What I Don’t Get About the Catholic Church

What i don’t understand is how you guys can ignore how evil the church has been in the past.
BFHU: Catholics have done evil and so have Protestants. Just like it is not the Protestant Christian faith that condones evil, so it is not the Catholic Faith that condones evil. The recent sex scandal of [...]

I Was Taught to Pray to Mary as a Catholic Child

WG: I used to be a catholic until I started to read the Bible .
BFHU: Do you know how you came to have a Bible? The Catholic Church. Even Martin Luther admitted this.
As a catholic child I was taught to PRAY to Mary and the
other saints . This practise still goes on all over the [...]

Scripture vs. the Catholic Church:Mary was NOT “Ever Virgin”

Constantine:
SCRIPTURE
After this he (Jesus) went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples. John 2:12
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Mary is “ever virgin” and Jesus did not, therefore, have any siblings. (Unless they were all “virgin births” making them all Christs.)
BFHU: Again these verses are taken out of the context of the New Testament and [...]

Mary Did Not Have Sex “UNTIL” Jesus was Born.

Lynne: There is one small word UNTIL that is used in Matt 1:25. You need to understand the Jewish system of marriage. If the wife became pregnant you stopped having sex UNTIL the baby was born.
BFHU: I have never heard of that before. Can you cite the source for this information. It is interesting but [...]

Mary, Mother of God?

Q. Does the title Mary the Mother of God mean that she existed before God ?
A. Absolutely not. She is fully human. During the early centuries a heresy arose concerning the nature of Jesus Christ. This heresy claimed that Jesus was not divine but only a human being. So, Christians coined the term “Mary, Mother [...]

Feast of St. Irenaeus

St. Irenaeus was born in Asia around 120 A.D. He sat under the teaching St. Polycarp who was instructed in the Faith by St. John the Apostle. From St. Irenaeus’ Against Heresies:
Mary is the Mother of God
“The Virgin Mary, …being obedient to His word, received from an angel the glad tidings that she would bear [...]

Mary Can’t Hear Your Prayers

NAV: Prayer is only to be directed to our God, who can listen and hear my prayer…
BFHU: Could you please support this with Scripture?
NAV: If we pray to Mary at the same time at different parts of this world do you think she could hear us?… only God could hear us all at the same [...]

The “New” Dogma of the Immaculate Conception

J: First of all my friend, I am not anti_Catholic. The word is a bit harsh as it forments hatred, but let me assure you that i am not an anti-Catholic. My wife in fact is a Catholic.
BFHU: I apologize, I did not in any way mean to imply that you were anti-Catholic. And [...]

Dogma of the Immaculate Conception

Jeronie: I appreciate your response. However, I have some comments as well.
First, the Bible prophesied that the Messiah shall come from the line of David,
which means Mary could have been a distant relative of David. Now take note that
David has once been an adulterer and murderer, in short he has sinned.
Therefore, if Mary came from [...]

Where Does Scripture Say Mary Was Sinless?

Jeronie Frias: “Jesus and Mary were sinless…” whose teaching is this that Mary is sinless?

BFHU: This is taught by the Catholic Church, the Church that Jesus Christ founded.
JF:There’s no verse anywhere else in the Scriptures that says Mary is sinless.
Are you aware that you are clinging to a Protestant tradition? There is [...]