Anyone can call himself a Christian, but that doesn’t make it so. Anyone
can quote the Bible, but that doesn’t make him saved.

So say “farewell, ” “goodbye,” “hope the heat doesn’t get to you” to all
your Catholic friends. For one thing is certain. There is no room in
Heaven for Mary-loving, incense-burning, Pope-adoring, candle-lighting,
apparition-seeing, statue-slobbering, ring-kissing, wafer-eating, stained
glass-loving, altar-boy banging, mackarel-snapping idol-worshipers!

Anyone can call himself a Christian, but that doesn't make it so. Anyone
can quote the Bible, but that doesn't make him saved. Anyone can build a
giant, elaborate cathedral, with stained glass windows and ornate
sculptures, but that doesn't make him Heaven-bound. Friends, the number
of Hell-bound heathens claiming to believe in Jesus is countless.

They go by names like Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Moonies and Branch
Davidians. No matter the name, they will roast on a spit above Satan's
hot coals for eternity while we sip Rothschild's finest with our Savior
in Heaven. But perhaps the most dangerous cult, whose members will be the
first plunged into Lucifer's fiery abyss, is also one of the most
popular. I am, of course, referring to the Catholics.

Catholics claim to be Christians despite the fact that much of what they
believe constitutes the essence of blasphemy. They spit in Jesus' face
every time they hold mass, yet many saved Christians still believe
Catholics will be ascending to Heaven with us. How could our colleagues
be fooled by a religion that is so obviously anti-Christian? They assume
that, because the Catholics have millions of followers worldwide, they
must believe something right. Well, let me tell you something -
popularity means nothing. Sixty million Americans eat Spam but that
hardly makes it good.

The ways in which Catholics defy God's word are too numerous to describe
in this sermon. So let me just focus on a few. First, they worship
mortals, something God expressly admonished against. Catholics claim to
love Jesus and claim to believe in the Holy Trinity. But they don't limit
their worship to God, as the Bible demands (Exodus 20:3).

Instead, they pray to mere mortals - Mary, Joseph and the so-called
"saints" - humans, whom they have made gods in their own right. Humans,
who they believe can perform the miracles of our Savior. I once saw a
Catholic woman praying beside her car in a mall parking lot. When I asked
her if she was praying to the Lord, she said, "no," she was praying to
Saint Anthony to help her find her car keys.

This is idolatry, pure and simple. The Bible orders us not to pray to
dead men (Psalms 106:28), and Jesus instructs us not to pray to angels
(Colossians 2:18). We are to have one God, and one God alone. The
Catholics actually worship a woman! Mary, the woman who was selected at
random to serve as the incubator for Christ. There are actually documents
written by popes that say Mary, a mortal female, is the key to salvation.
Blasphemy doesn't get more blatant than that.

But the Catholics don't stop there. They actually bow before and pray to
statues - graven images not only of God but of these mortals they (not
God) have declared to be saints. Bowing to images is the essence of
idolatry (Exodus 20:5; Deuteronomy 5;9; Isaiah 44:17; Daniel 3:5, 10,
15), even if the image is of God (Exodus 32:4-6 with Psalms 106:19-20).
What happens to those who practice idolatry? They never enter the Kingdom
of Heaven (Galatians 5:19-21; Ephesians 5:5; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10).

There are numerous other Catholic beliefs that run afoul of God's word.
The Catholics believe some people neither go to Heaven nor Hell, but
instead wind up in an imaginary fantasyland they call "purgatory" (even
though there is no such place described in the Bible). The Catholics
believe we cannot confess our sins to God directly, but instead have to
recite them to a pedophile intermediary, despite the fact that the Bible
never suggests this.

They think, in order to be forgiven of sin, we have to recite rote
prayers over and over (like some elementary school kid ordered to write,
"I will not talk in class" 100 times on the blackboard), even though such
nonsense finds no support in the Bible. They baptize babies before they
know the difference between Jesus and Pampers. Even Click Here worse,
they reject the Bible in favor of the statements of some nelly queen in a
dress and a Madonna bosom-cup hat, believing anything that idol says
while in the cathedral comes from God. That is blasphemy if the term has
any meaning! And worst of all, they don't believe one must be born again
to enter the Kingdom of Heaven!

The bottom line is that the Catholic church is nothing more than a cult
that happened to catch on. Granted, the pope has a greater following than
Jim Jones did, but the distinction ends there. One need only watch an
altar boy walk bowlegged from a priest's chambers to recognize theirs is
hardly the "true faith."

Homosexuality is not merely something the Catholics have overlooked and
ignored. It is something they have actively promoted. And if all of that
isn't enough to convince you of the truth, bear in mind that Catholics
claim to have seen visions of the face of Mary bleeding on objects
ranging from an adobe wall to a bowel movement. They might as well be
Elvis-spotters. And for all the good the pomp and circumstance of their
services will do them, the Catholics might as well just sacrifice pets on
their front lawns. That would give them the same shot at Heaven -- none.

So say "farewell, " "goodbye," "hope the heat doesn't get to you" to all
your Catholic friends. For one thing is certain. There is no room in
Heaven for Mary-loving, incense-burning, Pope-adoring, candle-lighting,
apparition-seeing, statue-slobbering, ring-kissing, wafer-eating, stained
glass-loving, altar-boy banging, mackarel-snapping idol-worshipers!


--
Rev Dr Pastor ***** F Foot BA, DD, FFD
The Guardian of English Christianity
Broomleigh Baptist Church AG (Zurich)
111 Lime Walk, Chelmsford CM2 9NJ, Great Britain
http://www.church.broomleigh.org/


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So say “farewell, ” “goodbye,” “hope the heat doesn’t get to you” to all
your Catholic friends. For one thing is certain. There is no room in
Heaven for Mary-loving, incense-burning, Pope-adoring, candle-lighting,
apparition-seeing, statue-slobbering, ring-kissing, wafer-eating, stained
glass-loving, altar-boy banging, mackarel-snapping idol-worshipers!

Anyone can call himself a Christian, but that doesn’t make it so.

Anyone
can quote the Bible, but that doesn’t make him saved.

They go by names like Mormons,

Homosexuality is not merely something the Catholics have overlooked and
ignored. It is something they have actively promoted.