During the early period church and all the way through the middle ages most of the people didn’t have access to the Bible. The Catholic Bible was written in Latin which only the highly educated could read and the church forbade any Bible translations into the common languages. People had to rely on the church to tell them what the Bible said and about God and that’s the way the Roman Catholic church wanted it. The evil empire wanted to be able to freely create and install unscriptural doctrines and sacraments for the church without any pushback from the faithful. If nobody could read and very few had Bibles then nobody could question what the church was doing. The peasants just accepted that whatever the Pope was doing had the approval of God. Numerous Popes throughout the centuries have attempted to confiscate and burn all Bibles and/or prevent their translation into common languages because they wanted all religious information to come only from the church.
Psalm 119:18 – Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law.
Psalm 63:1 – O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water.
As you can see from the above verses God gave the Bible for every believers to read and study and obey. Nowhere in the Bible does it give the right to any church body to withhold the Bible from believers or to spoon feed the faithful with unscriptural doctrine. Catholics are discouraged from reading their Bibles on their own without interpretation of those Scriptures by the church. The Pope interprets Scripture to mean what he wants it to mean and that interpretation has precedence over what God plainly says in his word. In the church it’s a sin to not to accept the Pope’s word over what God says. What blasphemy!
Isaiah 42:8 – I am the Lord, that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another.
Psalm 29:2 – Give unto the Lord the glory due His name; worship the lord in the beauty of holiness.
There are dozens of verses in the Bible that command us to honor God with our money and praise him continually with our lips in prayer. God is glorified when we pray to him and that glory is stolen from God when believers are prevented from praying to him. The Roman Catholic church has stolen God’s glory with their unscriptural doctrine on prayer and they will be held accountable on the last day. God talks to us through the Bible and we talk to God through prayer. That two-way communication creates fellowship between man and God. God can’t hear the prayers of Catholics who pray to Mary or other church saints and that’s just what Satan intended.
Psalm 145:19 – He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He will also hear their cry and save them.
Psalm 6:9 – The Lord had heard my supplication; the Lord will receive my prayer.
Along comes the Roman Catholic church who decides to change the way we talk to God. They decide God is too busy to hear our prayers so they make their flock pray to Mary instead. Now Mary is the mother of Jesus and is no doubt revered in heaven but she’s not divine like the church claims. Mary is only a human being like us and Scripture confirms she needed salvation just like we all do. Mary can’t hear our prayers and she can’t forgive our sins or take our prayers to Jesus. That’s utter nonsense! The Bible clearly teaches we must make our prayers directly to God the Father and nobody else. I’m sure Mary is mortified that she is the object of prayer here on earth. If God had intended that we make our prayers to Mary he would have said so in the Bible. God would not have omitted something as important as that.
Psalm 112:1 – Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who delights greatly in His commandments.
Isaiah 33:6 – Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, and the strength of salvation; the fear of the Lord is His treasure.
In the Bible I count 129 direct commands from God to the believer. While it’s true many of the commands are redundant, the point is God commands us to do many things which we cannot know unless we read and study the Bible ourselves. The Roman Catholic church, or any church for that matter, will only give you a few of the most important commandments and will tell you only what’s important to them. You can’t expect to be spoon fed your religion. Each of us is responsible for learning all there is to know about God for ourselves; by personally reading and studying the Bible. As believers it’s our duty to read and study God’s word so we know what it is we must do to please God. And the word of God must take precedence over all else. If any church or doctrine is not scriptural you must not follow it. If your church does not follow the teaching of the Bible then leave that church and find one that does.
Isaiah 43:11 – I, even I, am the Lord, and besides Me there is no Savior.
Isaiah 5:20 – Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
The entire Bible is about the revelation of Jesus Christ on the earth and his worship should be the centerpiece of any church. The Roman Catholic church has reduced Jesus to a cookie they pull out only during mass. Every doctrine and sacrament of the Roman Catholic church is 180 degrees from what God wants for his church. Satan and God are both invisible but you can know them by their works. The fact that 100% of the Roman Catholic church dogma, doctrines and sacraments are unscriptural reveals to us that the Roman Catholic is the fruit of Satan. There’s no other logical answer. You shall know them by their fruit and we can that clearly. The pomp and circumstance of a Roman Catholic church service is indeed a stench in the nostrils of God. Have no part in any Roman Catholic pagan worship service.
Isaiah 45:22 – Look to Me, and be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
Hosea 13:4 – Yet I am the LORD your God…there is no Savior besides Me.
The Bible makes it clear that salvation unto eternal life is only through Jesus Christ by faith alone. That means being a member of the Roman Catholic church won’t save you. Following church doctrines and sacraments won’t save you. Praying to Mary and chanting the nonsensical rosary won’t save you. Confessing your sins to an evil man in a box won’t save you either. The Pope and his priests cannot save your eternal soul or send you to hell no matter how much they want you to think they can. The Apostle Peter is not the first Pope and Jesus did not appoint him to be the head of church. When Jesus said, “Upon this Rock I will build My church,” he was referring to himself and not Peter. The Popes claim to be the Vicar of Christ on earth but in reality they are the servants of Satan. There have been 265 Popes and with few exceptions, if any, they will all be thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone on the last day for leading their followers away from the truth of God.