Do Catholic Doctrines Contradict the Bible? 

etrnlygr8tful and what is wrong with scripture alone? No other writing is above God's word

doug1863 ..because Jesus did not leave a book behind, he gathered 12 men to teach people about God through oral teachings and tradition.

etrnlygr8tful Oh wow... so I wonder why we see Jesus always saying "IT IS WRITTEN". Psalm 146:3 Don’t put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there. Psalm 118:9 It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes. Isaiah 2:22 Don’t put your trust in mere humans. They are as frail as breath. What good are they? Jeremiah 17:5-6 This is what the Lord says: “Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the Lord. Psalm 60:11 Oh, please help us against our enemies, for all human help is useless.

stacy2146 all the passages you've mentioned has nothing to do with the topic. Who is talking about "putting trust on mere humans". Even with those passages you are taking them out of context.

etrnlygr8tful You (catholics) following the teachings OF MERE MEN. Do you not recall Jesus saying over & over again "IT IS WRITTEN"...... "AS IT IS WRITTEN". ^^THis destroys you faulty point, when you said Jesus did not leave us with a book!

energie00 john 21: 25 There was much else that Jesus did; if it were written down in detail, I do not suppose the world itself would hold all the books that would be written.

+energie00 +Beloved Child Actually it is to believe that we can TRUST GOD to deliver & hold together the cannon of Scripture He wants us to have.

Jesus Defender They have real issues with trusting in man instead of God. It's the same deal with the "Jehovah's Witnesses".

+energie00 Sola scriptura means scripture alone.Read Heb.1.God who--- spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets.Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son.Eph.2:20. Heb. 2.:3:4 God also testified to it by signs and wonders. .That is the apostles. Church leaders were always elders and teachers never one man.1Cor.12.8.

***** In the Bible, God graciously gave us ALL we need to know for salvation !!!! Thank you Lord. Halleluia.

+piontl HURRAH!

+Saral Israel Shrestha , faith is a verb. Understand that and you understand faith.

+piontl no salvation is faith alone, ur good work can't earn u ur salvation only jesus and god's grace can give u salvation, if u say faith + work that's the trust of work not trust of god, ur work doesn't earn salvation and btw that dose not mean we don't do work we do work for the kingdom of light harder than everyone but we trust jesus and god alone. And in Catholic Church all they been doin is satanic sacrifices and kill those who try to follow Jesus, even bow days they still offer jesus to god everyday, and bible shows that that's putting god in open shame so I highly doubt how many Catholics actually follow god's word than believe in human logic

Kevin Zhang Faith alone is having faith in yourself, look at Matthew 25:31-46 , where our Lord gives salvation all to those who had completed works. I could very well say that having faith alone is too much trust in yourself, and not in scripture, we are called to work just as much as to believe. James 2:24 - That we are justified by works, and not by faith alone. (In that we have works and faith, not works alone) And making inferences about Catholicism does not strengthen your argument. But in refute, Satanic sacrifices and killing is definitely not something we do. Give evidence if you want a refutation. The Catholic Church is the one true Church. As all the first Christians were a part of.If you have beef with the way we do things, then you have beef with the apostles and the early Christians.

+Saral Israel Shrestha From personal experience, a lot of protestants don't understand what the Catholic church teaches concerning the role of works in salvation. Some, such as Kevin Zhang, think that works earn the initial graces of salvation which is a condemned heresy of palagianism. Catholic believe that the initial graces of faith that lead to conversion are a free gift and cannot be earned. However, once we have that faith we can perform good works in christ that God finds pleasing and rewards us with more grace for complying with the grace of faith.

thank u so much ella. I will review. do u have a twitter I can follow?

+ella hope "They' being Martin Luther.

ella hope no catholics added non canonical books

The Apocrypha was never accepted by the Jews as inspired , but as partly useful historical writings during the Greek period .Early church writers such as Justin Martyr A.D. 100 frequently refers to the Gospels calling them memories of the Apostles. and mentions ten N.T. books. He also gives us a description of a N.T. church meeting .He said the people gather on Sunday the Prophets and the memoirs of the Apostles are read, the president explains and exhorts, this is followed by taking the bread and wine and finally the collection. This is the pattern for many evangelical churches plus hymns which are mentioned by Paul.

doug1863 The Catholic Church canonized the Bible, the Protestants are using the Bible which Luther 'edited', removing several books, including 'Tobit' which is referenced in the Gospel.

+Wendy Mitchell and yet some protestant bibles take out almost 7 books from the bible. Also none of those versus say anything about taking or adding from scripture.

+Wendy Mitchell No, the Apostles acknowledged that the Scriptures (OT, at that time, which included the deuterocanonical writings) is inspired of God, and they exhorted Christians to hold to the traditions (Apostolic teachings) they were taught. 1Thess says "15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle." This tells us that Paul didn't write down EVERYTHING he taught concerning the Gospel message. This is because he knew that Jesus didn't commission the writing of a collection of letters for the purpose of spreading His good news. He built His Church on the foundation of the Apostles for the purpose of spreading the Gospel and leading/teaching/guarding/disciplining His flock on earth. You are right to say we are told not to add to or subtract from Scripture. Yet, that's what happened when Luther excised parts he didn't like, based on his on "infallible" authority. Until that time, all Christians accepted the 73 books of the Bible. If you're going to lean on Scripture alone to know everything Jesus and the Apostles taught, you really should have a complete Bible. (oh, I guess I'm assuming your Bible has 66 books... if I'm wrong, in that, just ignore this paragraph... ;) Pax Christi

+Wendy Mitchell In Acts 15, the Church leaders came together to deal with the issue of whether Gentile converts had to be circumcized or not. So, during the discussions, did any of them say that they could only consult the scriptures for the answer? Did anybody even offer to do so? When they made their decision, did they say, "Thus sayeth the scriptures..."?

