The
Catholic Apologetics Bible Concordance
This Bible Concordance is broken into Eleven basic parts (HTML-active)
PART # 1 THE CHURCH
PART #2 THE SACRAMENTS
PART #3 THE MASS
PART # 4 GOD
PART # 5 AFTER JUDGMENT
PART # 6 CATHOLIC SACRAMENTALS
PART # 7 MARY AND THE SAINTS
PART # 8 PROBLEMS WITH THE PROTESTANT BELIEF SYSTEM
PART # 9 SOME COMMON POINTS OF DEBATE WITH PROTS.
PART # 10 WORD SEARCH THE DOUAY-RHEIMS BIBLE.
PART # 11 BIBLE LANGUAGES ONLINE DICTIONARIES AND OTHER REFERENCES
PART #12 Catholic Doctrine Is Derived From These Four Sources:
+++PART # 1 THE CHURCH (HTML-active)
2)THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS OF GOD
3)AUTHORITY OF CHRIST'S CHURCH
4)THE NECESSITY OF AUTHORITY IN THE CHURCH
5)APOSTATES ( I.E. THOSE WHO LEAVE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH )
6)THE AUTHORITY TO TEACHING IS GRANTED TO THE CHURCH
7)INFALLIBILITY OF CHRIST'S CHURCH ( i.e., THAT IT CAN NOT ERROR IN TEACHING CHRIST'S RELIGION. )
8)PERPETUITY OF THE ORIGINAL CHURCH
10)SINNERS AND CHRIST'S CHURCH
A) SCANDALS IN CHRIST'S CHURCH
12)CHURCH, CATHOLICITY OF THE PROPHESIED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
+++PART #2 THE SACRAMENTS (HTML-active)
3)THE HOLY EUCHARIST: CHRIST ACTUALLY PRESENT THERE IN
+++PART # 3 MASS (HTML-active)
1)PUBLIC WORSHIP IN THE TRUE CHURCH
2) MASS ON SUNDAY (THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK)
3)THE HOLY EUCHARIST: CHRIST ACTUALLY PRESENT THERE IN
4) CATHOLIC USE OF WINE (ALCOHOL)
+++PART # 4 GOD (HTML-active)
1)Christ Is Equal To God The Father
3)Christ Is True God, Prophesied in the Old Testament
+++PART # 5 AFTER JUDGMENT (HTML-active)
+++PART # 6 CATHOLIC SACRAMENTALS (HTML-active)
+++PART #7 MARY AND THE SAINTS (HTML-active)
MARY, MOTHER OF GOD THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF MARY
+++PART # 8 PROBLEMS WITH THE PROTESTANT BELIEF SYSTEM (HTML-active)
+++PART # 9 SOME COMMON POINTS OF DEBATE WITH PROTS. (HTML-active)
2)ARE THE JEWS STILL GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE
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+++Catholic Doctrine Is Derived From These Four Sources:
1. What the Bible explicitly or implicitly teaches.
2. Available Bible material is clarified or complemented or confirmed by truths derived from historical records (tradition) such as the writings of the Fathers, inscriptions in the Catacombs, early rules and regulations of the Church.
3. The guidance of the Holy Spirit, Whom Christ promised to His Church (John 14-16 and 26).
4. Our Lord's own presence in the Church, according to His specific promise. (Matt. 28-20).
+++BIBLE VANDALISM
In our day, there is no whim, fad or fancy that some one does not claim to prove from the Bible. Almost any man or woman is conceited enough to set himself up as a competent interpreter of the word of God. "I think the Bible means this, therefore it does mean this," is their modest position. These men and women want it thoroughly understood that our forefathers in the faith were all fools that for the last nineteen hundred years, the Christian world was in inky darkness. With them, however, light has come into the world. The truth is that no book in the world today is falsified, distorted, misapplied one tenth so much as the Holy Scriptures.
Some, like the early heretics, will prove from the Bible that Christ is only God and not man. Others, like modern Unitarians, will prove from the Bible that Christ is only man and not God.
Some denominations will prove from the Bible that in the New Law, Christ shared his priesthood with NO ONE. Others will prove from the Bible that in the New Law, even the women are priests; hence the name Presbyters or priests, from which "Presbyterian" is derived.
One sect will prove from the Bible that baptism is unnecessary for children, but is necessary for adults. Others will prove from the Bible that baptism is necessary for no one; that it is only a ceremony, an initiation such as is required when one joins a lodge.
Campbellites or "First Christians" will prove from the Bible that to be really baptized, one must be totally immersed in water. Others prove from the Bible that the whole thing is unnecessary and ought to be abandoned.
Russellites prove from the Bible that there is going to be a millennium, a thousand years when every one will get a second trial. Calvinists prove from the Bible that a large part of mankind do not even get a first trial, but are predestined to damnation irrespective of their merits.
Some sects prove from the Bible that eternal punishment is going to be meted out to nearly every one, but the little handful of their particular false sect is going to escape. But others prove from the Bible that everyone is going to be saved. To even murderers, adulterers, and those who rob widows and orphans-and never repent-will Christ hold out His arms and say: "Come, Blessed of My Father, and possess the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world."
