Doug Brents
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part two
17. Names of Blasphemy
Catholic officials take names for themselves reserved solely for God, such as:
1) Pontiff (or Pontifix Maximus) which is a papal title meaning "chief bridge builder between earth and heaven." Only Jesus has this role.
2) Holy Father is the title the popes claim for themselves, yet Jesus addressed His heavenly father in this way in His Gethsemane prayer before His crucifixion: "Holy Father, keep them in Your name, those whom You have given Me" (John 17:11).
3) Father is a title Catholic priests claim, yet Jesus said to call no man Father (Matthew 23:9).
4) Monsignor means "my Lord," and this title belongs to God.
5) Reverend is a title Catholic priests and Protestant ministers claim—but belongs to God alone (Psalms 111:9).
6) Mary as Queen of Heaven. The "Queen of Heaven" is a pagan goddess. Jeremiah rebuked the Israelites when burned incense to the queen of heaven (Jeremiah 7:18; 44:17-19).
18. Transubstantiation (Instituted in AD 1215)
Definition:"The whole substance of the bread and wine is converted into the actual and real, entire body and blood of Christ." Radbertus first suggested this idea in the 9th century. Catholicism supports this by a literal view of Matthew 26:26-29. The bread and wine, however, were only symbols of Christ's body and blood—partaken of as an act of remembrance (Luke 22:19). There is no "conversion" of the bread into literal flesh, nor of the wine into blood. Note:
1) Jesus, after saying "this is My blood" in verse 28, added: "I will not drink at all of this fruit of the vine…" (verse 29)—showing that it was still wine and had not changed into blood.
2) Jesus often described Himself in symbols, yet no one takes these literally:
• John 10:7 "I am the door"—Did Jesus mean He was literally wooden? No.
• John 14:6 "I am the way"—Did Jesus mean He was literally a road? No.
• John 15:5 "I am the vine"—Did Jesus mean He was a literally a vine? No.
• John 8:12 "I am the light"—Did Jesus mean He was literally a light? No.
• John 6:48 "I am the bread of life"—Did Jesus mean He was literally a loaf of bread? No.
• John 6:63 indicates that Jesus was speaking figuratively, spiritually—not literally.
3) The bread and wine did not become Christ's body and blood because God forbids the drinking of blood (Deuteronomy 12:16; Acts 15:20, 29).
4) We take Christ as our Savior once. Passover is to be a recurring memorial and, therefore, has no saving merit of itself. Catholics are commanded to believe in transubstantiation because the teaching was decreed at the Council of Trent (1551) as essential for salvation. The Council pronounced a curse on anyone who would deny it. Paul, on the other hand, pronounced a double curse in Galatians 1:6-9 on anyone who preached a different Gospel—one that denied Christ's death and resurrection as being fully sufficient for salvation.
5) Before Jesus ascended into heaven, He promised to come to us via the Holy Spirit—not through some mysterious "sacrifice of the mass." "[God] shall give you another Comforter, that it may be with you throughout the age: even the Spirit of the truth, which the world cannot receive because it perceives it not, nor knows it; but you know it because it dwells with you, and shall be within you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you" (John 14:16-18).
How then do we "eat Christ's flesh and drink Christ's blood"? By taking in the words of God when we call on Christ to save us: "The words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life" (John 6:63). Peter got the message: "You have the words of eternal life" (verse 68). The scribes, who heard Jesus' words, understood the Hebraic idea of receiving God's words into one's inner being: "Your words were found, and I ate them" (Jeremiah 15:16); "I will put My law in their inward parts" (Jeremiah 31:34).
If the transubstantiation doctrine was formulated in the 9th century and is necessary for salvation, what happened to all those living before that time, before transubstantiation was thought of? Did they all go to hell?
19. The Mass (Instituted in AD 394)
Definition: "At every mass, Christ is sacrificed again." Catholicism says: "In the mass, no less than on Calvary, Jesus really offers His life to His Father."
