>Catholic: God is the only person you can worship, but not all prayer is worship. Praying to saints, angels, or the Virgin Mary is just like asking a friend or relative to pray for you
God is the only person you can worship, but not all prayer is worship for prayer is literally just asking or better yet, begging. someone. Praying to saints, angels, or the Virgin Mary just like David and Job prayed to angels is just like asking a friend or relative to pray for you for they are united with God by grace and by Holy Spirit, which is soul of Body that is Church, can hear prayers of said Body.
>Catholic: baptism is necessary for salvation and it washes away your sins. It should be done as soon as possible, even to little newborn babies
Wow, you actually got it right. But to add to that, there is baptism by water (normal one), baptism of desire (aka wishing to have baptism but being unable to got one because of death) and baptism of blood (aka martyrdom)
>Catholic: "this is my body" is to be taken literally. Through the process of transubstantiation, this bread is truly the body of Jesus, and this wine is truly his blood
Wow this one too. But to give argument to Baptism counterargument:
Christ came once and will come only one another time. There will not be some rapture apart form Day of Warth when all will be Judged.
Eucharist is re-presentation of one Sacrafice of Christ, which he countully presents to his Father in heaven as our High Priest, and because of that is called Sacrifice because it re-presents (makes present) the sacrifice of the cross, because it is its memorial and because it applies its fruit:
[Christ], our Lord and God, was once and for all to offer himself to God the Father by his death on the altar of the cross, to accomplish there an everlasting redemption. But because his priesthood was not to end with his death, at the Last Supper "on the night when he was betrayed," [he wanted] to leave to his beloved spouse the Church a visible sacrifice (as the nature of man demands) by which the bloody sacrifice which he was to accomplish once for all on the cross would be re-presented, its memory perpetuated until the end of the world, and its salutary power be applied to the forgiveness of the sins we daily commit.
>Catholic: the church hierarchy is large and overarching, from deacon to priest to bishop to archbishop to the one leader of the Catholic Church, who is the pope
There is one Church, so there is one hierarchy. For there is Christ who is the Head of his mystical body, who is our High Priest (archiereus) who called his apostels to sit over New Israe; in chairs of authority. Those apstoles, were ministers of Him to minster (hierourgeó) Church. They created Overseares, Bishops to thier succesors. And they created Elders, Presbyters to perform this ministry on local level in unity with bishop. And they created Deacons, Levites of New Israel, to serve but be not priest.
Now, just as in Kingdom of Old, which is icon of Eternal Kingdom, when King is away he appointed prime minister, or vicar, to menage things till he comes back. First of those vicars was Peter, chief of apostels. And he (with Paul) apointed Linus, and he appointed Anacletus, and he appointed Clement, and he appointed Evaristus, and so on and so on. Sure, matter of appointing was changed but the same office, same keys, is held. This office, after Issiah (22) we came to call Pope, which means Father.
Also, Pope is not head of the Church. Only head of Church is Christ. Pope act in person of Christ the Head for he is his vicar but he is not the head which is Christ. But this office of vicarate can be said t be "visible head" for it makes "the head" visible to us (for ou nature demnds visible signs). The Church represents the Mystical Body whose head is Christ and in which there is one Lord, one Faith, and one Baptism (Eph 4:5); therefore this one visible Body on earth has one head, Christ (who is the invisible head) and His vicar, St. Peter and his successors (the visible head). This is not two heads (like a "monster") but one.
Those are Catholic basics (and by basic I mean what is basic to my Baptist friend)
Also:
>Using any part of Jack "Good Goy" Chick in meme
>calling it better in any way
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