My wife is Catholic. We went to mass. After Mass there were several partitioners praying to get relatives released from purgatory. Woe. I stay with my wife because I believe we are in the final days. I believe I will see them before I die. I'm hoping I can show her that the way to eternal life is thru Jesus Christ and not the Catholic Church.
I'm sorry but you can't save anyone. Jesus saves. Praise Him, not Mary. Hopefully, your wife will see your faith and follow your example. Remember, if you are saved, you are saved by Grace through Faith. That, not of your own but a gift from God, lease any man should boast.
Find out how much she believes in the law of moses and the commandments and then show her how the catholic church is pure idolatry. Vicar literally means "instead of, replacement" Vicar of Christ is blasphemy. I am sure you already know this I only say this because if this is not enough reason to turn from the catholic faith then im not sure anything will change her mind. goodluck with your wife brother i hope she sees through the deception
I love it when pastors/preachers and teachers illuminate a message with the historical realities of a certain time period. It's important to put things in context to appreciate them fully.
I was shown the relic in our local catholic church many years ago. I remember not being very impressed as a kid. It was a bone of a saint it think, cemented in a wood cavity. Its repulsive. After graduation, I swore to never go back to church. Thankfully, I found Jesus....and He's NOT attached to a building.
satan is a scamer he has followers in high places here . you have been talking about them pastor John . God bless the ones who are attaining ears to hear . Let them hear .
I am suprised the Catholic Church did not use the "found" Feces of Christ Disiples or Christ himself at the last supper, as a Relic of veneration, and pilgramage ordained by Divine church of Rome.
Guess what.....one more Before the reformation, children in Germany often received presents on December 6th, the day of St. Nicholas. Meanwhile Jesus' birth was not specifically celebrated at all, as the Epiphany on January 6th was the main day of celebration as this was the day the three wise men are said to have visited Bethlehem. Luther was against St. Nicholas being so particularly revered, so over time St. Nicholas' day lost more and more of its importance in the Protestant faith. In its place the birth of Christ began to be celebrated which led to the modern celebration of Christmas Eve on December 24th in Germany and many other European countries
God Bless! Thanks for all your teachings. I watch online, it's hard for me to get them in order, seems like I'm watching the right # but a different seminar. Awesome teaching of the word & wanted to Thank you so much for sharing these videos!
My favorite part in all this is how this person does not know history whatsoever and people believe this still! 😂 Sure, lets believe the writings of the man who took out books of cannon without authority, hated the epistle of James, was obsessed with inappropriate things relating to the bathroom, and also called for an annihilation of Jews.
One more to the great Luther.... Despite his powerful legacy, it is important not to sweep the darker aspects of Martin Luther's life under the mat. Even for the time, Luther's aversion to the Jewish faith was extreme. Earlier in his career he advocated gentle treatment of Jews and criticised the Catholic Church for "treating them like dogs". It appears this criticism was merely because Luther saw the harsh treatment of Jews as the reason they would not convert to Christianity. However as he got older Luther began to take a much more aggressive stance against what he claimed to be a "false religion." Apparently frustrated by his inability to convert Jews he claimed, “a Jewish heart is as hard as a stick, a stone, as iron, as a devil.” He proposed seven measures of "sharp mercy" to be taken against the Jewish population in Germany in 1543 which included "setting fire to their synagogues or schools". According to biographer Heinz Schilling, his “hatred, offensive abuse and violent annihilation fantasies” only increased until his death.
they are all fake, the leaders have convinced their flock that they need these icons because their faith is so weak. Let us never condemn the hapless parishioners, it's the priests, bishops, etc. who are to blame. James 3:1 "My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the severer judgment."
Please know your history...on Martin Luder aka Luther... Martin Luther was the eldest of a large family and his father planned for him to study law in order to help with the family business. But it appears Luther had other plans. At age 21 he was caught up in a large storm and the story goes that he prayed to St. Anna, the mother of the Virgin Mary, to save his life, promising to become a monk if he survived. Some claim this was a common practice in young people at the time, who did not want to follow in the path chosen for them by their parents. Whatever his reasoning, Luther honoured his promise and was ordained two years later.
Gee, maybe that IS the miracle, all these relics! (sarcasm) This reminds me of another place and time when relics were in vogue of sorts (2Kings 18:4): "He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah; and he broke in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did offer to it; and it was called Nehushtan." This is probably why God has not let real "relics" survive (Noah's ark, the Ark of the Covenant, the Cross, John the Baptist's Head... I've been to a church and a mosque both claiming to have it) , because He knows the propensity of the human heart to worship (venerate) religious objects in place of Him. How indeed sad.
