsCorner-VerseQuest@TNTJohn1717·13h

🚨‼️The problem with this kind of Catholic apologetic is that it laughs at objections instead of actually answering them. It takes the most serious Bible objections to Rome, throws an emoji beside them, and then gives the standard Catholic explanation as if repeating Rome’s claim settles the issue. It doesn’t. Saying “Catholics don’t worship Mary” does not erase the fact that Rome prays to her, crowns her statues, calls her Queen of Heaven, says she is the fastest way to Jesus, and gives her titles and devotion the Bible never gives her. You can rename it “honor” if you want, but when someone is kneeling before an image, praying to Mary, trusting her intercession, and saying “everything happens through her,” that is not New Testament Christianity. Saying statues are just “visual reminders” does not answer the problem either. I have pictures of loved ones in my house. I do not kneel before them, light candles to them, carry them in procession, kiss them, crown them, pray in front of them, or believe grace is connected to them. The cherubim on the Ark were not statues of dead saints being venerated by Israel. They were God-commanded figures connected to the mercy seat, and Israel was never told to pray to them. Saying the pope is biblical because of Matthew 16 is also a leap. Peter was an apostle, but the Bible never calls him pope, never gives him universal jurisdiction over the Church, never says he had successors in Rome, and never says those successors would be infallible. In Galatians 2, Paul withstood Peter to the face because he was to be blamed. That is a strange picture of the first infallible supreme pontiff. Saying Catholics do not believe in works salvation while building a system of sacraments, priestly confession, penance, purgatory, indulgences, mortal sins, venial sins, and final justification is exactly the confusion. The Bible says, “For by grace are ye saved through faith… not of works” (Ephesians 2:8-9). Good works follow salvation. They do not become part of a sacramental treadmill required to keep or regain it. Saying a priest forgives sins because of John 20 ignores the rest of Scripture. The apostles preached remission of sins through Jesus Christ. They did not build confession booths and require Christians to confess private sins into a priest’s ear. First John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.” It points the believer to God, not Rome’s priesthood. Saying purgatory is in 1 Corinthians 3 is another classic stretch. That passage is about a saved man’s works being judged, not his soul being purified after death by suffering. The man is saved, “yet so as by fire.” His works burn. He does not go to a Roman holding chamber until enough Masses, prayers, and indulgences help him out. And saying Rome did not add books to the Bible does not change the fact that the Apocrypha was never treated by Jesus or the apostles as the inspired Old Testament Scripture. Rome leans on 2 Maccabees because purgatory needs help, but doctrine should not be built on books Christ and the apostles never used as final authority. So yes, Rome has answers. The question is whether those answers are biblical or just Roman explanations for Roman additions. Anyone can laugh, add emojis, and say “we don’t do that.” But when the Bible is opened, the issue remains the same: Mary is not the mediator. Statues are not Bible devotion. Peter was not a pope. Grace is not a sacramental treadmill. Priests are not necessary mediators of forgiveness. Purgatory is not the gospel. And the Roman Catholic Church was not the simple New Testament church founded by Jesus Christ. Rome can explain its system all day long. The question is whether the apostles preached it. And they did not.

