Addressing FALSE Claims Of The Catholic Church

Rebuttals To Many Common Yet False Claims Of The Roman Catholic Religion

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“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” – Isaiah 5:20

 
Dear Catholic reader: Please view this information as an eye-opening experience regarding false Catholic dogma and not as a personal attack. Please don’t get mad at the author of this article who is here to help you find spiritual truth. And don’t make the mistake that so many sinners in Hell have made, which is that you already possess the truth on these issues.
 
This list was compiled by a former Roman Catholic after spending hundreds of hours online with Catholic Church defenders, who refused to believe that their Church could be misleading them or deceiving them. In order to keep this list a manageable size, I am not going to provide detailed scriptural backing for the rebuttals listed below. However, that information is available all over the Internet for those who care about truth. Also, you will have a hard time finding fault with my rebuttals, in Scripture. You are welcome to share your thoughts on this article with its author (RM Kane), by contacting him here via E-MAIL.
 
FALSE CATHOLIC CLAIM #1: Peter was the first pope – No. Actually Peter was never a pope. Catholic popes didn’t exist yet. Only regional bishops, including the bishop of Rome.
 
FALSE CATHOLIC CLAIM #2: Mary was a perpetual virgin – No. Actually Mary had children with Joseph.
 
FALSE CATHOLIC CLAIM #3: Mary was born without sin – No. Only Jesus was born without sin.
 
FALSE CATHOLIC CLAIM #4: Mary is the ark of the new covenant. – No. Jesus is the ark of the new covenant. By His life on earth He fulfilled the Law of God perfectly.
 
FALSE CATHOLIC CLAIM #5: Mary was assumed bodily into heaven. – No. Mary’s body ended up in a grave like everyone else.
 
FALSE CATHOLIC CLAIM #6: The Catholic Church is the one true Church. – No. The one true Church is a spiritual entity consisting of all those people world-wide who are trusting their salvation to the merits of Jesus alone.
 
FALSE CATHOLIC CLAIM #7: There were no other Christians except Catholics and Orthodox until the Protestant Reformation in the 1500s. – No. there was always a true remnant Church starting with the local churches of the New Testament.
 
FALSE CATHOLIC CLAIM #8: Luther was an evil rebellious heretic. – No. Luther was honoring God and doing the will of God by exposing corruption and false teachings in the Catholic Church. That’s why the corrupt Catholic leadership hated him so much and why they slandered his name continually for hundreds of years.
 
FALSE CATHOLIC CLAIM #9: Purgatory is a real place Catholics go to after death. – No. Purgatory was invented by the Catholic Church, mainly to rob Catholics of money for paid prayers and masses for the dead.
 
FALSE CATHOLIC CLAIM #10: Joseph was celibate his entire life. – No. Joseph fathered several children with Mary.
 
FALSE CATHOLIC CLAIM #11: Catholics popes are infallible in matters of faith and morals. – No. Catholic popes don’t even preach the truth about salvation by the grace of God alone.
 
FALSE CATHOLIC CLAIM #12: It is OK to call popes “holy father”. – No. It is a sin to call anyone but God, holy father. Holy father is a TITLE of RANK and AUTHORITY that belongs to GOD ALONE.
 
FALSE CATHOLIC CLAIM #13: Catholic priests have power from God to forgive sins. No. Only God can forgive sins. The Catholic Church has seriously mis-applied John 20:23 to all their priests, when it was was only directed to the apostles.
 
FALSE CATHOLIC CLAIM #14: The office of “priest” for offering the sacrifice of the mass is legitimate. – No. the sacrificial priesthood was abolished at the cross with the death of Christ, the Lamb of God.
 
FALSE CATHOLIC CLAIM #15: The Eucharist is the literal body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ. – No. Jesus is ruling and reigning from heaven through the Holy Spirit on earth. He doesn’t clone Himself into billions of wafers at every Catholic mass world-wide.
 
FALSE CATHOLIC CLAIM #16: The sacrifice of the mass with its re-presenting of Christ in the Eucharist is the proper form of communion. – No. A biblical communion ceremony is meant to be a memorial service honoring Christ’s death, burial and resurrection, not a bizarre literal – yet invisible – repeat performance of Christ’s death Calvary.
 
FALSE CATHOLIC CLAIM #17: To eat a Eucharist is to “receive Christ”. – No. Jesus Christ is received at the point of salvation, the point of being “born again” (regenerated) by the Holy Spirit.
 