God created matter and we come from matter and He sometimes works miracles through it. In John 9:1-7 Jesus used his spit to heal the blind man whereas He could have done it directly just by saying one word. If in some countries a stranger had done that, some would have called it magic. Why ( In Mark 6:7, 12-13 and Jas. 5:13-16 ) did his disciples do rituals by annointing people with oil for healing if they could have done it just by saying a word ? As Dr Brant Pitre said : "One of the things Catholics are often criticized for is all of our what? Rituals, right? “Where do you Catholics get all these rituals? Why do you have all these rituals? Isn’t Christianity not about a religion? Isn’t it just about faith? Why do you have to add all these rituals to the pure and unadulterated gospel? All you need to do is just believe in Jesus. That’s all the gospel is really about? There’s no power in the oil; there is no power in the water; there is no power in the bread and the wine. All that, it’s just symbolism and ritualism at the worst, right?”... *If rituals were bad, why did Jesus command the Apostles to anoint people with oil?* Because he knew that we are fleshly people and we need visible signs of invisible realities. Sure, he can heal you simply by speaking the word. He doesn’t have to do it through a visible sign, we say that in the mass, right? “Lord, I am not worthy to receive you”, but only what? “Say the word and I shall be healed.” He created the whole universe. He doesn’t need visible signs, but we do, we do. He didn’t do it for his sake, he did it for us. And so the Anointing of the Sick is right there in the scriptures from Jesus himself..." In Act 19:12 "So that from his body were brought unto the sick *handkerchiefs* or *aprons,* and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them." In Act 5:15-16 *_"As a result,_** people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats SO THAT **_AT LEAST_** Peter’s **_shadow_** might fall on some of them as he passed by.* Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by impure spirits, and all of them were healed." Similar are the cases of the woman cured of a hemorrhage by touching the hem of Christ’s cloak, she thought that just by touching Jesus' clothes she would have been healed (Matt. 9:20-22). As Joe Heschmeyer said "The people are going to Peter, laying down in front of him, and *_hoping_** that **_they'll be healed JUST by his shadow_** passing by.* This is so important because if you or I did that today with the pope or some great saint, you can be assured that our protestant brothers and sisters would decry it as *superstitious."* In Acts 19:11-12 it is written “And God did extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, *so that handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick,* and diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them” The best example of miracles through relics of a saint can be seen in 2 Kgs. 13:20-21 when the *bones* of Elisha brought a dead man to life : “So Elisha died, and they buried him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year. And as a man was being buried, lo, a marauding band was seen and the man was cast into the grave of Elisha; and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood on his feet”. Even after Elisha’s dead, God works through him. If the same happened in a Catholic church, how many anti-Catholic would have called it "demonic", "pagan", "fraud" etc... ? If these aren’t examples of the use of relics, what are? The relics are not only bones but also objects belonging to the saints like clothes etc ... There is a perfect congruity between present-day Catholic practice and ancient practice. In Catholic and Orthodox churches there have been miracles through the use of relics for example there are the flowers of Thérèse de Lisieux or Padre Pio's mittens, pad etc... that give off perfumes of rose and heal people, a man went to hospitals and made a patient touch the mittens and miracles happened. Looking at the archaeological traces like in the catacombs etc... We know that in the early church, christians kept the relics of their martyrs. St Ambrose had a vision where he could find the relics of Sts Gervasius and Protasius and said : "For not without reason do many call this the resurrection of the martyrs. I do not say whether they have risen for themselves, for us certainly the martyrs have risen. You know-nay, you have yourselves seen-that *many are cleansed from evil spirits,* that very many also, _having touched with their hands the robe of the saints,_ are freed from those ailments which oppressed them; *you see that the miracles of old time are renewed,* when through the coming of the Lord Jesus grace was more largely shed forth upon the earth, and that many bodies are healed as it were by the shadow of the holy bodies. How many napkins are passed about! *How many garments, laid upon the holy relics and endowed with healing power, are claimed!* All are glad to touch even the outside thread, and whosoever touches will be made whole." St Augustine also said "For even now miracles are wrought in the name of Christ, whether by His sacraments or by the prayers or relics of His saints; but they are not so brilliant and conspicuous as to cause them to be published with such glory as accompanied the former miracles." Many anti-Catholics will accept all the miracles in the bible done through the relics but will qualify all miracles of the *same type* coming from the Catholic Church as pagan, fraud or superstitious.
Second commandment forbids images of who you worship. Protestants are just as guilty with their Jesus movies, social media profile pics, cartoons, and plays. 1st Peter 1:8 1st John 3:2 1st Timothy 6:16 Deuteronomy 14 Exodus 20
But let's just assume that some of these relics were real, for example, the 3 nails that were in the cross. With this set of relics alone, how many false Catholic churches are there? Surely only a maximum of 3 true Catholic churches can exist with 3 nails! And with wood from the cross, randomly visit any of the Catholic churches with it, and when you have reached the proper weight, surely it is safe to assume that the rest that also have it must be false other Catholic churches!
If you do not pray for the deads, their souls would be wondering around looking for shelter. The least place they can find would be purgatory. With our prayer, we are helping them towards heaven.
Protestantism is still on going.since t h e Reformation We r all Christians. Why all.this discrimination.and bickering, Why can't we accept out differences and love one another. There r millions if Protestant Churches today, . makes me sick.
