The Catholic Origins of Halloween

“You don’t even have the Scriptures except through the Catholic Church’s authority.”

Poor God He would just be out of luck if it wasn’t for the whore of rome...

Isaiah 14:13
And thou saidst in thy heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit in the mountain of the covenant, in the sides of the north.

Pharaoh of Egypt was used by the Lord also, but it wasn’t because he was holy.

I see your pride is only out done by church.

“of late antiquity when that person’s own version of Christianity (2,000 years after the fact)”

You mean like the roman church and all her changes since the cannon closed 1900 years ago...

1 . Prayers for the dead . …………-—————————……300 A.D.
2. Making the sign of the cross ………………………… …300 A.D.
3. Veneration of angels & dead saints …………-————…….375 A.D.
4. Use of images in worship………………………………… . 375 A.D.
5. The Mass as a daily celebration……………………………… 394 A.D.
6 Beginning of the exaltation of Mary; the term, “Mother of God” applied a Council of Ephesus……………. .-———————————————————— 431 A.D.
7 Extreme Unction (Last Rites)……………………………… ..526 A.D.
8. Doctrine of Purgatory-Gregory 1…………………………… .593 A.D..
9. Prayers to Mary & dead saints ……………………………… .600 A.D.
10. Worship of cross, images & relics ……………………… … 786 A.D.
11 Canonization of dead saints ………………………………… ..995 A.D.
12. Celibacy of priesthood …………………………………… …1079 A.D.
13. The Rosary ……………………………………………… … 1090 A.D.
14. Indulgences ……………………………………………… …..1190 A.D.
15. Transubstantiation-Innocent III …………………………… 1215 A.D.
16. Auricular Confession of sins to a priest …………………… 1215 A.D.
17. Adoration of the wafer (Host)…………………………… .. 1220 A.D.
18. Cup forbidden to the people at communion …………………..1414 A.D.
19. Purgatory proclaimed as a dogma……………………………..1439 A.D.
20. The doctrine of the Seven Sacraments confirmed …………….1439 A.D.
21 Tradition declared of equal authority with Bible by Council of Trent…………………………………………————————… 1545 A.D.
22. Apocryphal books added to Bible ………——————……….1546 A.D.
23. Immaculate Conception of Mary……………………………….1854 A.D.
24, Infallibility of the pope in matters of faith and morals, proclaimed by the Vatican Council ……………… 1870 A.D.
25. Assumption of the Virgin Mary (bodily ascension into heaven shortly after her death) ……………………………-—————————————————……1950 A.D.
26. Mary proclaimed Mother of the Church……………………… 1965 A.D.

“God guided the Christian community long before Rome came to the party.”

How dare you think that the Lord God can do anything without the roman church’s permission or help it’s impossible I tell you.

Thank the Lord for the Holy Spirit guiding those early Christians and the epistles/letters that circulated through the churches of the day whether bound or unbound they were still called the Holy Scriptures.

After Rome saw that it would be profitable to create and use a bastardized version of Christianity they simply put their stamp of "approval" on the texts that were already being used.

That is a novel interpretation of history. You realize that all of the individual Churches throughout the world up through the late 4th century AD had their own canon of Scriptures. They differed somewhat which is why various Church councils attempted to grapple with the question. You'll note that the Council of Carthage (not Rome, btw), held during the episcopacy of St. Augustine (AD 397), contains a list that would look very familiar to any Catholic.

If you wanted to go back to the very early Church, however, you might also want to consider including Enoch, the Apocalypse of St. Paul, the Shepherd of Hermas, 3 Corinthians, Christ's Letter to Abgar, the Didache, and Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans. All of these were accepted by certain groups of Christians at one point or another.

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