FALSE CATHOLIC CLAIM #18: A Catholic is born-again and receives the Holy Spirit at their water baptism ceremony. – No. No one is born-again by an action of a Catholic priest. Sinners are only born-again by a supernatural act of God when they hear the Gospel preached (including the law of God showing them they are law-breakers). Then, in God’s time, they are convicted of their sin by the Holy Spirit and then are converted by the Holy Spirit.
 
FALSE CATHOLIC CLAIM #19: The Catholic Church gave the world the Bible. – No. The Bible was given by GOD, through Moses, the prophets and the apostles. The early Church had access to those writings LONG BEFORE the Catholic Church ever published any bibles.
 
FALSE CATHOLIC CLAIM #20: The Catholic Church was started by Jesus Christ in 33AD. – No. The Catholic Church evolved and grew out of a blending of many ancient pagan religions with some elements of Christianity. This process was almost complete in the 4th century after Roman emperors Constantine and Theodosius eased up on persecution of Christians. However, Catholicism continued to evolve as noted HERE
 
FALSE CATHOLIC CLAIM #21: It is good to pray to Mary and to Catholic saints who have died. – No. To pray to anyone OTHER THAN Jesus requires elevating those people to gods and goddesses, as only such deities are able to hear and act upon prayers. So praying to non-deities is the sin of idolatry.
 
FALSE CATHOLIC CLAIM #22: Our salvation depends not only on Jesus but on our ability and willingness to do good works. – No. We have such a tremendous sin debt that no amount of good works could remove a single sin. We owe God a debt that could only be paid by the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. His death was of such value, that it could pay our sin debt IN FULL. When the Holy Spirit regenerates a sinner, they become a new creature in Christ, a person who WANTS to do good deeds out of love of Christ, not to attempt to pay a monumental sin debt. It is a huge insult to God to try to pay for something that Jesus already paid in full. God the Father is fully satisfied (well pleased) with what His Son Jesus accomplished at Calvary to pay the sin debt of all sinners who will come to believe in the Jesus of the Bible who saves sinners by His merits alone. Any good works that a person does to attempt to contribute towards their salvation are looked at by God as filthy rags. And any such attempts by sinners are in fact declaring that what Jesus did on the cross wasn’t good enough to pay their sin debt so they need to help pay it too. There is no greater insult to the propitiatory atonement of Christ than that.
 
If the Bible is a Catholic book as the Catholic Church claims, then why does the Bible…

  1. refer to all Christians as saints including those still alive? (1 Corinthians 1:2).
  2. teach against the veneration and exaltation of Mary? (Luke 11:27-28).
  3. declare that all Christians are priests? (1 Peter 2:5&9).
  4. condemn special clothing for church leaders/clergy? (Matthew. 23:5-6).
  5. condemn making and bowing down to religious images? (Exodus 20:4-5).
  6. teach that baptism is by immersion, not sprinkling or pouring? (Colossians 2:12).
  7. forbid addressing religious leaders as “father”? (Matthew 23:9).
  8. teach that Christ is the only foundation, not the apostle Peter? (1 Corinthians 3:11).
  9. state that there is one mediator, not many? (1 Timothy 2:5).
  10. teach that church leaders (bishops, elders, deacons) must be married? (1 Timothy 3:2, 4-5).
  11. deny the primacy of Peter as the sole head of the Church on earth? (Luke 22:24-27).
  12. oppose the teaching of purgatory? (Hebrews 9:27).
  13. make no mention of infant baptism, indulgences, confessing sins to priests, praying the rosary?
  14. make no mention of the use of holy water, scapulars, miraculous medals, candles and mass cards?

— RM Kane
 

“Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” – John 8:12

 
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Pagan Gods And Goddesses That Became Catholic Saints

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Introduction:

 
There is little if any difference between many pagan gods and Catholic saints. In fact, many Catholic saints are nothing more than renamed (rebranded) pagan gods and goddesses. Like their pagan counterparts, Catholic saints are associated with specific talents or responsibilities – a trade or craft, healing a certain disease, overseeing a particular city, etc. and are put under the authority of a leader god, with Zeus, Odin, and Shiva being some of the leader gods of pagan religions. Catholicism is not true biblical Christianity but rather a blending of elements of Christianity with many various pagan religious customs. This becomes evident when one studies the origins of many so-called Catholic “saints”.
 