Relics...... Mark 15:43; John 19:38 - Joseph of Arimathea sought Christ’s dead body instead of leaving it with the Romans. Joseph gave veneration to our Lord’s body. Mark 16:1; Luke 24:1 - the women came to further anoint Christ’s body even though it had been sealed in the tomb. John 19:39 - Nicodemus donated over one hundred pounds of spices to wrap in Jesus’ grave clothes. This is also veneration of our Lord’s body. Matt. 9:21; Mark 5:28 - the woman with the hemorrhage just sought the hem of Christ’s cloak and was cured. This shows that God uses physical things to effect the supernatural. Acts 19:11-12 - Paul’s handkerchiefs healed the sick and those with unclean spirits. This is another example of physical things effecting physical and spiritual cures. Acts 5:15 - Peter’s shadow healed the sick. This proves that relics of the saints have supernatural healing power, and this belief has been a part of Catholic tradition for 2,000 years. Rev. 6:9 - the souls of the martyrs are seen beneath the heavenly altar. Their bones are often placed beneath altars in Catholic churches around the world. 2 Kings 13:21 - Elisha’s bones bring a man back to life. The saints’ bones are often kept beneath the altars of Catholic churches and have brought about supernatural cures throughout the Christian age. Rom. 13:7; Phil. 2:25-29; Heb. 3:3; 1 Pet. 2:7 - we are taught to honor the people of God and in 1 Cor. 4:16-17; 1 Cor. 11:1-2; Phil. 3:17; 1 Thess. 1:6; 2 Thess. 3:7; Heb. 6:12; Heb. 13:7; James 5:10-11 - we are reminded to imitate them. Keeping relics of the saints serves both to honor and imitate their heroic faith in Christ (just as keeping articles of deceased loved ones helps us honor and imitate them).
Luther the man whom only speaks of Godly words... Suprizingly for a man of God, but perhaps unsurprisingly for such a bold revolutionary and someone with such aggressive faith in his convictions, Martin Luther is known to have expressed himself with with crude and sometimes downright vulgar statements. According to historian Erik H. Erikson who wrote the book 'Young Man Luther' (1958), not only did Luther called the Vatican a "whorehouse" but while in a state of depression, he supposedly once said at the dinner table “I am like a ripe s**t and the world is a gigantic a**hole. We will both probably let go of each other soon.”
Luther is nothing else than the "anti-pope" for lutherians - he was a strong catholic believer who only wanted to reform the catholic church, not to build a new religion. At least there is in fact no really difference between catholics and protestants, and by the way: all your critics of "idiolatry" or the vatican itself you can also use for the orthodox church, the oriental and coptic churches, who also have a "pope" and more or less the the same rituals! THEY were the originally christians, the history of "catholic church" begann in alexandria, carthago (africa) and tarsus/byzanz, not in rom!
@@lonelyberg1316 Stupid ignorant protestant. He doesnt even have statues to bow down befor and pray to. We catholics are gonna ride our statues all the way to heaven.
@@bobdobbs943 No Bob... Please, please don't say that. You talk to yourself... are you OK ? I know it can be hard but If there is something wrong, you can talk about it with family members, friends etc... You know... When people have problems they can talk ! More seriously... I don't even want to argue with you, you know what the old saying says: Don't feed the trolls. I have to admit that your way of trolling is quite funny but very childish Bob. I have passed the age, you should do the same. Au revoir et bonne journée Bob 😉
I love jesus. I pray to mary to intercede to jesus. Christian church comes from catholic church. Catholic churches share the bible with others. All catholics are christians, BUT not all christians are catholics.
