The Catholic way of salvation saves no-one, not the Pope nor its parishioners.

This has been debated for centuries, especially from the Reformation that in its endeavor to change the church from within to be more Biblical, that they were forced to leave the Roman church, which was the for the best for all pursuing the truth, since Rome does not want to change. It can’t and no one knows what the future holds on this specifically, though we do have biblical estimations by prophecy.

John in the book of Revelation, explains what the great apostasy would look like, being called, “Babylon the Great”, likened her to a woman who prostitutes herself to the kings of the earth. Babylon, In Iraq no longer existing at the time of John wrote the prophecy.
this apostasy would be an archetype of Ancient Babylon, where Nimrod, the world;s first ruler presided over the empire. Thus adopted by Rome her Emperor.

Roman Catholicism has always mixed the pagan religions of people of Rome and elsewhere as their way to reach and convert masses to their Christianity. It began by the paganism entrenched inRome that became "Christianized" under Constantine, that began to claim the Christian fulfilments to be separate from the Jewish Scriptures. For example, the statues of Isis and Horus were renamed Mary and Jesus.

Rome’s doctrine throughout the years

Original sin is wiped clean by (water) baptism and that one may now earn their way to heaven through good deeds, penance, eating Christ's body and blood as the Eucharist, prayers to Mary and the saints, qualifying for indulgences, and a host of other means invented with no relation to Scripture all thee prevent "grace" to be available to the Catholic directly from Christ, or God but comes through the Church and its sacraments and especially through Mary, who is called "the dispenser of all grace." The Catholic Church has long taught that "all grace is passed from God to Jesus, from Jesus to Mary, and from Mary to us. All this makes Rome’s Catholicism a different religion than what the Jewish apostles established.

The Bible explains what is the way to eternal life, that we can do nothing of ourselves to work for it, no sacred or secular work over and over, it is explicitly stated in God’s word not by any work. But their church ignores this repeated statement.

Christ said, "Come unto me"(Matthew 11:28); Believe in me, follow me, my Word.

The council of Trent rejected every other point brought by the reformation that used the authority of the Bible, most importantly salvation by grace alone through faith. The sufficiency of Christ once-for-all sacrifice, on the cross. Rejecting the priesthood of all believers they affirmed purgatory and the solution by indulgences, Mariolatry and images. Salvation was now only by works and through the continual resacrifice of Christ in the Mass. All of these remain in Romes Catholicism today.

The Roman catholic church SAYS: salvation comes by the church. Justification is not by grace alone through faith alone but requires meritorious works in order to earn one’s way into Heaven. Council of Trent Canons 9 and 14 say, “ If any one saith, that by faith alone the impious is justified…let him be anathema.”

SCRIPTURE SAYS: “For by grace you have been saved through faith . And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. “

So they are boasting, which is attractive to those who are prideful. As Scripture tells us to humble ourelves to receive salvation. But unless one humbles themselves they cannot be saved in the Biblical manner; that Jesus instructed.

Peter who they claim is their Pope, taught that men are born again through the Word of God (1 Peter 1:23), he did not ever speak of traditions.

SACRAMENTS NECESSARY FOR SALVATION

1129 The Church affirms that for believers the sacraments of the New Covenant are necessary for salvation. ... The fruit of the sacramental life is that the Spirit of adoption makes the faithful partakers in the divine nature by uniting them in a living union with the only Son, the Saviour. It was no longer as the bible taught, by grace through fith in Christs work called the gospel.

INFANTS were pronounced BORN AGAIN THROUGH BAPTISM. Through a ceremony using creation.

1250 Born with a fallen human nature and tainted by original sin, children also have need of the new birth in Baptism to be freed from the power of darkness and brought into the realm of the freedom of the children of God ... The Church and the parents would deny a child the priceless grace of becoming a child of God were they not to confer Baptism shortly after birth .

The Catholic Church Surpassed 1,422 Billion Baptized Members, many who are children that have no idea they were baptized until later. purgatory going to get crowded by so many enjoin the church.

Their church teaches baptism is the way to be saved when its not according to the Bible.

How bad is this interpretation? Extremely wrong since baptism is to comes only after one is saved. It is always A BELIEVERS BAPTISM OR IT DOES NOT MEAN WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES WHAT IT MEANS. Its all a meaningless ritual.

They claim Infant Baptism removes Original Sin which renders Christ’s Crucifixion and the gospel unnecessary and directly challenges the Scripture:

By the church comes their salvation

St. Augustine (354-430), Bishop and Doctor of the Church, Said:
"No man can find salvation except in the Catholic Church. Outside the Catholic Church one can have everything except salvation. One can have honor, one can have sacraments, one can sing alleluia, one can answer amen, one can have faith in the Name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Ghost, and preach it too, but never can one find salvation except in the Catholic Church ."

