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“IS THERE ANYTHING CHRISTIAN ABOUT CATHOLICISM?”

JESUS CHRIST,                              EMPTY DECEIT
   THE CHIEF                                      Col.
                                                   2:8
CORNERSTONE
        Eph.

     2:19-22

    THE   AND       THE                                   THE TRADITION
APOSTLES       PROPHETS                                         OF MEN

       THE WORD TEACHES THE                CATHOLICISM (THE PAPACY)
   BELIEVER NOT TO PRAY VAIN,                     TEACHES PRAYING
   REPETITIOUS PRAYERS AS THE
  HEATHEN DO, FOR THEY THINK              REPETITIOUSLY THE ROSARY
 THEY WILL BE HEARD FOR THEIR             WHICH CONTAINS A TEN-TO-
                                           ONE RATIO OF PRAYERS TO
               MANY WORDS.                MARY VS. PRAYING TO GOD.
                    (Matt. 6:7)
                                             CATHOLICISM (THE PAPACY)
       THE WORD TEACHES THE                 TEACHES PRAYING DIRECTLY
    BELIEVER TO PRAY DIRECTLY
                                                TO DECEASED SAINTS IN
          TO GOD THE FATHER                  HEAVEN WHO ARE ABLE TO
        THROUGH JESUS CHRIST             MAKE INTERCESSION FOR THEM,
      AS OUR ONLY MEDIATOR.              AND ESPECIALLY PRAY TO MARY
    (Jn. 15:16, 16:23-24, Luke 11:2,         AS THE MEDIATOR TO GOD.
  Eph.2:18, Heb. 7:22-27, 1Tim. 2:5)
       THE WORD TEACHES THE                  CATHOLICISM (THE PAPACY)
BELIEVER NOT TO CALL ANY MAN                      TEACHES THAT EVERY
  ON EARTH “FATHER” BECAUSE
 THE BELIEVER HAS ONE FATHER,                 CATHOLIC PRIEST IS TO BE
        HE WHO IS IN HEAVEN.               CALLED “FATHER,” AND THAT

                   (Matt. 23:9)               THE POPE IS TO BE CALLED
                                                  “THE HOLY FATHER.”
      THE WORD EMPHASIZES A
  GLORIOUS, RISEN CHRIST WHO               CATHOLICISM (THE PAPACY)
                                            EMPHASIZES A CRUCIFIED
     NOW REIGNS AT THE RIGHT
     HAND OF GOD THE FATHER             CHRIST OR AS “BABY JESUS” IN
(Heb. 8:1-2, 1Cor. 15:25, 1Tim. 6:15-  HEAVEN, STILL IN THE ARMS OF
     16, Rev. 1:11-18, Rev. 6:16-17)   HIS MOTHER MARY WHO REIGNS

        THE WORD INSTRUCTS                 AS THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN.
            CHURCH ELDERS
                                           CATHOLICISM (THE PAPACY)
      (“APOSTLES, PROPHETS,                    BY MEANS OF “PAPAL
   EVANGELISTS, PASTORS AND
                                       INFALLIBILITY,” LORDS OVER ITS
      TEACHERS” – Eph. 4:11)                  PEOPLE WITH THREATS:
TO BE EXAMPLES TO THE FLOCK
                                        "HENCE IF ANYONE, WHICH GOD
 AND NOT LORDS OVER THEM.
         (1Pet. 5:1-4, Phil. 3:17,     FORBID, SHOULD DARE WILLFULLY
              Matt. 20:25-28)          TO DENY OR TO CALL INTO DOUBT
                                        THAT WHICH WE HAVE DEFINED,

                                           LET HIM KNOW THAT HE HAS
                                       FALLEN AWAY COMPLETELY FROM
                                       THE DIVINE AND CATHOLIC FAITH.“

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