Yeah. Ps : Don't feed the trolls God created matter and we come from matter and He sometimes works miracles through it. In John 9:1-7 Jesus used his spit to heal the blind man whereas He could have done it directly just by saying one word. If in some countries a stranger had done that, some would have called it magic. Why ( In Mark 6:7, 12-13 and Jas. 5:13-16 ) did his disciples do rituals by annointing people with oil for healing if they could have done it just by saying a word ? As Dr Brant Pitre said : "One of the things Catholics are often criticized for is all of our what? Rituals, right? “Where do you Catholics get all these rituals? Why do you have all these rituals? Isn’t Christianity not about a religion? Isn’t it just about faith? Why do you have to add all these rituals to the pure and unadulterated gospel? All you need to do is just believe in Jesus. That’s all the gospel is really about? There’s no power in the oil; there is no power in the water; there is no power in the bread and the wine. All that, it’s just symbolism and ritualism at the worst, right?”... *If rituals were bad, why did Jesus command the Apostles to anoint people with oil?* Because he knew that we are fleshly people and we need visible signs of invisible realities. Sure, he can heal you simply by speaking the word. He doesn’t have to do it through a visible sign, we say that in the mass, right? “Lord, I am not worthy to receive you”, but only what? “Say the word and I shall be healed.” He created the whole universe. He doesn’t need visible signs, but we do, we do. He didn’t do it for his sake, he did it for us. And so the Anointing of the Sick is right there in the scriptures from Jesus himself..." In Act 19:12 "So that from his body were brought unto the sick *handkerchiefs* or *aprons,* and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them." In Act 5:15-16 *_"As a result,_** people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats SO THAT **_AT LEAST_** Peter’s **_shadow_** might fall on some of them as he passed by.* Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by impure spirits, and all of them were healed." Similar are the cases of the woman cured of a hemorrhage by touching the hem of Christ’s cloak, she thought that just by touching Jesus' clothes she would have been healed (Matt. 9:20-22). As Joe Heschmeyer said "The people are going to Peter, laying down in front of him, and *_hoping_** that **_they'll be healed JUST by his shadow_** passing by.* This is so important because if you or I did that today with the pope or some great saint, you can be assured that our protestant brothers and sisters would decry it as *superstitious."* In Acts 19:11-12 it is written “And God did extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, *so that handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick,* and diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them” The best example of miracles through relics of a saint can be seen in 2 Kgs. 13:20-21 when the *bones* of Elisha brought a dead man to life : “So Elisha died, and they buried him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year. And as a man was being buried, lo, a marauding band was seen and the man was cast into the grave of Elisha; and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood on his feet”. Even after Elisha’s dead, God works through him. If the same happened in a Catholic church, how many anti-Catholic would have called it "demonic", "pagan", "fraud" etc... ? If these aren’t examples of the use of relics, what are? The relics are not only bones but also objects belonging to the saints like clothes etc ... There is a perfect congruity between present-day Catholic practice and ancient practice. In Catholic and Orthodox churches there have been miracles through the use of relics for example there are the flowers of Thérèse de Lisieux or Padre Pio's mittens, pad etc... that give off perfumes of rose and heal people, a man went to hospitals and made a patient touch the mittens and miracles happened. Looking at the archaeological traces like in the catacombs etc... We know that in the early church, christians kept the relics of their martyrs. St Ambrose had a vision where he could find the relics of Sts Gervasius and Protasius and said : "For not without reason do many call this the resurrection of the martyrs. I do not say whether they have risen for themselves, for us certainly the martyrs have risen. You know-nay, you have yourselves seen-that *many are cleansed from evil spirits,* that very many also, _having touched with their hands the robe of the saints,_ are freed from those ailments which oppressed them; *you see that the miracles of old time are renewed,* when through the coming of the Lord Jesus grace was more largely shed forth upon the earth, and that many bodies are healed as it were by the shadow of the holy bodies. How many napkins are passed about! *How many garments, laid upon the holy relics and endowed with healing power, are claimed!* All are glad to touch even the outside thread, and whosoever touches will be made whole." St Augustine also said "For even now miracles are wrought in the name of Christ, whether by His sacraments or by the prayers or relics of His saints; but they are not so brilliant and conspicuous as to cause them to be published with such glory as accompanied the former miracles." Many anti-Catholics will accept all the miracles in the bible done through the relics but will qualify all miracles of the *same type* coming from the Catholic Church as pagan, fraud or superstitious.
WHAT OFFENDED ME OF MARTIN LUTHER WAS HIS WAY ON HOW TO GET RID OF THE JEWS = IT WAS NOT JUST LUTFER THAT WAS AGAINST THE EVIL RCC JESUITS BUT THE TRUE ONES THAT DID NOT WANT TO GET RID OF THE JEWS FOR THEY DID KNOW THE TRUE WORD OF GOD JESUS
I am very happy that there are still pastors who stand up against pagan and heretical doctrines like RC
Amen I'm not a pastor but I do the same as well. God bless you, God bless you. God bless this person and God is coming soon.
My wife is Catholic. We went to mass. After Mass there were several partitioners praying to get relatives released from purgatory. Woe. I stay with my wife because I believe we are in the final days. I believe I will see them before I die. I'm hoping I can show her that the way to eternal life is thru Jesus Christ and not the Catholic Church.
I'm sorry but you can't save anyone. Jesus saves. Praise Him, not Mary. Hopefully, your wife will see your faith and follow your example. Remember, if you are saved, you are saved by Grace through Faith. That, not of your own but a gift from God, lease any man should boast.
@@ed-jf3xh When I said save her I meant show her the way to salvation.
@@donpotter3935 Amen brother. My mistake.
Catholic peay to Jesus
Find out how much she believes in the law of moses and the commandments and then show her how the catholic church is pure idolatry. Vicar literally means "instead of, replacement" Vicar of Christ is blasphemy. I am sure you already know this I only say this because if this is not enough reason to turn from the catholic faith then im not sure anything will change her mind. goodluck with your wife brother i hope she sees through the deception
Well if your religion makes up a place called purgatory, you can expect to see fake relics to aid in the confusion
@Joe Murphy There is no 3rd zip code. It's either heaven or hell! Choose this day who you will serve.
How can anyone know the amount of time each “relic” reduces time in purgatory? Jesus toenail clipping is worth 5 million years. According to me.
