The Catholic Church has appealed to one's fleshly nature, which desires to physically earn reward from a religious perspective.
It has used this to create a new religion over time, one that directly opposes everything Jesus Christ taught and said, evolving by adding new traditions of men and creating an elaborate visually pleasing environment for the uninformed, hijacking the term 'Christianity'.
Salvation is no longer a free gift, one has to earn it by doing an armada of tasks & payments. The scriptures have been edited to allow for water baptism as a requirement for salvation, books added to include purgatory, immaculate conception... the list goes on.
A catholic cannot know if they're saved at any given point in time.
This leads to further the desperation of trying to earn their salvation which they can never seem to achieve, and keep throwing money at the establishment in the hopes that the 'good' it does earns them some points.
I believe the origin for catholicism lies in the corruption of God's Words. You will find that the Catholic establishment has taken what is a free gift, and created a works based faith. What is not measurable throughout the Gospel, has become measurable in earning one's salvation, which at the end of the day, is to be accursed.
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God has put in place a condemnation for those who change His words... the blotting out of one's name out of the Lambs book of Life.
This is absolutely serious. I stand under correction in my thinking process I'm about to reveal:
If the Holy Ghost is truth (John 15:26; 16:13), God's Word is truth (John 17:17)... does the Holy Spirit not operate through God's Word? ... and would it not be blasphemy of the Holy Spirit to change what is inspired by the Holy Spirit?
¶ Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men."
(Matthew 12:31) "
That is not a line I'd go anywhere near since there may be a possibility of not being able to be forgiven for altering God's words.
Jerome's Vulgate has been long forgotten in the fabrication of new editions.
It is corrupt as any other catholic/modern translations such as the NIV which use the same texts.
For example: Mark 11:26 is omitted and the footnotes read: " is omitted in the best manuscripts."
Yet the Douay-Rheims of 1582 and the Douay Version 1950 both contain the verse in full as well as the 2012, but the St. Joseph New American bible 1970 and the New Jerusalem 1985 both remove it.
Why would bibles use, then omit text in their various editions... IF THEY'RE USING THE 'BEST MANUSCRIPTS' ?
Some say millions of years, some say Thousands.
Let's take a look at what the observable evidence shows us...
We all know the story of Noah and his family. Nearly every belief system has a flood story...
Bunnies and chocolate eggs... yes we all know that time of the year. Should we be concerned about it as believers?