Catholics know this “fact”: It is a blessing to be hated by “fraudsters”.
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Question 1: “What ‘fact’ do Victims of Protestantism think is a ‘fraud’?”
Answer: “Many Victims of Protestantism believe This ‘Fact’ that Jesus shared with The First Catholic Pope is a ‘fraud’: ‘And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.’”
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Question 2: “How can anyone believe that Jesus is The Son of God and think He Spoke a ‘fraud’ into being?”
Answer: “Clouds of confusion are blown into many minds by worldly interests. We see that in Today’s Catholic Bible reading from Amos 3:1-8 to ‘the children of Israel’ whom God ‘brought up from the land of Egypt’:
‘You alone have I favored, more than all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your crimes.’”
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Question 3: “Does that apply to Catholics, today?”
Answer: “Catholics who reject God’s Gift of Confession and Absolution for their sins may be the most ‘punished for all your crimes’ of all the people on earth!”
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Question 4: “What did God do after promising to ‘punish’ His earlier Chosen People for ‘all their crimes‘?”
Answer: “He asked questions so they could identify their sins! 1. ‘Do two (criminals) walk together unless they have agreed? 2. ‘Does a lion roar in the forest when it has no prey?’ 3. ‘Does a young lion cry out from its den unless it has seized something?’
Then, God asks more questions so everyone can see it is God Who has allowed evils to exist so His obedient people can separate themselves from evildoers: 4. ‘Is a bird brought to earth by a snare when there is no lure for it?’ 5. ‘Does a snare spring from the ground without catching anything.’ 6: ‘If the trumpet sounds in a city, will the people not be frightened?’ 6. ‘If evil befalls a city, has not The Lord caused it?’”
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Question 4: “Does God answer those questions to early Protestants in Amos 4:8-11?”
Then, Amos shared A Prophecy about the coming of The Messiah! Therefore thus I will do to you, Israel: and since I will deal thus with you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!‘“
800 years later, both ‘Israel’ and the World would ‘meet’ The Prophesied Messiah in the Prophesied village of Bethlehem. He would give The First Catholic Pope ‘the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven’ and lead His ‘Bishops’ to found Catholic Dioceses throughout the world!
Worldly people would have a new target for their frauds: Catholics who have “the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven”.
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Question 6: “What advice would Jesus give to Catholics as they spread out into parishes and Dioceses around the world?”
Answer: “Every Catholic and every Catholic Family, Parish, Diocese, and Nation is this ‘boat’ described in Mt. 8:23-27:
‘As Jesus got into a boat, His disciples followed Him. Suddenly, a violent storm came up on the sea so the boat was being swamped by waves, but Jesus was asleep.’”
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Question 7: “‘Violent storms’ have been ‘swamping Catholic boats by waves’ all over the world for 2,000 years! How did His Disciples save themselves from that ‘violent storm’?”
Answer: “‘They came and woke Him, saying, ‘Lord, save us! We are perishing!’ He said to them, ‘Why are you terrified, O ye of little faith? Then, He got up, rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was great calm.'”
Those who turn to Jesus and His Church find that the ‘violent storms’ blow themselves out after they ask Him for help to keep from drowning in the ‘waves’. When His help arrives, we are just like the Disciples when their ‘boat’, filled with early Catholics, was saved:
‘The men were amazed and said, ‘What sort of man is this, whom even the winds and the sea obey.’”
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