But must Jesus be continually sacrificed—or was His one-time death sufficient to pay for sin forever? Christ's one-time sacrifice is sufficient; here's why:
1) Jesus, as He died, said: "It is finished" (John 19:30)—the whole work of salvation, for which He came into the world, was accomplished on the cross. Nothing more can be added to it. The mass insults Christ's death on the cross as being not good enough to pay fully for all of our sins.
2) When Jesus died, the veil in the Jews' Temple as torn from top to bottom (Matthew 27:51), showing that the way into God's presence was open to all believers in Christ's work on the cross. No other sacrifice or priesthood was needed, just Jesus' High Priesthood.
3) The New Covenant states that: "Now where remission of these is, it is no longer necessary to offer sacrifices for sin" (Hebrews 10:18). The Catholic mass contradicts this clear statement.
4) In the book of Hebrews, Christ's sacrifice is said to be accomplished "once" for all—never to be repeated: Hebrews 7:27; Hebrews 9:25, 26, 28; and Hebrews 10: 10, 12, 14, 18. Peter adds that "Christ indeed once suffered for sins" (I Peter 3:18).
20. Penance
Definition: "Penance is performing outward acts, such as repeating prayers like the Hail Mary or Rosary, as a payment for sin, and to satisfy God."
Rome bases its penance teaching on incorrectly translating "repentance" ("to change one's mind," as in Ezekiel 18:30, Luke 13:5, Acts 2:28, etc.) as "penance." Catholicism believes that a priest has the power to forgive or retain sins and to impose penance as a means of testing the genuineness of one's confession—and of "satisfying" God concerning one's sin.
But sinners can only be forgiven, accepted, and justified on the ground of Christ's sacrifice. It is this alone that satisfies the justice and wrath of God against us. "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved" (Acts 16:31). We must confess our sins to God: "If we confess our own sins, He is faithful and righteous, to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (I John 1:9).
21. Black Robes Worn by Priests and Nuns
Why would priests and nuns, who are supposed to represent God and cheer people with the joy and certainty of salvation, spend all their lives dressed in long, morbid, black robes? Black is the color of death. Jesus, the apostles, and early Christians never wore long black robes. The practice came from pagan priests wearing black robes before AD 320.
22. Extreme Unction or Last Rites
Catholicism teaches that on one's deathbed sin can be totally undone and one prepared for salvation. This idea is found nowhere in the Bible. Rather, a person's only hope is to receive Christ as Savior, trusting in His sacrifice as full payment for sin. Keeping such sacraments traps Catholics into believing that they will gain salvation by good works. The sacrament system enslaves a person's mind to the Catholic Church from the cradle to the grave.
23. Low Moral Standards
The Protestant moral code comes directly from the Bible. For example: "Don't steal" means don't steal. But the Catholic moral code is based mainly on canon law, and secondarily on the Bible. "Don't steal" to Catholics means, "Stealing is all right provided that the value of the thing stolen is not excessive" (Liguori). What matters to the Catholic is the authority of the Catholic Church, as interpreted by the priest.
Catholicism doesn't seek to stir the conscience to decide between right and wrong, but to allow the priests to decide what is right and wrong. Drinking and gambling, considered vices by Protestants, are not counted as evil in Catholicism, except when indulged to excess. Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, states: "If anything shall appear white to our eyes, which the church has defined as black, we likewise must declare it to be black." This means, Don't' think for yourself—just accept whatever Rome tells you. Here's what's going on in Catholicism:
1) Sexual Abuse—Every year we hear of priests being jailed (or simply transferred to another Parrish) for sexually abusing women or children. But if the Catholic Church is the mother of holiness, how can these things be?
2) Alcohol Abuse—Catholic theologian Ligouri states: "It is not a mortal sin to get drunk, unless one loses completely the use of his mental faculties for over one hour."
3) Gambling—Catholic bingo familiarizes young people with gambling, and gives gambling the church's stamp of approval.