I love it when pastors/preachers and teachers illuminate a message with the historical realities of a certain time period. It's important to put things in context to appreciate them fully.
I was shown the relic in our local catholic church many years ago. I remember not being very impressed as a kid. It was a bone of a saint it think, cemented in a wood cavity. Its repulsive. After graduation, I swore to never go back to church. Thankfully, I found Jesus....and He's NOT attached to a building.
The book of Thomas. Might interest you.
@@LOPGOH Book of Thomas is apocrapha. meaning it is forged.
No absolutely not, no such place as pergatory
satan is a scamer
he has followers in high places here .
you have been talking
about them pastor
John .
God bless the ones
who are attaining ears to hear .
Let them hear .
This guy is a pastor ? 🤣🤣🤣
Looks like he's leading people on youtube to utter ignorance
@lonelyberg1316 why don't you research his info?
I'm born again and I love and generate Jesus.
above all.
They are idol worshippers !!!!
this youtuber leads you to the most total disappointment and ignorance
If Satan has the power to convince a third of God's angels.......how much more can he do to God's church.
God is faithful!!!❤❤❤
I am suprised the Catholic Church did not use the "found" Feces of Christ Disiples or Christ himself at the last supper, as a Relic of veneration, and pilgramage ordained by Divine church of Rome.
Guess what.....one more
Before the reformation, children in Germany often received presents on December 6th, the day of St. Nicholas. Meanwhile Jesus' birth was not specifically celebrated at all, as the Epiphany on January 6th was the main day of celebration as this was the day the three wise men are said to have visited Bethlehem. Luther was against St. Nicholas being so particularly revered, so over time St. Nicholas' day lost more and more of its importance in the Protestant faith. In its place the birth of Christ began to be celebrated which led to the modern celebration of Christmas Eve on December 24th in Germany and many other European countries
The greatest deception in all of history - and at the head is Satan's proxies.
A bone is just a bone.
I would rather see the donkey jawbone that Samson used to kill hundreds of men with.
@@newworlddisorder156 If it had been found, they would worship it. I guess they missed the lesson that Hezekiah tried to teach Judah (2 Kings 18:4).
That’s a lot of nails.
God Bless! Thanks for all your teachings. I watch online, it's hard for me to get them in order, seems like I'm watching the right # but a different seminar. Awesome teaching of the word & wanted to Thank you so much for sharing these videos!
My favorite part in all this is how this person does not know history whatsoever and people believe this still! 😂 Sure, lets believe the writings of the man who took out books of cannon without authority, hated the epistle of James, was obsessed with inappropriate things relating to the bathroom, and also called for an annihilation of Jews.
One more to the great Luther....
Despite his powerful legacy, it is important not to sweep the darker aspects of Martin Luther's life under the mat. Even for the time, Luther's aversion to the Jewish faith was extreme. Earlier in his career he advocated gentle treatment of Jews and criticised the Catholic Church for "treating them like dogs". It appears this criticism was merely because Luther saw the harsh treatment of Jews as the reason they would not convert to Christianity.
However as he got older Luther began to take a much more aggressive stance against what he claimed to be a "false religion." Apparently frustrated by his inability to convert Jews he claimed, “a Jewish heart is as hard as a stick, a stone, as iron, as a devil.”
He proposed seven measures of "sharp mercy" to be taken against the Jewish population in Germany in 1543 which included "setting fire to their synagogues or schools". According to biographer Heinz Schilling, his “hatred, offensive abuse and violent annihilation fantasies” only increased until his death.
they are all fake, the leaders have convinced their flock that they need these icons because their faith is so weak. Let us never condemn the hapless parishioners, it's the priests, bishops, etc. who are to blame.
James 3:1
"My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the severer judgment."
It is unfortunate all the "Romans" commenting refuse to listen to the video
Rome gives CULT new meaning! Ok?
Please know your history...on Martin Luder aka Luther...
Martin Luther was the eldest of a large family and his father planned for him to study law in order to help with the family business. But it appears Luther had other plans. At age 21 he was caught up in a large storm and the story goes that he prayed to St. Anna, the mother of the Virgin Mary, to save his life, promising to become a monk if he survived. Some claim this was a common practice in young people at the time, who did not want to follow in the path chosen for them by their parents. Whatever his reasoning, Luther honoured his promise and was ordained two years later.
Gee, maybe that IS the miracle, all these relics! (sarcasm) This reminds me of another place and time when relics were in vogue of sorts (2Kings 18:4): "He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah; and he broke in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did offer to it; and it was called Nehushtan." This is probably why God has not let real "relics" survive (Noah's ark, the Ark of the Covenant, the Cross, John the Baptist's Head... I've been to a church and a mosque both claiming to have it) , because He knows the propensity of the human heart to worship (venerate) religious objects in place of Him. How indeed sad.
God created matter and we come from matter and He sometimes works miracles through it. In John 9:1-7 Jesus used his spit to heal the blind man whereas He could have done it directly just by saying one word. If in some countries a stranger had done that, some would have called it magic.
