The Catholic church twists scripture?

Question

Why do the catholic church create things from their imaginations that are not found and the Bible, i.e. pope's infalllabilty, Mary perpetual virgin, praying the rosary, praying to Mary and dead catholic saints. Where I ask is this stuff found in the Bible...Answer! It aint in the Bilble...they made it up, just like most things the catholic church teaches and practices. The catholic church is Apostate and they don't seem to care. How sad!
\Marc

Answer 1

They change the scriptures as a means to brainwash. It is an old army tactic. If you keep ramming stimuli down a soldiers throat, he will capitulate.

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Answer 2

The Catholic Church did not make it up. Most of the things you say are indeed in the Bible, and I will give you some passages to show that.

Papal Infallibility - Mt 18:15-17, Lk 10:16, Mt 16: 13-20, Lk 5 (Jesus talks to the crowd in Peter's boat...a metaphor for Jesus speaking through the Church and Pope).

Rosary: Well how could praying not be right? All the mysteries of the Rosary (what you meditate on) are directly from the Bible (Lk 1:26-38 for example is the first Joyful Mystery). Repitive prayer is wrong you say? Well what about Ps. 136? In Rev. 4:8-11 the angels are praying the same thing over and over again as well.

Praying to Mary and Saints: How can saints be dead if they are living with Christ in Heaven? Death implies the death of the soul, when indeed these saints are living in Heaven with God who is life Himself!

Mary Perpetual Virgin: See above on Papal infallibility


There are many more, but I hope you realize that many of your claims are indeed in the Bible!

God Bless!

Answer 3

Where in the Bible is it stated that every Christian truth must be found in the Bible?? Unless you can show me that passage, the questions you are asking are based on a non-biblical tradition called sola scriptura, something no Christian on earth ever heard of until a few hundred years ago. Although several of the Catholic beliefs you mentioned actually are found in the Bible, it really doesn't matter whether they are or not, for the bible is not, and never was intended to be, the source of Christian beliefs. Everything that is included in the Bible was believed and taught by the Catholic Church before the New Testament texts were even written, and centuries before the Bible as we know it was compiled by the bishops of the Catholic Church. There cannot be anything in the Bible that conflicts with Catholic teaching because the Catholic Church compiled the Bible from its own writings and those of Judaism, for its own use, no-one else's, and certainly would not have included any text that conflicted with the God-given truth it had already taught for over three centuries. The New Testament, quite simply, is a written record of early Catholic teaching.

However there is no reason to think that the Catholic Church included all of its God-given teaching in the few letters and other documents it accepted into the Bible. Everything Jesus Christ taught His Church is the Word of God, since He is God. It didn't become the Word of God when it was written down, or hundreds of years later when it was bound into a book. It was the word of God from the moment Christ spoke it, and it was the Word of God during the years the Catholic Church taught it before the Bible existed. Therefore it is still the Word of God today, the parts the apostles happened to mention in their correspondence, and the parts that were never written. Which is why the Catholic Church alone possesses the fullness of Christian truth. Other churches have rejected everything except what the Catholic Church accepted into its book, and then find that they can't even properly interpret that portion of Christian truth. Otherwise there wouldn't be thousands of unauthorized, manmade, conflicting Protestant denominations. God's Holy Church, to which the Bible was given, and which alone is the authoritative interpreter of its own writings, continues to teach the fullness of Christian truth in unity, just as it has done for 2,000 years, just as Christ said it should be.

Answer 4

The Church is based on Tradition and the Bible. If you read back to the early Church Fathers you will find that most of the things you speak about with such disdain, was handed down from the Apostles and Peter who was the first leader of the Church, (who only speaks infallibly in cases of faith or morals and hasn't done so since the early 1950s).
It was the Catholic monks,who painstakingly preserved that book you are thumping on so vehemently, writing it out by hand for decades.
Saints are people that have made it Heaven, they are not dead they live with Jesus, they can prove this by miracles from God.
If you want to make make light of Jesus' mother that is your problem just remember she is still His mother. Praying to Mary is not a totally Catholic issue, many protestant sects and even the Moslems, have found devotion (not worship) of Mary to be a good thing.
Mary has asked the world to say the rosary in many different countries, for peace in our time, if you don't want to understand that so be it.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

u need to be thinking the catholics because they were the ones who got together in 325ad in a conference to discuss what should be in the bible and what shouldn't. these catholics you owe for getting the bible together. these were the so called inspired men of God. Read your history. the catholics got together to debate on what should be in the canon. this all took place at the Council of Nicea. so thank God for the Roman Catholic Church. I'm saying it like this because i know the history of the bible and not many church goers do. they are also guilty of making things up that are not found in the Bible. ask yourself who was the first Church or the oldest church and that everything else spun off of that even your church. has it ever recall to you that there are many more Gospels than just the four you believe in.

Answer 7

The Bible is the handbook of the Catholic Church, compiled by the CATHOLIC CHURCH, you presume to lecture the Church that compiled the Bible, the original Church of the Apostles with St Peter as its head, that it has got it all wrong. Many things were passed down from the Apostles which were not written in the Bible but became part of the Church's tradition.
In any case, how can you trust a Bible that was compiled by the Catholic Church which you claim is so wrong? How do you even know the Catholic Church selected the right scriptures to put into the Bible?

The words of Jesus, addressed to the Apostles the first Bishops and priests of the original Church (the Catholic Church):-
"Whatever you bind on Earth, shall be bound in Heaven, and whatever you loose on Earth shall be loosed inHeaven."
"Whose sins you forgive they are forgiven, whose sins you retain they are retained."
"Thou art Peter (rock) and upon this rock I shall build my Church."
"And to you do I give the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven."
And the gates of Hell shall not prevail against my Church."
"when two or three of you are gathered together, I shall be with you."

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Answer 8

The Catholic Faith predates the books of the NT. When they got around to writing them, not everything was included (John 21:25). That is why the Bible instructs us to "stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by WORD OF MOUTH or by letter." (2 Thessalonians 2:15; RSV; emphasis mine)

Answer 9

None of those things are in the Bible.
The Catholic church views its traditions as being equal to Scripture.

Answer 10

I'm a recovered Catholic! But I will say this much, they don't claim that the reason they hold the Pope to be infallible is from the Bible - when they created this RELIGION they put certain things in place. That's why I left the Catholic Church - I'd rather live a life filled with FAITH instead of one ruled by religion.

Answer 11

Because they place tradition and the words of the pope on an equal footing with Scripture. There is also a dose of ancient Babylonian religion mixed in.