24. Catholic Persecution of Protestants
The Catholic Church has a long history of persecution against non-Catholics. When noble people left Catholicism in protest—looking to Jesus alone for salvation, and to the Bible for truth while rejecting the false claims of the popes—Rome called them heretics. They were bitterly opposed, tortured, and killed. Documents reveal that various Catholic leaders murdered around 68 million "protesters" from 1100-1800 AD. The following are a few notable cases:
1) 100,000 Albigenses (Protestants) were massacred in one day in 1211, then burned in heaps.
2) 10,000 Huguenots (French Protestants) were killed in Paris on St. Bartholomew's Day, and 75,000 the week after. The Huguenot Wars killed 200,000 Protestants.
3) The "Thirty Years War" in Germany saw the population drop from 15 million to 5 million due to Catholic invading armies killing 900,000 Protestants.
4) The Spanish Armada was sent to conquer Protestant England by the Catholic King Philip of Spain. Fortunately, bad weather destroyed the fleet offthe coast of England.
Truly, the Roman Catholic Church is "drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus" (Revelation 17:6).
25. The Roman Catholic Church is the Whore of Revelation 17
Who or what is the whore/woman of Revelation 17? Here are 13 points indicating that the "whore" is the Roman Catholic Church.
1) "And the woman whom you saw is the great city that has royal power over the kings of the earth" (Revelation 17:18). What city reigned over the kings of the earth in the first century? Rome. Roman emperors (and popes) were called "Pontifix Maximus."
2) She is called the "great whore" in Revelation 17:1. A whore is unfaithful to her husband by having relationships with many suitors. So is the Catholic Church—unfaithful to God's Word, as seen by her adopting numerous unbiblical doctrines—and by seeking political alliances with dictators and governments of the world.
3) "[With] whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication" (17:2). The Roman Church has always sought to further her purposes by controlling politicians, kings, and governments. She is the "state church" in many countries—Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Ireland, and throughout South America. She seeks to control the government in every country. In Revelation 17:3, she is sitting on a beast, as a rider sits on a horse, controlling it. The early church remained separate from the State, because its task was to win people to Christ, baptize, and teach God's Word. This close association of the Catholic Church with world governments is forbidden by God. Hence, God calls the relationship "fornication" with the kings of the earth.
4) She "sits upon many waters" (17:1). Verse 15 tells us that the waters are "peoples and multitudes and nations and languages." The Roman Catholic Church has considerable influence in many nations in the world—particularly those of Europe.
5) She is "full of names of blasphemy" (17:3). Rome claims titles and attributes which belong only to God or Christ—such as Holy Father, Father, Monsignor (lord), Pontifix Maximus, Reverend, His Holiness, Fili Vicarii Dei (in the place of the Son of God).
6) The whore sits on seven mountains (17:9). It is well known that Rome is built on seven hills.
7) She is arrayed in purple and scarlet (17:4). Popes, cardinals, and priests dress in scarlet on numerous festival occasions.
8) She is "adorned with gold and pearls and precious stones" (17:4). The Catholic Church has great wealth.
9) She is full of abominations and filthiness (17:4). Sexual immorality is rampant among the leadership and priests—such as fornication, homosexuality, child molestation, etc.
10) "Mystery" is a prominent feature of Catholicism (17:5). Much mystery exists in her services. For example, services are conducted in Latin; the claim to convert bread into the actual flesh of Christ; the deceased's unknown time spent in purgatory; etc.
11) She is called "Babylon the Great" (17:5). Roman Catholic "mother and child worship" was adopted from similar aspects of the ancient mystery religion of Babylon. There is abundant proof that Catholicism's practices and beliefs came from pagan Babylon, not from the Bible.
12) She is the "mother of harlots" (17:5). Rome has given rise to many daughter religions with practices similar to her own—including Protestantism itself.
13) She is "drunk" with the blood of saints and martyrs (17:6). The Roman Catholic Church has endlessly persecuted, tortured, and killed those who disagree with papal control—such as John Huss, Savonarolla, Tyndale, Wycliffe, Latimer, etc.
