Doctrinal Conflicts of the Catholic Church?

Question

The Catholic Church that it is the "Only Way" to salvation.

I am sorry to disagree, the bible in John 14:6 says he is the only way.

The Catholic Church teaches that the Pope in rome is the head of the "True Church".

However, the Bible says that "Jesus" is the head of the True Church.

Do you trust a Chruch full of corruption, lies and coverups?

Or do you trust Jesus, the only perfect and Sinless one who ever lived?

King James Bible 1611 AV

Answer 1

I agree with you completely. My husband was a Catholic, he now sees the errors in what he was taught. He used to pray to or through Mary and got very few prayers answered. He now realizes that we are to pray to God through Jesus Christ and that Jesus is our great high priest. He also now knows that Mary did not remain a virgin. That you do not go to purgatory. That Peter was not the first Pope. He is now a new creature in Christ Jesus.
There are many good Catholics who just need to study to show themselves approved and not believe something because a priest says it is right.

Answer 2

No, the Catholic Church does not teach that Church is the only way to salvation. The Catholic Church has always officially held that Jesus is the only way to Salvation.

It is true that the Pope is the Bishop of Rome, the first among equals, and the Servant of the Servants of the Lord. Catholics believe that Jesus chose Peter to "feed His sheep" and gave him the keys to the Kingdom of heaven. True enough, it is a matter of Scriptural interpretation. However, you have proved nor disproved nothing, other than that we have a difference in interpretation of Scripture.

The Catholics believe that Jesus is the invisible head of the Church, while the Pope, the successor to Peter and vicar (or representative) of Christ, is the visible head of the Church on Earth.

Of course Catholics trust Jesus, AND Catholics believe in Jesus' own words, which apparently many anti-Catholics do not do: Bible Fundamenatlists do not believe what Jesus said about His Body and His Blood; They do not believe what Jesus taught about marriage; They do not believe that Jesus keeps His promise that the gates of hell would not prevail against His Church. They do not believe that Jesus keeps His promise of sending the Holy Spirit to guide and teach Apostles; They do not believe that Jesus' prayers are answered when He asked God the Father that His Apostles would be one, as He and the Father are One.

Answer 3

Holy Mother Church says it and rightly so, as SHE is the one Christ founded, NOT ANY of the Protestant denominations. Christ put Peter and his successors in charge and PROMISED that He (Jesus) would be with His church forever, keeping it free from error (the gates of hell).

Strikes me that to keep making these statements is to call Jesus a lying s.o.b., since if you're right then the Church WAS in error for centuries and where the H-E-double hockeysticks was Jesus for all that time? On vacation? Playing golf at Pebble Beach? Knocking back on a cruise ship in the Caribbean? PUHLEEEZE. You CANNOT have it both ways. Either His word is good and you're dead wrong or His word is garbage and if that's so, what the heck are you doing wasting your time worshipping Him?

And the King James is a poetically beautiful book, BUT it would NOT EXIST if the Catholic Church's leadership hadn't sat down and gone through literally thousands of writings waaaaay before (like 12 centuries!) Jamie was even a gleam in his daddy's eye, and decided what books were inspired and what were not.

Answer 4

Suposedly Jesus is the head of the Catholic church, didn't you get the memo? Also, the bible talks as if there will only ever be "one" church. And the only one who could argue to be that would be the Catholics... Definitely couldn't be the Methodists, Presbyterians, socalled nondenominationals, Evangelicals, Apostolics, Anglicans, or any of the other billions of variations on Protesting Christ's church there are out there.

Answer 5

While I wholly agree with LineDancer's post and wish to expand on it, I feel obligated to also point out that despite doctrinal and organizational differences, both sects ultimately recognize Jesus as their saviour, their head of church, and their passage to heaven.

The argument that "We're the oldest so we must be the best" is getting old, and many of the frequent Catholic posters on Y!A use that as an end-all upper hand to other Christians arguments. I firmly believe that the main reason it took so long for people to find inconsistencies and corruption within the Catholic regimes was that in the Dark and Middle ages, the church strictly forbid any followers from reading the texts (or teaching them latin to do so) and actually discouraged education. They were more than content to sit back and collect tithes (not in the New Testament), and wage wars for wealth and power. Let's also not forget the factual 4th century Roman Catholic conference (presided over by the emperor) to re-translate and askew the Bible we trust in to fit their political needs more handily, and to ease their previously pagan citizens to it. Perhaps the gnostic and apocryphal books found more recently were omissions from the real text, because the conference vetoed these books considering them to impose too many human characteristics on Jesus while he was living in the flesh. Please remember, Jesus died and shed his blood for us, so why was it so hard to admit his mortality prior to his ascension? It would take too much explaining to do to the uneducated parishioners.

With the rise of the modern age of education, people can undertand Jesus' love for us in a way never before allowed. We know that as his followers, we do not need Priests and Cardinals and Popes to guide us to him, that Jesus called us to be his disciples and that we may speak directly to Him and his Father through the Blood shed for us. Nor is any one man closer to God than another, all people are equidistant from His incomprehensible presence. The Pope is not chosen by divine intervention... he is voted in by a group of other old men.
Church is a place for fellowship, learning, and expanding your faith. It could be in your home, your office, at your computer, anywhere you feel most spirit-led. The history and doctrines of the classic Catholic church would not allow these.

Answer 6

Source, please. By that I mean a reference to any Vatican document that states this, in its entirety, not just a quote pulled out of context -- which, I know, may be difficult since you're accustomed to doing that with KJV 1611 Scripture verses. But do try.

While I wait, I will stand up and applaud Granny Annie's response.

Answer 7

The Roman Catholic Church contends that its origin is the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ in approximately 30 A.D. The Catholic Church proclaims itself to be the Church that Jesus Christ died for, the Church that was established and built by the Apostles. Is that the true origin of the Catholic Church? On the contrary. Even a cursory reading of the New Testament will reveal that the Catholic Church does not have its origin in the teachings of Jesus, or His apostles. In the New Testament, there is no mention of the papacy, worship / adoration of Mary (or the immaculate conception of Mary, the perpetual virginity of Mary, the assumption of Mary, or Mary as co-redemptrix and mediatrix), petitioning saints in Heaven for their prayers, apostolic succession, the ordinances of the church functioning as sacraments, infant baptism, confession of sin to a priest, purgatory, indulgences, or the equal authority of church tradition and Scripture. So, the origin of the Catholic Church is not in the teachings of Jesus and His apostles, as recorded in the New Testament.

Answer 8

All very true. Catholics believe a false gospel of works that leads to eternal hell.

Answer 9

LOL...you worship a BOOK, so why are you talking???

Answer 10

get an education, and you'll see that your post doesn't make sense.