Below are Ten Items Concerning ‘The Doctrine of Jesus Christ as The Savior.’

The parenthesis contains the applicable ‘Roman Catholic Catechism’s’ exact ‘paragraph number(s).’

1. Jesus Christ as The Sole Savior

RCC Bible says: Titus 3:5 Not by the works of justice which we have done, but according to his mercy, he saved us [the believers], by the laver of regeneration and renovation of the Holy Ghost.

But the RCC Teaches that “by His death and resurrection, Jesus Christ has ‘opened’ heaven to us.” Each person attains his own salvation by grace and good works. (1477)

2. Jesus Is The Sinless Redeemer

RCC Bible says: 1Peter 1:18-19 Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers: ¹⁹ But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled,

But the RCC Teaches rather that Mary is the sinless Co-redeemer. “Without a single sin to restrain her, she gave herself entirely to the person and work of her son; she did so in order to serve the mystery of redemption with Him… being obedient she became the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race” (494). This is Downright Blasphemy!!!

3. Jesus as Our ‘Advocate’ and ‘Mediator’

RCC Bible says: 1Tim. 2:5 For there is one God: and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus: 1John 2:1 My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the just.

But the RCC Teaches that Mary “did not lay aside (her) saving office but by here manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation.” She “is advocate and mediatrix.” (969).

4. Jesus Alone Expiates or ‘takes away’ Our Sins “through faith in his blood”

RCC Bible says: Romans 3:25 “(Christ) Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation [a propitiating sacrifice], through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,”

But the RCC Teaches that sins are expiated in purgatory through “a cleansing fire” and we “must strive to accept this temporal punishment of sin as a grace” (1030-1-31, 1472-1475)

5. Jesus Finished the Work of Our Redemption

RCC Bible says: John 19:30 Jesus therefore, when he had taken the vinegar, said: It is consummated [It is finished]. And bowing his head, he gave up the ghost [He died].

Heb. 7:27-28 “[Jesus] Who Needeth Not daily (as the O.T priests) to offer sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did ONCE, in offering himself [at the Cross]. For the law maketh men priests, who have infirmity: but the word of the oath (which was since the law) the Son who is perfected for evermore.”

But the RCC denies Jesus’ own words that said “It is consummated” or “It is finished.” Saying, “The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice. The same Christ who offered Himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and offered in an unbloody manner” (1367). The Eucharistic sacrifice is “offered in reparation for sins of the living and the dead.” (1414)

6. Jesus’ Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection Provide the Only Way to Salvation

RCC Bible says: Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other [than Jesus Christ]. For there is No Other Name Under Heaven Given To Men, Whereby We Must Be Saved.

But the RCC denies this by claiming the RCC “is necessary for salvation.” (846) and claiming “the plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst who are the Muslims” (841). (Now we see why Pope Francis has declared the faith “Chrislam”)

7. Jesus’ Shed Blood is the Only Remission for Sins

RCC Bible says: Heb. 9:22 And almost all things, according to the law, are cleansed with blood: and without shedding of blood there is no remission. Heb 10:22 Now, where there is a remission of these, there is no more an oblation for sin [no more necessary].

But the RCC Teaches “an indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which… may be applied to the living of the dead” (1477)

In simplest terms, an “indulgence” is the remission before God of all or part of the temporal punishment due to sins already forgiven. The grant of an indulgence is given by the Pope to certain prayers [i.e., rosary, etc.] or good works from the spiritual treasury of the Church.

8. Jesus Cleanses Us from ALL Sin

RCC Bible says: Heb. 1:3 [Jesus] Who being the brightness of his glory, and the figure of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, making purgation of sins, sitteth on the right hand of the majesty on high.         

Col 1:22 Yet now he [Christ] hath [already] reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and ‘unspotted, and blameless’ before him:

But the RCC Teaches that “all who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified… undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.” (1030)

1031 - “The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned. The Church formulated her doctrine of faith on Purgatory especially at the Councils of Florence and Trent. the tradition of the Church, by reference to certain texts of Scripture, speaks of a cleansing fire:”

9. Jesus, as The Only “Head” of the Church, called “The Body of Christ”

RCC Bible says: Eph. 1:22-23 And he [The Father] hath subjected all things under his [Jesus’] feet, and hath made him head over all the church, ²³ Which is his body, and the fulness of him who is filled all in all.

But the RCC Teaches that the Pope, “by reason of his [the Pope’s] office as Vicar of Christ, and as pastor of the entire Church has full, supreme and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered (882).  He exercises infallibility when “he proclaims by a definitive act a doctrine pertaining to faith or morals” (891)

10. Jesus as the Soon-Coming King of Israel

RCC Bible says: Acts 1:11 [Jesus] Who also said: Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come, as you have seen him going into heaven [shall so come ‘in like manner’].

But the RCC Teaches that Jesus returns daily to the altars of the Catholic churches to be worshipped: “The body… soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ… is truly, really and substantially contained” in the Eucharist” (1374-78)