26. Catholicism Turns People Away From Christ
The Roman Catholic Church counterfeits almost every work Christ does for Christians—thus turning people's attention from Jesus to something or someone else.
1) They point people to church sacraments, turning them away from trusting in Christ alone.
2) They emphasize church tradition as the guide to life, turning them away from the Bible.
3) They direct people to the priest as mediator, thus turning them away from Christ as mediator.
4) They teach people to pray to saints, thus turning them away from praying to God.
5) They urge people to pray to Mary, as merciful, thus turning them away from praying to God, claiming Him to be harsh, unwelcoming, and unapproachable.
6) They point to Peter as the Rock on which the church is based, thus turning them away from Christ as the true Rock.
7) They direct people to popes as Pontiffs (bridge builders), thus turning people away from Christ as the only hope of salvation.
8) They teach people to do works of penance to gain God's favor, instead of accepting Christ's promises of forgiveness.
9) They require people to believe in Catholic doctrine and papal infallibility as their authority, thus rejecting the voice of God speaking to their conscience.
27. Catholicism Teaches Salvation by Sacraments and Good Works
The Catholic Church promotes a false Gospel of "good works for salvation," denying the sufficiency of Christ's work on the cross. Catholics are taught that to have salvation they must keep the sacraments, the mass, and do good works. This is different from the Bible's definition of the Gospel: "Now I am declaring to you, brethren, the same gospel that I proclaimed to you … that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried; and that He was raised the third day, according to the Scriptures" (I Corinthians 15:1-4).
We are saved by faith in Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. There are numerous biblical passages teaching that our works will do not save us. For example: "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this especially is not of your own selves; it is the gift of God, not of works, so that no one may boast" (Ephesians 2:8-9).
Where, then, do "good works" come in? Good works come after conversion—because we are learning to love and give to others as we develop Christ's mind. "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto the good works that God ordained beforehand in order that we might walk in them" (Ephesians 2:10).
17. Names of Blasphemy
Catholic officials take names for themselves reserved solely for God, such as:
1) Pontiff (or Pontifix Maximus) which is a papal title meaning "chief bridge builder between earth and heaven." Only Jesus has this role.
2) Holy Father is the title the popes claim for themselves, yet Jesus addressed His heavenly father in this way in His Gethsemane prayer before His crucifixion: "Holy Father, keep them in Your name, those whom You have given Me" (John 17:11).
3) Father is a title Catholic priests claim, yet Jesus said to call no man Father (Matthew 23:9).
4) Monsignor means "my Lord," and this title belongs to God.
5) Reverend is a title Catholic priests and Protestant ministers claim—but belongs to God alone (Psalms 111:9).
6) Mary as Queen of Heaven. The "Queen of Heaven" is a pagan goddess. Jeremiah rebuked the Israelites when burned incense to the queen of heaven (Jeremiah 7:18; 44:17-19).
18. Transubstantiation (Instituted in AD 1215)
Definition:"The whole substance of the bread and wine is converted into the actual and real, entire body and blood of Christ." Radbertus first suggested this idea in the 9th century. Catholicism supports this by a literal view of Matthew 26:26-29. The bread and wine, however, were only symbols of Christ's body and blood—partaken of as an act of remembrance (Luke 22:19). There is no "conversion" of the bread into literal flesh, nor of the wine into blood. Note:
1) Jesus, after saying "this is My blood" in verse 28, added: "I will not drink at all of this fruit of the vine…" (verse 29)—showing that it was still wine and had not changed into blood.
2) Jesus often described Himself in symbols, yet no one takes these literally:
• John 10:7 "I am the door"—Did Jesus mean He was literally wooden? No.
• John 14:6 "I am the way"—Did Jesus mean He was literally a road? No.
• John 15:5 "I am the vine"—Did Jesus mean He was a literally a vine? No.
• John 8:12 "I am the light"—Did Jesus mean He was literally a light? No.
• John 6:48 "I am the bread of life"—Did Jesus mean He was literally a loaf of bread? No.
