What is the Catholic Church Wrong About?

What is the Catholic Church wrong about?

I received this statement from a lady on one of my Facebook posts about Milo Yiannopoulos, who had claimed that the Catholic Church is right about everything. I declared: "No, the Catholic Church is NOT right about everything."

When the question above was put to me, I responded below as follows:

The Catholic traditions argue that people are "born that way" (i.e. born gay), and therefore they must refrain from sexual behavior. The truth is that no one is "born that way." People can be set free from sexually destructive behaviors and enter into loving, consummate marriages.

The Catholic Church has advanced numerous traditions not based in God's Word. They argue that only a certain number of people are, or rather "become" saints, when God's Word makes it clear that when you believe on Jesus, you go from death to life, from condemned to righteous, from secular to saint. Consider a number of Paul's salutations:

"To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ." (Romans 1:7)

"Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:" (Ephesians 1:1)

The notion of purgatory is completely unbiblical. Completely. The authority granted to the Pope in wrong is unbiblical. Completely.

The text regarding Peter's revelation has been misconstrued because Catholic teachers relied on the Latin translation of the New Testament verse, as opposed to the original Greek, which is better rendered thus:

"And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter [lit. little rock], and upon this rock [lit. Big Rock, the revelation of Jesus as Messiah] I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." (Matthew 16:18)

The church was not built on Peter, and therefore the argument that the Pope in Rome is a natural successor to him is wrong. Those are traditions of men, not the truth of God's Word.

Consider also Paul's warning regarding traditions of men (no matter how old the traditions may be) versus the eternal truth of God's Word, of Christ Jesus:

"Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." (Colossians 2:8)