Catholic Belief Contridictions?

Question

what are the biggest contridictions or bogus beliefs you have heard?

Answer 1

I can't type that fast.

How about the Papul Bull against Martin Luther by Leo X verse John Paul II who apologized to Luther in October of 1999.

John Paul II apologized on the anniversary of the posting of Luther's 95 Thesis to church door at Wittenberg.

If you'd like to see more contradictions, send your regular E-mail address to me and I'll send you a five page MS Word document full of them.

Pastor Art

Answer 2

No bogus beliefs, only misunderstood beliefs. Just because a belief is officially defined doesn't mean that it was not believed befored it's official definition. Indeed, these official definitions were pronounced mostly due to counter beliefs of its opposite which were denounced as heresies.

The church Christ built upon 'this rock' (Matt 16:18) a church which Jesus teaches that we should go to when a sinner will not listen to two or three, He saying "Tell it to the CHURCH" (Matt 18:17-19). And how did these first Christians apply this teaching of Jesus when confronted with Judaizers saying that one (a follower of Christ) must also be circumcized to be saved? The leaders of the church convened in Jerusalem and decide with the help of the Holy Spirit and spread this decision through ALL the cities to follow (Acts 15:28-29 with Acts 16:4)

"The Holy Spirit and we have agreed not to put any other burden on you besides these necessary rules: eat no food that has been offered to idols; eat no blood; eat no animal that has been strangled; and keep yourselves from sexual immorality. You will do well if you take care not to do these things. With our best wishes."

And then in Acts 16:4 "As they went THROUGH THE TOWNS, they delivered to the believers the rules decided upon by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem, and they told them to OBEY THOSE RULES."

As you can see, the decision of the church (its leaders in union as in a council) was binding to ALL believers. And this is how the church has always decided when objections or heresies abound from its first application found in Scripture throughout time to today as seen in the Catholic Church.

God Bless
Robin

Answer 3

The Catholic Church is itself a contradiction to the world, as the late Pope John Paul II so eloquently stated. The Mystical Body of Christ, the Holy Catholic Church, shocks and perplexes the secular world. Indeed, Jesus Himself taught that he had come to cause division, and questioned those who did not accept His words, "Do you find this shocking?"

The Catholic Church is a living embodiment of the words, "Be in the world, but not of the world."

Answer 4

The biggest on that I have heard is that the Word of God started with the Bible being compiled in about 300 AD. And that tradition is not valuable. If it were not for tradition there would be no bible to write down.

Answer 5

Christ established only one Church with one set of beliefs (Eph. 4:4–5). He did not establish numerous churches with contradictory beliefs. He also authorized only one Church to teach the world (Matthew 28,20; Luke 10,16).

To see which is the true Church, we must look for the one that has an unbroken historical link to the Church of the New Testament. Catholics are able to show such a link. They trace their leaders, the bishops, back through time, bishop by bishop, all the way to the apostles, and they show that the pope is the lineal successor to Peter, who was the first bishop of Rome. The same thing is true of Catholic beliefs and practices. Take any one you wish and you can trace it back to the apostolic period.

And to those who say Christ established other churches: Jesus said to his disciples, "Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me." - Luke 10,16

You rejected the Church founded by Jesus so how can you be part of it?

Answer 6

if by bogus beliefs you mean the crap that haters say, such as:
we worship Mary, we worship the pope, we worship the saints, we think the pope is like God, we worship statues, and that we believe the Pope can never err(misunderstanding of infallibility),

then those would be the biggest ones.


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Answer 7

There are good things about the Catholic church, but here are a couple major flaws...

1) They say that they are the "church" Christ established when Christ's church is the body of Christ, to which all believers belong, not a worldly institution or a physical church.

2) Also, they contradict Scripture by saying that Muslims worship the same God as Christians and are saved, apart from knowing Christ....

Second Vatican Council, Lumen Gentium 16, November 21, 1964: “…Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or His Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience – those too may achieve eternal salvation….The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day…”

Answer 8

I repeat Fr Joseph, because he said it perfectly.

I have heard many from those who hate Christ's Church but none have veracity and are not worth repeating.

In Christ
Fr. Joseph

Answer 9

It was not the RC church that composed the Bible that early. RC did not exist until 1054ad. Prior to that it was the Orthodox church which is catholic (meaning universal) and apostolic. It was run by a council of Bishops. It was not until the Roman Bishop decided he was more important than the others and the RC church evolved.

Answer 10

I have heard many from those who hate Christ's Church but none have veracity and are not worth repeating.

In Christ
Fr. Joseph