I noticed this Roman Catholic commercial video being played a lot recently on Fox News. Seems the timing was to go with the visit of Pope Francis. (Jorge Bergoglio)
This is a very well done video for the time that it takes.
Problems:
1. It assumes "catholic" is the same as "Roman Catholic". (without even mentioning the phrase, "Roman Catholic")
2. It subtly claims the Roman Catholic Church compiled the Bible. This is false. The early church testified, affirmed, discerned, discovered, and put under one "book cover" which texts were "God-breathed"/ inspired. (2 Timothy 3:16) They called themselves "catholic" in the sense of "universal" / "according to the whole" / able to grow in all nations and cultures (Revelation 5:9), but it was not the same church doctrinally that today claims the Papacy, Transubstantiation, Purgatory, Indulgences, Marian dogmas, Marian piety, praying to Mary, praying to statues and icons, denial of Justification by Faith Alone at Trent, etc.
3. It claims Peter was the first Pope.
Many problems with that. See below in Dr. White's lecture on the Dividing Line.
4. The mention of "sacred tradition", in addition to the written Scriptures.
5. claimed 2000 years of an unbroken line of shepherds.
There may be other problems, but those are the 5 that stuck out to me.
Dr. White did an excellent DL yesterday, on Sept. 23, about the current Pope and Papacy:
Take note of the 5 things that Roman Catholics have to prove as true all at the same time in the last half of his lecture.
The closing Scripture verses Dr. White pointed to were from Acts 20:17-32. Acts 20:32 - "And now I commend to God and the word of His grace, which is about to build you up and to give the inheritance among those who are being sanctified."
Some other things about the Papal visit of Pope Francis. It seems, from what I have read, that President Obama and/ or the White House staff deliberately invited a bunch of homosexuals, trans-gender activists, and Roman Catholics for abortion, in order to cause this Pope some discomfort, or embarrass him, or give him a message, or protest his views on same sex marriage and abortion. That is shameful, IMO. His statement's on homosexuality have been weak and unclear, but as conservative RC's have pointed out, he has not changed church doctrine on that issue. I can appreciate and respect the Roman Catholic Church's stand against abortion and stand for marriage as one man and one woman, etc.
The current Pope's opposition to the death penalty ( I have never understood that, even for first degree murder, since I started hearing about that from the time of John Paul 2) and leftist views of the borders, illegal immigration, global warming, and capitalism are revealing.
Addendum: The Debate on the Papacy that Dr. White had with Mitch Pacwa in 1998:
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that President Obama and/ or the White House staff deliberately invited a bunch of homosexuals, trans-gender activists, and Roman Catholics for abortion
One of each at least. To their eternal horror if they do not repent and be converted. While they can blatantly promote their anti-Christ morality, yet this pope has declared that even atheists are redeemed by the blood of Christ which makes us children of God, while not even mentioning Christ or the gospel to Congress, but majoring on economic disparity, the environment, etc, all of which gives the Left hope that he will soften the remaining opposition to homosexual marriage, etc.
His statement's on homosexuality have been weak and unclear, but as conservative RC's have pointed out, he has not changed church doctrine on that issue.
Then there is the secret meeting with Kim Davis and husband, which the Vatican will not confirm or deny, and in which he gives the holiness Pentecostals an idolatrous rosary (rather than rejecting it and rebuking him, they said they would give it their parents). Of course, JP2 kissed a Qur'an, so it seems affirming an unclean thing is part of expected papal protocol.
As a result of this pope playing an uncertain sound as well as his certain liberal bent, and marginalization of doctrinal emphasis, the divisions within Catholicism are even more manifest then before. Traditional type RCs either uphold historical papal teaching which requires assent to all public papal teaching, which means they must assent to the prolix papal social encyclical calling for a crusade against the dire danger of Climate Change (not word yet on indulgences for low emissions), and thus they reject this and modern popes from being valid popes. Or they become as Protestants in principle, by determining valid teaching according to their judgment in the light of past teaching.
The latter also includes "big tent" RCs who exhort ecumenism but ignore the problems with that.
Correction on Vatican neither confirming nor denying the pope's meeting with the Davis couple:
Pope Francis' meeting with Kim Davis not a form of support, Vatican says
After days of confusion, the Vatican issued a statement Friday clarifying Francis' Sept. 24 encounter with Davis,
"The pope did not enter into the details of the situation of Mrs. Davis and his meeting with her should not be considered a form of support of her position in all of its particular and complex aspects," Lombardi said....
She [Davis] later told ABC: "Just knowing that the pope is on track with what we're doing and agreeing, you know, it kind of validates everything."
The Vatican statement made clear the pope expressed no such sentiments...
As he left the country, Francis told reporters who inquired that he did not know Davis' case in detail, but he defended conscientious objection as a human right. - http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/02/pope-francis-meeting-with-kim-davis-not-form-support-vatican-says/
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