Thank you Bishop for sharing a very powerful sermon! God bless you

Outstanding sermon. Thank you Bishop Barron. Once again you have opened my heart and mind to understanding ❤🙏

Truly appreciate Bishop Barron's style of preaching, not to speak of the message he gives out. Indeed grateful to Jesus for the Church and his faithful stewards.

And I suppose that we can add this last interpretation: When the Good Samaritan (Jesus) told the inn-keeper (the Bishop) that he would come back and pay whatever extra expenses were incurred by the wounded man (us), it was Jesus promising to perfect our redemption in the eschatological parousia, when he will come and take us to himself to be with him eternally. Paying extra also suggests that our redemption is continuous (seventy times seven) in perpetual effectuation.

I’m not catholic but I really enjoy listening to Bishop Barron. Very humble man and a true man of Christ. God bless you Bishop!

@ayandadlamini9266

9 ай бұрын

Hope and pray one day God will help you become Catholic so you enjoy fully the fruits of Catholicism ❤❤❤

Story inside the story! What an amazing Lord we have!!

I've experienced this diamond of a parable many times in my life as a Catholic... I've never experienced it from this angle though. Thank you for shining Christ's light on this facet. It's beautiful!

Bishop Barron shines light, and understanding on scripture narratives. This particular interpretation is wonderfully beautiful.God bless him.God speed👍

wow. thank you bishop bareon for this wonderful reflection.

am blessed in this homily in which touching my life

What a homily,, thank you so much Bishop

I once heard the Good Samaritan described as a paramedic: he finds a gravely injured man, cares for his wounds in the field, then transports the patient to a facility where he can receive care and recover. I might have taken the command to "Go and do thou likewise" a touch too literally: I became a paramedic, and I've been at it for over 20 years!

@pauljordan4452

8 ай бұрын

God bless.

Thank you for hearing this homily. I understood the deeper meaning of this parable. I have a deeper appreciation of the Good Samaritan.I will surely share what I heard and learned

@margaretgarcia8600

2 жыл бұрын

.., no mpiiinm PM m mm n n. n mp m.m m to yep M M

@janakroyal2209

2 жыл бұрын

Jesus

I've been to Mass a lot and I've never heard such a beautiful interpretation of this parable. So incredible.

Amazing sermon, one that I have never heard before regarding the Good Samaritan!

Excellent and interpreted well...Thank you Bishop Robert Barron

Does this man have any idea of how gorgeous he is ? ! Amazing. Thank God for him .

THank you Father ROBERT. You are so amazing and full of the Holy Spirit. I Thank God for you.

I bear the Healer Jesus Christ. Powerful Homily.

God’s answer to my prayer today. Thank you Lord.

Thank you! God bless you also

Amen, Christ the good samaritan who came and rescued us. We love you Lord Jesus

@josephzammit8483

2 жыл бұрын

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Wow thank you and God Bless you

I struggle with addiction personally. God bless you Bishop Baron.

Amen and Amen! Many thanks for the Homily my Lordship

@marypinakat8594

4 жыл бұрын

*How Does Someone Become A Saint?* kzread.info/dash/bejne/fIWb2pichKyqfMY.html

I'm very grateful to witness an awakening in society and the clergy of the nature of addiction and ways those who used to balk now stay to pray.

I just love these u tube Catholic things ,,, I can stay do hours listening to them . thank u for always putting them up

What an amazing sermon. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Father. How inspirational and uplifting for those of us caught in and despairing of our sinfulness.

Thanks for helping me to understand the Good Samaritan story. Bishop used the concept, "stuck in quicksand" -- that is how I feel with my toxic family. I'm trying to go the straight path while they in and going in the opposite direction. And I can't seem to walk away from them it's very frustrating and almost mentally torturing and tormenting for me. Part of me feels anger at being mistreated by my toxic family and then the other part of me is the Christian Catholic struggles to pray for the souls of my family. It's very tormenting and draining mentally and emotionally draining. I asked God for the courage and strength to do the right thing. Amen. The difficult part is I try to walk away from them as they are sulking and having fun partying and enjoying their sinful life covering up their personal miseries which can't fool me. My struggle is do I walk away from them or do I just physically go round them and pray for them at the same time. I have chosen not to go to the Christmas gathering because being around toxic people infects me to a great degree as I'm trying my best to go on the straight path. I think that I'm best at a great distance and I will continue to pray for them. I know I sound confused and I just answered my own struggle here. Thanks for listening.