♱Faith guard⚔️🛡@Defensofidei

The Most Common Anti-Catholic Arguments and Their Answers 1. “Catholics worship Mary.” 😆 No. Catholics worship God alone. Mary is honored as the Mother of Jesus because God honored her first in the Gospel of Luke (1:48), but worship (latria) belongs only to God. Asking Mary to pray for us is similar to asking a fellow Christian to pray for us, except that Mary is already with Christ in heaven. 2. “Catholics worship statues.” 🙀 No. Statues are visual reminders, just as photographs remind us of loved ones. The honor shown to an image passes to the person it represents, not to the material object itself. God Himself commanded sacred images such as the cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant (Exodus 25:18-20). 3. “The Pope is not biblical.” 😎 Catholics point to Christ giving Peter a unique role among the apostles (Matthew 16:18-19), including the “keys of the kingdom.” The papacy is understood as the continuation of that office in the Church. 4. “Catholics believe they earn salvation by works.” 💀 No. The Catholic Church teaches that salvation is a gift of God’s grace. Good works do not replace grace; they are the fruit of grace working in a believer (Ephesians 2:8-10; James 2:24). 5. “You don’t need a priest to confess sins.” 😳 While God is the source of forgiveness, Catholics believe Christ gave His apostles the authority to forgive sins in His name (John 20:21-23). The priest acts as Christ’s minister, not as a substitute for God. 6. “Purgatory is not in the Bible.” 🤔 Catholics see evidence for purification after death in passages such as 1 Corinthians 3:15 and in the practice of praying for the dead found in 2 Maccabees 12:44-46. 7. “Catholics added books to the Bible.” 😤 Historically, the Catholic Church did not add books. Rather, the books often called the Deuterocanon were part of the Greek Old Testament used by many early Christians and remained in Christian Bibles for centuries. 8. “The Catholic Church was not founded by Jesus.” ⛪️ The Catholic Church was founded by Jesus Christ. Peter was not the founder; he was the first leader appointed by Christ. Just as a king can establish a kingdom and appoint a prime minister, Christ founded the Church and entrusted Peter with a special role within it (Matthew 16:18-19). Do you agree with the Church or do you have your own opinion? Which objection do you hear most often? 👇

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PaulsCorner-VerseQuest@TNTJohn1717·1d

🚨‼️Catholic Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Episode Seven: The Ghost Nun and the One Hail Mary. So now we have a story about a nun who suffered for years, died, allegedly appeared to another sister in the convent, and said she would gladly return to her diseased body just to say one more Hail Mary because that one prayer would be worth all the suffering again. And the moral of the story? “Never underestimate the power of one Hail Mary.” That is where Rome loses me. A dead nun allegedly appears from the other side, gives a testimony about the power of praying to Mary, and everyone is supposed to treat that as spiritual wisdom. I’m sorry, but that sounds less like Bible Christianity and more like Catholic ghost stories with a rosary attached. The Bible never tells sinners to pray a Hail Mary. The Bible never tells believers to measure grace by Marian devotion. The Bible never tells Christians that repeating a prayer to Mary can move mountains, protect from evil, convert souls, and draw us closer to Jesus. That is exactly the problem. Rome talks about Jesus, then constantly redirects the heart back to Mary. The Bible says, “Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.” It does not say, “Ask Mary.” It does not say, “Repeat a Hail Mary.” It does not say, “Trust a ghost nun’s convent testimony.” “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 2:5) If a story from beyond the grave teaches you to pray to Mary instead of going directly to God through Jesus Christ, that is not spiritual light. That is religious darkness wearing a veil. Rome gives people ghost stories. Scripture gives people truth. One mediator. Not one Hail Mary hotline.

Saint Adaugoijele ✝️@JustAdaugoijele

In a quiet convent, there lived a nun who was deeply devoted to the Holy Rosary. For many years, she endured agonizing pain and lay bedridden, offering up her suffering with patience and love. She prayed the Rosary faithfully until the end of her earthly life. After her death, she appeared to one of her sisters in the convent. Her face was radiant, yet filled with a profound longing. She said: “If I were allowed to return to my body, even just to say one single Hail Mary, I would gladly endure all the sufferings of my final illness again. Even if I said it quickly and without great fervor, the merit of that one prayer would be worth it all.” Never underestimate the power of one Hail Mary prayed with a sincere heart. In the eyes of God and Our Blessed Mother, even the smallest prayer offered in faith carries immense grace. It can move mountains, convert souls, protect us from evil, and draw us closer to Jesus. St. Louis de Montfort So the next time you feel too busy, too tired, or too distracted to pray... remember this nun. Just one Hail Mary. It’s more powerful than you think. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus....

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PaulsCorner-VerseQuest@TNTJohn1717·1d

🚨‼️This chart shows that God’s saving work is not nervous, temporary, or constantly revised. Ephesians 1:13-14 teaches that the believer hears the gospel, believes, is sealed by the Holy Spirit, receives the earnest of the inheritance, and is headed toward the redemption of the purchased possession. God does not save with an eraser in His hand; He saves with purpose, promise, and permanence.