St. Fulgentius (468-533), Bishop:
"Most firmly hold and never doubt that not only pagans, but also Jews, all heretics, and all schismatics who finish this life outside of the Catholic Church , will go into eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels."
St. Cyprian (476-546) made it clear that: "Outside the Church there is no salvation."

Pope St. Gregory the Great (590-604) speaking ex cathedra, (On behalf of christ)when he proclaimed:
"The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her and asserts that none who are outside of Her will be saved ."

St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226): "All who have not believed that Jesus Christ was really the Son of God are doomed. Also, all who see the (Catholic) Sacrament of the Body of Christ and do not believe it is really the most holy Body and Blood of the Lord . . . these also are doomed!"

Well he was HALF RIGHT before he added to it.
St. Thomas Aquinas (1226-1274), "the Angelic Doctor" of the Church:
"There is no entering into salvation outside the Catholic Church, just as in the time of the Flood there was not salvation outside the Ark, which denotes the Church."

St. Louis Marie de Montfort (1673-1716):
" There is no salvation outside the Catholic Church. Anyone who resists this truth perishes."

What does the bible say, there is no salvation in any other but Jesus Christ.

Pope Innocent III speaking ex cathedra ( which made him to be like an apostle giving the word of God like a prophet) at the Fourth Lateran Council , in 1215, he proclaimed : "There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside of which no one at all can be saved." Convened by Innocent III in 1215, the Fourth Lateral, Council was the most important ecumenical gathering up until that point in history. More than four hundred bishops and archbishops, eight hundred priors and abbots, and the ambassadors of Europe's kingdoms and cities were in attendance. The Council established the main elements of Catholic culture as it exists today, and among those elements is the resolute assertion that "There is indeed one universal church of the faithful outside of which nobody at all is saved, in which Jesus Christ is both priest and sacrifice." As a consequence, ecclesiastical authorities felt an even stronger need to call yen Jews and others. In 1229, this same Pope decreed that only ordained priests were allowed to read the Bible and two years later he began the Inquisition which lasted 600 years.

A little over a decade after the Fourth Lateran Council, in 1231, Council Pope Gregory IX established the Inquisition.
Pope Gregory IX speaking infallibly for God, when he proclaimed "The pope is the lord and master of the Universe, things as well as people. " That’s WHAT THE Bible Calls blasphemy. The Bible calls this kind of statement of antichrist SPIRIT.
Pope Eugene IVspeaking ex cathedra, when in 1441, in the Bull Cantate Domino he proclaimed "The Most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church , not only pagans, also Jews, heretics, and schismatics can ever be partakers of eternal life , but that they are to go into the eternal fire 'which was prepared for the devil and his angels' (Mt. 25:41) unless before death they are joined with Her. . . No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ can be saved unless they abide within the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church."

In 1442, the Council of Florence proclaimed: `The holy Roman church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews and heretics and schismatlcs, cannot share in eternal life, and will go into the everlasting fire, `which was prepared for the devil and his angels', unIess they are joined to the Catholic Church before the end of their lives... Nobody can be saved no matter how much he has given away alms and even if he has shed his blood in the name of Christ, unless he has Nobody can be saved no matter how much he has given away alms and even if he has shed his blood in the name of Christ, unless he has persevered in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church "
or Pope Boniface VIII, who proclaimed in the Papal Bull "Unam Sanctam" in 1302: "We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman (Catholic) Pontiff ."
[Catholic commentator's comments: This means, and has always meant, that salvation and unity exist only within the Catholic Church, and that members of heretical groups cannot be considered as "part" of the Church of Christ. This doctrine has been the consistent teaching of the Popes throughout the centuries. Further, it is dogmatically set forth that no authority in the Church, no matter how highly placed, may lawfully attempt to change the clear meaning of this (or any) infallible dogma.]

According to Pope Innocent IV, above and beyond being "Vicar of Christ", "The pope is the vicar of the Creator to whom every human creature is subject."

And what about Pope Pius XII (1939-1958), he proclaimed:
"Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing . Some reduce to a meaningless formula the necessity of belonging to the true Church in order to gain eternal salvation . Others finally belittle the reasonable character of the credibility of Christian Faith. These and like errors, it is clear, have crept in among certain of our sons who are deceived by imprudent zeal for souls or by false science."

Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), in his encyclical Satis Cognitum (On the Unity of the Church: June 29, 1896), gave in detail the necessity to hold to the Catholic Faith in its entirety:

"There can be nothing more dangerous than those heretics who admit nearly the entire cycle of Catholic doctrine and yet, by a single word , as with a drop of poison, infect the real and simple faith taught by our Lord and handed down by Apostolic tradition ... For such is the nature of the faith that nothing can be more absurd than to accept some things and to reject others. If, then, it be certain that anything is revealed by God, and this is not believed, then nothing whatever is believed by divine faith... But he who dissents even in one point from divinely- revealed truth absolutely rejects all faith, since he refuses to honor God [who is one] as the Supreme Truth and formal motive of faith. In many things they are with me, in a few things not with me; but in those few things in which they are not with me, the many in which they are will not profit them....
There should be no doubt that the Catholic Church teaches and has always taught that without believing and professing the Catholic Faith, in its entirety, no one can be saved. It is thus an infallible teaching which cannot be changed in any way, and which itself is necessary for belief.
Venerable Pope Pius IX(1846-78) declared ex cathedra in his Bull Ineffabilis Deus (1854) on the Immaculate Conception of Mary that to deny a defined doctrine, or to even think "otherwise than has been defined," is to be condemned :
Wherefore, if any should presume to think in their hearts otherwise than has been defined by Us , which God forbid, let them know and understand that they are condemned by their own judgment ; that they have suffered shipwreck in regard to faith.
In his Syllabus of Errors (1864) Venerable Pope Pius IX, in exercising his supreme teaching authority, solemnly declared that it is an error:
16: to believe that men can find the path of eternal salvation and attain eternal salvation in the practice of any religion whatsoever.
18: to believe that Protestantism is nothing other than a different form of the same true Christian religion, in which it is possible to serve God as well as in the Catholic Church.
21: to believe that the Church does not have the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion ...
Nevertheless, to make this teaching clear, the Church has exercised her highest authority in defining the necessity of believing and professing the Catholic Faith in order to attain salvation.
Pope Pius XII (1939-58) unequivocally declares in Ad Apostolorum Principis that: No one can depart from the teaching of Catholic truth without loss of faith and salvation.
Pope John XXIII (1958-63), in his Papal Oath, proclaimed: Outside this true Catholic faith no one can be saved, so help me God!

Two years after the the Council of Trent, the Roman Catholic Church's response to the Protestant movement, which Pope Pius IV had convened for and supervised, Pius promulgated a profession of faith which spelled out in much greater detail than the three other official Catholic creeds what Roman Catholics must believe in order to be saved I acknowledge the Holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church as the mother and teacher of all churches; and I promise true obedience to the Bishop of Rome, successor to St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and Vicar of Jesus Christ .

So it continues through the centuries until its demise
I likewise undoubtedly receive and profess all other things delivered, defined, and declared by the sacred Canons, and general Councils, and particularly by the holy Council of Trent, and by the ecumenical Council of the Vatican, particularly concerning the primacy of the Roman Pontiff and his infallible teaching. I condemn, reject, and anathematize all things contrary thereto, and all heresies which the Church hath condemned, rejected, and anathematized.
This true Catholic faith, outside of which no one can be saved, which I now freely profess and to which I truly adhere, I do so profess and swear to maintain inviolate and with firm constancy with the help of God until the last breath of life. And I shall strive, as far as possible, that this same faith shall be held, taught, and professed by all those over whom I have charge. IN. do so pledge, promise, and swear, so help me God and these Holy Gospels of God . "
Corruption after corruption by tradition after tradition they introduced what was unbiblical, merging paganism that resulted in idolatry and spiritual fornication, and it became a new religious system bearing little

resemblance to the New Testament church that BEGAN with Israel, Jewish believers that wrote the eternal word.

It was during this period that ten false doctrines were introduced into the church.

First, justification by works, not by faith.

Second, baptismal regeneration; that a person is saved by baptism.

Third, the bowing to, worship of images.

Fourth, celibacy; forbidding priests to marry, Mking a distinction between clergy and laity, not just about attire.

Fifth, confessionalism; sins are confessed to a priest who then declares absolution of those sins.

Sixth, purgatory; a place of confinement which is neither Heaven nor Hell, but a place where one has to become “refined” before going into Heaven, the sanctification of Jesus is annulled not complete at death.

Seventh, indulgences; that through the giving of money, a person's time in purgatory could be reduced.

Eighth, penance; involving the torment of the body in order to reduceone's time in purgatory.

Ninth,

transubstantiation; the concept of the continual and perpetual sacrifice of the Messiah.

And, tenth, Mariolatry; the exaltation of a mere human the worship of the Virgin Mary, as the “mother of God” and the declaration of her deity. All this led to idolatry and spiritual fornication. Roman Catholic Church became the Christendom of the Dark Ages identified as Jezebel of Thyatira inthe bible.

 

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