Can Catholics actually say that everything they do can be backed up by the word of God?

Question

So what happened to the gates of hell not prevailing against this church????
Have you all lost the key????

Poor Pastor Billy my heart breaks for you.You our so deceived by the antichrist.Mennonites got their name from one Menno Simons.He was at one time a catholic priest.He left the catholic church after one Sicke Freerks Snijder was beheaded by the Roman Catholic Church for being rebaptized in Leeuwarden, 1531.He adhered to the teaching of Luther so your idea that Luther was the one that put anabaptist to death is pathetic.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menno_Simons

Answer 1

Pastor Billy says: fact is don isn't looking for answers he is making a statement, a fallacious one at that. Catholicism don teaches to believe in all that Christ taught therefore we follow the living Word. The Word is not a thing it is a somebody. As already pointed out by another the Holy Bible and Holy Tradition do not contradict each other. You've already accepted Roman Catholic authority by accepting the canon of your New Testament scripture for you do not find a table of contents in the books of the bible. It was the Catholic Church which assembled and compiled which books were to be included. As far as anabaptist persecution, we've all been persecuted and you haven't provided evidence of Catholic leadership persecution against the anabaptists for disagreement over infant baptism. It was of course Luther who had great issue with the anabaptists in Northern Europe so your gun is pointing in the wrong direction as you should be pointing it at other Protestants.

My greatest prayer is for people as yourself to actually learn Christian history as a complete story not as some sort of propanganda campaign.

Anabaptist origins

A violent and extremely radical body of ecclesiastico-civil reformers which first made its appearance in 1521 at Zwickau, in the present kingdom of Saxony, and still exists in milder forms.

All Protestant denominations including anabaptist (which by the way have absolutely no connection or lineage with the Baptists today) have their own traditions including a biblical intrepretative tradition not found during the first 1600 years of Christendom

Answer 2

You have many questions. Let's take them one at a time. Shall we?

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It all depends on what you mean by "everything". If you are refering to Catholic beliefs and practices, then yes - Catholic beliefs and practices are not only backup up by the Word of God, the Word of God is the origin of Catholic beliefs and practices.


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The Church is still standing with more than one billion people professing faith in God as Catholics. Hell has not and will not prevail over the Church.


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The pope and bishops in communion with him possess the keys to the kingdom. They have not, and will not, lose it.


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There is no need to single out people for answers you disagree with. Your attempts to humiliate those you disagree with only serve to fulfill prophecy:

Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven.


ADDITION: I find it interesting that you use wikipedia as proof Catholics are not following the Word of God. Wouldn't it make more sense to use the Word of God to prove Catholics weren't following the Word of God.

There is no mandate ANYWHERE in Catholic Doctrine that requires us to follow the word of wikipedia!

Answer 3

No. That's why The Catholic print there own bible.

The New American Bible = The United States Catholic Catechism for Adults.

This is why many modern day Theologians reject the King James Version of the Scriptures and prefer the new modern liberal altered versions of the Bible. The leaders of the Catholic and Orthodox Church knew that the real Bible did not agree with their false teachings and their unbiblical theory for example "Assumtion of Mary". They also feared that they would lose their influence and power over the masses if the people found out the truth. This is why the Roman Catholic Church outlawed commoners from reading the Bible and that is a fact in history.

Answer 4

*Is Catholic*

If you are asking if Catholics believe in the formal sufficiency of scripture, then the answer is a resounding NO. Some Catholics, teach a semi-formal sufficiency by saying that those verses of scripture that say "not everything is in the scriptures" count as a formal sufficiency.

What I would say is that everything in the Church backs up the scriptures. That is, the Church proves the scriptures. It is she and she alone who knows what writings are the scriptures and how they are to be interpreted.

Remember the Catholic Church existed before any letter of the NT.

Answer 5

Maybe not everything, but certainly the important stuff. All of the sacraments such as marriage, confession, and especially the Eucharist are all supported in the New Testament. The papacy traces its origin directly to the words of Christ when he made Peter the first pope and gave him the keys to heaven. Our veneration of Mary as Mother of God is strongly linked to the gospel passages that describe her (there are more verses about her than almost anyone else in the Bible other than Jesus Himself). Actually the Catholic church fulfils the scriptures more accurately than other churches that have lost many of the scriptural traditions that Catholics have kept alive.

Answer 6

Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours. (2 Thessalonians 2:15)

The Catholic Church does not use Holy Scripture as the only basis of doctrine. It could not. The early Catholic church existed before and during the time that the New Testament was written (by Catholics).

There were hundreds of Christian writings during the first and second centuries. Which New Testament writings would become official was not fully decided until about 400 AD.

Catholics believe that the Holy Spirit was guiding the early church (and is guiding the church today) to make the correct choices about things like:
+ The Holy Trinity (which is also only hinted at in the Bible)
+ Going to church on Sunday instead of Saturday (which is actually directly against one of the Ten Commandments)
+ The Communion of Saints
+ Which writings include in the New Testament?

Things that are even more modern like
+ Slavery is bad. Slavery is never declared evil in the Bible. This was one of the justifications for slavery in the Confederate States.
+ Democracy is good. The Bible states that either God should be the leader of the nation like Israel before the kings or kings should be the leader, "Give to Caesar that which is Caesar's." This was talked about a lot during the American Revolution.

This second source of doctrine is called Apostolic Tradition.

Do Christians who do not allow the continuing guiding force of the Holy Spirit to make their beliefs more and more perfect, still endorse slavery as Colossians 3:22 commands, "Slaves, obey your human masters in everything"?

We instruct you, brothers, in the name of (our) Lord Jesus Christ,to shun any brother who conducts himself in a disorderly way and not according to the tradition they received from us. (2 Thessalonians 3:6)

I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold fast to the traditions, just as I handed them on to you. (1 Corinthians 11:2)

With love in Christ.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

A big No! If you only read the Bible, then you will see for yourself that they (actually the papacy and their bishops and cardinals) were the ones who made a lot of changes in the Bible. There are a lot of errors in their teachings. Examples:
1. They are not following God's 1st, 2nd, and 4th commandments. Pls. read Deuteronomy Chapter 5:6-22
2. Their teaching about purgatory and limbo - Nowhere in the Bible can you find that if a man dies he goes to purgatory. Then if you offer masses for his soul, he will be transferred to limbo. And when you keep praying for him, he eventually transfers to heaven.
3. Catholics who have committed sins confess their sins to their priests and ask for their forgiveness. It is only God who can forgive sins.
4. They pray to Mary believing that she mediates between Jesus and man. It is Jesus who is our mediator.
5. Priests are still doing rituals which were already abolished when Christ died on the cross.

Hey pal, we need a lot of Bible studies just for this subject alone.

God bless you for studying the Bible. But don't forget to ask for the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit so you will be able to understand what you are going to read.

Answer 9

that is not true you know you have to believe that Christ died for your sins, and that He is the only way the truth and the life, against this faith, the gates of hell will not prevail. And anyone who believes like Peter "Thou art the Christ the Son of the Living God it is that faith Jesus our Lord talked about these are the true people who worship God. or the true church

Answer 10

That depends if what they say or do is in accordance to the will of God. Maybe what you're trying to say is that their rites and traditions are actually based from the scriptures and our Christian faith history and lastly, those rites and traditions have been carefully prayed for and discerned in the light of the Holy Spirit.