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PaulsCorner-VerseQuest@TNTJohn1717·1d

When Heaven Breaks Four Hundred Years of Silence Passage: Luke 1:5-25 Key Scripture: “And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.” (Luke 1:11) Introduction Luke opens his Gospel with certainty, and then he steps immediately into the temple. That is not accidental. The Holy Ghost does not begin Luke’s record in Rome, Athens, Alexandria, a philosopher’s school, or a religious council with robed men voting on what God should be allowed to say next. He begins in Jerusalem, inside the priestly order, beside the altar of incense, where an old priest is doing what priests had done for generations. The nation has had no open prophetic voice since Malachi. Four hundred years of silence had stretched across Israel like a long, cold night. Then suddenly Heaven moves. God does not ask the Sanhedrin for permission. He does not submit a proposal to a committee. He does not send a pope, a cardinal, a bishop, or some robed religious manager with a ring to kiss. He sends an angel of the Lord into the temple, and that angel stands on the right side of the altar of incense. That is how God starts the New Testament record in Luke. Not with man organizing God, but with God interrupting man. Luke 1:5-25 is one of those passages that looks quiet until you realize the ground is shaking underneath it. On the surface, an elderly priest named Zacharias is burning incense while the people pray outside. It looks routine, ceremonial, old, quiet, and familiar. But Heaven is about to break into that routine like a lightning bolt through stained glass. Zacharias and Elisabeth are righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless, yet they have no child. Their private grief sits inside their public faithfulness. Their prayers appear unanswered. Their bodies are old. Their hope has likely been buried under years of disappointment. Then Gabriel appears and says, “Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard.” That sentence alone is enough to preach for a week. God had heard the prayer long before Zacharias saw the answer. The silence of God was not the absence of God. This passage gives us prayer, priesthood, prophecy, unbelief, divine timing, judgment, mercy, and the beginning of a new movement in Israel’s history. Zacharias is serving in an old system that is about to be fulfilled by Christ. His son John will not be a priest like his father in the temple machinery. He will be a prophet in the wilderness. That is God’s way of announcing that something is shifting. The old order is still operating, but God is already preparing the voice that will cry, “Prepare ye the way of the Lord.” Heaven steps into the temple, but the next great preacher will stand outside the temple system, dressed in camel’s hair, eating locusts and wild honey, calling religious leaders vipers. God has a wonderful way of ruining the comfort of religious professionals. Just when they get the machinery polished, He raises up a man in the wilderness who does not know how to bow to their little kingdom. Chapter One: God Begins With a Priest, but Not With the Priesthood’s Permission Luke tells us, “There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias.” That sentence puts the scene in history. Herod is on the throne, Rome is in the background, Israel is under Gentile power, and the priesthood is still functioning. God moves in real time, among real people, under real rulers. The Bible is not floating around in a mystical fog. The Holy Ghost gives names, offices, locations, and conditions. Herod may be king politically, but God is about to show that Heaven is not waiting for Herod’s approval. A wicked ruler may sit on an earthly throne, but the Lord still knows where His servants are, what prayers they have prayed, and when to break silence. Zacharias is not presented as a fraud. He is not one of the hypocritical temple

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PaulsCorner-VerseQuest@TNTJohn1717·1d

