I put this answer together for "seek the truth" but he deleted his questions and doesn't have a link to e-mail, so maybe I can get some feedback from him and others. He posted an article that talked about the Inquisition and the RCC killing heretics.
2006-07-23 17:00:20 · 12 answers · asked by Martin S 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What do I think about that article? I think that it demonstrates how the Roman Catholic church has a history of taking over the role that the Pharisees whom Jesus had this to say played in the days when He was on earth.
Matthew 15:1 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, 2 "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat." 3 He answered them, "And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
2006-07-23 17:01:08 · update #1
' 5 But you say, 'If anyone tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is given to God, 6 he need not honor his father.' So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God. 7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: 8 "'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; 9 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'"
Killing heretics was an Old Testament law that Christians were never called to obey. The Catholic church is like the Pharisees in many ways because they teach traditions of men as doctrine, they are legalistic, and they make the commands of God to no effect because of their traditions.
For instance, consider the "higher standard" that the RCC puts on it's priest whom they don't allow to have a wife. What does the Bible say about someone who holds a church office and marriage?
2006-07-23 17:02:43 · update #2
1 Timothy 3:1 Faithful is this word: If anyone aspires to the position of a bishop, he desires a good work. 2 It is necessary, therefore, for a bishop to be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful at teaching; 3 not given to wine, not a bully, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not loving money; 4 one ruling his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence; 5 (for if one does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?);
2006-07-23 17:03:28 · update #3
1 Corinthians 7:26 Therefore I consider this to be good because of the present distress, that it is good for a man to be as he is: 27 Have you been bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Have you been released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
1 Corinthians 7:32 But I want you to be without anxiety. The unmarried man cares about the things of the Lord--about how he may please the Lord. 33 But the man having married cares about the things of the world--about how he may please his wife.
When Paul wrote about the "current distress" he was talking about the persecution the early church was enduring. Notice that he starts out by saying that a man should get married to avoid sexual sin. You take the whole context of this passage along with the command God gave about a church officer being the husband of one wife and you see that it was never in God's will for the church to impose celibacy on a priest.
2006-07-23 17:04:41 · update #4
I agree with you.
I believe that the rock Jesus refers to in Matthew 16:15-19 is the confession that He is the Christ, the Son of the living God. That is the foundation that the Church is built on, not Peter. I don't see any scriptural basis for the hierarchy of the Catholic church.
2006-07-23 17:13:58 · answer #1 · answered by Contemplative Chanteuse IDK TIRH 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
This is completely unfair. People within the Church can be guilty of grave sins, but that should not cause people to discount the Catholic Church as an institution. Generalizations are dangerous, and I'm tired of all this Christian bashing. OK, now I'd like to move on to the issue of celibate priests. Priests are supposed to be an image of Christ in their particular ministry. One reason that priests are to be celibate as of now is that marriage and family distract him from his pastoral role and may spread him too thin to fulfill either role well. His role is also as a spiritual father to the congregation he is working with. Hope that helps.
2006-07-23 17:13:01 · answer #2 · answered by LvsBtxPtr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Martin, do you really want to know the truth? Then stop asking questions like this of people who hate the Catholic Church. They will never have anything good to say about it.
If you want to know anything about the Catholic Church, including the Spanish Inquisition (yes, it was confined to Spain and stopped by the Catholic Church not some Bible thumping evangelist) then ask a priest. Otherwise stop inciting ill will and hatred and ask intelligent questions that will benefit you and others.
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2006-07-23 17:08:52 · answer #3 · answered by H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The point is that a religious body, such as the Catholic Church, has every right to create and enforce its own rules...whether or not you (or anyone else) likes them. What kind of feedback would be meaningful to you...why does it matter to you either way?
2006-07-23 17:05:16 · answer #4 · answered by Rev Debi Brady 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A comment was made by LusBtxPtr that people were evil but that the Catholic church as an institution was blameless. But when we look at Revelation, It is an "institution' that is warned about, not people. In fact, People are warned to "get out of her, my people"
Rev. 18;4 And I heard another voice out of heaven say: “Get out of her, my people, if YOU do not want to share with her in her sins, and if YOU do not want to receive part of her plagues.
This 'institution' is named as Babylon the Great. And it is described.
Rev. 18;12 a full stock of gold and silver and precious stone and pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet; and everything in scented wood and every sort of ivory object and every sort of object out of most precious wood and of copper and of iron and of marble;
PURPLE AND SILK AND SCARLET. Does it seem familiar?
2006-07-23 18:00:37 · answer #5 · answered by pugjw9896 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They testify that the guy truly replaced into ill, and that there replaced into no treatment. They testify that now that man or woman is cured and there is not any medical rationalization for it. it is not any longer intellectually dishonest in any way.
2016-10-15 03:27:47 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the message of the catholic church is you need jesus for atonement of sin
who are any of us to get in the way of that message?
2006-07-23 17:05:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
JW's been saying that for years.(The part about those taking the lead in the congregation and marriage).
2006-07-23 17:08:41 · answer #8 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are correct.
I really appreciate your answers to people's questions. You are smart.
2006-07-23 17:05:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know...I got tired before I read all of your assessment.
2006-07-23 17:07:01 · answer #10 · answered by kibbie01 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