TOLL OF THE BELL
OUR CATHOLIC FRIENDSAs I sit here and try to put my thoughts on paper I really don't know where to start. As I have listened to the news for the last few weeks and years about the Catholic priests that are being convicted for molesting young boys, some have been doing it for many years. It is costing the Catholic Church and their insurance companies millions of dollars. That is the very least of all the wrong, misery, hurt, wrecked lives and disillusioned good people. The Catholic Church has come up with and have had this mistaken idea for their priest to remain celibate. This vow has caused as much hurt and wrecked lives of young boys whose parents have placed them in the care and trust of priests and then to find out that this trust has been broken. The young boys go on to be young men, carry the burden and sin that has been committed against them for years. The part of this sin that I can't understand is that most parents and parishioners of the Catholic Church are good people with good common sense and should know in the very beginning that this is a vow that is almost impossible to keep. First and foremost, it is unbiblical and in most cases turns out to be one of the most ungodly things to be carried out in the name of religion in ancient and in modern times. In the first place when you go against God's word you are in trouble. The sad part of it is so many innocent people get hurt. This is each and every ones own responsibility to read God's word and know what it says. For many years the Church taught that the average parishioner didn't have the good common sense to understand God's word. "GOD'S WORD SAYS" In the very beginning He condoned marriage and family. Matthew 19: 4 - 6, "And he answered and said unto them, "Have you not read that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this reason a man shall leave his Father and Mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?' So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no man separate." It doesn’t say if you are a Priest you are excluded and you are not to get married. He is speaking to all man kind, if I understand this it means everyone one is included. Paul puts the whole thing in a context that all should be able to understand. 1 Corinthians 7: 6 - 9, "But I say this as a concession, not as a commandment. For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, One in this manner and another in that. But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am; but if they cannot exercise self control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion." Please read this very carefully. Paul is not speaking with Divine Commandment. This is his own opinion. This thing with the priest and the Catholic Church is the most unbiblical and ungodly thing in the name of religion. I really don't know where the Catholic Church is coming from and I know they don't know. The Catholic Church teaches that the church is founded and built on the Apostle Peter. This is not biblical either but if it was, I think he would have had Pope or Priest hung on his name. Now let me let you in on a little secret. The man Peter that the Catholic teaches that the Church was founded on, believe it or not, he was a married man. Do you know how I know this? Because he had a 'mother-in-law' and you good Catholics that are married knows what a mother-in-law is. Do you know how I know he had a mother-in-law? Because she was sick and Jesus Christ healed her and gave her food and she was made whole. Matthew 8: 14 - 15, "Now when Jesus had come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother lying sick with a fever. So He touched her hand, and the fever left her. And she arose and served them". Good Catholic friends, wake up and put a stop to this unbiblical and ungodly atrocities. Just remember the Pope doesn't have the last word; God does. I pray that the larger part of the Catholic Church will wake up and see Jesus Christ as their Savior before it is too late. To all that read this, if you know Jesus Christ as your personal savior, please lift the Catholic church up to God in prayer daily.
Last updated 04-30-02
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