@thechainsawbioethicist3878

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Let go accept; you do not sound confused at all. Keep going; this labour of love will only bare good fruit. You remind me of Joseph..... yes, better at a distance and it will be your sanctification too - yes keep praying for them... you are an inspiration. 'Well done good and faithful servant'

@eaumartineau7890

5 жыл бұрын

@@thechainsawbioethicist3878 -- Thanks so much from my heart. I appreciate your thoughtful reply.

Mind blowing! Thank you Bishop Barron!

Excellently enlighting..awesome

This is what homilies should always be like. Thank you, Bishop Barron! Thank you God for giving us Bishop Barron who is a true disciple of Christ.

@pauljordan4452

8 ай бұрын

St Peter was the first Bishop of Rome - so the bishops have their origin in the Apostles.

Very powerful preaching,may God bless you Bishop.Amen.

Thank you for sharing. I know you're doing it because you know it'll help someone. And it does. It's so helpfull and I feel so thankfull and happy for what those words do to my heart, soul, spirit. It moves me and God bless you! :)

@olacathedral

8 жыл бұрын

Dear @femmeKris, thank you for your comment and for your prayerful support! It brings us much joy to hear that our digital ministry is helping make a difference in sharing the love of Jesus with our brothers and sisters near and far! May Our Lady of the Angels Bless you Always!

@boliviareports

8 жыл бұрын

+olacathedral amazing Homily. Same here, thanks for sharing

Beautiful ♥️♥️♥️🌹

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, Son of the living God , have mercy on me a sinner. Thank you God the Father for sending Jesus to save us from our sins. Amen AMEN ?

“We have reasonable hope that all men are saved!” Deo gratias!

@SATMathReview1234

5 жыл бұрын

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. (Matthew 7:13-14)

@markdaniels1730

4 жыл бұрын

@@SATMathReview1234 "Therefore, as by the offence of one there came condemnation unto all men; so also by the justice of one, unto all men came the justification of life." (Romans 5:18) The narrow gate discourse was delivered to the people of the time. Back then it would have been almost impossible to be a true Christian, but after the Resurrection the free gift of eternal life became available to all.

What a wonderful and enlightening sermon, Bishop. You made it so interesting and parts of of the sermon sound new to me. Thanks for your wonderful gift.

Very Nice homily indeed

Thank you so much Bishop Barron, amazing

Prejudice and indifference should be fought by everybody. What we perceive as a cloud has a silver lining that we have to pay attention to. Indeed Religion that teaches its superiority over others should take a warning from the Lord's Good Samaritan parable.

I heard this passage preached mostly like this today in a Methodist church... And I remember thinking the preacher was taking it out of context. And here Is a catholic bishop doing the same.

Excellent. Thanks for inspiring. God use u in His vineyard

It good that bishop is speaking his semon not standing in the alte.r.the Indian Bishops also should do the same. Italian is very good sermon ever lisen.may God blessed him

Ave maria

Wow!

Amen

Powerful!!!

Glory be to Jesus!!!

working "in the round" -- it's how hip priests show how cool and relevant they are

Wonderful!!

Parable of talents

Let's put it this way, Bishop Barron: whoever is not me is other-than-me, whoever's other-than-me is my neighbor; that's my summary of Christ's teachings in this regard.

@eamonob84

5 жыл бұрын

He literally said that at the beginning of his sermon and that he was going to offer an additional way of looking at the story.

@pennywiseeclipse4090

4 жыл бұрын

Did you even listen to his homily or did you just race down to the comments to complain?

