What Would it Take for You to Believe Me? A Protestant View of the Catholic Church
A year ago I was talking to a colleague of mine who asked if I was Christian. Yes, I said to her. Me too, she said... I'm Catholic, so same thing. No, it's not, I thought to myself. After all, I believed that Catholicism was a form of paganism. That was actually the title of a blog post I had sitting in my drafts for years. It was a big subject to take on, but from my perspective, it seemed like the Catholic church was blatantly going against what the bible instructed us to do. Namely, right in the ten commandments where it said not to make graven images for ourselves of anything in heaven. But the Catholic church had graven images all over the place. If you were to walk into a church, the first thing you would see is Jesus' body hanging on the cross. Our God, cast in earthly materials, and people bowing down before it. It was a far cry from the way that the Jewish people worshipped, from whom we were passed down the Old Testament, without any pictures or statues...
