JESUS - NOT Church
Probably the chief cause for catholic heresies is: catholics giving
co-equal submission and obedience to The Church (whatever or whoever THAT is, at the time) - ....equivalent or even superior to CHRIST and HIS Word (as stated in the finite 'already-etched-in-stone' 66-book HOLY BIBLE).
If one compares 'the church' (again, WHATEVER or WHOEVER that is or is
CLAIMED to be) with the [female] bride of Christ, the superior
[male] Christ her husband and HIS Word of the ALREADY COMPLETELY STATED 66-book Written Record overrules His inferior wife [according to Numbers chapter 30 and First Corinthians chapter 11]....when she is not in complete congruence with HIS will.
'The Church' is of course of collection of mortal, fallible, sinner/saint
humans - subservient or (better yet) FREQUENTLY-subservient to and not co-equal with Christ and his NON-apocraphal 66-book
Revealed Word.
It is because of the 'traditions of men' (and especially of WOMEN) that all
sorts of needless - even ridiculous and laughable, if not pathetically
boring and monotonous and burdensome - customs, rituals, and heresies infest
the Catholic body of Christ....whether they are the styles, colors, and
designs of clergy robes with a plethoria of amusing attachments, eucharistic utensils of whatever kinds, or non-harmonious simplistic and non-creative music. Worse yet are the non-Scripture lessons and twisted-doctrine weaselword-semantic encyclicals and readings, word-and-thought-misrepresentation homilies and sermons accompanied by humans-centered humans-fearing superstitions and human-imagination irrationalization myths of purgatory, fake atonement by rosary-bead fondling, false divinity of the pope, alleged divine sinlessness and perpetual virginity of Mary. Deplorable are blasphemous petitionings to non-Divine dead humans like Mary, adoring the paraphenalia of eucharistic ceremonies with salvation presumably acquired thereby along with rejuvination self-accomplished by ingesting wafers and wine, wanna-be pseudo-bible apocrapha (such as Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus, Tobit and Maccabees, Baruch and Judith) touted as genuine Scripture, and so on.
All come from 'traditions' of humans - NOT in accord with the
totality of REAL 66-book-Bible Scripture.
Any 'traditions' Saint Paul wanted us to know about and follow, he and other
New-Testament authors ALREADY HAVE REVEALED in The New
Testament. ANY modern-day or medieval applications or proported
applications can and should be QUESTIONED, and - concordantly - might OR
might NOT be followed, approved of, required, and/or promoted by EACH
INDIVIDUAL Spirit-controlled Christian [not necessary sectarian
catholic].
The HIGHEST and ULTIMATE authority BYPASSING ALL others is Christ
Jesus Himself through the actual Holy Spirit convincing the faithful elect
saints of the will of THE Holy [Heavenly] Father through the Bible
and ONLY through The Bible....without spurious, debatable, and changeable
presumptions, myths, fairy-tale legends, theories, customs, and
superstitions of dubious-reputation and doubtful-qualification 'saints'
or whatever other name ignorant bullypersons puff such with....outside
THE written record New Testament. Even parents and spouse,
who usually should be loved and obeyed, cannot be trusted as the Lord is
trusted, in accord with 'Whoever does not hate his own father, mother,
wife, brothers and sisters, and even their own life cannot be My
disciple.'
For the past 2000 years, through the centuries, and up to the present,
'traditions' have been made up, concocted, and imposed by so-called
'authorities,' 'experts,' 'canonized saints,' 'monks,' 'cardinals,'
'church doctors,' 'bishops,' 'archbishops,' 'popes,' and whoever else
the belligerant and arrogant call them with their one-track-mind legalism.
Many of those 'traditions' and 'teachings' of 'the church' are peculiar
replications, imitations, adaptations, and twistings of Old-Testament
ceremonial (NOT morality/immorality-related) rules, rituals, and regulations which were fulfilled already by and in CHRIST HIMSELF according to the clear testimony of HIMSELF plainly stated in HIS WORD and accompanied by HIS works.
