Just Thinking

  Most Christians used to think that the Catholic Church was a cult.  Today most "Christians" do not believe the Catholic Church is a cult.  Since this blog post was written back in 2007 there has even been an interfaith movement between Catholic's and certain "Christian" denominations to promote understanding and better relations.  You cannot find books on Catholicism as an occult religion in Christian book stores anymore. So let's look at this religion and ask Three questions:  1.  Are its rituals Biblical?;   2.  Who do they worship and pray to?;   3.  Who is their leader?   ARE ITS RITUALS BIBLICAL?        Does God tell us to go to a priest, pastor, minister, or layman and confess our sins to that person so that our sins will be forgiven? The Bible says Jesus Christ is our advocate to our father in heaven in 1 John 2:1 and our only mediator between God and men in 1 Timothy 2:5.  Here ...

    Thus hath the LORD GOD shown unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.  And He said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit.  Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel;  I will not again pass by them anymore.- Amos 8:1-2        Almost every time that fall begins, I ask this question to God; Is this the last basket of summer fruit?  Will the rapture come before the next basket is gathered and I continue to watch?  In these two verses God is telling Amos that He is leaving Israel. The season is September/October, the Jewish fall feast period. The rich, the royals, scribes, and priests with their false prophets are fully corrupted.  It kind of reminds us of our nation and the world today.  I want us to think about the priests.  When God passes judgment on a nation, like Israel and destroys it. It is because of idolatry. That nation started out believing in the...

Daniel 2:31-35 KJV   31  Thou, O king, saw, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.  32  This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver , his belly and his thighs of brass,  33  His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. 34  Thou saw till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. 35  Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.   Daniel 7:2–9 (KJV 1900): 2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. ...