So many Christians forget the clues left to them by Jesus on who to trust and who to avoid.
3 very important admonishments by Jesus Christ that they should actually fucking listen to are:
there will be many who come after him claiming to be him but we'll aren't and are wrong to follow
pray to God directly
call no man on earth father for you have but one father in the heavens above
What does the church do?
claim that the pope is the Avatar of Jesus on Earth (if your Catholic and you don't know about this, you better do some reading on your own religion)
claim that God and Jesus don't have the time of day for you, so pay to the pope and he'll pay to Jesus for you because Jesus is inferior to the pope and will always capitulate to him (the pope actually says this)
make Catholics call priests "father" and blaspheme against God directly by specific intention by calling the pope "Holy Father"
There's a thousand things they could be called that doesn't directly disobey a direct command from Jesus.
Make something up even.
Just not "Father" or a synonym for father.
Also, did you know that the Catholics violate the selection criteria for priests?
If you follow the Bible, Congressional leader is supposed to be someone of retirement age, with good standing in the community, a successful marriage, respectable grown children and is wise in scripture.
IMAGINE THAT: a priest is supposed to be a person who has lead a normal, healthy and respectable life. Presumably so they can guide others in doing the same.
“The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
To know wisdom and instruction, To perceive the words of understanding, To receive the instruction of wisdom, Justice, judgment, and equity; To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion— A wise man will hear and increase learning, And a man of understanding will attain wise counsel, To understand a proverb and an enigma, The words of the wise and their riddles. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction. My son, hear the instruction of your father, And do not forsake the law of your mother; For they will be a graceful ornament on your head, And chains about your neck. My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent. If they say, “Come with us, Let us lie in wait to shed blood; Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, And whole, like those who go down to the Pit; We shall find all kinds of precious possessions, We shall fill our houses with spoil; Cast in your lot among us, Let us all have one purse”— My son, do not walk in the way with them, Keep your foot from their path; For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood. Surely, in vain the net is spread In the sight of any bird; But they lie in wait for their own blood, They lurk secretly for their own lives. So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; It takes away the life of its owners. Wisdom calls aloud outside; She raises her voice in the open squares. She cries out in the chief concourses, At the openings of the gates in the city She speaks her words: “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge. Turn at my rebuke; Surely I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you. Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded, Because you disdained all my counsel, And would have none of my rebuke, I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your terror comes, When your terror comes like a storm, And your destruction comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you. “Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me. Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the Lord, They would have none of my counsel And despised my every rebuke. Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, And be filled to the full with their own fancies. For the turning away of the simple will slay them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them; But whoever listens to me will dwell safely, And will be secure, without fear of evil.””
A bunch of people got together after the bible was created and started dictating what would stay in it or be removed. The book of the watchers and enoch for example. All religions are the same thing if you dig deep enough, but they've all be perverted. Dalai Lama was replaced by the Chinese. We have a Jewish satanic Pope that launders money for the US.
Yeah lol so many on here haven't realized mainstream religion is just as controlled and phony as everything else in the world is.
Evil crawled into the church back in Constantine time. After that, Luther tried to separate and today, guess what, the same evil corrupt most church.
So many Christians forget the clues left to them by Jesus on who to trust and who to avoid.
3 very important admonishments by Jesus Christ that they should actually fucking listen to are:
What does the church do?
Case closed.
It's not the current pope that invented that stuff....
They have been calling the pope "holy father" for a long time. That's your first hint.
Go researching what the Pope's have to say about who and where to direct your prayers.
Not just this pope, go and do the legwork.
The organisation has been corrupt, if not for a thousand years, since the beginning.
Research sexual abuse on nuns.
Just curious, what should priests be called?
Not Father.
Pastor, priest, elder, sheppard, yogi, monk, rabbi, imam, etc..
There's a thousand things they could be called that doesn't directly disobey a direct command from Jesus.
Make something up even.
Just not "Father" or a synonym for father.
Also, did you know that the Catholics violate the selection criteria for priests?
If you follow the Bible, Congressional leader is supposed to be someone of retirement age, with good standing in the community, a successful marriage, respectable grown children and is wise in scripture.
IMAGINE THAT: a priest is supposed to be a person who has lead a normal, healthy and respectable life. Presumably so they can guide others in doing the same.
“The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
To know wisdom and instruction, To perceive the words of understanding, To receive the instruction of wisdom, Justice, judgment, and equity; To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion— A wise man will hear and increase learning, And a man of understanding will attain wise counsel, To understand a proverb and an enigma, The words of the wise and their riddles. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction. My son, hear the instruction of your father, And do not forsake the law of your mother; For they will be a graceful ornament on your head, And chains about your neck. My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent. If they say, “Come with us, Let us lie in wait to shed blood; Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, And whole, like those who go down to the Pit; We shall find all kinds of precious possessions, We shall fill our houses with spoil; Cast in your lot among us, Let us all have one purse”— My son, do not walk in the way with them, Keep your foot from their path; For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood. Surely, in vain the net is spread In the sight of any bird; But they lie in wait for their own blood, They lurk secretly for their own lives. So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; It takes away the life of its owners. Wisdom calls aloud outside; She raises her voice in the open squares. She cries out in the chief concourses, At the openings of the gates in the city She speaks her words: “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge. Turn at my rebuke; Surely I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you. Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded, Because you disdained all my counsel, And would have none of my rebuke, I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your terror comes, When your terror comes like a storm, And your destruction comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you. “Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me. Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the Lord, They would have none of my counsel And despised my every rebuke. Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, And be filled to the full with their own fancies. For the turning away of the simple will slay them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them; But whoever listens to me will dwell safely, And will be secure, without fear of evil.””
Proverbs 1:1-33 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/pro.1.1-33.NKJV
I once asked my pastor while my wife was with me after service, "why do you never discuss abortion as the murder of a human being?"
My pastor just looked at me with a stare and my wife got pissed at me.
As if i had killed a human being.
Yet, i once ubered a young 15 year old girl from an abortion clinic for 30 miles.
About a 1 hour drive.
She cried the entire time.
That young girl knew what she had just done.
Yet, we do not talk about it.
That's sad. Both my church and my daughter's church celebrated the end of Roe. Maybe it's time to make a move.
It is time we do topic the dark stuff. So many things we turn a blind eye to.
A bunch of people got together after the bible was created and started dictating what would stay in it or be removed. The book of the watchers and enoch for example. All religions are the same thing if you dig deep enough, but they've all be perverted. Dalai Lama was replaced by the Chinese. We have a Jewish satanic Pope that launders money for the US.