aj830 said:I believe I answered all these above. You just tried togo and make upyour own definition of what a cult is so you could attack the Church. And even with your definition the Catholic Church fits NONE of the criteria.
Sorry but since what separates God from man is sin, then calling Mary sinless makes her a God So you are in error when you say the catholics only worship one God.
Secondly, giving the pope the same title that Jesus said is only reserved for God, is indeed seeing the pope as equal with God, paritcularly when the catholics never, never, never disagree with the pope but disagree with Jesus all the time as in Matthew 23:9-10. So you are contradicting yourself again.
Sorry but since the Holy Spirit is the same Spirit with which the bible was written then they will always be in agreement with each other. But since the pope disagrees with Matthew 1:25, Matthew 23:9-10, Deuteronomy 4:15, Luke 1:47, Leviticus 26:1, 2 Corinthians 11:4-15, 2 Peter 2:3, and many other verses, then the pope is not coming from the Holy Spirit.
Since the catholics believe they are the only true church then they absolutely believe that other Christians who don't worship there are going to hell.
Sorry but what people pray to is what they worship. and the catholics pray to people all the time. : There is also a picture of Pope John Paul kissing a statue of Mary. So you are in error again.
This statement is one of the most erroneous and bizarre statements I've ever seen. The OT was written long before Christ walked the earth and the NT is mainly Paul's letters. So it is a blatant falsehood that the Catholics compiled the bible. :roll: It's false beliefs like this one that make up a cult. And it nly comes from ebing brainwashed by the pope because this claim is nowhere in scripture and neither is the claim that Mary was sinless, a perpetual virgin or God's decree that believers should carve statues of created things. Those are all unbiblical, proving that Catholicism is a cult.
But again, no cult thinks it's a cult which is why it's almost impossible to de-program cult members. Most of them would rather die than leave the cult. And so it is with most catholics. :