Doctor Luke and the Death Certificate of Religious Fiction Passage: Luke 1:1-4 Key Scripture: “That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.” (Luke 1:4) Introduction Luke does not begin his Gospel like a man sitting in a coffee shop trying to “process his faith journey.” He does not open with “I feel,” “I imagine,” “I suppose,” “tradition says,” or “the community later came to believe.” That is the language of modern religious fog machines, the kind of spiritual cotton candy that melts the moment you put pressure on it. Luke opens like a man assembling a record. He speaks of things “most surely believed,” eyewitnesses, ministers of the word, perfect understanding, order, and certainty. That is not the vocabulary of myth. That is the vocabulary of evidence. The Holy Ghost did not give the church a pile of campfire legends, warmed-over Jewish folklore, or inspirational moral fiction. He gave a written testimony so a man could know what he had been taught was not a religious fairy tale with sandals on it. Luke 1:1-4 is a death certificate for religious fiction. It puts a toe tag on the modern lie that says the Gospels are pious inventions, theological reflections, late community memories, or spiritualized stories produced by religious imagination. Luke says he had “perfect understanding of all things from the very first.” He says he wrote “in order.” He says the purpose was “that thou mightest know the certainty.” Now, you can either believe the Holy Ghost through Luke, or you can believe some scholar with a beard, a German footnote, and a permanently suspicious attitude toward anything supernatural. The choice is not hard. One of them was moved by the Spirit of God. The other is usually moved by tenure, unbelief, and the desperate need to make the Bible look less certain than his own latest journal article. The Bible believer does not need to apologize for treating Luke as history. Luke wrote history. He named rulers, places, customs, events, people, journeys, priestly courses, towns, synagogues, governors, decrees, and public happenings. He did not hide his Gospel in some mystical cave and say, “Only the spiritually elite can understand my symbolic reconstruction.” He wrote so Theophilus could know. That matters. Christianity is not built on private hallucination. It is built on public revelation, fulfilled prophecy, eyewitness testimony, blood, death, burial, resurrection, and a written record preserved by God. “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17). Not by fog. Not by legend. Not by scholarship that starts with unbelief and then congratulates itself for finding what it planted. Chapter One: Luke Writes Like a Witness, Not a Dreamer Luke begins, “Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us.” Notice that phrase, “most surely believed.” Not loosely suspected. Not poetically imagined. Not spiritually reinterpreted by later church communities after several decades of theological development and academic nonsense sprinkled over it like powdered sugar. Luke says these things were believed with certainty among believers. They were not wandering rumors looking for a home. They were known, preached, received, examined, and written. The apostolic message had content. It had facts. It had names. It had dates. It had witnesses. It had a public Christ who was born under Caesar, ministered in Israel, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, and rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. That alone destroys the modern treatment of Christianity as a vague moral atmosphere. The Bible is not a scented candle. It is a sword. Hebrews 4:12 says, “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword.” Luke’s Gospel is not given so a man can sit around and say, “Well, my truth is different from your truth.” No, friend, truth

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PaulsCorner-VerseQuest@TNTJohn1717·21h

🚨‼️Here is the full overview chart for 1 Thessalonians, a powerful little book that gives us a model local church: saved, separated, suffering, steadfast, and waiting for Jesus Christ. This chart walks through the major doctrines, chapter themes, key contrasts, rapture comfort, practical holiness, and the blessed hope found in every chapter. The next five essays will continue from 1 Thessalonians, and tomorrow we will begin five from 2 Thessalonians. This is a great chart to save, study, and share. #VerseQuest #KJV #BibleStudy #RightlyDivided #1Thessalonians #BlessedHope #Rapture #PaulineEpistles

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@TF_WOG @TNTJohn1717 John 15:12 KJV — This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

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@TF_WOG @TNTJohn1717 John 3:36 KJV — He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

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PaulsCorner-VerseQuest@TNTJohn1717·1d

🚨‼️This chart shows the difference between Mother Teresa’s works of mercy and the gospel of grace in the King James Bible. Her compassion for the poor and dying was real, but the Bible test is not charity, reputation, suffering, or Rome’s saint-making system. Salvation is not found in love-infused works, the Mass, Mary, sacraments, or interfaith kindness. The true gospel is Jesus Christ alone: one Mediator, one finished sacrifice, one Saviour, and salvation by grace through faith.

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AMASEEDSOWER@DrShayPhD·1d

Daniel 7:25.

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PaulsCorner-VerseQuest@TNTJohn1717·1d

🚨‼️This chart explains why Paul says believers would be “of all men most miserable” if our hope in Christ ended in this life. Christianity is not just moral help, emotional comfort, or a better way to live now. Without the resurrection, suffering has no glory, faith has no future, and the grave gets the final word. But because Christ is risen, our hope goes beyond this life into resurrection, victory, and eternal glory.

