Catholicism is not Christian

When a Catholic says they are saved by grace, they mean, they get more graces every time they do another good deed, if they have enough graces through enough good deeds they make it to heaven, but they never know how much is enough.

They believe the pope is the vicar of Christ, meaning a mediator between us and God.

Vicar of Christ means the same authority as Christ Himself. It also means "in place of" Christ. This authority overshadows the Bible. The Bible is taken with a grain of salt, as an historical book rather than the ultimate authority for all things.

1 Timothy 2:4-5 "…4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time.…"

Ephesians 2:8 "…7 so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.…"

As a former Catholic I can tell you that the Catholics I knew and some I still know, pray to Mary almost never to God through Christ. They place their trust in miracles of dead saints, believing that no one becomes a saint until they die and have to have been proven by earthly miracles. The pope decides who gets chosen to be a saint.

There are prayers for the dead, veneration of articles such as statues, dead saints fingers, along with many other idols that are prayed to. There is kissing of crosses, statues of Mary at her feet, kissing the hand of priests, praying to saints of travel, patron saints of this and that and the other things.

The most telling of all is the embarrassment on the faces of Catholics when we quote the Bible or speak of Christ in conversation.

I have been called a "goody two shoes", a "Bible thumper", "self righteous" and more, by Catholics for loving the Bible and desiring to live holy.

If you love the Lord, speak of Him and most of all live for Him, you will be rejected by most if not all Catholics. Because at some point you will have to disagree with them on something and that will be enough to enrage them. There may be some out there that are not like this, but most will be.

You can thank the Catholic church for the sinful holidays of Christmas Halloween and Easter, had it not been for the Catholic church these holidays would not exist. So many believers don't realize where all this came from. Paganism has been inculcated regularly within the church to entice pagans to join the church. Because the priests and nuns are not born again, they are fooled by this paganism, thinking that as long as they are in the Catholic church they can add things that appear to be fun and safe.

They feel a very strong loyalty for their church and an intense pride that does not allow for questioning. Yes, there have been some, like me, who came out, those were the ones who were questioning their own faith when God sent someone to show them the truth.

Praise the Lord for those who have come out of the wicked system of Catholicism, once they do this, they will never return. When we are in it, without Bible knowledge we cannot see all the heresy, we have to come out first, while looking back after learning God's Word, to see the evil there.

When we trusted Christ, He began to open our eyes to everything we were taught, showing us the evil of it all. I am saddened every time I meet a believer who thinks Catholic is just another Christian denomination. IT IS NOT!!!!!! It is paganism, heresy and devastatingly wicked. There is no doubt it is a large part of the last days apostasy that will facilitate the power of the anti-christ.