faq: Saved Catholics?
Are Catholics Christian and are Catholics saved?
In USA many "Christians" think catholics are Christian, but upon examination of their religious beliefs you will find they actually are not. See links below.
Outside the USA you would have a clear understanding of the radically different religion of RCC vs true Christianity. Not only are those countries like 95% catholic, they hardly encounter a Christian [protestant], and if they do... [and they live there] they war, even on the streets. A pastor friend of mine who grew up and was involved in (until his conversion) bad stuff bcuz theres bad blood between rcc people and protestants in Northern Ireland, and in predominant RCC countries where some protestant churches have sprung up. They would shoot each other, fight in the streets, wage war, and kill each other.
[I would not use the word Church when talking about Catholicism, as it tends to try to connect Christ with false religion, just as Church of lds and other cults are false religions.]
Also note, unlike Christianity where we can go to any denomination church, 😱 no rcc member would go to a Christian church, it is unthinkable. They believe their church is the only church and theyre the only true christians; very false completely, but they believe and were taught that. [It is also why you will never see a rcc person getting married in a Christian church. RCC ties salvation to their "Church" thru fear tactics, like cults do].
But more so, rcc is a false religion. I say that to get to the earlier point that those in rcc are unsaved. However, as my Irish (born and lives there) pastor friend pointed out, long ago... a "rare" catholic in Catholic countries might read the Bible, and a rare one might then get genuinely saved, but NO rcc person would remain in RCC long, if they get saved. God will show them it is a false religion and they will leave it. Even if their family [in rcc] (thru Satan) cuts them off.
Fortunately today (roughly 2000 or 2005) rcc sorta started encouraging or allowing rcc to read the Bible, but it is a rare one who will, and even if they do Roman Catholic religion made sure long ago that the rcc people would blindly cling to rcc false teachings and beliefs, instead of follow the reformers to return to biblical Christianity.
RCC never encouraged any catholic to read the Bible before, and kept them locked in "latin" till recent times, so they had no idea what was in the Bible except limited things they pointed out. The people were just religiously ritualisticly following along thinking RCC wouldnt lie, and it kept the catholics under their control & unsaved. (1)
However Rcc didnt anticipate the radio & internet (and Christian music with biblical theology) opening the world up to Roman Catholics, and that gave them more freedom to hear truth. Freedom to watch Christian sermons, to hear the Gospel and encourage them to examine their beliefs against Scripture.
Here are a few of thousands of Testimonies I have seen online:
Today esp in USA if they read the Bible, they leave RCC for Christianity (tho most go from rcc mysticism to charismatic mysticism vs biblical Christianity, unfortunately). But...they wont stay in Catholicism. [The more they learn in Scripture the more theyll progress in maturity and see the errors of any heretical or wonky group they join, and find themselves searching for a biblical church to join.]
I go to a 8,000 member church in CA and around 1/3 of them were catholic but got saved, and now are in a biblical Christian church. You can also talk to former catholics who got saved, or look at some ministry staff members who also used to be catholic, and like others who share the gospel with the lost they reach out to and witness to catholics. Here is a sample and another.
In USA RCC catholics people have opportunities to mingle with Born again Christians [unlike other countries], have convos w Christians, and hear the Gospel. They also can access Christian resources online, and in last 8-10 yrs have access to interacting on social media with born again Christians and can investigate thru ministries like carm.org to examine rcc against Scripture (for the 1st time).
But the point is, theres a rare rcc who gets saved, but if they do get saved. theyll eventually leave RCC since theyve now seen and now know the truth.
So A: a unsaved person, (in a false religion masqurading as Christian such as rcc), can today be led by God to read the Bible, have convos with a real Christian, hear the gospel, examine their false religion online and thru comparing to the Bible, and... can get saved. Thus that rcc person can be newly saved and sitting in a rcc church temporarily, but will realize rcc is a false religion, and leave it, for a biblical Christian church.
Resources on Roman Catholicism
How can you share the Gospel with the lost
(1) in 2 Peter 2:3 Peter shows one motive of the false teachers: greed. They want power and money, and they're willing to distort God's Word to try to get it from God's people. They won't just lie about the truth of God's Word, though; they will tell false stories about other things, as well.
Matt 23:15 speaks of these also:
Woe to you...For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
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