There Is Only One Abrahamic Faith

Pilgrim Priest ^ | November 17, 2022 | Fr. David Nix

[ebb tide]

Ping

[rigelkentaurus]

Sure, I was just reading in the Bible yesterday where Christ says “I am the way, oh, and you have to be Catholic and bow to an anti-Christian pope”

[Big Red Badger]

This ain’t Cath-Cauc so I guess we
Can Speak our piece.

[BipolarBob]

and do not think to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father and we are special because we are Catholic.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

[philman_36]

...that is Christianity—which is Catholicism.

That's funny. Down right comical.

In 1542 the papal Inquisition was re-established to combat Protestantism, eventually becoming an organ of papal government.

I guess Protestants don't count as Christians to him.

[Just mythoughts]

Sadly few have a clue what and who ushers in the age of apostasy…. Majority are already up to their eyeballs in unholy deception.

[ConservativeMind]

In the eyes of Catholics, Protestants, who pointed out the appropriate sins of the Catholic church, are worse off than Jews.

Hey you Orthodox people, you are a problem, too!

[aMorePerfectUnion]

—> here is only Abrahamic Faith, and that is Christianity—which is Catholicism

Total falsehood.

[NFHale]

Yeaaaaah…that ain’t helping anyone….

And I was raised Roman AND Ukrainian Catholic.

Cut it out. We have an enemy that hates us all equally.

[BipolarBob]

Save that for the Airing of Grievances at Festivus.

[golux]

This post really bums me out ‘cause I’m Jewish.

Oh well.

Six thousand years or so!

It was nice while it lasted.

Thanks for letting us know, ebb tide.

[BipolarBob]

Something tells me you don’t even have any Rosary beads and you are Waaay behind on your Hail Marys. How you gonna get to Heaven that way?

[RedMonqey]

Catholicism gave up that seat in the middle ages.

Not that Protestants did much better.
One reason why I’m a agnostic.

I want to believe but my experience tells me otherwise.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

“Only one true faith that comes from Abraham”?? Based on archaeology and history and scripture, I see an obvious top candidate and it’s not Catholicism.

[faithhopecharity]

So sad he hasn’t even read his Bible as far as Genesis 17.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

—> Something tells me you don’t even have any Rosary beads and you are Waaay behind on your Hail Marys. How you gonna get to Heaven that way?

The only way anyone gets to heaven - through entrusting myself to Christ and His sacrifice alone.

No useless works necessary. No making Mary into a demigoddess.

Just the Incredible Gift of God!

[daniel1212]

In 1542 the papal Inquisition was re-established to combat Protestantism, eventually becoming an organ of papal government. I guess Protestants don't count as Christians to him

No, TradCaths do not, and which is consistent with many papal and concilar statements, such as,

Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos: Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors. Did not the ancestors of those who are now entangled in the errors of Photius [the eastern “Orthodox “schismatics] and the reformers, obey the Bishop of Rome, the chief shepherd of souls?...Let none delude himself with obstinate wrangling. For life and salvation are here concerned...” Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos, PTC:873) The Promotion of True Religious Unity), 11, Encyclical promulgated on January 6, 1928, #11; http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19280106_mortalium-animos_en.html (More: https://peacebyjesus.net/eens.html)

Yet distinctive Catholic teachings are not manifest in the only wholly God-inspired, substantive, authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels)

Meanwhile, though Luther was wrong in his frustrated denunciation of Jews, the Office of the Inquisition much had Jews in their sights.

In The Popes Against the Jews : The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism, historian David Kertzer notes, 

 

“the legislation enacted in the 1930s by the Nazis in their Nuremberg Laws and by the Italian Fascists with their racial laws—which stripped the Jews of their rights as citizens—was modeled on measures that the [Roman Catholic] Church itself had enforced for as long as it was in a position to do so” (9). 

 

In 1466, in festivities sponsored by Pope Paul II, Jews were made to race naked through the streets of the city. A particularly evocative later account describes them: “Races were run on each of the eight days of the Carnival by horses, asses and buffaloes, old men, lads, children, and Jews. Before they were to run, the Jews were richly fed, so as to make the race more difficult for them, and at the same time, more amusing for the spectators. They ran from the Arch of Domitian to the Church of St. Mark at the end of the Corso at full tilt, amid Rome’s taunting shrieks of encouragement and peals of laughter, while the Holy Father stood upon a richly ornamented balcony and laughed heartily. Two centuries later, these practices, now deemed indecorous and unbefitting the dignity of the Holy City, were stopped by Clement IX. In their place the Pope assessed a heavy tax on the Jews to help pay the costs of the city’s Carnival celebrations. 

 

But various other Carnival rites continued. For many years the rabbis of the ghetto were forced to wear clownish outfits and march through the streets to the jeers of the crow, pelted by a variety of missiles. Such rites were not peculiar to Rome. In Pisa in the eighteenth century, for example, it was customary each year, as part of Carnival, for students to chase after the fattest Jew in the city, capture him, weigh him, and then make him give them his weight in sugar-coated almonds. 

 

In 1779, Pius VI resurrected some of the Carnival rites that had been neglected in recent years. Most prominent among them was the feudal rite of homage, in which ghetto officials, made to wear special clothes, stood before an unruly mob in a crowded piazza, making an offering to Rome’s governors. 

 

It was this practice that occasioned the formal plea from the ghetto to Pope Gregory XVI in 1836. The Jews argued that such rites should be abandoned, and cited previous popes who had ordered them halted. They asked that, in his mercy, the Pope now do the same. On November 5, the Pope met with his secretary of state to discuss the plea. A note on the secretary of state’s copy of the petition, along with his signature, records the Pope’s decision: “It is not opportune to make any innovation.” The annual rites continued. 

 

“When all is said and done, the [Roman Catholic] Church’s claim of lack of responsibility for the kind of anti-Semitism that made the Holocaust possible comes down to this: The Roman Catholic Church never called for, or sanctioned, the mass murder of the Jews. Yes, the Jews should be stripped of their rights as equal citizens. Yes, they should be kept from contact with the rest of society. But Christian Charity and Christian theology forbade good Christians to round them up and murder them.” See more in part 5 of a series (1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5, 6 .

[RedMonqey]

Catholicism gave up that seat in the middle ages.

Not that Protestants did much better.
One reason why I’m a agnostic.

I want to believe but my experience tells me otherwise.

[BipolarBob]

One reason why I’m a agnostic. I want to believe but my experience tells me otherwise.

Has your experience explained our existence on this planet and how the universe came into being? Or the meaning of life? Put not your faith in man nor the denominations. Read the Holy Bible and find something to believe in.