Key Quotes

  • HOLY BAPTISM: "Jesus answered: Amen, amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." - John 3:5
  • PENANCE (CONFESSION): "When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them: Receive ye the Holy Ghost. 23 Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained." - John 20:22-23
  • HOLY COMMUNION: "Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed." - John 6:53-55
  • CONFIRMATION: "For he was not as yet come upon any of them; but they were only baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid their hands upon them, and they received the Holy Ghost." - Acts 8:14-15
  • HOLY MATRIMONY: "For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother; and shall cleave to his wife. And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." - Mark 10:7-9
  • HOLY ORDERS: 1 Timothy 3-5
  • EXTREME UNCTION: "Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the priests of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man: and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him." - James 5:14-15
  • CELIBACY, RELIGIOUS LIFE: "For there are eunuchs, who were born so from their mother's womb: and there are eunuchs, who were made so by men: and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven. He that can take, let him take it." - Matthew 19:12
  • AGAINST SOLA FIDE: "So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself...For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also faith without works is dead." - James 2:17,26
  • AGAINST SOLA FIDE: "Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: BUT HE THAT DOTH the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven." - Matthew 7:22
  • AGAINST SOLA SCRIPTURA: "But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." - 1 Timothy 3:15
  • AGAINST SOLA SCRIPTURA: "Now I praise you, brethren, that in all things you are mindful of me: and keep my ordinances as I have delivered them to you." - 1 Corinthians 11:2
  • AGAINST SOLA SCRIPTURA: "Therefore, brethren, stand fast; and hold the traditions which you have learned, whether by word, or by our epistle." - 2 Thessalonians 2:15
  • AGAINST SOLA SCRIPTURA: "Understanding this first, that no prophecy of scripture is made by private interpretation." - 2 Peter 1:20
  • AGAINST DENOMINATIONS: "Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that you be perfect in the same mind, and in the same judgment...Is Christ divided?" - 1 Cor 1:10,13
  • AGAINST FALSE PROPHETS: "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. By their fruits you shall know them." - Matthew 7:15-16
  • AGAINST FALSE PROPHETS: "And Jesus answering, said to them: Take heed that no man seduce you: For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ: and they will seduce many." - Matthew 24:4-5
  • AGAINST FALSE PROPHETS: "Let no man deceive you by any means..." - 2 Thessalonians 2:3
  • AGAINST FALSE PROPHETS: "Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief. Be ye not therefore partakers with them." - Ephesians 5:6-7

Saturday, October 31, 2015

How Old Is Your Church?

"And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." - Mt 16:18

If you are a Lutheran, your religion was founded by Martin Luther, an ex- monk of the Catholic Church, in the year 1517.

If you are an anabaptist, you can trace your roots to peasants who were given copies of the Bible to interpret for themselves by Huldrych Zwingli, subsequently rebelling against Zwingli and forming a literalist exegetical religion around the year 1521.

If you belong to the Church of England, your religion was founded by King Henry VIII in the year 1534 because the Pope would not grant him a divorce with the right to remarry.

If you are a Presbyterian, your religion was founded by John Knox in Scotland in the year 1560.

If you are a Protestant Episcopalian, your religion was an offshoot of the Church of England founded by Samuel Seabury in the American colonies in the 17th century.

If you are Dutch Reformed, you probably recognize your roots in John Calvin, with an official denominational birth in October of 1571.

If you are a Congregationalist, your religion was originated by Robert Brown in Holland in 1582.

If you are a Methodist, your religion was launched by John and Charles Wesley in England in 1744.

If you are a Unitarian, Theophilus Lindley founded your church in London in 1774.

If you are a Mormon (Latter Day Saints), Joseph Smith started your religion in Palmyra, N.Y., in 1829.

If you are a Baptist, you owe the tenets of your religion to John Smyth, who launched it in Amsterdam in 1605.

If you worship with the Salvation Army, your sect began with William Booth in London in 1865.

If you are a Christian Scientist, you look to 1879 as the year in which your religion was born and to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy as its founder.

If you belong to one of the religious organizations known as 'Church of the Nazarene," "Pentecostal Gospel." "Holiness Church," "Pilgrim Holiness Church," "Jehovah's Witnesses," your religion is one of the hundreds of new sects founded by men within the past century.

If you are Catholic, you know that your religion was founded in the year 33 by Jesus Christ the Son of God, and it is still the same Church.

Credit to EWTN, with some minor amendments, corrections or additions.
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