• John 6:63 indicates that Jesus was speaking figuratively, spiritually—not literally.
3) The bread and wine did not become Christ's body and blood because God forbids the drinking of blood (Deuteronomy 12:16; Acts 15:20, 29).
4) We take Christ as our Savior once. Passover is to be a recurring memorial and, therefore, has no saving merit of itself. Catholics are commanded to believe in transubstantiation because the teaching was decreed at the Council of Trent (1551) as essential for salvation. The Council pronounced a curse on anyone who would deny it. Paul, on the other hand, pronounced a double curse in Galatians 1:6-9 on anyone who preached a different Gospel—one that denied Christ's death and resurrection as being fully sufficient for salvation.
5) Before Jesus ascended into heaven, He promised to come to us via the Holy Spirit—not through some mysterious "sacrifice of the mass." "[God] shall give you another Comforter, that it may be with you throughout the age: even the Spirit of the truth, which the world cannot receive because it perceives it not, nor knows it; but you know it because it dwells with you, and shall be within you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you" (John 14:16-18).
How then do we "eat Christ's flesh and drink Christ's blood"? By taking in the words of God when we call on Christ to save us: "The words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life" (John 6:63). Peter got the message: "You have the words of eternal life" (verse 68). The scribes, who heard Jesus' words, understood the Hebraic idea of receiving God's words into one's inner being: "Your words were found, and I ate them" (Jeremiah 15:16); "I will put My law in their inward parts" (Jeremiah 31:34).
If the transubstantiation doctrine was formulated in the 9th century and is necessary for salvation, what happened to all those living before that time, before transubstantiation was thought of? Did they all go to hell?
19. The Mass (Instituted in AD 394)
Definition: "At every mass, Christ is sacrificed again." Catholicism says: "In the mass, no less than on Calvary, Jesus really offers His life to His Father."
But must Jesus be continually sacrificed—or was His one-time death sufficient to pay for sin forever? Christ's one-time sacrifice is sufficient; here's why:
1) Jesus, as He died, said: "It is finished" (John 19:30)—the whole work of salvation, for which He came into the world, was accomplished on the cross. Nothing more can be added to it. The mass insults Christ's death on the cross as being not good enough to pay fully for all of our sins.
2) When Jesus died, the veil in the Jews' Temple as torn from top to bottom (Matthew 27:51), showing that the way into God's presence was open to all believers in Christ's work on the cross. No other sacrifice or priesthood was needed, just Jesus' High Priesthood.
3) The New Covenant states that: "Now where remission of these is, it is no longer necessary to offer sacrifices for sin" (Hebrews 10:18). The Catholic mass contradicts this clear statement.
4) In the book of Hebrews, Christ's sacrifice is said to be accomplished "once" for all—never to be repeated: Hebrews 7:27; Hebrews 9:25, 26, 28; and Hebrews 10: 10, 12, 14, 18. Peter adds that "Christ indeed once suffered for sins" (I Peter 3:18).
20. Penance
Definition: "Penance is performing outward acts, such as repeating prayers like the Hail Mary or Rosary, as a payment for sin, and to satisfy God."
Rome bases its penance teaching on incorrectly translating "repentance" ("to change one's mind," as in Ezekiel 18:30, Luke 13:5, Acts 2:28, etc.) as "penance." Catholicism believes that a priest has the power to forgive or retain sins and to impose penance as a means of testing the genuineness of one's confession—and of "satisfying" God concerning one's sin.
But sinners can only be forgiven, accepted, and justified on the ground of Christ's sacrifice. It is this alone that satisfies the justice and wrath of God against us. "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved" (Acts 16:31). We must confess our sins to God: "If we confess our own sins, He is faithful and righteous, to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (I John 1:9).
21. Black Robes Worn by Priests and Nuns
Why would priests and nuns, who are supposed to represent God and cheer people with the joy and certainty of salvation, spend all their lives dressed in long, morbid, black robes? Black is the color of death. Jesus, the apostles, and early Christians never wore long black robes. The practice came from pagan priests wearing black robes before AD 320.
