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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2018-01-30 11:26 AM, wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 10:53:42 -0500, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>

>> That article talks about the Roman Catholic concept if Immaculate
>> Conception. Like many other ideas expressed by that church, there is
>> nothing about it in the Bible. It describes her as a virgin. Please
>> excuse me if I don't understand all the mumbo of the Catholic church. I
>> also don't understand how the wine and the bread at communion actually
>> become the blood and body of Christ after a few prayers. Apparently many
>> Catholics don't even know that their church subscribes to that belief.
>
> That latter thought, whether it actually becomes the blood and body or
> is merely representative, is of course the big divide between RC and
> Protestant church beliefs.

It is indeed a major difference between Catholics and Protestants now.
A few hundred years ago when the Protestant Reformation came along there
were a lot of issues that Luther and his followers had problems with.
Mass and Bibles were in Latin, so people didn't realize that a lot of
stuff that they were being told was fabricated by the church and had
nothing to do with the Bible. They objected to the concept of Purgatory
and rich people being able to buy their way to heaven by paying indulgences.