Fords
and Chevys
So you went
out and purchased an old used car, and soon after, it hada problem.
You did not have the money to have a mechanic fix it so youdecided
to fix it yourself. Not knowing anything about that brand of car,you
purchased a repair manual for another brand, from a friend because
he owned the store. You read the manual from cover to cover and
found out it did not help you much at all to fix your car. You
were too proud to admit you had wasted all that time and expense.
So you wandered around in the darkness and muddled around that
car for the rest of your life, not ever learning anythingabout
it, or how to fix it.
Believe it or not, I received an email
from a Seventh Day Adventist who remarked that I have been brainwashed
by Catholic literature. Hesuggested if I wanted to know the truth
about the Catholic Church, I shouldgo outside the Catholic Church
to find it. I asked him how can I find the truth of what the Catholic
Church teaches in a SDA or any other Churchwhich teaches against
the Catholic Church? He sent me a list of books andsuggested I
read them. Everyone of the authors were known heretics and Catholic
haters.This person topped the list of stupid ideas of all that
I have ever received. In essence he said I should buy a Chevy manual to learn about Fords.
Now, when I wanted
to learn about the SDA Church, I acquired a set of books written
by E.G. White, the source for SDA teaching.
No Presbyterian, or Methodist, or Catholic taught me.
When I wanted to learn about Jehovah's
Witnesses, I looked at their literature, obtained a JW bible,
and got several of their books and studied them.
No Episcopalian, or Anglican, or Catholic taught me.
When I wanted to learn about Mormonism,
I went to Mormon sources and obtained a book of Mormon. I then
went to pro-Mormon websites and learned what they teach.
No Jew, or Moslem, or Catholic taught me.
Why then do not others
do the same thing? I receive the same questions over and over
from protestants who do not know the truth about what the Catholic
Church teaches. You see, they all own Fords but are
all reading from a Chevy
manual. They never bothered
to go to the source where they should have gone in the first place.
Instead they spin wheels and muddle around for the rest of their
lives. They make derrogatory remarks about Fords because
they do not know the first thing about them.
How can anyone
learn what a Church really teaches without going to the source
of that teaching and seeing it for themselves?
Are you
going to learn the honest truth of what the Catholic Church teaches
from:
1. A parent or relative
who has hated the Catholic Church all their lives?
2. A peer or friend who hates the Catholic Church?
3. Your Church which may have been biased against the Catholic
Church for
many years?
4. A book written by an anti-Catholic?
I CAN GUARANTEE
YOU WILL NOT FIND THE TRUTH OF WHAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TEACHES
FROM ANY OF THESE SOURCES...
When
in doubt, always go to the source. You are playing "You bet
your soul if you don't." If you perpetuate a lie without
trying to find the truth, take a look at Revelations 21:27 for
the unhappy ending of those who do this.
Purchase a copy
of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. It will tell you what
the Church teaches, and you will have aquired the knowledge from
the source.
THE TRUTH
IS TO BE FOUND NOWHERE ELSE BUT IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, THE SOLE
DEPOSITORY OF APOSTOLICAL DOCTRINE. HERESIES ARE OF RECENT FORMATION,
AND CANNOT TRACE THEIR ORIGIN UP TO THE APOSTLES.
Since therefore we have
such proofs, it is not
necessary to seek the truth among others which it
is easy to obtain from the Church since the apostles, like a rich man [depositing his
money] in a bank, lodged in her hands most copiously all things
pertaining to the truth: so that every man, whosoever will, can
draw from her the water of life. For she is the entrance to life;
all others are thieves and robbers. On this account are we bound
to avoid them, but to make choice of the thing pertaining to the
Church with the utmost diligence, and to lay hold of the tradition
of the truth. For how stands the case? Suppose there arise a dispute
relative to some important question among us, should we not have
recourse to the most ancient Churches with which the apostles
held constant intercourse, and learn from them what is certain
and clear in regard to the present question? For how should it
be if the apostles themselves had not left us writings? Would
it not be necessary, [in that case,] to follow the course of the
tradition which they handed down to those to whom they did commit
the Churches?
-- Saint Irenaeus, 180
A.D.
Against Heresies, Book 3, Chapter 4, Par 1, Jurgens 213
Written by Bob Stanley, September 2, 1998
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