It is certainly NOT necessary nor even advised to worship
God in the format and traditions of a bunch of talmudic rabbis who adore
and worship regulatory everything-else except The REAL Regulator.
'The substance belongs to Christ' and is NOT to be made
substitutionary self-sacrificing graven-image idols of.
Catholics make a big deal out of Eucharist as if it was The Ultimate Act
of SELF-Sacrifice SELF-saving themselves through SELF-blessing and SELF-
atonement [or blaphemously have OTHERS take over the SELF part for them,
as other-human worshippers]. Such BLASPHEMY is rampant and extremely
obnoxious, despicable to the prophet who states 'I HATE your services and
sacrifices, and DESPISE your eucharistic nibblings and sippings.'
A ONE-time REQUEST (NOT 'command') was made by Christ ALONE at the Last
Supper to His TWELVE disciples, and ONLY to THEM at THAT occasion. Other
than that, allusion to ANYTHING even close to that is MERELY and BRIEFLY
made in a FEW verses in only ONE of PAUL's epistles (I Corinthians 11) -
that's ALL - and even then it is in the context of simply performing
ORDERLY church picnics, banquets, lunches, and brunches without lethal
hogwild gluttony and drunkenness, overloading on the bread and booze.
WAR AND THE MINDSET OF SCAPEGOATING AND SELF-RIGHTEOUS
BELLIGERANTLY-CRUSADING AGGRESSION
Adolf Hitler wanted a EuroAsia under Nazism. The Russian Bolsheviks
wanted a EuroAsia under Communism. Satan was thus divided against Satan,
because both wanted their own brand of loveless brutal tyranny without
inclusion of Torah-loving Jews and especially without Biblical Christians.
What was the point in FDR and the Americans having a Pearl-Harbor military naval and air base imposed within the territory of Asian-looking
Hawaiians (part of the 'kings of the east')? Why did the political
administration of the United States incite Japanese asians to attack Pearl
Harbor because of a geographical proximity threat of decadent expansionism?
It would have been a LONG way for Japs to fly their attack planes from the Japanese homeland to the coastal cities of San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, etc. without refueling on aircraft carriers. Even refueling from ships en route would have been difficult and telling, as international waters are open-game territory for everyone's skill at deliberate mis-identification accidents and target practice.
The genuinely-Christian peaceful missionary journeys of Saint Paul
were not preceded nor accompanied by military buildup and deployment of
JudeoChristian metal Weapons of Mass Aggression. So the World War II
butting in of America was quite questionable, and seriously detracts from
hero worship of GI patriots haplessly drafted and forced to commit
pseudo-self-defense mortal belligerance within the Pacific-arena conflict
which they should never have gotten into in the first place. [One wonders, however, how 'patriotic' fat and sassy americans and their offspring are
who now rudely tailgate on the roads and expect you to promptly get out of their way in stores].
On the European front, what business was it of the United States to go to
war against Hitler because of a ally pact they had made with England and
other European countries? Nazi war against relatives in the Old Country was
their own problem, not that of Americans. DID the U.S. have to come to the aid of Russians when the Nazis foolishly attacked Moscow during the worst of the Siberian winter, or did the Russians fend for themselves quite adequately, thank you? Did the Brits under Churchill REALLY need U.S. help to beat back the Germans in London and elsewhere in the Isles? No.
If the U.S. administration knew that Hitler was claiming coastal waters of Europe as his own, why did they engage in hostilities against him by imposing American ships in forbidden waters when Hitler had not imposed his ships nor planes along the coastal waters of the United States? And there is certainly NO excuse for 'pre-emptive' strike without REASONABLE probable cause....as there is no point in aborting a babe in the womb whom (not which) one PRESUMES is GOING to BECOME a murderer or rapist SOMEDAY.
Apocrapha
God - NOT Heresies!