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NASB | Matthew 15:6 he is not to honor his father or his mother.' And by this you invalidated the word of God for the sake of your tradition. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 15:6 he is not to honor his father or his mother [by helping them with their need].' So by this you have invalidated the word of God [depriving it of force and authority and making it of no effect] for the sake of your tradition [handed down by the elders]. |
Subject: Is Catholic considered false religion? |
Bible Note: You stated at the end of your post, “I think your fear of Catholics' reverence for Mary is more exaggerated than our reverence.” My answer to this is, I hope you are absolutely right on this point for your own sake! I only Know what my wife has told me from her past, as she spent 26 years as a Catholic 12 of which were spent in Catholic schools. She said that she never had the full assurance of her salvation until she completely believed in Christ and turned her life over to him. Up to that point in time in her life she said that she was always in fear of dying and only hoped the she had been good enough. I believed on Christ when I was 27 years old. Oh yes, I did believe that he existed, but I didn’t believe the way the Bible means that I should believe; until I started letting God the Holy Spirit reveal His Truth to me. When I gave up and turned my life over to Christ, that Bible virtually came alive to me, I can’t really explain what all happened but I knew that Jesus was right there with me and I felt like I could almost touch him. I started looking for a church to attend and looking for people that had experienced the same thing that I had found. I went back to the church that my parents use to take me to when I was younger. After talking to the minister of that church I realized that he wasn’t even saved and on the same track that I was so needless to say I looked elsewhere. My wife and I were both saved now and didn’t have a church where we could have fellowship and feed on the word. A friend who lived down the street invited us to a home Bible study; and I was shocked to find out that the man conducting the study knew Jesus the same way that I did. After the study I learned that he was a pastor of a church and when I ask him what the name of his church was he didn’t want to tell me because he said that that wasn’t his object in teaching the study. He said that all he was there for was to point people to faith in Jesus Christ for salvation. I finally wormed it out of him when I told him that my wife and I had been recently saved and we wanted a church that expounded on what it meant to really believe in Jesus. There is something within me, as a deep-seated concern, for all people that have a different view, other then that which is absolutely spelled out in Scripture. I think that Paul must have had the same sensation because of what he wrote in Romans. Romans 10:1-3 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. [2] For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. [3] For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. Everyone on my wife’s side of the family is Roman Catholic and I mean with a big R and C, so maybe you see where I’m coming from. Something just struck me a funny; do you spend as much time and have as much fun interacting with Catholics as you do with “non Catholics”, as I am sure you would rather I call them? You are with out a doubt the most knowledgeable Catholic that I have ever run into. Most Catholics don’t know enough about the Bible to fill a thimble, and I am even including more then several priest that I have talked to in the past 37 years since I have fully trusted in Jesus. I guess I am like the poor blind man that Jesus gave sight to. John 9:25 B one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. CDBJ |