Catholicism
Exposed
With over a billion adherents and an incalculable amount of wealth, the Roman Catholic Church is one of the largest and wealthiest religions in the world. Its followers can be found all around the world and its influence has been felt in nearly every country since ancient times. The Catholic Church teaches many "doctrines" which cannot be found in the Bible. This article will compare four of them with the Bible. We will see how they contradict the Bible.
(Contents:
1. The Sacrifice of the Mass (Eucharist)
2. Mary the “Mediatrix” is False Doctrine and Contradicts Scripture
3. Purgatory is Not Found in the Bible but Catholics Teach It Regardless
4. Bowing to Images and Praying to Statues Is against God’s Word
5. If You Would Like to Have a Relationship with God...)
1. The
Sacrifice of the Mass (Eucharist)
The Catholic
Church teaches that every Catholic must partake of the Eucharist (round wafers and wine or grape juice), during the Mass, in order to be saved.
"The Eucharist is
necessary for salvation, to be received either sacramentally or in
desire." (The Question and Answer Catholic Catechism, Q. 1217.) (Bold
added)
Catholics
believe that the round wafers and wine of the Eucharist transform into Christ’s
actual physical body and blood: literal flesh and blood.
"After the consecration, nothing remains of the bread
and wine except their external properties. Their
substance becomes the living body and blood of Christ." (The Question
and Answer Catholic Catechism, Q. 1225.) (Bold added)
"The Eucharist is
a sacrament which really, truly, and substantially contains the body and blood,
soul, and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ under the appearances of bread
and wine. It is the great sacrament..." (The Question and Answer Catholic
Catechism, p. 244, Q. 1212.) (Bold added)
But, what
does the Bible teach about this subject? Romans 6 addresses this topic.
Romans 6:6-11 (Emphasis added)
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that
the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall
also live with him:
9 Knowing that
Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion
over him.
10 For in that he
died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto
sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Jesus Christ
“died unto sin once: but in that he
liveth, he liveth unto God.” Jesus does not die all over again each
time someone takes part of the Eucharist. His sacrifice at the Cross of Calvary
was done one time to pay for all the sins of the world.
Hebrews 10 explains…
3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made
of sins every year.
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats
should take away sins.
5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith,
Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no
pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is
written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt
offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure
therein; which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh
away the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will
we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for
all.
Notice verse
10? The Holy Spirit, through the writer of Hebrews says that Christians “are sanctified through the offering of the
body of Jesus Christ once for all.” This offering of the body of Jesus Christ
is again not many times during many Masses, but “once for all”.
Hebrews 10:14-18
14 For by one offering
he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after
that he had said before,
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after
those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their
minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and
iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission
of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Jesus Christ
was offered up “once for all”. Verse 18 says, “Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.” To
teach otherwise contradicts the Bible, God’s Holy Word.
2. Mary the
“Mediatrix” is False Doctrine and Contradicts Scripture
