🛑Have you ever noticed how many Roman Catholic practices are in direct violation of the Bible? Here's a top 10 list...
1. Lent. Mark on foreheads: Matthew 6:16 “And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
2. Praying to dead saints: Deuteronomy 18:10-11 "There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering,[a] anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer 11 or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead,"
3. Celibate priests: 1 Timothy 3:2 "Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife," Titus 1:6 "if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife,"
4. The Mass as a Sacrifice: Hebrews 7:27 "He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself." Hebrews 10:10-12 "And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,"
5. Praying Vain Repetitions over and over "Hail Mary": Matthew 6:7 “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words."
6. Indulgences: Colossians 2:13-14 "13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us ALL OUR trespasses, 14 by CANCELING the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross"
7. Purgatory: Hebrews 9:27, " And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment." 2 Corinthians 5:8 "Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord." Psalm 103:12 as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us."
8. Veneration of Mary as Mediatrix: 1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,"
9. Confessing Sins to a Priest for Forgiveness: 1 John 1:9 "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
10. Works based salvation: Ephesians 2:8-9 "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast."
What are some more examples you would add?