Why ( In Mark 6:7, 12-13 and Jas. 5:13-16 ) did his disciples do rituals by annointing people with oil for healing if they could have done it just by saying a word ?
As Dr Brant Pitre said :
"One of the things Catholics are often criticized for is all of our what? Rituals, right? “Where do you Catholics get all these rituals? Why do you have all these rituals? Isn’t Christianity not about a religion? Isn’t it just about faith? Why do you have to add all these rituals to the pure and unadulterated gospel? All you need to do is just believe in Jesus. That’s all the gospel is really about? There’s no power in the oil; there is no power in the water; there is no power in the bread and the wine. All that, it’s just symbolism and ritualism at the worst, right?”...
*If rituals were bad, why did Jesus command the Apostles to anoint people with oil?* Because he knew that we are fleshly people and we need visible signs of invisible realities. Sure, he can heal you simply by speaking the word. He doesn’t have to do it through a visible sign, we say that in the mass, right? “Lord, I am not worthy to receive you”, but only what? “Say the word and I shall be healed.” He created the whole universe. He doesn’t need visible signs, but we do, we do. He didn’t do it for his sake, he did it for us. And so the Anointing of the Sick is right there in the scriptures from Jesus himself..."
In Act 19:12 "So that from his body were brought unto the sick *handkerchiefs* or *aprons,* and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them."
In Act 5:15-16 *_"As a result,_** people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats SO THAT **_AT LEAST_** Peter’s **_shadow_** might fall on some of them as he passed by.* Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by impure spirits, and all of them were healed."
Similar are the cases of the woman cured of a hemorrhage by touching the hem of Christ’s cloak, she thought that just by touching Jesus' clothes she would have been healed (Matt. 9:20-22).
As Joe Heschmeyer said "The people are going to Peter, laying down in front of him, and *_hoping_** that **_they'll be healed JUST by his shadow_** passing by.* This is so important because if you or I did that today with the pope or some great saint, you can be assured that our protestant brothers and sisters would decry it as *superstitious."*
In Acts 19:11-12 it is written “And God did extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, *so that handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick,* and diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them”
The best example of miracles through relics of a saint can be seen in 2 Kgs. 13:20-21 when the *bones* of Elisha brought a dead man to life : “So Elisha died, and they buried him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year. And as a man was being buried, lo, a marauding band was seen and the man was cast into the grave of Elisha; and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood on his feet”.
Even after Elisha’s dead, God works through him. If the same happened in a Catholic church, how many anti-Catholic would have called it "demonic", "pagan", "fraud" etc... ?
If these aren’t examples of the use of relics, what are? The relics are not only bones but also objects belonging to the saints like clothes etc ... There is a perfect congruity between present-day Catholic practice and ancient practice.
In Catholic and Orthodox churches there have been miracles through the use of relics for example there are the flowers of Thérèse de Lisieux or Padre Pio's mittens, pad etc... that give off perfumes of rose and heal people, a man went to hospitals and made a patient touch the mittens and miracles happened.
Looking at the archaeological traces like in the catacombs etc... We know that in the early church, christians kept the relics of their martyrs.
St Ambrose had a vision where he could find the relics of Sts Gervasius and Protasius and said : "For not without reason do many call this the resurrection of the martyrs. I do not say whether they have risen for themselves, for us certainly the martyrs have risen. You know-nay, you have yourselves seen-that *many are cleansed from evil spirits,* that very many also, _having touched with their hands the robe of the saints,_ are freed from those ailments which oppressed them; *you see that the miracles of old time are renewed,* when through the coming of the Lord Jesus grace was more largely shed forth upon the earth, and that many bodies are healed as it were by the shadow of the holy bodies. How many napkins are passed about! *How many garments, laid upon the holy relics and endowed with healing power, are claimed!* All are glad to touch even the outside thread, and whosoever touches will be made whole."
St Augustine also said "For even now miracles are wrought in the name of Christ, whether by His sacraments or by the prayers or relics of His saints; but they are not so brilliant and conspicuous as to cause them to be published with such glory as accompanied the former miracles."
Many anti-Catholics will accept all the miracles in the bible done through the relics but will qualify all miracles of the *same type* coming from the Catholic Church as pagan, fraud or superstitious.
to answer the title question: they are indeed!
Second commandment forbids images of who you worship. Protestants are just as guilty with their Jesus movies, social media profile pics, cartoons, and plays.
1st Peter 1:8
1st John 3:2
1st Timothy 6:16
Deuteronomy 14
Exodus 20
I'm Protestant.
What movies and cartoons do you mean?
But let's just assume that some of these relics were real, for example, the 3 nails that were in the cross. With this set of relics alone, how many false Catholic churches are there? Surely only a maximum of 3 true Catholic churches can exist with 3 nails! And with wood from the cross, randomly visit any of the Catholic churches with it, and when you have reached the proper weight, surely it is safe to assume that the rest that also have it must be false other Catholic churches!
What about the volting boots of Valtor?