22. Extreme Unction or Last Rites
Catholicism teaches that on one's deathbed sin can be totally undone and one prepared for salvation. This idea is found nowhere in the Bible. Rather, a person's only hope is to receive Christ as Savior, trusting in His sacrifice as full payment for sin. Keeping such sacraments traps Catholics into believing that they will gain salvation by good works. The sacrament system enslaves a person's mind to the Catholic Church from the cradle to the grave.
23. Low Moral Standards
The Protestant moral code comes directly from the Bible. For example: "Don't steal" means don't steal. But the Catholic moral code is based mainly on canon law, and secondarily on the Bible. "Don't steal" to Catholics means, "Stealing is all right provided that the value of the thing stolen is not excessive" (Liguori). What matters to the Catholic is the authority of the Catholic Church, as interpreted by the priest.
Catholicism doesn't seek to stir the conscience to decide between right and wrong, but to allow the priests to decide what is right and wrong. Drinking and gambling, considered vices by Protestants, are not counted as evil in Catholicism, except when indulged to excess. Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, states: "If anything shall appear white to our eyes, which the church has defined as black, we likewise must declare it to be black." This means, Don't' think for yourself—just accept whatever Rome tells you. Here's what's going on in Catholicism:
1) Sexual Abuse—Every year we hear of priests being jailed (or simply transferred to another Parrish) for sexually abusing women or children. But if the Catholic Church is the mother of holiness, how can these things be?
2) Alcohol Abuse—Catholic theologian Ligouri states: "It is not a mortal sin to get drunk, unless one loses completely the use of his mental faculties for over one hour."
3) Gambling—Catholic bingo familiarizes young people with gambling, and gives gambling the church's stamp of approval.
24. Catholic Persecution of Protestants
The Catholic Church has a long history of persecution against non-Catholics. When noble people left Catholicism in protest—looking to Jesus alone for salvation, and to the Bible for truth while rejecting the false claims of the popes—Rome called them heretics. They were bitterly opposed, tortured, and killed. Documents reveal that various Catholic leaders murdered around 68 million "protesters" from 1100-1800 AD. The following are a few notable cases:
1) 100,000 Albigenses (Protestants) were massacred in one day in 1211, then burned in heaps.
2) 10,000 Huguenots (French Protestants) were killed in Paris on St. Bartholomew's Day, and 75,000 the week after. The Huguenot Wars killed 200,000 Protestants.
3) The "Thirty Years War" in Germany saw the population drop from 15 million to 5 million due to Catholic invading armies killing 900,000 Protestants.
4) The Spanish Armada was sent to conquer Protestant England by the Catholic King Philip of Spain. Fortunately, bad weather destroyed the fleet offthe coast of England.
Truly, the Roman Catholic Church is "drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus" (Revelation 17:6).
25. The Roman Catholic Church is the Whore of Revelation 17
Who or what is the whore/woman of Revelation 17? Here are 13 points indicating that the "whore" is the Roman Catholic Church.
1) "And the woman whom you saw is the great city that has royal power over the kings of the earth" (Revelation 17:18). What city reigned over the kings of the earth in the first century? Rome. Roman emperors (and popes) were called "Pontifix Maximus."
2) She is called the "great whore" in Revelation 17:1. A whore is unfaithful to her husband by having relationships with many suitors. So is the Catholic Church—unfaithful to God's Word, as seen by her adopting numerous unbiblical doctrines—and by seeking political alliances with dictators and governments of the world.
3) "[With] whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication" (17:2). The Roman Church has always sought to further her purposes by controlling politicians, kings, and governments. She is the "state church" in many countries—Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Ireland, and throughout South America. She seeks to control the government in every country. In Revelation 17:3, she is sitting on a beast, as a rider sits on a horse, controlling it. The early church remained separate from the State, because its task was to win people to Christ, baptize, and teach God's Word. This close association of the Catholic Church with world governments is forbidden by God. Hence, God calls the relationship "fornication" with the kings of the earth.
