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""''424. Moved by the grace of the Holy Spirit and drawn by the Father, we believe in Jesus and confess: 'You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.'8 On the rock of this faith confessed by St. Peter, Christ built his Church".'' (Part One, Section Two, Chapter Two)
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''By [[User:AmericanCatholic]]''
== Introduction ==
''423. We believe and confess that Jesus of Nazareth, born a Jew of a daughter of Israel at Bethlehem at the time of King Herod the Great and the emperor Caesar Augustus, a carpenter by trade, who died crucified in Jerusalem under the procurator Pontius Pilate during the reign of the emperor Tiberius, is the eternal Son of God made man. He 'came from God',4 'descended from heaven',5 and 'came in the flesh'.6 For 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father. . . And from his fullness have we all received, grace upon grace.'7
=== Catholics worship Saints ===
''After confessing "the holy catholic Church," the Apostles' Creed adds "the communion of saints." In a certain sense this article is a further explanation of the preceding: "What is the Church if not the assembly of all the saints?"479 The communion of saints is the Church.
''947 "Since all the faithful form one body, the good of each is communicated to the others. . . . We must therefore believe that there exists a communion of goods in the Church. But the most important member is Christ, since he is the head. . . . Therefore, the riches of Christ are communicated to all the members, through the sacraments."480 "As this Church is governed by one and the same Spirit, all the goods she has received necessarily become a common fund."481
''948 The term "communion of saints" therefore has two closely linked meanings: communion in holy things (sancta)" and "among holy persons (sancti).'' (Part One, Section Two, Chapter Three, Article Nine, Paragraph Five)
=== Catholics ignore the Bible ===
Because Catholics do not rely upon the Bible as the exclusive and single authority on Christian doctrine, it sometimes claimed that Catholics ignore it. But this is false. Instead, the Bible is considered a part of the [[Deposit of Faith]] alongside [[Sacred Tradition]] (in other words, [[[Apostolic Succession]]). The Bible is the ''written'' part of tradition. This is reinforced by the historical development of the Bible, which began in the 1st Century and ended with the present structure of the Bible with the acknowledgment of the [[Council of Trent]] in the 16th Century. Therefore, the Bible is not ignored, but is interpreted as a component of Church tradition. There are no sources in Catholic theology except for Scripture and Tradition.
The Catechism states:
''101 In order to reveal himself to men, in the condescension of his goodness God speaks to them in human words: "Indeed the words of God, expressed in the words of men, are in every way like human language, just as the Word of the eternal Father, when he took on himself the flesh of human weakness, became like men."63
''102 Through all the words of Sacred Scripture, God speaks only one single Word, his one Utterance in whom he expresses himself completely:64 You recall that one and the same Word of God extends throughout Scripture, that it is one and the same Utterance that resounds in the mouths of all the sacred writers, since he who was in the beginning God with God has no need of separate syllables; for he is not subject to time.'' (Part One, Section One, Chapter Two, Article Three)
''You recall that one and the same Word of God extends throughout Scripture, that it is one and the same Utterance that resounds in the mouths of all the sacred writers, since he who was in the beginning God with God has no need of separate syllables; for he is not subject to time.'' (Part One, Section One, Chapter Two, Article Three)
=== Lay Catholics are not encouraged to read the Bible ===
The catechism states:
''880 When Christ instituted the Twelve, "he constituted [them] in the form of a college or permanent assembly, at the head of which he placed Peter, chosen from among them."398 Just as "by the Lord's institution, St. Peter and the rest of the apostles constitute a single apostolic college, so in like fashion the Roman Pontiff, Peter's successor, and the bishops, the successors of the apostles, are related with and united to one another."'' (Part One, Section Two, Chapter Three)
I am sure there are many other serious and pervasive myths which exist. If you know of any, feel free to e-mail them to me.
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