+Beloved Child Protestants ,if they are Christians, base their beliefs on scripture not tradition, including the trinity.Without the deity of Christ there is no salvation ,as all have sinned. He is the only begotten,(single offspring) of the father. The R.C. claim that the church was the same ,based on a few writers is not correct.Don't forget the false teachers were already in the N.T. church.

+CandaceWhite Acts 20, 28-31.Paul says-after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you.See Acts 15-5,22. Also 15-20. abstain from idols,forniction ,things strangled and from BLOOD. ~(mass).Gal. 2-4---14. the circumcision party said you must also keep the law of Moses.Gal 1,6-9.we are told not to change the gospel of repentance and faith by adding rituals .Christening is by ritual.God takes care of babies without our rituals. Also gnostics.

The church in the New Testament .

John 10:33 , Matthew 3:16-17, 1 Corinthians 13:14, John 14:16, 1 John 5:7-8, John 1:1-51

+Beloved Child John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." John 1:14, "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth." John 5:18, "For this cause therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God."John 8:24, "I said therefore to you, that you shall die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you shall die in your sins." Note: In the Greek, "He" is not there. John 8:58, "Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.'" Exodus 3:14, "And God said to Moses, 'I AM WHO I AM'; and He said, Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’" John 10:30-33, "I and the Father are one." 31 The Jews took up stones again to stone Him. 32 Jesus answered them, "I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?" 33 The Jews answered Him, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God."John 20:28, "Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"Col. 2:9, "For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form."Phil. 2:5-8, "Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those who are in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."Heb. 1:8, "But of the Son He says, "Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the righteous scepter is the scepter of His kingdom." Quoted from Psalm 45:6, "Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever; a scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Thy kingdom."

Please elaborate on that. Like what exactly do you mean.

Godism?

+Jason Villegas The nature of plenary indulgences (as opposed to partial indulgences) will wipe your slate clean in purgatory, as the amount of grace that is achieved in plenary indulgences is so high and so mystical such as the Divine Mercy weekend. Its rare to get a plenary indulgences anywhere else I think..

John Collins if you try to climb a tree from a branch instead of the trunk, it probably would snap. If you don't have grounds in the catholic faith then everything on the tips of our beliefs would obviously seem 'made up' , especially if you approach it with the attitude you seem to take at this. Im sorry to hear youre an ex-catholic, I hope you come back.

John Collins Then it would A) cease to be Catholic and B) break apart the true Church Christ instituted. What makes him communist?

Ella You seem to believe anything your 'church ' teaches you without checking it out .Study what the Bible says and history.The Roman church did NOT give the protestants the Bible .It was written by the apostles, the gospels copied in the early church ,and called memories of the apostles.Soon followed by the other writings by James ,Peter and Paul .There are thousands of early hand written manuscripts taken all over the Roman Empire .There was no Roman catholic church in the first 300 yrs. The first evidence is in 311-14 a council held in Rome at the request of the Emperor in the Lateran palace . Constantine ordered 3 churches for the 'Pope'.Jerusalem had been the main church in New Test. times .There was no other'.head ' church in that time ,each was self governing lead by elders.The orthodox churches did not always agree with the Roman.The Roman church in 1546 declared its Canon of scripture including the apocrypha which was never accepted by the Jews or Jesus as being inspired. Jesus said all of the apostles were the foundation of the church as they were chosen to write the N.T. Peter was chosen as apostle to the Jews and Paul to go to the gentiles and Rome ,he never mentions Peter being there at all .in his letters.Linus said to be first Pope we know little about ,the letter about Peter and Paul said to be by him was 6th cent..

Amen Ella hope. It is rather astonishing that whilst Jesus declared that not even hates will overcome his church and the one dominant church throughout the ages has been the Catholic Church yet Protestants conveniently throw out what our Lord said in favour of their own world view.

energie00 absolutely wrong. As far as catholic churches, the roman church broke away from the orthodox. But if the rc church is the true church. Why werent anyone saved by their good works? Did the thief on the cross find salvation through works? Or was it by faith alone? And remember, the rc church , which is not the true church, went and still,goes against Christs teachings. I dont recall in any of my bibles, catholic included, to burn ppl at the stake or to torture anyone at an inquisition.

Don't call your "Dad" your father then. Make sure you say "Happy Dad's Day" ........... *sigh*

Any man would include your dad so don't call daddy father

It was the orthodox church that broke away from the rcc read history first

No they do not. Get a catechism. Scripture (the Bible) is along side and completely in sync with Catholic teaching. The Church Jesus built would never contradict the Word of God.

doug1863 Actually, we say yes to the second thing, and we have a reasonable explanation for the first. I know the real facts are hard to find amongst the myths and stereotypes, but if you dig a little deeper you should find what the Catholic Church actually believes about these things, not just what RU-vid says we do.

Wrong. Check the Catechism. From cover to cover, it is FULL of Holy Scripture.