Pray
For The Peace Of Jerusalem
Psalm
122:6 KJV
Why
The roman catholic
Church
Is Of
the
devil
A Man's Heart Can
Change In An Instant
When The Heart
Is Given A Second Chance To Live.
This Chance
Must Be Given To The Heart Of Every Man.
But Sometimes,
A Heart Is Way Long Dead Before The Man Dies.
edmund
desoto
The Next Reason
millions Leave the roman Catholic church Is Because The Bible Only Is The
All Sufficient Guide To Salvation, But The Catholic Church Teaches That
It Is Not.
The Catholic
Catechism For Adults on page 52 says. . . . .
"Can you
learn to save your soul just by reading the Bible?
THEIR ANSWER
IS a flat No.
WHY?
Because
(the roman catholich church says) that certain things in the Bible can
be misunderstood, and because the Bible does not have everything God taught."
Notice that the
first part of their answer to "Can you learn to save your soul just by
reading the Bible?" is, "No..."
However, their
own translations of the Bible teaches the opposite.
All Scriptural
quotations that I will be giving are from Catholic Translations.
2 Tim. 3:15-17
says,
"And because
from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures, which can instruct
thee to salvation, by faith which is Christ Jesus. All scripture, inspired
of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in
justice, that the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every good work."
Thus, the apostle
Paul by the inspiration of God, says to Timothy "thou hast known the
holy scriptures, which can instruct thee to salvation" and make you "perfect,
furnished to every good work."
Rom. 1:16 says,
"For I
am not ashamed of the gospel. For it is the power of God unto salvation
to everyone that believeth, to the Jew first, and to the Greek."
James 1:21
says,
"...With
meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save you souls."
Consequently,
the word contained in the Bible is able to save our souls.
The next part
of the answer in the Catechism to the question,
"Can you learn
to save your soul just by the Bible?" their answer is?
"No, because
certain things in the Bible can be misunderstood..." They are implying
that the Bible cannot be understood.
John A. O'Brien,
the Catholic author of the book, "The Faith of Millions," is much more
expressive when he says on page 152. . . .
"The Bible
is not a clear and intelligible guide to all..."
The book, "The
Faith of Millions" was given to me before my conversion by my older brother
Norman who was at the time a student at St. Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad,
Indiana.
The apostle
Paul said we can understand what he wrote.
"If
yet, you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given
me towards you: how that, according to revelation, the mystery has been
made known to me, as I have written above in few words; as you reading,
may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ." Eph. 3:2-4
Paul said the
mystery had been made know to him by the revelation of God. He then showed
that he was writing it e.g., "as I have written above in few words"
(in the chapters prior to this) and "as you reading, may understand
my knowledge in the mystery of Christ."
In other words,
when we read what he wrote, we can understand what he understood. Paul
also said, "For we write nothing to you that you do not read and understand"
(2 Cor. 1:13) and "Therefore do not become foolish, but understand what
the will of the Lord is" (Eph. 5:17).
Thus, the inspired
writers taught that we most certainly can understand the Scriptures.
The last part
of the answer given in the Catechism to the question, "Can you learn
to save your soul just by reading the Bible?" was "No...because
the Bible does not have everything God taught."
The Faith of
Millions, on pages 153-154 says, "The Bible does not contain all the teaching
of the Christian religion, nor does it formulate all the duties of its
members." The Scriptures contain everything that is necessary to equip
the man of God for every good work (2 Tim. 3:16-17).
There is not
a solitary good work that the Christian can do which is not provided in
the Scriptures. The Scriptural proof they give for the Bible not containing
everything God taught, is John 20:30.
It says, "Many
other signs also did Jesus in the sight of his disciples, which are not
written in this book." (See Catechism For Adults, p. 10).
In John 20:30,
John simply said that Jesus did many other signs (miracles) which he did
record. Notice, though, what John says in the next verse,
"...But
these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son
of God, and that believing you may have life in his name."
Thus, the apostle
clearly shows that he wrote sufficient things to produce the faith which
brings life in the name of Jesus. Life in the name of Jesus refers to eternal
life and it is obtained by belief in the things written by the inspired
writers.
We freely admit
that the Scriptures do not contain everything Jesus did. John said, "There
are, however, many other things that Jesus did; but if every one of these
would be written, not even the world itself, I think, could hold the books
that would have to be written."
John 21:25
Although we
do not have everything Jesus did, we do have every necessary thing. We
have enough to give us life in His name.
Catholic officials
follow up their claim (that we cannot understand the Bible) by stating
that one can get the true meaning only from the Catholic Church.
The Catechism
For Adults on page 10 says, "How can you get the true meaning of
the Bible? You can get it only from God's official interpreter, the Catholic
Church."
The Catholics
have no passages which mention an official interpreter and, thus, they
try to support their claim through human logic and reasoning.
Anytime men
do such, it amounts to nothing more than human philosophy rather than Scriptural
proof. The Bible says, "Let God be true, but every man a liar..."
(Rom. 3:4).
It also warns,
"See
to it that no one deceives you by philosophy and vain deceit, according
to human traditions, according to the elements of the world and not according
to Christ."
(Col. 2:8).
The doctrine
of the "infallible interpreter" implies that God did not make Himself clear.
It implies that God gave us a revelation that still needs revealing.
Did God fail
in His attempt to give man a revelation?
Do the Catholic
officials want us to believe they can express God's will more clearly than
God Himself?
We believe
that God made the mind of man and is fully capable of addressing man in
words which man can understand.
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