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The Roman Catholic Church’s False Gospel By Michael Houke
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What is the Gospel?
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*The Bible says that it is the power of God unto Salvation… (Romans 1:16) Therefore, a church's "gospel" is what that church teaches about how people receive Salvation-how they are saved from sins and get to heaven.
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The Roman Catholic Church teaches a false gospel:
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Its gospel is the very opposite of the Bible's Gospel. *I will prove that to you here. *(Please remember: I am not being unkind to Roman Catholics. I am telling them the truth from the Bible so that they can be saved and go to heaven when they die. *It's the Roman Catholic Church that is unkind to Catholics because it willfully keeps them in darkness by teaching false doctrine, which is totally unsupported by the Bible, that leaves Catholics bound by Satan, lost in their sins, and doomed to eternal hell.)
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All of the quotes used in this article come directly from the Roman Catholic Catechism
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You can verify this for yourself: Just *look up each of the following doctrines using the current Roman Catholic Catechism online. You just need to copy and paste the paragraph numbers, which will be listed below, into the search box on the Catechism web site. You can simply click here to go to the Roman Catholic Catechism web site)
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The Roman Catholic Catechism is published and distributed by the Roman Catholic Church and is considered authoritative regarding Catholic doctrine. *One Roman Catholic Source said, “ …The essence of our Roman Catholic Church is enshrined in the CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH (Latest Edition 1997), which comprehensively presents the true Deposit of Faith proclaimed by God's Revelation” (http://www.catholicmediacoalition.org/catechism orlando.htm).
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Proof that the Roman Catholic Church’s Gospel is False:
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I. *The Roman Catholic Church's gospel is FALSE because it teaches that baptism saves:
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1272* Incorporated into Christ by Baptism, the person baptized is configured to Christ. Baptism seals the Christian with the indelible spiritual mark (character) of his belonging to Christ. No sin can erase this mark, even if sin prevents Baptism from bearing the fruits of salvation. Given once for all, Baptism cannot be repeated.
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1257 The Lord himself affirms that Baptism is necessary for salvation. …The Church does not know of any means other than Baptism that assures entry into eternal beatitude; this is why she takes care not to neglect the mission she has received from the Lord to see that all who can be baptized are "reborn of water and the Spirit." God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments.
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1213 Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit (vitae spiritualis ianua), and the door which gives access to the other sacraments. Through Baptism we are freed from sin and reborn as sons of God; …Baptism is the sacrament of regeneration through water in the word."
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I. The Bible does NOT teach that Baptism Saves. *In this section, I will use the truth from the Bible to refute the Roman Catholic Church's false doctrine about baptism:
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The Bible says: The sinner can only be saved one way. His sins, which are many, must be atoned for (paid for). *For baptism to save, it must have the power to wash away sins, but the Bible tells us that only ONE thing can wash away sins! The following verses constitute only a small portion of proof from the Bible that could be marshaled to prove that sins are washed away only by the blood of Jesus Christ.
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And from Jesus Christ the faithful witness and first begotten of the dead who washed us from our sins in his own blood (Revelation 1:5). *
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Wherefore Jesus also that he might sanctify the people with his own blood suffered without the camp (Hebrews 13:12 ).
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And almost all things are by the law purged with blood: and without shedding of blood is no remission (Hebrews 9:22 ). *
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Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot (I Peter 1:18-19)
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But now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ (Ephesians 2:13).
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II. The Roman Catholic Church's gospel is FALSE because it teaches that we can save ourselves and others through works:
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980 It is through the sacrament of Penance that the baptized can be reconciled with God and with the Church: …"a laborious kind of baptism." This sacrament of Penance is necessary for salvation for those who have fallen after Baptism…
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1479 Since the faithful departed now being purified are also members of the same communion of saints, one way we can help them is to obtain indulgences for them, so that the temporal punishments due for their sins may be remitted.
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1815 The gift of faith remains in one who has not sinned against it. But "faith apart from works is dead": when it is deprived of hope and love, faith does not fully unite the believer to Christ and does not make him a living member of his Body.
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1475 In this wonderful exchange, the holiness of one profits others ... Thus recourse to the communion of saints lets the contrite sinner be more promptly and efficaciously purified of the punishments for sin.
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II. The Bible does NOT teach that our works can save us. *Therefore, the Roman Catholic Church's doctrine about works is unbiblical and, hence, false. Following, you will find several of the literally dozens of Bible passages that PROVE that works do NOT save:
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*****The Bible says: If we rely upon works (either our own or those of anyone other than Jesus Christ) to save us from our sins, we only earn further condemnation (This means we make our situation WORSE with God by trying to earn salvation by our own works; our debt before God only grows larger).
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Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. *But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. *(Romans 4:2-5).
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But Israel which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? *Because they sought it not by faith but as it were by the works of the law… (Romans 9:30?).
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Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified (Galatians 2:16). *
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For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. *Not of works, lest any man should boast (Eph 2:8-9) *
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III. The Roman Catholic Church's gospel is false because it uses the Eucharist to offer further sacrifice for sins:
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1414 As sacrifice, the Eucharist is also offered in reparation for the sins of the living and the dead and to obtain spiritual or temporal benefits from God.
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1689 The Eucharistic Sacrifice. …In the Eucharist, the Church expresses her efficacious communion with the departed:… offering to the Father in the Holy Spirit the sacrifice of the death and resurrection of Christ, she asks to purify his child of his sins and their consequences… It is by the Eucharist… that the community of the faithful, especially the family of the deceased, learn to live in communion with the one who "has fallen asleep in the Lord," by communicating in the Body of Christ…
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1367 The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice: "The victim is one and the same: … only the manner of offering is different." "And since in this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and is offered in an unbloody manner. . . this sacrifice is truly propitiatory [has the power to make God ready and able to forgive you of sin]."
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III. The Bible does NOT teach that we need to offer up further sacrifice for sins. The Bible could NOT be clearer on this subject. *The Roman Catholic Church knows this and can only support its teaching by playing word games: It states that the Eucharist and Jesus' sacrifice on the cross are "ONE SINGLE SACRIFICE." *In this section, we will examine this important issue in light of the truth of the Bible:
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******The Bible says: Ye shall know the TRUTH and the TRUTH shall make you free (John 8:32, emphasis added). *We must first of all understand that the Roman Catholic Church is not telling the truth, it is not being honest in its use of terms. *It says that Jesus sacrifice and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are "ONE SINGE SACRIFICE" (1367). *It does not deny that the Eucharist is a sacrifice. *It simply attempts to make its sacrifice, the Eucharist, and God’s sacrifice for sins, Jesus’ death on the cross, the SAME sacrifice. In order for this to really be true, though, the sacrifice of the Eucharist would have to actually be the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross of Calvary. *Yet is that the truth? *Are the sacrifice of the Eucharist and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross REALLY the same sacrifice, are they really a SINGLE sacrifice?
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