@chissstardestroyer

4 жыл бұрын

@@pennywiseeclipse4090 Yes, I did listen to his sermon.

@chissstardestroyer

4 жыл бұрын

@@eamonob84 I don't deny that, and as a practice, it's a solid method.

Similarly, in the parable of the lepers, the SAMARITAN man - the outsider - thanked Christ for healing him.

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. (Matthew 7:13-14)

Happy Saturday

This is not a Catholic church sanctuary but a Vatican II Protestant meeting hall: no altar, aka last supper table (desk), no saints art, no altar steps, priest without ornate clothing... fear to see the communion standing line ...

@thechainsawbioethicist3878

5 жыл бұрын

Don't worry Budimir Pope Benedict did his best to restore some beauty to Roman Catholicism; the beauty of Eastern liturgy is not totally unappreciated by Latim Rite Roman Catholic Parishes. I understand how hard it must be for you Eastern guys to walk into a garage to celebrate the most Sacred event in history. All I can say is that I reckon Bishop Barron makes up for what we might be lacking.

@budimirzvolanek6234

5 жыл бұрын

@@thechainsawbioethicist3878 I am a conservative traditional Catholic who believes Eastern Orthodox should return to the Mother Church. Unfortunately for many, their Souls are in danger following Bp. Barron who as a modernist priest preaches thinned, diluted, false nonCatholic things.

@budimirzvolanek6234

2 жыл бұрын

@Skelley-Priest He is WRONG!

The good samaritan had enough wealth to share

Keeper homily. Use that one when you become Cardinal

Can’t believe all the empty seats in the pews 😢

Spiritus Sanctus🙏🏾

Me, I'm most thankful for God's laws, because me, if left to my own devices, I'd soon be practically shooting dead or bayoneting the wounded and dying gangsters I run across, for any number of reasons- but that's merely myself and *why* I'm thankful for the parameters of God's behavioral code!

How can one join the congregation

@enquiry-13

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Brian. Hope you can find a Catholic Church near to you. Tell the good people there that you are interested to learn more about Jesus Christ and his ministry. God Bless You.

Got to correct you on one part, Bishop Barron, right about at 4:16 you say "Sin is like an addiction", not quite so, for as Christ pointed out, *sin IS addictive*, you take it *ONCE* and you're completely hooked- SIN IS ADDICTIVE, it is basically a combination of a drug of intense addictive nature and also a gang, and any member of a gang is enslaved to that life. Indeed, "sinners" can be easily replaced by the term "gangsters" and the message holds true, in more ways than most people at any time are capable of being aware of!

Wait, what did he have? Pen what?

Hi I'm so confused which is true Orthodox , Catholic, Protestant ... Now Protestant I'm listening First time Catholic preaching...

@technicalpronghorn4210

3 жыл бұрын

I'm checking.....

Bishop George Haydock: this is the allegorical meaning . The man who fell among robbers represents Adam and his posterity. Jerusalem- the state of peace and innocence which man leaves by going down to Jericho- the state of trouble and sin. The robbers represent the devil, who stripped him of his supernatural gifts and wounded him in his natural faculties. The priest/ Levite represent the Old law . The Samaritan- Jesus Christ and the beast- his humanity. The inn represents the Catholic Church, wine- the blood of Christ, oil- his mercy. The innkeeper represents St. Peter and his successors the Bishops and priests . ( Origen, st. Ambrose, st. Jerome, st. Austin and others)

@thechainsawbioethicist3878

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Josh - very helpful

Where's the pulpit? Why do they float about the altar so much these days? It causes distraction!

@marypinakat8594

5 жыл бұрын

Bricks and stones don't make up the altar let alone the Church. Men and women and their hearts do.

@row1landr

5 жыл бұрын

Well, the modernists, and secularists who brought in the new Mass, want to "protestantize " the church. ..... the infiltration of the Freemasons and homosexuals want to destroy the Catholic Church! Listen to Michael Voris on his Church Militant KZread channel to fully understand the corruption in the Church today! This church here looks like a big, mega protestant auditorium! Also, this Bishop spreads heresy!

