A Question regarding Roman Catholics and their faith?

They don't have compromise with God, neither with his word neither with men's soul neither with their own soul. Be a non-calvinist protestant. Look for a pentecostal or baptist church.

PD: Protestant didn't remove 7 book from the old testament. Catholic church did put it about 1500 a.C, 2000 years after the judaic canon was already closed by Esdras and other prophets of Israel. These books exist only in the catholic bible. they did put it to justify sins like praying to people who already died, salvation through works, etc... all heresies that the catholic church was having many difficulties to support without those 7 non-canonic books.

The short answer is that Catholicism is a religion that respects free will. The Catholic Church provides guidelines, and it's up to each of us to follow those. We aren't policed by our pastors.

We have guidelines that say we ought not swear, get drunk, use our money foolishly (gamble), etc. We also have guidelines about feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, sheltering the homeless, visiting the imprisoned, etc. We each determine how we follow these guidelines.

The Catholic Church is a "hospital for sinners" in a true sense. We don't demand that people become perfect before they show up. We all struggle with sin -- sometimes one person's sin is more obvious than another's, but we Catholics try to "keep our eyes on our own paper" because we each have enough on our plates without nosing into other people's business.

If you know a lot of Catholics with bad habits, it would be polite to either help them or ignore the bad stuff. But you should also know there are many, many, MANY Catholics who don't swear or smoke or gamble or drink. It just depends on the individual. We're not all identica -- we're our own selves.

Also, the Bible doesn't address smoking at all -- if yours does, some modern person slipped it in.

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Please listen. You don't seem to be reading my answer carefully.

The Church DOES have rules about not being drunk and not being foolish with one's money and not swearing and even about keeping one's body healthy, which would apply to smoking. Gossip *is* a sin for Catholics. And on and on and on.

You're looking at a handful of Catholics who have bad habits. You can find handfuls of ANY type of Christian that has bad habits. SO WHAT? The Catholic Church DOES NOT tell people to gamble or smoke or get drunk or swear or whatever sin you what to talk about. The fact that SOME Catholics do not obey the rules doesn't mean the rules don't exist.

Furthermore, Catholics DO NOT give more reverence to Mary than to Christ. Mary is nothing without Jesus and any Catholic will tell you that. Mary is human, not divine, and any Catholic will tell you that, too.

Also, Paul refers to himself as Timothy's spiritual father in the Scriptures. Are you saying that Paul was sinning and that Scripture has an error? No, I didn't think so.

God is our Father -- Catholics pray, "Our Father, who art in heaven" all the time. A priest is not God or equal to God, but the priest's role is to be a sort of spiritual father, guiding us and helping us along like our biological dads are supposed to.

Swearing is a sin. You can't MAKE someone in your church NOT wear, but it is a sin and they should know that, because the church teaches that.

Gambling is a sin if you are addicted to it. Any addiction is a sin.

That includes smoking. Smoking is not a sin if you smoke ONE cigar and quit. The problem with smoking is that it is addictive for most people, and the addiction is the sin though is it a grave sin? Is a smoker going to burn in hell for all eternity? I don't think so.

As for alcohol: Drinking alcohol in itself is NOT a sin. Addiction to alcohol IS a sin.

Why is the act of consuming something NOT a sin, but the addiction is?

"It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man." - Matthew 15:11

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"Do not love the world or the things of the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him." - 1 John 2:15 (if you are addicted to something then you have a love for that 'thing', and this is actually a form if idolatry, which is why Jesus says that you do not have the Father in you if you are suffering from an addiction, because....

"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other..." - Matthew 6:24

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"I stay away from my church cos I am a sinner." - that is exactly why you are supposed to go to church, because you are a sinner

"But go and learn what this means: 'I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT SACRIFICE,' for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners." - Matthew 9:13

If you are waiting until you are perfect to go to church, then you will never go to church the rest of your life.

<<How come parishioners in your religion are allowed to smoke, swear, gamble and drink alcohol? Doesn't God condone those very things, in your bible? I say, your bible, cos yours is slightly different from my (King James version) churchs bible? I'm just curious. Why?>>

Smoking and using the Lord's Name in vain are not allowed.

Gambling and alcohol consumption are not immoral so long as they are done in moderation.

<<And yet, RC followers go to church every sunday yet do these things as hobbies and extra circular activities every day.>>

Well, if all these Catholics are the bad sinners you think they are, why do you object to them going to Church regularly - as that is exactly what they need!

The problem here is that you seem to think the Church is supposed to be some kind of house of saints, when in fact the Church is a Hospital for Sinners.

<<I'm puzzled, so can someone, preferably in the Rc faith answer me.

Thanks.>>

You are indeed puzzled when it comes to Catholicism. I'm sorry but there's really nothing anyone can say that will clarify it for you.

Because humans are not perfect.

Why do you expect us to be?

Drinking is allowed, Jesus turned water into wine, but we are not to be drunkards.

Where in the bible or in tradition is gambling wrong? Again, we should not gamble with money that we need.

Also, the Priest does not have the power to go into homes and chastise every person in the Parish.

The Catholic Church does not allow any sin, but it also knows we need redemption.

What you have is a complex against Catholics. You don't understand our faith so you find some bad examples of people doing things they should not be doing and asking why the Church allows it.

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Other than taking the Lord's name in vain, none of those other things are sinful. If a person gambles away the rent, that's a sin. If a person goes to bingo one night a month and spend a little, there is no sin.

If a person is a drunk that's a sin. If a person has a drink here and there but is not drunk, that is no sin.

Smoking is not a sin.

Roman Catholics or its followers are christians because they also believed in Jesus Christ as their messiah. Protestant who claim as christians does not differ to the Roman Catholics, its only a matter of the teaching which they follow.

Our bible is different because Protestants removed 7 books. I dont drink or gamble or swear. I do smoke,nothing in the bible that says smoking is a sin. What you really are trying to do is bash Catholic Christians when you know full well there are many in the protestant churches that do the same exact thing

Not allowed to swear

Smoking is stoopid and you can kill yourself if you want, I won't stop you.

Gambling is fine if you don't spend what you don't have or neglect your financial responsibilities.

As for booze, what was Jesus' first miracle?

And we also primarily use the KJV bible our selves, we only refer to 'our Bible' (aka, the original) for matters concerning doctrine.

BTW, 'Roman' Catholics aren't a separate faith. Roman is a rite within the Catholic church. Just use Google for more info on this.

How is your Bible more correct than theirs?

When did Jesus say that an English guy centuries after his death was going to be given magical powers of interpretation?