If
the Pope truly believes that the Canonizing is the right thing to do, why not do
this in one of the Missions in California?
Why
Washington?
The Roman Catholic
Religion
Déjà vu///Karma
If the Spiritual
leader of the largest Spiritual beliefs in the world can keep (ignoring)
one of the now
smallest Spiritual beliefs in the world)
Native Americans.
Shouldn't it be OK
to ask a few questions about his Spiritual beliefs?
Let's start with,
What if I invited
all of my faithful followers and all of the 'native' followers in Rome to meet
me in Vatican City
for a Native American Adoption Ceremony in the Sistine
Chapel and make them Saints of our people?
Would Pope Francis
and his Catholics followers be OK with this?
If so, will my
friends and followers get your coast and flying shoes on!
Or
Stop this
'rude-madness and spend a little time by, texting, emails, phone or media,
something, anything, face to face would work fine and lets hash things out?
Remember, the pope's
remembrance of Rosh Hashanah the Jews New Year and the kindness to the Muslim
people and as well he should?
And yet he and his
followers are 'hell bent on rudely" stepping on the Native American
Ancestors by making a saint out of a shrine builder?
If this does go
through they we all should do a little investigating on the Roman Catholic
Church?
We all know who the
leader of the Christian Religion (Church) is or should be,
(The Trinity)!
What the question
now should be is,
"Who was the
first leader (Pope if you well) of the Roman Catholic Religion
(Church)?"
The Roman Emperor
St. Constantine (1) the Great.
The Christian church
that Constantine promoted was a mixture of true Christianity and Roman
paganism.
In the New
Testament,
there is no mention
of the papacy,
God is the only
leader?
worship/adoration of
Mary (or the immaculate conception of Mary,
the perpetual
virginity of Mary,
the assumption of
Mary, or Mary as co-redemptrix and mediatrix).
"Jesus Christ
and only Jesus Christ under orders from father 'God' is the way, the truth and
the light!"
"Mary, no
longer a virgin wife of Joseph with many children, is not the Mother of
God!"
Petitioning saints
in heaven for their prayers?
"All prayers
should go to God and blessings come from God."
apostolic
succession,
the ordinances of
the church functioning as sacraments,
infant baptism,
confession of sin to
a priest?
"Confessions(prayer)
to your God."
purgatory,
indulgences,
the equal authority
of church tradition and Scripture.
"The bible, the
Christian word from God, is the only Authority over all creation!"
Question:
"What is the origin of the Catholic Church?"
The Roman Catholic
Church contends that its origin is the death, resurrection, and ascension of
Jesus Christ in approximately AD 30. The Catholic Church proclaims itself to be
the church that Jesus Christ died for, the church that was established and built
by the apostles. Is that the true origin of the Catholic Church?
On the contrary.
Even a cursory reading of the New Testament will reveal that the Catholic
Church does not have its origin in the teachings of Jesus or His apostles.
In the New
Testament, there is no mention of the papacy, worship/adoration of Mary (or the
immaculate conception of Mary, the perpetual virginity of Mary, the assumption
of Mary, or Mary as co-redemptrix and mediatrix), petitioning saints in heaven
for their prayers, apostolic succession, the ordinances of the church
functioning as sacraments, infant baptism, confession of sin to a priest,
purgatory, indulgences, or the equal authority of church tradition and
Scripture.
So, if the origin of
the Catholic Church is not in the teachings of Jesus and His apostles, as
recorded in the New Testament, what is the true origin of the Catholic Church?
For the first 280
years of Christian history, Christianity was banned by the Roman Empire, and
Christians were terribly persecuted.
This changed after
the “conversion” of the Roman Emperor Constantine.
Constantine provided
religious toleration with the
Edict of Milan in AD
313, effectively lifting the ban on Christianity.
Later, in AD 325,
Constantine called the Council of Nicea in an attempt to unify Christianity.
Constantine
envisioned Christianity as a religion that could unite the Roman Empire, which
at that time was beginning to fragment and divide.
While this may have
seemed to be a positive development for the Christian church, the results were
anything but positive.
Just as Constantine
refused to fully embrace the Christian faith, but continued many of his pagan
beliefs and practices, so the Christian church that Constantine promoted was a
mixture of true Christianity and Roman paganism.
Constantine found
that, with the Roman Empire being so vast, expansive, and diverse, not everyone
would agree to forsake his or her religious beliefs to embrace Christianity.
So, Constantine allowed, and even promoted, the “Christianization” of pagan beliefs.
Completely pagan and utterly unbiblical beliefs were given new “Christian”
identities. Some clear examples of this are as follows:
(1) The Cult of
Isis, an Egyptian mother-goddess religion, was absorbed into Christianity by
replacing Isis with Mary. Many of the titles that were used for Isis, such as
“Queen of Heaven,” “Mother of God,” and theotokos (“God-bearer”) were attached
to Mary. Mary was given an exalted role in the Christian faith, far beyond what
the Bible ascribes to her, in order to attract Isis worshippers to a faith they
would not otherwise embrace. Many temples to Isis were, in fact, converted into
temples dedicated to Mary. The first clear hints of Catholic Mariology occur in
the writings of Origen, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, which happened to be
the focal point of Isis worship.