@el-sig2249

5 жыл бұрын

row1landr You're absolutely right! But I remember the words of the bishop when Napoleon crowned himself emperor and boasted that he'd destroy the Church. The bishop retorted that if they, the clergy couldn't destroy it in nearly 2000 years, what chance does Napoleon have?!

@row1landr

5 жыл бұрын

@@el-sig2249 yes. ...... with the imposing technology and the arrival of the World Wide Web, there is no such thing as Secrets anymore! Do your best to discern the truths from the hogwash, but go online to the many "documentary " style videos and learn just how this corruption began . Read the life story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe and his fight against the evils of freemasonry! Read the story of the life of Marie Julie Jahenny! Listen to the folks from the Fatima center and how they can prove that the full 3rd secret of Sister Lucia was never read. Read what Pope Leo 13th had to say about the evils of the masons. Then, Michael Voris has a great talk about how certain political figures corrupted the priesthood. Also, Bella Dodd helped to infiltrate the priesthood with homosexuals, etc. And she came back to the church with the help of the Most Venerable Archbishop Fulton J Sheen, she repented, and told her story. Mother Mary help us! !

@marypinakat8594

5 жыл бұрын

Comment about anything under the sun or the sky, the reply has to be on a particular scandal. It's one thing to be distracted but when not a word of the sermon is listened to but the setting alone is stared at there definitely is something upnormal happening. Are there 'free passes' for turning up to 'gossip' around the pulpit or the altar?

barron, is that how the Church interpet that parable???

Bishop Robert Barron needs to hear Father Terrance homily on the modernistic, secular fake/false teaching spreading in the Church today that there is a reasonable hope that all will be saved! This teaching goes directly against the teaching of the Catholic Church and Father Terrance homily proves this!

@no_prisoners6474

5 жыл бұрын

row1landr 👀

If you truly are a Bishop that wants to teach Catholicism, why don't you and the Roman Catholic Church in general teach symbolism systematically? This is my greatest frustration with Catholicism that the priesthood doesn't even try to educate the laity about the WORD OF GOD. I know more about symbolism than most of the priesthood and I have written extensively on it especially about the SISTINE CHAPEL. Did you know that Ezekiel Merkabah (Chariot) and the Kabbalistic Tree of Life are symbolized in the Sistine Chapel; however, a great deal of study has to be done before that con be envisaged. I even know for a fact that Christianity wrote the Old Testament and not the Jews. Yet, none of this is taught to the laity. Can you explain to me why this utter silence about the true WORD OF GOD?

@br.lorenzodelavelasj1236

7 жыл бұрын

William John Meegan ULOL

@nette9836

5 жыл бұрын

William, dear, do you realize Bishop Barron most likely does not read this comment's section from a channel he doesn't even facilitate...perhaps pose your question to his official social media or website pages. Also, try a touch of humility. It's much more becoming.

@AlvinSantiagoTato

5 жыл бұрын

Humility got thrown out the window! What else do you know better than anybody else?

@row1landr

5 жыл бұрын

Because this Bishop is among those who wish to bring down the Catholic Church! He is pro homosexual! He believes hell is empty. ....an absolute heresy! Listen to Michael Voris on his Church Militant KZread channel to fully understand the corruption in the Church today! ! ! !

@eamonob84

5 жыл бұрын

You sound extremely prideful. Might want to work on that.

Let me tell you one thing this parable was told to know who is your neighbor and not to know who is the Samaritan

I KNEW HE WOULDN'T MENTION CONFESSION!

@emtedee985

5 жыл бұрын

How could confession have been relevant in this sermon?

@CatholicCristero

5 жыл бұрын

@@emtedee985 He mentioned 6 Sacraments and left out Confession!

If there's a reasonable hope of everyone being saved then why be Catholic bsp.barron?

Olacathedral, Where are the 3 (positive) comments that were posted here? If you removed them, that's shady and dishonest.