I don't drag people's religion whether I believe in it or not. Everyone has their own beliefs. I respect that.
If you do not pray for the deads, their souls would be wondering around looking for shelter. The least place they can find would be purgatory. With our prayer, we are helping them towards heaven.
Read the bible and understand why everything you have said is wrong!
Protestantism is still on going.since t h e Reformation
We r all Christians. Why all.this discrimination.and bickering, Why can't we accept out differences and love one another. There r millions if Protestant Churches today, . makes me sick.
The most disgusting relics are those of pustules of the saints. 🤢
Relics......
Mark 15:43; John 19:38 - Joseph of Arimathea sought Christ’s dead body instead of leaving it with the Romans. Joseph gave veneration to our Lord’s body.
Mark 16:1; Luke 24:1 - the women came to further anoint Christ’s body even though it had been sealed in the tomb.
John 19:39 - Nicodemus donated over one hundred pounds of spices to wrap in Jesus’ grave clothes. This is also veneration of our Lord’s body.
Matt. 9:21; Mark 5:28 - the woman with the hemorrhage just sought the hem of Christ’s cloak and was cured. This shows that God uses physical things to effect the supernatural.
Acts 19:11-12 - Paul’s handkerchiefs healed the sick and those with unclean spirits. This is another example of physical things effecting physical and spiritual cures.
Acts 5:15 - Peter’s shadow healed the sick. This proves that relics of the saints have supernatural healing power, and this belief has been a part of Catholic tradition for 2,000 years.
Rev. 6:9 - the souls of the martyrs are seen beneath the heavenly altar. Their bones are often placed beneath altars in Catholic churches around the world.
2 Kings 13:21 - Elisha’s bones bring a man back to life. The saints’ bones are often kept beneath the altars of Catholic churches and have brought about supernatural cures throughout the Christian age.
Rom. 13:7; Phil. 2:25-29; Heb. 3:3; 1 Pet. 2:7 - we are taught to honor the people of God and in 1 Cor. 4:16-17; 1 Cor. 11:1-2; Phil. 3:17; 1 Thess. 1:6; 2 Thess. 3:7; Heb. 6:12; Heb. 13:7; James 5:10-11 - we are reminded to imitate them. Keeping relics of the saints serves both to honor and imitate their heroic faith in Christ (just as keeping articles of deceased loved ones helps us honor and imitate them).
You're right my friend.
This guy is just an anti-catholic
He didnt venerate His body.
Luther the man whom only speaks of Godly words...
Suprizingly for a man of God, but perhaps unsurprisingly for such a bold revolutionary and someone with such aggressive faith in his convictions, Martin Luther is known to have expressed himself with with crude and sometimes downright vulgar statements. According to historian Erik H. Erikson who wrote the book 'Young Man Luther' (1958), not only did Luther called the Vatican a "whorehouse" but while in a state of depression, he supposedly once said at the dinner table “I am like a ripe s**t and the world is a gigantic a**hole. We will both probably let go of each other soon.”
In Luther's time the Vatican was indeed a whorehouse
Sounds like the catholic church is selling snake oil
Luther is nothing else than the "anti-pope" for lutherians - he was a strong catholic believer who only wanted to reform the catholic church, not to build a new religion. At least there is in fact no really difference between catholics and protestants, and by the way: all your critics of "idiolatry" or the vatican itself you can also use for the orthodox church, the oriental and coptic churches, who also have a "pope" and more or less the the same rituals! THEY were the originally christians, the history of "catholic church" begann in alexandria, carthago (africa) and tarsus/byzanz, not in rom!
PS: Hitler was a big fan of luther and mohamed, think about it! ;-)
Why are you so hateful toward he catholic..without catholic there will be NO BIBLE NO LUTHERAN..READ SCOTT GAN..STEVE RAY..WHY YOU SHOULD BE CATHOLIC
He is just ignorant that's all
@@lonelyberg1316 Stupid ignorant protestant. He doesnt even have statues to bow down befor and pray to. We catholics are gonna ride our statues all the way to heaven.
@@bobdobbs943 No Bob... Please, please don't say that. You talk to yourself... are you OK ? I know it can be hard but If there is something wrong, you can talk about it with family members, friends etc... You know... When people have problems they can talk !
More seriously... I don't even want to argue with you, you know what the old saying says: Don't feed the trolls. I have to admit that your way of trolling is quite funny but very childish Bob. I have passed the age, you should do the same.
Au revoir et bonne journée Bob 😉
@@lonelyberg1316 I feel so ashamed.
@@bobdobbs943 Ah, it's no big deal. But if you feel that bad about it, you can buy me pizza some time. Today's good ?
I love jesus. I pray to mary to intercede to jesus. Christian church comes from catholic church. Catholic churches share the bible with others. All catholics are christians, BUT not all christians are catholics.
Jesus NEVER ONCE said to go through Mary first. She's not deity! OK?
There is only ONE mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus.
A total misrepresentation of relics, Purgatory, indulgences and Pope Leo X but what the heck.