Reduced to practice their theory means this: Read the Bible and believe as you like; if you like Martin Luther's theory, follow it; if you prefer John Calvin's Christianity, embrace it. If you think that Campbell, or Dowie, or Mrs. Eddy, or the Adventists have "discovered" the truth, have succeeded in doing what Christ must have failed to do, then take them as your guide. If the theory of none of these persons suits you, make up one yourself.
Mrs. Eddy will prove from the Bible that man is all soul, the body is practically a delusion, and does not really exist, "Bible Students" will prove from the Bible that the soul is all delusion you really have none When you die, your soul knows not anything: the soul which God gave Adam was only air and nothing more
In the Bible, we are told to serve the Lord in fear and trembling and so we have the shakers, the mourners and the weepers. Again in the Bible, we are told to rejoice in the Lord always, again I say rejoice. And so we have the singers and the jumpers and the rollers. Surely you would think that there is a sufficient variety to suit every one, but it seems not, for new sects are springing up constantly.
All these claim to prove their version of Christianity from the Bible; all these are willing to swear that their little handful are the only ones who are right and that every one else is wrong. Christ's Church for nineteen hundred years was a complete failure, but fortunately they have finally come to set it aright. Meanwhile the Bible itself warns us:
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. but . . . shall heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears. ---2 Tim. 4-3
Again, referring to the epistle of St. Paul, the Prince of the Apostles tells us:
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also other scriptures, unto their own destruction.---2 Peter. 3-16
Here are ten children. Give them all the same simple problem in arithmetic. Imagine that each gives you a different answer. Of these ten answers, you know that at least nine are wrong. Perhaps also the tenth. Here are four hundred sects. Ask them all to solve the problem, "What does the Bible teach?" Each gives you a different answer. But you know that only one can really be correct. All the rest are wrong. Two and two are always four. There are a thousand wrong answers to every problem, but only one correct reply.
+++PARABLE OF THE FOREST
PARABLE: Picture to yourself a marvelously beautiful and gigantic forest, a thousand miles in width and length.
APPLICATION: In the parable, the New Testament is this dramatically impressive forest composed of numberless giant trees. Each one of these trees represents; let us say, a verse or set of verses of the Bible; there are as many trees in that forest as groups of verses in the Old and New Testaments.
+++PARABLE: In preparation for this forest, men reclaimed a desert which was watered, irrigated, so that on it the giant trees could be grown. After the period of preparation, a first installment of giant trees was planted; then, after another interval, a second, a third, and others until the great forest was completed.
APPLICATION: The beginnings of the New Testament fit into this picture. The first ten years of the Church's history was the time of preparation during which not a line of the New Testament had been written. Then ten years after our Lord's Ascension, St. Matthew wrote the first Gospel; following it were the Gospels according to St. Mark, St. Luke and St. John, together with other inspired books; the last of these was written about 100 A. D.
+++PARABLE: Thereafter, for a time, adversities and setbacks hampered the project; other trees, imitations of the kind desired, took root alongside those originally planted; after another interval, with the return of more favorable circumstances, the new-giant thousand-mile-square forest was carefully cleansed, pruned and extraneous growths removed.
APPLICATION: After the New Testament books were written came the greatest of the persecutions, during which other books, thought by many to be inspired, were written, and to a greater or lesser extent, were so regarded by the early Christians. With Constantine in 313, compilation of the New Testament began. Finally in 397 A. D., it was put under one cover by a general council of the Catholic Church
+++PARABLE Meanwhile, even before the forest had grown, in order that humans might find their way in safety through the desert, and later through the forest, a carefully constructed and guarded path was provided which travelers could follow through the otherwise impenetrable woods. The travelers, moreover, were given directions, supplementary information, to guarantee safety on their journey.
APPLICATION: In the parable, the path through the great forest is the divine authority of Christ's visible Church, which enables men properly to understand the Word of God, instead of being prey to man-made theories. The supplementary information which the travelers received are reliable historical records, such as the writings of the Fathers, the inscriptions in the catacombs, the rules and regulations of the early Church-all of which are called Tradition.
+++PARABLE: Later in our parable, come other men, who scorn to follow the safe path cut out through the otherwise trackless forest; these enter the forest, admire its gigantic proportions and other thrilling beauties, but with nothing to guide them, are quickly lost in the forest; some soon die of want; others eke out a miserable existence, subsisting on herbs, plants and other insufficient foods which the forest supplies. Others, however, wander long through the trackless areas, until they discover the guiding path, which they follow in safety.
+++MILLIONS LOSE THEIR WAY
APPLICATION: In this part of the parable, those who scorn to follow the path which leads to safety, are the so-called reformers, who reject the accepted Christian faith of nineteen centuries and, each one for himself, sets out to explore the beautiful but trackless, limitless forest of Holy Scripture. Inevitably they lose their way; some of these perish, in the sense that they lose their faith entirely; others as members of innumerable sects, subsist meagerly on the imperfect. defective diet of a little truth and much error. All of these are on the path to hell. Others, however, after wandering aimlessly about, are fortunate enough to find the correct path which Christ and Christ's Church had mapped out for them; these are the converts to the original or Catholic Church. Joyfully these pursue their journey, until, in the words of the well-known hymn. they are: Safe, safe at last the dangers past, Safe in their Father's home.
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