@olacathedral

8 жыл бұрын

Dear @Funny4450, I'm sorry to hear you're unable to view comments on your side. This may be a tech glitch with your browser or device as we have no reason whatsoever to remove positive comments. God Bless.

@br.lorenzodelavelasj1236

7 жыл бұрын

Funny4450 ULOL

The bishop should know that greeting it is not him who celebrates the Mas but the Lord and such greeting "Good morning" is not a liturgical greeting and should not take place in the liturgy. It is sad that even the bishops do not know what the liturgy is.

@eamonob84

5 жыл бұрын

It's the homily. Even when you go to the TLM, as I do, you'll hear the priest giving announcements at the beginning of the homily and even mentioning there are coffee and donuts after Mass. That's because it's the more "informal" part of the Mass and prior to communion. Then you get it all out of the way and don't have announcements right after receiving communion. Saying good morning to the congregation at the beginning of the sermon is not inappropriate.

Where is everybody? HAHAHAHAHA

@joe99173122

5 жыл бұрын

It's a massive cathedral. The people are sitting in front of him.

@djf750

5 жыл бұрын

@@joe99173122 sure

A bit airy fairy. Its a parable about helping our neighbour in need

Just believe in God and what Jesus did for us and u will live forever, I have no idea what he is talking about, Samaritan he was no Samaritan he was the son of God ,

Do not send me any christian programs Thank you

This is straight allegory...borrowed largely from Augustine of Hippo. Sola Fide, Sola Gratia, Sola Scriptura!

@user-rj6kf1mr8o

3 жыл бұрын

Our Lord, who is in heaven, does not have a father, son or wife. God has sent many messengers from the first of the messengers, Adam and Noah, even Moses and Jesus, to the last of them Muhammad is a messenger for Arabs and non-Arabs to a messenger after him. He is the one whom Jesus preached about his coming after him in the Bible and the Qur’an. Our Lord, who in heaven is all poor and needy people. To him, our Lord who is in the sky is the one who deserves worship and no other than him. Our Lord who is in the sky is not like anyone in behavior in the universe Jesus is like the rest of the messengers, not our Lord How Jesus is our Lord while he sleeps and eats food and urinates and does not know the unseen then hardens this belief of Muslims in Jesus is the Messenger of God our beloved and I God willing, we will see Jesus and all after death in Heaven. Our Lord and your Lord, the One God who is in Heaven is the one who deserves worship and no other

@user-rj6kf1mr8o

3 жыл бұрын

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@pastormount482

2 жыл бұрын

The incarnation of God is a bewildering concept...an amazing miracle well beyond the boundaries of human reason. I get your hang up with it. How could this be?? But yet it is!

Yah "inside this room" you right bishop barron, that a ordinary room look like not a Church, sadly to say it really look like a room, vatican 2 did this be look like.

Dear Father, you turned the Bible story on its head and twisted it. The Good Samaritan was a woman, and it is explained clearly that although she was many times married, Jesus accepted her and even allowed her to touch him! Why change this around so radically? It stands on its own merit as a testimony to Jesus as a forgiving God a non judgmental God.

@anthonypetz5928

6 жыл бұрын

Those are two separate bible passages.

@hugosapien3705

5 жыл бұрын

Oops! You are referring to the Samaritan woman at the well, story you will find in JOHN'S Gospel (chapter 4). The parable of the good Samaritan explained by the Bishop is in Luke, chapter 10.

@eamonob84

5 жыл бұрын

You may want to re-read that Bible....

Ma che chiesa è? Terribile... 😨😨😨

Fatima massage cadinal against cardinal..... (because satan now living,he is most powerfull and beautiful man)

@Scottie404

5 жыл бұрын

the devil is now giving massages?

@leeshang4926

5 жыл бұрын

@@Scottie404 now no devil he is beautiful man you read the holy bible

great teaching but you are like a protestant or Pentecostal preacher who takes the centre stage. I think, as a Catholic CHRIST SHOULD BE AT THE CENTRE OF OUR LITURGY, NOT THE PRIEST.