This guy has all his information wrong
Yeah.
Ps : Don't feed the trolls
God created matter and we come from matter and He sometimes works miracles through it. In John 9:1-7 Jesus used his spit to heal the blind man whereas He could have done it directly just by saying one word. If in some countries a stranger had done that, some would have called it magic.
Why ( In Mark 6:7, 12-13 and Jas. 5:13-16 ) did his disciples do rituals by annointing people with oil for healing if they could have done it just by saying a word ?
As Dr Brant Pitre said :
"One of the things Catholics are often criticized for is all of our what? Rituals, right? “Where do you Catholics get all these rituals? Why do you have all these rituals? Isn’t Christianity not about a religion? Isn’t it just about faith? Why do you have to add all these rituals to the pure and unadulterated gospel? All you need to do is just believe in Jesus. That’s all the gospel is really about? There’s no power in the oil; there is no power in the water; there is no power in the bread and the wine. All that, it’s just symbolism and ritualism at the worst, right?”...
*If rituals were bad, why did Jesus command the Apostles to anoint people with oil?* Because he knew that we are fleshly people and we need visible signs of invisible realities. Sure, he can heal you simply by speaking the word. He doesn’t have to do it through a visible sign, we say that in the mass, right? “Lord, I am not worthy to receive you”, but only what? “Say the word and I shall be healed.” He created the whole universe. He doesn’t need visible signs, but we do, we do. He didn’t do it for his sake, he did it for us. And so the Anointing of the Sick is right there in the scriptures from Jesus himself..."
In Act 19:12 "So that from his body were brought unto the sick *handkerchiefs* or *aprons,* and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them."
In Act 5:15-16 *_"As a result,_** people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats SO THAT **_AT LEAST_** Peter’s **_shadow_** might fall on some of them as he passed by.* Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by impure spirits, and all of them were healed."
Similar are the cases of the woman cured of a hemorrhage by touching the hem of Christ’s cloak, she thought that just by touching Jesus' clothes she would have been healed (Matt. 9:20-22).
As Joe Heschmeyer said "The people are going to Peter, laying down in front of him, and *_hoping_** that **_they'll be healed JUST by his shadow_** passing by.* This is so important because if you or I did that today with the pope or some great saint, you can be assured that our protestant brothers and sisters would decry it as *superstitious."*
In Acts 19:11-12 it is written “And God did extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, *so that handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick,* and diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them”
The best example of miracles through relics of a saint can be seen in 2 Kgs. 13:20-21 when the *bones* of Elisha brought a dead man to life : “So Elisha died, and they buried him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year. And as a man was being buried, lo, a marauding band was seen and the man was cast into the grave of Elisha; and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood on his feet”.
Even after Elisha’s dead, God works through him. If the same happened in a Catholic church, how many anti-Catholic would have called it "demonic", "pagan", "fraud" etc... ?
If these aren’t examples of the use of relics, what are? The relics are not only bones but also objects belonging to the saints like clothes etc ... There is a perfect congruity between present-day Catholic practice and ancient practice.
In Catholic and Orthodox churches there have been miracles through the use of relics for example there are the flowers of Thérèse de Lisieux or Padre Pio's mittens, pad etc... that give off perfumes of rose and heal people, a man went to hospitals and made a patient touch the mittens and miracles happened.
Looking at the archaeological traces like in the catacombs etc... We know that in the early church, christians kept the relics of their martyrs.
St Ambrose had a vision where he could find the relics of Sts Gervasius and Protasius and said : "For not without reason do many call this the resurrection of the martyrs. I do not say whether they have risen for themselves, for us certainly the martyrs have risen. You know-nay, you have yourselves seen-that *many are cleansed from evil spirits,* that very many also, _having touched with their hands the robe of the saints,_ are freed from those ailments which oppressed them; *you see that the miracles of old time are renewed,* when through the coming of the Lord Jesus grace was more largely shed forth upon the earth, and that many bodies are healed as it were by the shadow of the holy bodies. How many napkins are passed about! *How many garments, laid upon the holy relics and endowed with healing power, are claimed!* All are glad to touch even the outside thread, and whosoever touches will be made whole."
St Augustine also said "For even now miracles are wrought in the name of Christ, whether by His sacraments or by the prayers or relics of His saints; but they are not so brilliant and conspicuous as to cause them to be published with such glory as accompanied the former miracles."
Many anti-Catholics will accept all the miracles in the bible done through the relics but will qualify all miracles of the *same type* coming from the Catholic Church as pagan, fraud or superstitious.
The catholic clergy is nothing but a bunch of pedophiles. Is that wrong too?
WHAT OFFENDED ME OF MARTIN LUTHER WAS HIS WAY ON HOW TO GET RID OF THE JEWS = IT WAS NOT JUST LUTFER THAT WAS AGAINST THE EVIL RCC JESUITS BUT THE TRUE ONES THAT DID NOT WANT TO GET RID OF THE JEWS FOR THEY DID KNOW THE TRUE WORD OF GOD JESUS