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23320833? ago

I understand how you feel, however I think your concerns are misplaced. God loves you, and wants you to be safe and happy. The concerns of this world are just distractions from living your life.

Pray the Rosary. Give your life to God. He will protect you and bring you joys you have never known.

23321648? ago

Please show me the Bible scripture about praying the Rosary or praying to Mary or New Testament "priests", and whether "priests" in the New Testament are expected to be celibate and shun marriage?

23321866? ago

First, I love you.

Second, I realize you hold to Sola Scriptura, however the Church fathers for 1500 years did not, and would ask you to please show them the Bible scripture about only doing things it says to do in the Bible.

Third, if you want to see where it says to be celibate, perhaps this will do to start.

I will say Trent Horn made a great point in his response to Mike Winger about the fact that Protestant priests universally being family men seems quite self serving in the context of the power of a priest and his relationship to his parish. It really does open the doors up for abuses like the polygamy we see in other religions like Mormonism.

Do you know about the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal in 1917? What is your Biblical explanation for that?

23322029? ago

Praying to Mary is an unbiblical practice.

Also, having priests is an unbiblical practice, because now Christ is our priest. (At least, in the New Testament. The old priesthood was abolished).

Instead, we have leaders and helpers in the church, and they are instructed to have a wife.

"A deacon must be a man of only one wife and must manage his children and his household well."

If the Catholic church followed this practice, they would not be bringing shame onto Christ with all their homosexual and pedophile priests.

23322247? ago

I love you, however I disagree. Sorry.

I disagree most strongly with the idea that the priests have to be married. It worked for almost 2000 years. The fact that the satanists spent untold sums of money and sent untold numbers of pedophiles into the priesthood, is undeniable. The fact that those priests were protected and many lives destroyed is undeniable. However it does not therefore follow that if they were allowed to marry, they would not have this problem. It is just fallacious logic, and plays exactly into the devil's hands.

A large number of priests, bishops, and even the pope live under strong demonic forces, there is no need to curse them further. Pray for them and their salvation, that they may be healed and brought to Christ, and we might all live together in love for His everlasting glory.

23322312? ago

Please name for me a single place in the New Testament that says the church shall have a new priesthood? Even a single priest other than Christ?

There are deacons and such -- that's it. Helpers, not priests. No more intermediaries between man and God. That's the whole reason Christ came. That's why the curtain in the Holiest-of-Holies was ripped in two. That's the whole point Paul made repeatedly in so many writings over and over again.

23322595? ago

Jesus built His Church on Peter. You cannot have a Church without a priesthood.

I don't know what denomination you hold to, but I pray you will learn about the Catholic Church and learn their arguments.

Can you tell me the Catholic Church's argument for their position as well as your argument against?

23323933? ago

You cannot have a Church without a priesthood.

Actually Paul says we have an eternal priest: Christ.

Peter says all of us are now a royal priesthood.

The New Testament may have deacons, but no priests.

That was the whole point.

You have no scripture to quote in opposition to this. Therefore what you assert without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

"By their fruits you will know them" -- think of the pedophiles. That is the fruit of Catholic doctrine.

23324184? ago

There are pedophiles in the Protestant church. Sorry, but your argument is poor. You are throwing out 2000 years of Church teachings on what authority, might I ask?