Some examples of pagan gods that morphed into Catholic saints:

 
The most prominent example of a pagan goddess being transformed into a Catholic saint is of the various fertility goddesses such as Semiramis and Isis being transformed into the Catholic saint Mary a.k.a. virgin Mary
 
Similarly, several pagan “mother-child” pairs of deities including the pagan goddess Semiramis and her son Tammuz, were adopted by the Catholic Church to become their virgin Mary and baby Jesus.
 
The Greek goddess Demeter (a goddess of many festivals, the primary festival being Thesmophoria, which fell in late October) became the Catholic saint Demetrios, a masculine warrior saint, whose feast day is October 26.
 
The Greek goddess Aphrodite became the Catholic saint Aphrodite.
 
The Greek goddess Nike became the Catholic saint Nicholas, who was extremely popular wherever shipping was important.
 
The Roman god Mars (originally a god who guarded wheat fields) became the Catholic saint Martin. Although March is the month associated with Mars the major festival for him in Christian times now usually falls in February, called Mardi Gras.
 
The Roman god Quirinus became the Catholic saint Cyrinus, of which there are various “equestrian warrior saints” such as saint Cyr in France, and saint Quirina, mother of saint Lawrence.
 
The Roman gods known as the Lares became the Catholic saint Lawrence. The Lares were gods who protected the grain growing in fields. In Italian, he became saint Lorenzo beyond the Walls, meaning outside of the walls of the city, for which there is still a church in Rome, with many “daughter” churches which were spawned off of it.
 
The Roman goddess Venus became the Catholic saint Venera (with a feminized ending to her name because “us” looks like a masculine ending in Latin).
 
The Roman gods known as the Gemini, who were protectors of sailors in Roman pagan times, became the Catholic Sanctos Gemino.
 
The Proto-Indo-European god Yama became the Catholic saint James.
 
The Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda became the Catholic saint Ahura Mazda, in the early Syriac Christian church.

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Not all Catholics saints are even based on pagan gods. Some are based on pagan holidays. For example the Roman festival of Caro Patri (“Dear Parents” a festival to remember one’s ancestors) became the festival of saint Peter’s Chair in the Roman Catholic Martyrology a.k.a. “saints calendar”.

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Additional references about Catholic saints and Catholicism’s pagan origins:



Catholic Cliches

False Claims By Catholics Against Ex-Catholics And Protestants

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This web page is the result of having to bear with the many repeated false claims by Catholics defending their false religion using false statements about those who would dare to tell them the truth about Catholicism’s many false teachings and false practices. Most of these claims are nothing but claims – unsubstantiated claims – repeated over and over again by the Catholic Church to the point where their followers assume that such claims are undeniable truths.
 
CLAIM #1: The more you know history and the Bible the more you become Catholic. The more you are ignorant of the two the more you become anti-Catholic… Click HERE for a meme version of this false Catholic claim
 
CLAIM #2: The Bible is a Catholic book. Only our clergy can interpret the Bible. We will tell you what the Bible means. You need to trust us. Click HERE for a meme version of this false Catholic claim
 
CLAIM #3: Uneducated Catholics become Protestants… Educated Protestants become Catholics… Click HERE for a meme version of this false Catholic claim
 
CLAIM #4: Your religion was started 500 years ago by Martin Luther… You’re just one of 40,000 Protestant sects… All non-Catholic churches are man-made… Click HERE for a meme version of this false Catholic claim
 
CLAIM #5: You’re just a Lutheran… Luther was a heretic… Luther was crazy… Luther committed suicide… Click HERE for a meme version of this false Catholic claim
 
CLAIM #6: We gave you the Bible. Peter was the first pope. Mary was a perpetual virgin. Rome is the one true Church. We have the Eucharist. You’re just a heretic… Click HERE for a meme version of this false Catholic claim

 
CLAIM #7: You were never a real Catholic… You were never properly catechized… You didn’t pay attention in CCD class… Click HERE for a meme version of this false Catholic claim
 
CLAIM #8: Catholics don’t worship idols. We venerate sacred objects. Click HERE for a meme version of this false Catholic claim
 
CLAIM #9: Catholics don’t worship Mary. We venerate and adore her which we call hyper-dulia. Click HERE for a meme version of this false Catholic claim
 
CLAIM #10: Our unbiblical-teachings and practices aren’t man-made. They are “sacred tradition”. Click HERE for a meme version of this false Catholic claim
 
CLAIM #11: The Bible is a Catholic book. We gave you the Bible. Protestants threw out 7 books of the Bible. King James was a freemason and a homosexual. Click HERE for a meme version of this false Catholic claim
 



How To Tell A FALSE Christian From A TRUE Christian

 
Please note: we are mainly comparing Catholics to true Christians.
 