@oliviarose3513

5 жыл бұрын

hadembes yebetit I agree, but the Priest guides us towards Christ; id like to reference Matthew 5:15-16

@row1landr

5 жыл бұрын

Amen!!!!! It will be up to us good and faithful Catholics to fight the corruption in the Church and get rid of the heretical modern, secular priests like this man!!!!

Ugly oltar, ugly vestments...

Just another miserable Novus Ordo procedure with a naturalist speech.

@abnerarcilla4695

5 жыл бұрын

I agree!

@abnerarcilla4695

5 жыл бұрын

I agree

@eamonob84

5 жыл бұрын

How so? Preaching that we're trapped in sin and only Christ can save us is somehow contrary to Trent? How do you figure?

He speaks not from the heart don't be fooled

what have you done with the childeren, dirty perfert

@marypinakat8594

4 жыл бұрын

**How Does Someone Become A Saint?* kzread.info/dash/bejne/fIWb2pichKyqfMY.html

The Roman Catholic Church contends that its origin is the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ in approximately AD 30. The Catholic Church proclaims itself to be the church that Jesus Christ died for, the church that was established and built by the apostles. Is that the true origin of the Catholic Church? On the contrary. Even a cursory reading of the New Testament will reveal that the Catholic Church does not have its origin in the teachings of Jesus or His apostles. In the New Testament, there is no mention of the papacy, worship/adoration of Mary (or the immaculate conception of Mary, the perpetual virginity of Mary, the assumption of Mary, or Mary as co-redemptrix and mediatrix), petitioning saints in heaven for their prayers, apostolic succession, the ordinances of the church functioning as sacraments, infant baptism, confession of sin to a priest, purgatory, indulgences, or the equal authority of church tradition and Scripture. So, if the origin of the Catholic Church is not in the teachings of Jesus and His apostles, as recorded in the New Testament, what is the true origin of the Catholic Church? For the first 280 years of Christian history, Christianity was banned by the Roman Empire, and Christians were terribly persecuted. This changed after the “conversion” of the Roman Emperor Constantine. Constantine provided religious toleration with the Edict of Milan in AD 313, effectively lifting the ban on Christianity. Later, in AD 325, Constantine called the Council of Nicea in an attempt to unify Christianity. Constantine envisioned Christianity as a religion that could unite the Roman Empire, which at that time was beginning to fragment and divide. While this may have seemed to be a positive development for the Christian church, the results were anything but positive. Just as Constantine refused to fully embrace the Christian faith, but continued many of his pagan beliefs and practices, so the Christian church that Constantine promoted was a mixture of true Christianity and Roman paganism. Constantine found that, with the Roman Empire being so vast, expansive, and diverse, not everyone would agree to forsake his or her religious beliefs to embrace Christianity. So, Constantine allowed, and even promoted, the “Christianization” of pagan beliefs. Completely pagan and utterly unbiblical beliefs were given new “Christian” identities. Some clear examples of this are as follows: (1) The Cult of Isis, an Egyptian mother-goddess religion, was absorbed into Christianity by replacing Isis with Mary. Many of the titles that were used for Isis, such as “Queen of Heaven,” “Mother of God,” and theotokos (“God-bearer”) were attached to Mary. Mary was given an exalted role in the Christian faith, far beyond what the Bible ascribes to her, in order to attract Isis worshippers to a faith they would not otherwise embrace. Many temples to Isis were, in fact, converted into temples dedicated to Mary. The first clear hints of Catholic Mariology occur in the writings of Origen, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, which happened to be the focal point of Isis worship. (2) Mithraism was a religion in the Roman Empire in the 1st through 5th centuries AD. It was very popular among the Romans, especially among Roman soldiers, and was possibly the religion of several Roman emperors. While Mithraism was never given “official” status in the Roman Empire, it was the de facto official religion until Constantine and succeeding Roman emperors replaced Mithraism with Christianity. One of the key features of Mithraism was a sacrificial meal, which involved eating the flesh and drinking the blood of a bull. Mithras, the god of Mithraism, was “present” in the flesh and blood of the bull, and when consumed, granted salvation to those who partook of the sacrificial meal (this is