why do catholics always mention the sacraments as being holy ?? they are manmade arent they?

Answer 1

Catholics (and trolls) are manmade. Sacraments are faith based, you have to believe.

Answer 2

The Sacraments
1. Baptism
2. Penance/Reconciliation
3. Eucharist
4. Confirmation
5. Matrimony
6. Holy Orders
7. Extremunction or Anointing of the Sick
are all biblically based.

Please see http://www.catholic.org/prayers/sacrament.php for more information.

Answer 3

The manner in which the Holy Sacraments are celebrated today have developed over a long period of time. But the meanings and purposes of the Sacraments have always remained constant. That is because they are based on Biblical Truths. It would be impractical to list them here, there are simply too many.

Answer 4

Yes, manmade...but then again...aren't all the dogmas, creeds, rules preached and upheld in all churches manmade? Even the Bible referenced as Holy is manmade.

Answer 5

No, by definition Sacraments have to be instituted by Jesus.

(And to Catholics, Jesus is a member of the Trinity.)

Answer 6

NO! By no means are they man made. The Sacraments are commands from Jesus Himself. Baptism, Communion, Marriage, Conformation, etc. These are all things that Christ taught us to do. Not man teaching man.

Answer 7

Manmade? Absolutely not! Every single one of them is Biblically based.

Answer 8

Jesus said as often as you do this, do it in remembrance of me.
I am not catholic, but my church does recognize the holy sacraments. It is not holy until God blesses it.
We anoint with oil. But it is just oil until we ask God to bless it and to anoint it.

Answer 9

No, the sacraments are not manmade. Jesus Christ, being baptized by St. John the Baptist was the formalization of Baptism. The source of the sacrament of Holy Communion or the Eucharist was Jesus Christ at the Last Supper. "Whose sins you have forgiven, they are forgiven them; whose sins you have retained, they are retained" is the source of Confession(Penance or Reconciliation). Confirmation ("Chrismation" or the "Sacrament of the Seal"): Confirmation is the laying on of hands by a Bishop or authorized priest and becoming sealed to the Holy Ghost, becoming annointed spiritually and, literally, with sacred oil -- a consecrated olive oil called "chrism" or "oil of gladness." Confirmation is becoming infused with the Holy Ghost, sealed to Him by grace and fortified in becoming true soldiers of Christ (Acts 8:14-17, Acts 19:5-6, 2 Corinthians 1:21-22, Ephesians 1:13, Hebrews 1:9, Hebrews 6:1-6). This was first given with the Descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles.

Holy Matrimony: See Matthew 5:31-33, Matthew 19:8-10, Mark 10:10-12, Luke 16:17-19, 1 Corinthians 7:10-11. The Sacrament of Matrimony is the covenental joining of the validly baptized Bride and Groom as head of their own little domestic "church" and the source of their spirit of self-sacrifice that allows them to put their children first. A valid Sacramental marriage has as its primary purpose the begetting and raising of children; the unitive aspects of marriage are secondary. Marriage, therefore, is open to life if the marital right (the right of each spouse to the other's body, 1 Corinthians 7:4) is exercised. In the rare instance that both spouses mutually consent to not exercise their marital rights and decide to remain sexually continent in imitation of Joseph and Mary and for the sake of the Kingdom, the marriage is termed a "Josephite marriage."

"What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder": marriage lasts until the death of one of the spouses (Mark 10:11-12). "Re-marriage" after separation (as in physical separation due to threats of physical danger) in a valid.

Holy Orders ("Ordination"): the integration of men into the order of bishops, presbyters, or deacons which confers a gift of the Holy Ghost that permits the exercise of a sacred power (sacra potestas) which can come only from Christ Himself, through his Church, by the laying on of hands by a true Bishop in the line of Apostolic Succession (Mark 6:7, Luke 10:16, John 13:20, John 15:5, John 20:21, Acts 14:23, Romans 10:15, 2 Corinthians 5:20, 1 Timothy 4:14, 1 Timothy 5:23, the Book of Hebrews).

In the Latin Church's discipline, only unmarried men can become ordained. In many of the Eastern Churches, married men can become ordained, though they may not marry after ordination and may not become Bishops. In the early Church, married priests were sexually continent (abstinent); it is this Tradition that lives on only in the sexually continent and celibate (unmarried) priesthood of the Latin Church and in those Eastern Catholic priests who are sexually continent, whether celibate or not. See Canon 33 of the Council of Elvira (A.D. 300-306); Canon 1 of the Council of Neocæsarea (A.D. 315); Canon 3 of the Council of Carthage (A.D. 390); Canon III of the Quinisext Council of Trullo (A.D. 691) which speaks of the Eastern Churches changing their chastity rules while "they of the most holy Roman Church purpose to keep the rule of exact perfection," etc.

Extreme Unction ("Sacrament of the Sick"): See Matthew 10:1, Luke 9:1-2, Luke 9:6, and James 5:13-15. the annointing before death with consecrated olive oil is known as "Last Rites" or "Extreme Unction," and the Eucharist itself that is given at that time is known as "Viaticum" ("food for the journey" from the Latin viaticus meaning "journey". Unction purifies the soul by remitting sins, and heals the body if it is God's will.

The list goes on. The source of all the sacraments is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Answer 10

man made? NO! it is holy, no matter what religion it is.
I'm not Catholic but we do have the Lord's supper.

1 Corinthians 11:24-28

24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.