dudley
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
I wish to share some very interesting observations I have assembled for my PB brothers here about the dead Jesus of Roman Catholicism
Anyone can walk into a Catholic church and see kneelers before every statue place within. However, the Creator specifically states...
Exodus 20:5, "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God,visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;"
Leviticus 26:1, "Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God."
The Catholic church proclaims loudly that Jesus is dead and unable to help you. Walk into any Catholic church and you will see a DEAD Jesus on a cross, a DEAD Jesus in the arms of His mother, or an INFANT Jesus in the arms of His mother. However, look at the MEN and WOMEN depicted in statues. Look at Mary, Joseph, Peter, Anthony, and hundreds of other saints. They are all displayed as alive and well and very capable of helping you and hearing your prayers. However, it is written...
Acts 25:19, "But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive."
Matthew 28:6, "He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay."
The Angels were more concerned with us gazing unto the place were Jesus lay, than the place where He hung!
Rome is NOT God's Church. The system of Rome with its priestcraft and "infallible" Pope is unscriptural. Where are you told in the Bible to pray to Mary or the "saints"? Where do you find in scripture the celibacy of the clergy, limbo, purgatory, pilgrimages, holy images, prayers for the dead, extreme unction, and a whole host of other Roman inventions? The Bible way of salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. You can only get to heaven by Christ's work not your own works. As for the forgiveness of sins, no priest can forgive his own sins let alone those of his parishioners.
Anyone can walk into a Catholic church and see kneelers before every statue place within. However, the Creator specifically states...
Exodus 20:5, "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God,visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;"
Leviticus 26:1, "Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God."
The Catholic church proclaims loudly that Jesus is dead and unable to help you. Walk into any Catholic church and you will see a DEAD Jesus on a cross, a DEAD Jesus in the arms of His mother, or an INFANT Jesus in the arms of His mother. However, look at the MEN and WOMEN depicted in statues. Look at Mary, Joseph, Peter, Anthony, and hundreds of other saints. They are all displayed as alive and well and very capable of helping you and hearing your prayers. However, it is written...
Acts 25:19, "But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive."
Matthew 28:6, "He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay."
The Angels were more concerned with us gazing unto the place were Jesus lay, than the place where He hung!
Rome is NOT God's Church. The system of Rome with its priestcraft and "infallible" Pope is unscriptural. Where are you told in the Bible to pray to Mary or the "saints"? Where do you find in scripture the celibacy of the clergy, limbo, purgatory, pilgrimages, holy images, prayers for the dead, extreme unction, and a whole host of other Roman inventions? The Bible way of salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. You can only get to heaven by Christ's work not your own works. As for the forgiveness of sins, no priest can forgive his own sins let alone those of his parishioners.