known as theophagy, the eating of one’s god). Mithraism also had seven “sacraments,” making the similarities between Mithraism and Roman Catholicism too many to ignore. Church leaders after Constantine found an easy substitute for the sacrificial meal of Mithraism in the concept of the Lord’s Supper/Christian communion. Even before Constantine, some early Christians had begun to attach mysticism to the Lord’s Supper, rejecting the biblical concept of a simple and worshipful remembrance of Christ’s death and shed blood. The Romanization of the Lord’s Supper made the transition to a sacrificial consumption of Jesus Christ, now known as the Catholic Mass/Eucharist, complete. (3) Most Roman emperors (and citizens) were henotheists. A henotheist is one who believes in the existence of many gods, but focuses primarily on one particular god or considers one particular god supreme over the other gods. For example, the Roman god Jupiter was supreme over the Roman pantheon of gods. Roman sailors were often worshippers of Neptune, the god of the oceans. When the Catholic Church absorbed Roman paganism, it simply replaced the pantheon of gods with the saints. Just as the Roman pantheon of gods had a god of love, a god of peace, a god of war, a god of strength, a god of wisdom, etc., so the Catholic Church has a saint who is “in charge” over each of these, and many other categories. Just as many Roman cities had a god specific to the city, so the Catholic Church provided “patron saints” for the cities. (4) The supremacy of the Roman bishop (the papacy) was created with the support of the Roman emperors. With the city of Rome being the center of government for the Roman Empire, and with the Roman emperors living in Rome, the city of Rome rose to prominence in all facets of life. Constantine (AD 272-337) and his successors gave their support to the bishop of Rome as the supreme ruler of the church. Of course, it is best for the unity of the Roman Empire that the government and state religion be centralized. While most other bishops (and Christians) resisted the idea of the Roman bishop being supreme, the Roman bishop eventually rose to supremacy, due to the power and influence of the Roman emperors. When the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in 476, the popes took on the title that had previously belonged to the Roman emperors-Pontifex Maximus. Pope Gregory I, ruling from 590-604, is usually considered the first bishop to truly wield papal authority. Many more examples could be given. These four should suffice in demonstrating the origin of the Catholic Church. Of course, the Roman Catholic Church denies the pagan origin of its beliefs and practices. The Catholic Church disguises its pagan beliefs under layers of complicated theology and “church tradition.” Recognizing that many of its beliefs and practices are utterly foreign to Scripture, the Catholic Church is forced to deny the authority and sufficiency of Scripture. The origin of the Catholic Church is the tragic compromise of Christianity with the pagan religions that surrounded it. Instead of proclaiming the gospel and converting the pagans, the Catholic Church “Christianized” the pagan religions, and “paganized” Christianity. By blurring the differences and erasing the distinctions, yes, the Catholic Church made itself attractive to the people of the Roman Empire. One result was the Catholic Church becoming the supreme religion in the Roman world for centuries. However, another result was the most dominant form of Christianity apostatizing from the true gospel of Jesus Christ and the true proclamation of God’s Word. Second Timothy 4:3-4 declares, “For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.”

@generalnwankwo8689

6 жыл бұрын

My good friend, why not learn the message and moral lessons of the parable of the good Samaritan instead of dwelling in history of men whom you do not know anything about, why trouble yourself of things you do not know about, since you know so much please can you show me where the word BIBLE is found in the BIBLE from Genesis to Revelation. The message here is about the immense love of GOD to mankind and not about Catholic origin.

@generalnwankwo8689

6 жыл бұрын

now you do not know anything again, how come you cannot show the word BIBLE in the bible?, How come?.

@somicotv3000

5 жыл бұрын

you will die blaming ending in vain destiny, live the little word of God you know so that to attain eternal life in heaven, if you are a believer. Blame CATHOLIC but still believers meet True God in it.

@keletolemo5163

5 жыл бұрын

only one true Church started by Jesus the good Samaritan is the Catholic Church. the rest are rubbish.

Amen

Amen