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“IS THERE ANYTHING CHRISTIAN ABOUT CATHOLICISM?”

JESUS CHRIST,                               EMPTY DECEIT
   THE CHIEF                                       Col.
                                                    2:8
CORNERSTONE
        Eph.

     2:19-22

    THE   AND       THE                     THE TRADITION
APOSTLES       PROPHETS                           OF MEN

            THE WORD TEACHES                   CATHOLICISM HAS TWO
       “THERE IS ONE MEDIATOR                MEDIATORS: MARY IS THE
       BETWEEN GOD AND MAN,             MEDIATOR IN HEAVEN BETWEEN
        THE MAN CHRIST JESUS.”
        (1Tim. 2:5, Heb 8:6, Jn. 14:6,         GOD (JESUS) AND MAN.
                                           THE CATHOLIC PRIEST IS THE
             Eph. 2:18, Jn. 16:23)      MEDIATOR ON EARTH BETWEEN

          THE WORD TEACHES                           MAN AND GOD.
A FIVEFOLD MINISTRY GIVEN TO                CATHOLICISM (THE PAPACY)

 MEN BY CHRIST TO GUIDE THE                    TEACHES A MAN-MADE
CHURCH – (ELDERS) “APOSTLES,                 HIERARCHY TO RULE THE
                                              CHURCH CONSISTING OF
  PROPHETS, EVANGELISTS AND                  THE PAPACY, CARDINALS,
     PASTORS AND TEACHERS”                    ARCHBISHOPS, BISHOPS,
      (Eph. 4:7-14, 1Cor. 12:28-29)        AND A CLERGY OF PRIESTS.

            THE WORD TEACHES                   CATHOLICISM TEACHES
       ALL BELIEVERS ARE SAINTS              BELIEVERS ONLY BECOME
                                            SAINTS AFTER DEATH, AND
          IN THIS PRESENT LIFE.               ONLY IF CANONIZED BY
        (Rom. 1:7, 16:15, 1Cor. 1:2,      THE POPE FOR GOOD WORKS,

                   2 Cor. 13:13)                      MIRACLES ETC.
                                               CATHOLICISM TEACHES
            THE WORD TEACHES
     ALL BELIEVERS ARE A HOLY,                   A SELECT, CELIBATE,
  ROYAL PRIESTHOOD CHOSEN BY                 MALE ONLY, PRIESTHOOD
     GOD TO OFFER ACCEPTABLE
   SACRIFICES TO GOD THROUGH                    CHOSEN BY CATHOLIC
                                                HIERARCHY TO OFFER
                 JESUS CHRIST.          SACRIFICES TO GOD ON BEHALF
                     (1Pet. 2:4-9)
                                                     OF THE PEOPLE.

THE WORD TEACHES CONFESSION               CATHOLICISM (THE PAPACY)
          OF SIN TO GOD AND             TEACHES CONFESSION OF SIN
                                         TO A CATHOLIC PRIEST AND
      FORGIVENESS FROM GOD              FORGIVENESS OF SIN BY THAT
THROUGH REPENTANCE BIRTHED               PRIEST THROUGH ASSIGNED
 BY A CONTRITE HEART BROKEN
                                          ACTS OF PENITENCE TO BE
                   OVER SIN.             PERFORMED BY THE SINNER.
   (Prov. 28:13,Psm. 51, Psm. 38:18,

       Psm.32:1-5, 1Jn. 1:9, 2:1-2)

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