1) Catholics do not worship Mary. We simply acknowledge the honor that Christ bestowed upon Her.
2) Jesus Christ Himself makes a distinction between various degrees on sin. He rebukes the Pharisees, because although they tithed their garden herbs, they failed to practice the "weightier matters of the law." They strained out a gnat but swallowed a camel. Therefore, there are indeed weightier matters of the law, and there are small sins like gnats and big sins like camels.
3) Indulgences are blessings in reward for repentance and good works. The Bible is very clear that we do in fact earn blessings through repentance and good works.
4) Jesus Christ is the one who told Peter, "Thou art Peter (rock), and on this Rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on Earth will be bound in Heaven, and whatever you loose on Earth will be loosed in Heaven." In the same way that God inspired fallible men to write infallible scripture, He also inspires fallible men to pronounce infallible doctrine. He has granted the Church this power to "bind and loose," and even told the Apostles, after giving them The Holy Spirit: "whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, whose sins you retain are retained." It is no suprise that God appoints a man to act as His representative, its the way He has always done it.... from Noah, Moses, King David, Isaiah, etc. The Bible is a book of infallible scriptures. God used sinful human beings to write it. In the same way, He has promised to guide His Church into all truth, through the office given to Peter as Chief Shepherd, holder of the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven, with power to bind and loose, and power to forgive sin.
Catholics set Mary up as the "Queen of Heaven". Catholics teach that Mary and the Apostles and even the so-called (and nominated/designated by men) Saints can intervene on someone's behalf. What a load of false doctrine that goes against all the is the Christ.
Indulgences are payments made to the Church to get one's relatives out of Limbo/Purgatory. Men preying upon their fellow men. Selling a false salvation. Disgusting.
I am Cashew by adoption and how I was raised, but Christian by choice. There is so much in Catholicism that Christ would not, no...make that does not approve of. The rock of faith in the Christ is what the church was built upon, not a fisherman named Peter.
No man is above the Word and no man speaks for God. The Pope is just a man. Nothing more. He is far from infallible and in the past many have behaved as the licentious libertines they truly are. Screw the Pope. He is a filthy farce and even were he a good man, I would not kiss his ass let alone his ring.
And yet you seem ready to give him yours (ass, that is).
What's next for you, little one? LDS? I can see it now..."Elder tbombz". I shake the dust of your false faith from here. You are as bad as that midget racist, Wiggs and his belief in Nigrews, Hebroes. Jigabroes or whatever name his dope addled mind can next conjure up.