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PaulsCorner-VerseQuest@TNTJohn1717·1d

🚨‼️That is a clever dodge, but it proves the exact problem. Catholics say, “Don’t trust people who say Scripture is the final authority,” and then immediately ask you to trust Rome’s traditions, Rome’s councils, Rome’s priests, Rome’s popes, Rome’s Marian dogmas, Rome’s relic stories, Rome’s indulgences, Rome’s saint prayers, and Rome’s sacramental system. The issue is not whether God ever spoke before Scripture was completed. Of course He did. The apostles preached before the New Testament was finished. But once God preserved His words in Scripture, every doctrine must be tested by that written word. Isaiah 8:20 says, “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” Paul did not tell Timothy to run to Rome to find the final authority. He said, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God” and that Scripture makes “the man of God… perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works” (2 Timothy 3:16-17). If Scripture can throughly furnish the man of God unto all good works, then Rome is not allowed to add doctrines Scripture never teaches and then demand submission. The Catholic argument always comes down to this: “The Bible does not say only Scripture, therefore you must accept our additions.” No. That does not follow. The question is not whether Rome can invent a loophole. The question is whether Rome’s doctrines can be proven by the word of God. Mary as Queen of Heaven? Not Scripture. Praying to dead saints? Not Scripture. The Mass as a repeated sacrifice? Not Scripture. Papal infallibility? Not Scripture. Purgatory? Not Scripture. Indulgences? Not Scripture. So yes, I trust the written word of God over Roman tradition. Because when tradition contradicts Scripture, tradition is not apostolic. It is corruption.

MrCasey@MrCasey62

Catholics, never trust those who say “Sola Scriptura is biblical!”, then simply list bible verses. These verses do NOT teach that “scripture is the ONLY infallible word of God & is the highest authority for all Christians”. Note the complete absence of “ONLY” & “WRITTEN word”: Psalm 138:2: “I will worship toward thy holy temple, & praise thy name for thy loving kindness & for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.” “THY WORD” is NOT just ONLY what’s written in Scripture. Psalm 119:11: “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.” Ditto. 2 Tim 2:15: “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” Ditto.

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AMASEEDSOWER@DrShayPhD·1d

Mary is not a mediator!

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AMASEEDSOWER@DrShayPhD·1d

I say Yes Lord, to Your will and to Your way!

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AMASEEDSOWER@DrShayPhD·1d

This is powerful.

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AMASEEDSOWER@DrShayPhD·1d

The Catholic Church.

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Joe Dan Gorman@JoeDanMedia·2d

Many disagree with Oliver Anthony's opinions, but it doesn't change the fact the #250America crowd would EXPLODE. 🪕1st unsigned (no-prior-history artist) to hit #1 on BillBoard. 🪕2 Weeks at #1 🪕#1 on Spotify, Apple & iTunes. 🪕356M+ Spotify streams/~250M YouTube views.

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PaulsCorner-VerseQuest@TNTJohn1717·1d

🚨‼️Catholic Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Episode Two: The Bleeding Wafer Files. Apparently we are now supposed to believe that the best proof for transubstantiation is that from time to time a communion wafer gets a red spot on it, people start saying “Eucharistic miracle,” and suddenly the conclusion is, “See? The Host is Jesus.” So let me get this straight: the Son of God, who died once for sinners, rose again bodily, and is seated at the right hand of the Father, is now being proven by suspicious-looking blotches on crackers in church display cases? Rome really does know how to turn a memorial into a paranormal investigation. One day it is a relic that oozes, the next day it is a wafer that bleeds, and somehow we are all supposed to bow and say, “The Eucharist is Jesus.” That may make for a dramatic story, but it is not Bible doctrine. Jesus said, “this do in remembrance of me,” not “wait for recurring blood spots so you can believe I am still being offered on an altar.” The Mass keeps pointing people back to an ongoing sacrifice, while Scripture points to a finished one. “For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.” “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” If a man needs a miracle wafer to believe Christ is present, he has missed the glory of the risen Christ entirely. Rome gives people bleeding hosts. The Bible gives people a bleeding Saviour who already finished the job.

Uche is a girl@UcheMaryOkoli

Imagine not believing that Jesus is Fully Present in the Eucharist after so many miracles have proven that the Host is Jesus! Calling the Eucharist a symbol is a sad thing to say. The Eucharist is Jesus.

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