Catholicism and Christianity

Idolatry: Our Lady of the Roses

Millions of folks throughout the world consider Roman Catholicism to be synonymous with Christianity. And millions of folks consider Roman Catholicism to be based upon the Bible.

Both assumptions are wrong. The Roman Catholic Church can't be considered a genuine Christian faith because it isn't based upon the Bible. And it never was.

Rather, the Roman Catholic Church offers a different gospel and a peculiar theology based upon the compromise of pagan religious traditions and manmade doctrines. The Bible's role in the Roman Catholic Church is to support church doctrines rather than to correct or refute them.

As such, whenever the Bible clashes with Roman Catholic theology--which it frequently does--the Catholic Church acquiesces to its doctrines and traditions over biblical exegesis. Roman Catholics are encouraged by their clergy to listen to the church and ignore the Bible whenever the church and scripture are at odds.

For example, the Catholic Church has promoted evolution for over 60 years. Although the Bible's Book of Genesis clearly teaches that God created the physical universe and life in six literal days (Genesis 1:31), the Catholic Church denounces the Genesis revelation as merely an allegorical account that can't be taken literally.

Here's what Pope Francis said recently when he was asked about his church's teachings on the origin of life and the universe versus the Genesis account: "When we read the creation story in Genesis we run the risk of imagining that God was a magician, with a magic wand which is able to do everything. But it is not so. He created beings and let them develop according to internal laws which He gave every one, so they would develop, so they would reach maturity."
http://www.iflscience.com/brain/pope-endorses-scientific-account-origins

Then, Pope Francis said this: "The big bang, which is today posited as the origin of the world, does not contradict the divine act of creation; rather, it requires it."

That's pure bull. Even eminent scientist Albert Einstein, an agnostic who doubted God's existence, called the Big Bang theory a myth.

Why? Because, according to Einstein, if the universe occurred after an intense ball of matter exploded millions of years ago, then that matter would've been dispersed haphazardly throughout the universe. Instead, Einstein reasoned that the universe shows incredible design via the organization of the planets around stars in solar systems and the rotation of the galaxies.

Furthermore, Einstein reasoned that if the universe occurred via the Big Bang, then all the organic matter necessary for life would've been sterilized and destroyed by the intense heat from such an explosion. Thus, according to Einstein, evolution couldn't have occurred.

There are other serious theological problems with evolution and the Big Bang. If life indeed evolved over several millions of years, then man wasn't made in God's image as the Bible reveals (Genesis 1:26) but became the end product of random evolutionary forces.

If evolution is true, then death didn't enter God's creation with the initial sins of Adam and Eve (Genesis 3:19) but existed long before the appearance of the first human couple.

And if evolution is true, then the Bible presents a fallacious account of God's creation of life and the physical universe, and is thus unreliable as a source of God's truth and wisdom.

And if evolution is true, as the Roman Catholic Church attests, then Christ's death on Calvary's cross becomes a murder rather than the everlasting atonement for the sins of mankind.

And so, stop and think about this: Assuming that you believe in God, when you look at His magnificent creation and the awesome beauty of the physical universe, then why would he have had to bring that about by some Big Bang and evolution?

Wouldn't you agree that he has the power to create life and the universe in six literal days? What possible purpose does the Big Bang and evolution serve to an incredible God who is brilliant and powerful beyond human comprehension?

And yet, the Roman Catholic Church claims that that's how God created the physical universe and life. However, the evidence says otherwise.

Nearly 2,800 years ago, the ancient Hebrew prophet Isaiah wrote this concerning those who reject the wisdom of God for the idiocy of man's vain fantasies: "To the law and the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn." (Isaiah 8:20)

The Roman Catholic Church has no light of dawn. It promotes a false gospel of works that condemns its adherents to hell; it promotes a false narrative of God's creation of the physical universe and life and it leads multitudes astray.

The Roman Catholic Church isn't Christian. And it never was. Rather, it's a dangerous cult that all discerning Christians should avoid like a deadly plague.