Catholic Church Part 2

Hello World:
I am presenting part 2 on the Catholic Church. Before I start, again I want to let everyone know that coming very soon, I will have a series of posts concerning Heaven. Please look for those Heaven posts, specifically, for this June/July 2008 year.

To the Catholic Church, and devote Catholics, Scripture Reference; Exodus Chapter 20: Verse 3; "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:"

Verse 4; "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me."

Okay, those scriptures above are the second of the famous "Ten Commandments" of God. Technically, if you follow through all those scriptures from that chapter, you will find that God is giving us more than ten commandments. It is more on the order of eleven to nineteen commandments there if you look closely. Because everywhere God is telling us to do something or not do something there are descriptive differences, and each difference is a command.

Now in regards to that "second commandment", I am speaking to everybody, but Catholics especially. God does NOT approve of you Catholics making shrines, statues or other graven images and paying homage to them in visitation and worship. When you, Catholics do this, you are treating the statues, figurines, etc like gods, with a small "g". This includes statues of Mary, and statues and pictures of saints, such as Saint Peter. God does not want you or any of us to be going to visit and honor statues that cry tears, bleed, talk or moan. Those things are not of God, but of Satan. God has made that very clear from those Exodus scriptures.

Moving further along, one of the main things I know and most other people know is that the Catholic Church put alot of emphasis on Mary, the mother of Jesus. To Catholics, Mary is a deified being. As I mentioned in part one, to Catholics, Mary is bigger than Jesus.

Let me cut to the chase so to speak. Mary is not a God or Goddess. Mary is a human being just like the rest of us. Mary was born in sin, she was not sinless, because every person born after Adam and Eve were born in sin. The reason why Jesus was the exception and not born in sin, was because of the Holy Ghost. However, that does not make Mary a sinless human.

Mary was just a willing, obedient vessel. After Mary had Jesus, she had slept with Joseph and had other children who were half brothers of Jesus. Therefore Mary is no longer a virgin either, unlike what the Catholic Church would have everybody to believe. Mary, truthfully, should not be called a virgin now. She was a virgin before Jesus was born, and that is it. Afterwards, and up to today she is no longer a virgin.

Another problem with the Catholic Church and Catholicism is this thing with "confession" or confessing to a "human father" or "priest". This goes into my hierachial disfunction area of the Catholic Church. First off with that, you are NOT supposed to confess your sins to any flesh and blood creature so that they can take your sins to God so that He will forgive you. No, this is so wrong!

Paul talked about that confessing to one another, only for the purpose of counsel and strength to get out of patterns of sin. That statement by Paul is not for you and I to go to another man, so that that man will see to it that God will forgive us. That is what accepting Jesus as your Savior is for. Paul also said, in 1 Timothy Chapter 2: Verse 5, that there is only one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. Jesus said, He is the way, the truth and the life; no man can come to the Father(Heavenly) but by Him(Jesus).

So, to you Catholics who have these human "fathers" behind these booths listening to people's sins, you are trying to take Jesus place. You Catholic priest are saying Jesus is irrelevent or does not matter. You Catholic priest are telling God, that His plan of Jesus as our advocate is worthless. That is what you Catholics are saying.

Another thing, we as individuals need to be careful and wise about confessing to men, priest or any flesh and blood human. Do you understand me? The words that Paul spoke on confessing to one another is not for everybody, because most people can not be trusted with your secrets and personal problems. Some things are better off being just between you and God, literally!

Also, during the time frame of this post, we already know that many of the Catholic priest have their own secrets of sin. So, in reality no man is perfect. Salvation is a daily thing. No matter what people tell you, they may not do bad things, but there are sins of the heart. There is such a thing as sins of thought. None of us have "arrived" yet.

This is how God wants it to work; if you are "born again" you pray or petition to the Heavenly Father in Jesus name, NOT a Catholic father or priest. If you are not born again, you must pray the prayer of salvation to Jesus first, to get access to God and for Him to "become" your Father, again NOT a father appointed by the Catholic church.

As a "true believer and follower of Jesus," you, yourself can always talk to God and Jesus, which is slightly different from petition prayer. Again, With petition prayer or asking for something, petition only to the Heavenly Father in prayer not directly to Jesus, but ask the Father in His(Jesus) name all by yourself. That is what Jesus said. That is referring to after salvation. Just remembering that it is because of Jesus that you can petition the Heavenly Father.

The next thing I want to talk about and really hit the Catholic Church and the Pope hard on is the issue of sainthood. I am trying hard not to bring in scriptures. However, there are scriptures that relates to saints going back to the Old Testament, long before the Catholic Church was established.

How dare you Catholic Church and Pope assume the role of appointing saints or people to sainthood. You have no right or power to make anybody a saint. Saints are people chosen of God, Himself, upon their acceptance of His son Jesus. Good works and miracles does not make one a saint. Satan or the Devil can and have done miracles; so does that mean he should be a saint? Who would you call him, Saint Lucifer? That is preposterous!

When a person repents of their sins and accepts Jesus into their heart they automatically become a saint, period! They do not have to perform any kind of miracle and wait for your flesh and blood approval. Also, according to scriptures people who are called just, righteous, sons of God, chosen of God, people of God, and sealed of God are Saints of God.

Saints have existed and will exist whether you, Catholic Church decide to make them saints or not. It is not up to you. It is not your decision. God has never given any man or any religious organization the authority to make someone a saint. Again, God makes saints, and you Catholic Church and Pope do not. Most of the people sitting in your congregation are most likely saints, if you led them to receive Jesus properly.

Fathers, Bishops, Priests, and Cardinals did you explain to your congregation "specifically" how to pray the "prayer of salvation" to accept Jesus into their hearts? When was the last time you mentioned Jesus in your services? How often do you proclaim the name of Jesus in your services? Or did you talk about the rosary, or what the Father ate for breakfast? In other words, how much ceremonial nonsense was spoken and performed to the congregation that will not help anybody's soul, and how much of Jesus and the Word of God was talked about; to which, really will spiritually benefit somebody? Who in your service or "Mass" did you glorify more, yourself, Mary or God?

Okay, there is more I can discuss concerning the Catholic Church. However, I was able to cover some very important issues in the Catholic Church that the Lord led me to cover in these past two posts. I will proceed to the next topic.