
The more I dig into Roman Catholic theology, the more errors, heresy, blasphemy, and idolatry I discover.
The following are some hard truths that I hope Roman Catholics will hear and if God wills it, they will sincerely repent, believe the gospel, and be truly born again.
Note: this list is not exhaustive. These are the 30 truths that came to me as I was writing them out extemporaneously.
- The Catholic pope is not the vicar of Christ.
- There is no such office as the pope in Scripture.
- The pope is a type of anti-Christ.
- The pope is not infallible when he speaks on faith and morals.
- Mary was not immaculate (sinless). Christ alone was sinless.
- Mary was not ever a virgin. Scripture is clear that Joseph and Mary had sex after Jesus was born. Scripture further explicitly mentions several brothers and sisters of Jesus.
- Mary was not assumed into Heaven. She is buried under a church in Jerusalem.
- The Catholic priest has no power to forgive sins. We are to confess our sins directly to God the Father in Jesus’ Name. There is no need for a human intermediary.
- The so-called Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist is false. The communion gifts are spiritual food, not carnal.
- The Catholic magisterium is not infallible.
- Scripture doesn’t refer to only a certain small number of believers as Saints. It says all believers in Christ are saints. There is no use in giving this label to individual believers.
- Praying to believers who have died is necromancy and is forbidden by Scripture. Thus praying to a special class of so-called Saints is forbidden.
- The so-called Catholic Saints cannot hear your prayers.
- Mary cannot hear your prayers.
- Mary would need divine attributes to simultaneously hear and understand millions of prayers in different languages coming into her.
- There is no such place as purgatory. When we die we are either present with the Lord Jesus or in torment in Hell.
- Contrary to Catholic teaching, salvation is strictly monergistic, not synergistic.
- Salvation cannot be lost if one is regenerated.
- Catholic soteriology is false.
- The Catholic church teaches works righteousness which is false.
- The sacramental model is false.
- The Catholic church teaches semi-Pelagianism.
- All apparitions of Mary are false.
- All of the 5 Solas are absolutely true and biblical.
- All of the 5 points of Calvinism are absolutely true and biblical.
- There is no such thing as apostolic succession. The power to bind and loose was available only to the Apostles.
- Infant baptism is false. There is not a single explicit and unambiguous instance of infant baptism in all of Scripture.
- Worshiping the so-called Saints (veneration) is sinful.
- Worshiping Mary (also known as hyperdulia) is sinful.
- Roman Catholics putting their man-made traditions, as well as the magisterium, on the same level of authority as Scripture is desperately wicked and blasphemous.