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“They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him” – Titus 1:16

 
A false Christian prays to Mary and to many man-made “saints”. A true Christians prays to Jesus, not to ANY man-made “saints”.
 
A false Christian owns statues, calling them “sacred objects”. A true Christian calls those religious statues “idols”.
 
A false Christian bows down to statues, calling it “veneration”. A true Christian calls that behavior “idolatry”.
 
A false Christian dedicates shrines to their Jesus substitutes (their saints). A true Christian does not imitate pagans.
 
A false Christian has their Church headquarters in the Vatican. A true Christian’s Church headquarters are in Heaven only.
 
A false Christian has a “holy father” in Rome. A true Christian has only ONE holy Father and He resides in Heaven.
 
A false Christian has various authoritative doctrinal writings on equal footing with the Bible. A true Christian’s sole ultimate doctrinal authority is the Bible.
 
A false Christian confesses their sins to a man they call their priest. A true Christian confesses their sins to God and to one another (meaning the person they sinned against).
 
A false Christian believes that Jesus inhabits millions of wafers worldwide. A true Christian knows that communion is only a symbolic memorial service of the death of Jesus Christ.
 
A false Christian has a false works gospel that includes sacraments and the merits of the sinner in addition to the death of Jesus. A true Christian’s gospel is a salvation plan resting solely in the Lord Jesus Christ and in His merits alone.

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The Many False Claims Of The Roman Catholic Church

Many False Claims Of The Roman Catholic Church

Please note that not all the following Catholic claims are VERBAL or WRITTEN. Some of the claims are by IMPLICATION and by common Catholic PRACTICE. So if you dare to deny any of these claims, then you need to first deny that those Catholic practices exist.

  1. The Roman Catholic Church is the one true Church.
  2. The Catholic Church stated in 33AD.
  3. Peter was the first pope.
  4. Mary was born sinless (immaculate conception).
  5. Mary gave birth to no children besides Jesus, so she was a perpetual virgin.
  6. Mary rose bodily into heaven upon her death.
  7. Mary is a mediatrix who you can and should pray to.
  8. Mary is the mother of God.
  9. Mary is the Queen of Heaven.
  10. Mary is the ark of the New Covenant.
  11. The Catholic eucharist is the literal body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ.
  12. Eating a eucharist removes venial sins.
  13. Priests turn wafers into eucharists when they recite their consecration incantation.
  14. Water baptism by a Catholic priest causes a person to be “born again”.
  15. Catholic priests can forgive sins.
  16. Church leaders should be celibate.
  17. Purgatory is a real place where Catholics go when they die.
  18. The pope is the head of the Church on earth.
  19. God doesn’t mind Catholics calling the pope “holy father”.
  20. God is OK with Catholics referring to priests as “father”.
  21. You can pray to saints in heaven for help with things on earth.
  22. The pope makes infallible pronouncements when speaking “Ex-Cathedra”.
  23. Saying masses for the dead in Purgatory can lessen their time there.
  24. There are two classes of sins: mortal and venial.
  25. Only mortal sins can keep you out of heaven.
  26. The Catholic Church gave the world the Bible.
  27. Only the Pope and the Magisterium can be trusted to interpret the Bible.
  28. Catholics don’t worship Mary or dead saints. They venerate and honor them.
  29. Catholic statues are not idols. They are sacred objects.
  30. It is the ignorant and poorly catechized Catholics who leave the Catholic Church.
  31. There were no other Christian churches until the 1500s when Martin Luther came along.
  32. Mary would approve of people making millions of statues of her, thousands of shrines dedicated to her, cemeteries named after her, churches named after her and songs glorifying her.
  33. God wants Catholics to display images of His Son Jesus as a little baby or as a man still dead on the cross or as an effeminate looking hippy.
  34. God wants His Church to have a guarded fortress in Vatican City.
  35. God wants His Church to have political embassies all over the world.
  36. God want His Church to protect their clergy from prosecution when they commit crimes, especially sex crimes.
  37. God wants His Church to have occult symbols in their central courtyard.
  38. God wants His Church to display corpses and body parts of dead Catholics.

Unbiblical Inventions Of The Roman Catholic Church