Forget about Mary, Confession etc.
It can all be supported by the bible, everything that evangelicas claim is non-biblical can be supported through scripture.
Everything -
Absolutly everything that catholics do.
You should look into it and you will be shocked.
Not everything protestants do is supported by the bible but EVERYTHING catholics do is supported.
2007-08-03 07:46:20 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well the Bible is a Catholic book, after all. But even though Catholic beliefs and practices are Biblical...it is *not necessary* that they all be found in scripture. The Church did in fact exist more than 300 years before the Bible. It is a ridiculous notion for anyone to assume that all things *must* be found between the two covers of the Bible.
2007-08-03 08:38:40 · answer #1 · answered by The Raven † 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋
The Catholic Bible has all of the books of the bible. The protestant bible ignored 7 books of the bible. i myself do no longer comprehend why they ignored 7 books, possibly they did no longer like what replaced into in them.or perhaps they ran out of paper. Who is familiar with. So sure they're diverse. God Bless you. Chris, What!! do you're taking a bitter pill each morning. Get a existence, you have an awful hate streek on your physique. And Ronron9, you're suitable the Douey-Rheims is the appropriate, It has never been replaced and despite if that's in old English, you are able to comprehend it.
2016-10-01 08:16:16 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The two errors of Luther, it can be seen, contain within them two seeds of truth; salvation is indeed the work of God, and not the work of Man, and Scripture is indeed the very Word of God, which should be accorded the highest authority; but Luther goes wrong when he takes these very true principles and elevates them to the point that they exclude the other truths involved. If salvation is God's work, it is also true that part of God's work is drawing Man up to the status of sonship, so that Man now becomes privileged to share in the work of God - a co-worker with God, as St. Paul put it; if Scripture should be given the highest authority, the next highest authority in the hierarchy is not the individual believer, but the "God-breathed" Magisterium of the Church (cf. Jn. 20:21-23). There can be no eliminating this Divinely appointed "middle man," and substituting the authority of the individual for the authority of the Church.
In sum, we can take these two foundational pillars of the Reformation, and demonstrate how they contain necessary truths in their essence; but we must also show how they unnecessarily truncate the truth, and thus become enemies of the very principles they wish to promote. The Protestant truths here are hampered because they are left incomplete; sola scriptura needs to be understood as prima scriptura, so that the truth concerning the Church can be admitted into the discussion; sola fide needs to be understood as sola gratia, so that the truth about Divine sonship can be allowed to flourish.
2007-08-05 17:03:34 · answer #3 · answered by cashelmara 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are absolutely correct in that everything we believe as Catholics is Scripturally supported. Where the difference lies is Protestants beleive in the doctrine of sola scriptura ("Bible alone") while Catholics place equal value on Holy Tradition, and the Magesterium (the teaching authority of the Church), both of which existed before the Bible as we know it was fully complete.
2007-08-03 19:01:24 · answer #4 · answered by the phantom 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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Important addition:
Be careful everyone, catholics and other christians. I have spotted some muslims pretending to be catholics and protestants, and trying to act the part in a division-causing way. This may be the case here.
God sees, and will of course see that the trickery ulimately is not rewarded when people try to prop up their religions by such devious means of encouraging division.
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Depends on the individual I think. You will find great bible students and neglectful people in both catholic and non-catholic churches.
The fullness of the deity is in Christ and all christians have fullness in Christ - Colossians 3:9-10, that was
One can learn a lot from Catholics - e.g. St Bernard.
2007-08-03 08:08:32 · answer #5 · answered by Cader and Glyder scrambler 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not more. Just more accurately. Which is why the Catholic Church hasn't disintegrated into thousands of conflicting manmade denominations. But then what would you expect, considering that the Bible is a Catholic book, a collection of early Jewish and Catholic writings, compiled by the Catholic Church for the use of the Catholic Church. Unauthorized manmade churches trying to find the truth by their own novel interpretations of Catholic writings is a sure road to confusion.
As for the question of whether everything the Catholic Church does is "supported by" the Bible, that is completely irrelevant, since the idea of trying to support everything from the Bible is not supported by the Bible. That idea is a modern tradition of men, and the results of it are obvious - doctrinal chaos among those who attempt to follow this tradition. Hey, I wonder if that's why Jesus stated His intention "that they all may be ONE"!
2007-08-03 08:02:35 · answer #6 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Prayer is primarily addressed to the Father; it can also be directed toward Jesus, particularly by the invocation of his holy name: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us sinners."
"No one can say ‘Jesus is Lord', except by the Holy Spirit" (1 Cor 12:3). The Church invites us to invoke the Holy Spirit as the interior Teacher of Christian prayer.
Because of Mary's singular cooperation with the action of the Holy Spirit, the Church loves to pray in communion with the Virgin Mary, to magnify with her the great things the Lord has done for her, and to entrust supplications and praises to her.
2007-08-04 10:28:10 · answer #7 · answered by Isabella 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is interesting that the Catholic Bible is different from the Protestant Bible. The Catholic Bible has what is called the Apocrypha included.
Since hypocrisy is found throughout the Christian/Catholic faith, an improved question might be, when will the people of faith truly live as God has instructed. If you look at the history of the Popes, some through time have had the Bible as the last thing on their minds.
So, if slamming the protestant faith makes you happy, have fun. If, however, you truly believe in the Catholic faith, then the question becomes: Are you being true to God, Mary, or even yourself. Jesus did tell both you and I to love God, and then love each other as He has instructed. We were both told not to be a stumbling block to someone else's walk with the Lord. You might want to spend time in prayer to see if this is what God wants you to do. Just a suggestion.
Just to add one more thought to this. When you look at the history of the church, it started by the name catholic, little c. Then as time moved forward, there were changes. The Roman Catholic Church is an offshoot of the original catholic church, not one in the same.
2007-08-03 08:06:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 7⤋
Everything Catholics do is mainly OT.
Besides catholicism is religion, just like Baptist, Presby, Pentecostal.... Religion is a set of man made values and beliefs and interpretations of the Bible. So the "catholic" church is not the problem its man that is the problem. Man made religion. We all fall short of the Bible. Thats why we should have a personal relationship with christ and God's holy word beyond any church.
2007-08-03 09:28:58 · answer #9 · answered by momof2 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
everything that Catholics do are Bible-based. even the words, "Hail Mary". the Archangel Gabriel greeted Mary with that, and everything else that the Catholic Church practice.
2007-08-03 07:52:50 · answer #10 · answered by Perceptive 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