Hi to my Forum Friends,
On the Religon Forum, several of my Roman Catholic Friends have accused me of "hating" Roman Catholics and the Roman Catholic church. I tell them:
My Friends, I have no hatred, nor distaste for my Roman Catholic Friends and Family -- only distaste for erroneous, nonBiblical teachings.
Matter of fact, I have a female relative, who is very close and very dear to me, and who has been Roman Catholic all her life. She is a Facebook Friend and also receives my eNewsletter e-mails. She told me, "I love your writings. I learn more from them than I do attending mass." What can I say? She is very intelligent, an RN, and she and her husband are strong Roman Catholics -- yet, she recognizes the truth, and love, in my writings.
A Roman Catholic Friend tells me,
I strongly doubt this woman told you she learns more from you than from attending mass or anywhere else. Gray, you are an ignorant man. You really know nothing of the Catholic Church. You claim to have spent 20 years attending mass, etc. -- yet, what you say the Catholic Church teaches is wrong. So, you have no credability with me.
Are you saying my Roman Catholic relative (this woman) lied to me? Or, that I lied when I told you her comment about my writings? Sounds like, in your mind, one of us is a liar.
Seems that, with the exclusion of a few Roman Catholics forum members -- all my Roman Catholics Friends on the Religion Forum have only one way to refute what others write: Call them liars! Or call them ignorant, stupid, etc.
That leads me to believe there must be two levels of Catechism in the Roman Catholic church -- One that teaches the erroneous doctrines. And another which teaches you to revert to name calling, denigration, and cursing when folks refute you or question your doctrines.
Personally, my favorite way to refute a person's false statements, comments, or questions about my Christian faith -- is to take us directly into Scripture to see what God's Word has to say on the issue.
And, nowhere in all the 66 books do I find that I am supposed to get angry with those who disagree with me, or who disagree with my Christian faith -- and call them fool, ignorant, stupid -- or cast insults and aspersions on their families as some Roman Catholic Friends on the Religion Forum have done.
So, what does the Bible, God's Written Word, have to say about calling others fool? To make sure that you and I agree -- I will refer to the Revised Standard Version - Catholic Edition translation:
Matthew 5:22, "But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother shall be liable to the council, and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be liable to the hell of fire."
So, my Friend, based upon that Scripture verse, found in your chosen translation -- what do you think your Roman Catholic hierarchy would think of you, et al, doing this to those of us who challenge your Roman Catholic doctrines? Food for thought!
God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,
Bill
