Posted: Jun 06, 2021 2:45 am
Spearthrower wrote:
Catholicism – 1.345 billion
Protestantism – 900 million
Of the 2.5 billion Christians, around 50% of them are Catholics. So "Christians in general" presumably must also include Catholics, given they're the largest sect of Christianity BY FAR, so are we to assume that Catholics believe that their church is a [i]false church of the end-times
No. If you ever go to Mexico, for example, Catholics and Evangelicals mutually see each other as false believers. This understanding is a 2-way street and goes both ways.
Catholics pray to dead saints, their churches are filled with idols/statues to which they kneel before and pray, etc. all of which the Bible says to avoid. Their Bible also contains extra books not in the standard Bible used by the rest of the world.
This is why the CATHOLIC Crusades and the CATHOLIC Inquisition MURDERED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CHRISTIANS for refusing to bow to the Pope. Atheists then blame those events on Christians in general - who were murdered??? WHAAT? No wonder the Catholic Church - the False Church of the end times - is described in the Bible as: "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." (2 Timothy 3). It is not surprising that the false church of the endtimes would instigate the Crusades and the Inquisition - it is a tool of satan.
This is not to say that the Catholic church does not have true believers in it though. But being the false church, the Catholic Church does not originate with God but is a concoction of man. The same goes for the Pope.