4) She "sits upon many waters" (17:1). Verse 15 tells us that the waters are "peoples and multitudes and nations and languages." The Roman Catholic Church has considerable influence in many nations in the world—particularly those of Europe.
5) She is "full of names of blasphemy" (17:3). Rome claims titles and attributes which belong only to God or Christ—such as Holy Father, Father, Monsignor (lord), Pontifix Maximus, Reverend, His Holiness, Fili Vicarii Dei (in the place of the Son of God).
6) The whore sits on seven mountains (17:9). It is well known that Rome is built on seven hills.
7) She is arrayed in purple and scarlet (17:4). Popes, cardinals, and priests dress in scarlet on numerous festival occasions.
8) She is "adorned with gold and pearls and precious stones" (17:4). The Catholic Church has great wealth.
9) She is full of abominations and filthiness (17:4). Sexual immorality is rampant among the leadership and priests—such as fornication, homosexuality, child molestation, etc.
10) "Mystery" is a prominent feature of Catholicism (17:5). Much mystery exists in her services. For example, services are conducted in Latin; the claim to convert bread into the actual flesh of Christ; the deceased's unknown time spent in purgatory; etc.
11) She is called "Babylon the Great" (17:5). Roman Catholic "mother and child worship" was adopted from similar aspects of the ancient mystery religion of Babylon. There is abundant proof that Catholicism's practices and beliefs came from pagan Babylon, not from the Bible.
12) She is the "mother of harlots" (17:5). Rome has given rise to many daughter religions with practices similar to her own—including Protestantism itself.
13) She is "drunk" with the blood of saints and martyrs (17:6). The Roman Catholic Church has endlessly persecuted, tortured, and killed those who disagree with papal control—such as John Huss, Savonarolla, Tyndale, Wycliffe, Latimer, etc.
26. Catholicism Turns People Away From Christ
The Roman Catholic Church counterfeits almost every work Christ does for Christians—thus turning people's attention from Jesus to something or someone else.
1) They point people to church sacraments, turning them away from trusting in Christ alone.
2) They emphasize church tradition as the guide to life, turning them away from the Bible.
3) They direct people to the priest as mediator, thus turning them away from Christ as mediator.
4) They teach people to pray to saints, thus turning them away from praying to God.
5) They urge people to pray to Mary, as merciful, thus turning them away from praying to God, claiming Him to be harsh, unwelcoming, and unapproachable.
6) They point to Peter as the Rock on which the church is based, thus turning them away from Christ as the true Rock.
7) They direct people to popes as Pontiffs (bridge builders), thus turning people away from Christ as the only hope of salvation.
8) They teach people to do works of penance to gain God's favor, instead of accepting Christ's promises of forgiveness.
9) They require people to believe in Catholic doctrine and papal infallibility as their authority, thus rejecting the voice of God speaking to their conscience.
27. Catholicism Teaches Salvation by Sacraments and Good Works
The Catholic Church promotes a false Gospel of "good works for salvation," denying the sufficiency of Christ's work on the cross. Catholics are taught that to have salvation they must keep the sacraments, the mass, and do good works. This is different from the Bible's definition of the Gospel: "Now I am declaring to you, brethren, the same gospel that I proclaimed to you … that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried; and that He was raised the third day, according to the Scriptures" (I Corinthians 15:1-4).
We are saved by faith in Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. There are numerous biblical passages teaching that our works will do not save us. For example: "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this especially is not of your own selves; it is the gift of God, not of works, so that no one may boast" (Ephesians 2:8-9).
Where, then, do "good works" come in? Good works come after conversion—because we are learning to love and give to others as we develop Christ's mind. "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto the good works that God ordained beforehand in order that we might walk in them" (Ephesians 2:10).
your a hoot i gave you scriptures i gave you facts ..your reply denial and insults
. i realize your tradition let me share scripture traditions of men. 
