What a Catholic needs to consider

Q: I grew up hardly ever going to church, but my mom is Protestant Christian and I went there sometimes. My dad saw a Catholic woman [who I liked] & when I was 14 they married; in order to marry her as a Catholic he had to convert to Catholicism.

When I was with them [between my mom's home and theirs] growing up, we went to mass on Sundays. I had my son at 25 and converted to Catholicism that year so he could be baptized in the Catholic church at their insistance [as the teaching goes- Heaven & Hell beliefs in RCC are tied to being in the Catholic church]. I am drawn to Catholic mass and knowing and admiring my stepmom, have been led to believe [based on her explaintions] it to be the right decision. I'm still very confused about some things though. I'm now trying to read the bible and I want to have a relationship with God. I've had trouble understanding what I'm reading, but I've finally found a bible that I can understand. It's a journaling one, but my stepmom says I need a Catholic bible because the Catholic bible has books which are excluded in a regular bible. I got a Catholic bible, but I'm having trouble understanding it. Can I read the bible I understand for the books it has and read the Catholic one for the missing books, or do I need to just focus on the Catholic one?


A: [Said in a kind, caring and respectful way:]
There are subtle doctrines of demons in this world that are whispered and used to lure people from the truth towards things their eyes or heart desires lead them astray to embrace. Some are very crafty at appearing like Satan [masqurading] as an angel of light, but are false and damn eternally. 


I will be very honest here - Catholicism isnt a different denomination, its a diff religion. The Catholic religion isn't Christian. It's a false religion "masqurading" as if Christian. It's based on works  like all world religions (outside true Christianity). Which in truth means your father gave up Christ for a satanic counterfeit. He was willing to give up Christ and salvation for Satan's child and temporary pleasures of earth, forfeiting eternal life with Christ. He sold salvation to please a woman he fancied.

However, for you, it is good to read the Bible, so you can see this. Thanks to the Protestant Reformers [Christianity] you have access to a Bible in your language, so investigate this well, like the Bereans did.

The reason those extra "non Canon" books are in there has to do with Catholicism's teachings. They added to Scripture (when they went astray from true Christianity), and also further added to it after the reformation happened [to brig people back to biblical truth], (and RCC removed some books again later when some things in those ones no longer suited the RCC churches' teachings). They don't only hold to God's Word as their authority. God's Word is to be followed above all - and not added to, to pervert or distort Scripture. That leads to decieptive counterfeit teachings and condemns all who follow it. 

This verse warns about changing this book and it includes the Scriptures as a whole, since cannon was closed with Revelation.

Rev. 22.18-20  "I warn everyone who hears the words [of this book]: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to that person the plagues described [here]. And if anyone takes words away from [it], God will take away from that person any share in the tree of life and in the Holy City, which are described [here]. He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.""

For you, you need to examine and investigate to find the truth, and follow it.






I would recommend this Study Bible, as it is one of the best out there, as you read Scripture. [$23 on sale right now].


Btw, I go to a very very large church and 1/3 of the folks there came out of catholicism because they genuinely examined it, and were looking to find the truth and willing to follow it wherever it led. I pray God leads you to do so too.

Understand the Essentials of what God has said in the Scriptures "makes" someone a real Christian. These are the basic teachings revealed in Scripture. If any religious group or church teaches something different, they're a false religion teaching a false gospel [which damns those to Hell who die embracing it].

Galatians 1:6-9
"But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed [damned]."

See 2 John 1:10
The apostle John says to not allow anyone who teaches false doctrine into your home or to wish them well. 
 
See 2 Peter 2
The Bible says that false teachers promise good things that will never happen and that God will punish them by sending them to hell. 
 
See Proverbs 19:5
The Bible says that a false witness will not go unpunished and that those who speak lies will perish.

Search the matter with diligence. 
Humbly, Pray God shows you the truth. 
...And ince you find it, follow it no matter what others or family try to convince you of. It costs your life to follow God and truth; we die to sin and live for Christ when we get saved. Make sure you are saved. Eternity is not only too long to be wrong, but it's not worth it to cling to family [in this temporary life] who are following error and want to [under Satan's influence] drag you to eternal Hell with them. Once saved you can be the light in their lives and perhaps God will use you over time to lead them out of darkness, into truth, and to be saved too. 


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