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So Many Objections . . .
The Protestant Reformers rebelled against the Catholic Church with many objections and complaints. But even the Orthodox Church objected to many Catholic teachings and practices, and this ultimately led to the great schism of 1054 A.D.
Even today there are objections from non-Catholics as well as from Catholics about the teachings and practices of the Catholic Church.
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So Many Contradictions . . .
Here are a few of the many Catholic Contradictions that offend me — some are major, some are minor.
Major contradictions. See also (Catholic Errors)
- Teachings about the history of the celibate priesthood — that the church has always taught this.
Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas [Peter]? (1 Corinthians 9:5)
- Sacramental marriage.
- Refusal to admit errors except in very abstract, general terms which seems to shift the blame to others.
- Written vs. oral — but only those things which were written are available to us today. The oral traditions (liturgy) have been modified over the centuries — only when they were written did they become fixed. We should favor early church fathers over later ones — the further away from the time of the apostles the less we can trust the writings (unless they agree with the early writings). The New Testament is a very good source partially because it was written so early, partly because it was written by apostles.
- Teachings about the history of the papacy. A lot of revisionism here.
- Teachings about the Marian doctrines.
- Using the Bible to support marginal doctrines. Sometimes the tiniest phrase is used to build the largest doctrine.
- That the Catholic faith has been merely passed-down from the apostles.
- That the unwritten Tradition is clear and easy to interpret.
Catholics who don't believe the Catholic teachings of the Eucharist are allowed to partake. However, my wife who does believe is not allowed — weird. Also, the Catholic Church and Orthodox Churches both accept each others' Eucharist as valid but don't allow their members to partake of the Eucharist of the other — weird.
The church teaches that having a Marian devotion is optional. But several times a year you have to attend a mass in honor of a feast day of Mary and throughout the year there is much talk of Mary. Make up your mind — is a Marian devotion optional or not?
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| Catholic Errors |
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