I have been attending a small community church that is in the midst of a pastoral search. We have had many different speakers come in. Something I have noticed that makes my heart cringe is the way these men speak out against the Catholics specifically.

I certainly am all for preaching what the Bible says in all areas but it just seems to me like slander when proper names are used to speak against a certain practice of belief. I have been told that it is “righteous anger” that allows them to speak out and say the Catholic Church is wrong for doing/practicing/saying this or that. I just feel that this is not a biblical way to point out sin. I believe that it borders on slander and shows no mercy or grace.

I look at Jesus and how he didn’t condemn Mary Magdalene for her life as a prostitute in front of the men who were condemning/slandering her.

I believe that if you preach the Word of God as written, there is no need to point out who is doing/committing the sin. That’s the work of the Holy Spirit, and if you do then you are also sinning against another, which is hypocrisy!

Mary Magdalene was repentant. Do Catholics admit that they are wrong, and renounce Catholic doctrine? Any Catholic who does this receives mercy. Any Catholic who does not do this receive condemnation and the fires of hell. Anyone who shows your attitude is an accomplice.

The reason you think the way you do is because you do not know Jesus, the apostles, or the Bible. They harshly condemned people all the time, by their personal names and by their group labels. Jesus even became physically violent and turned over tables in the temple. If you cite Jesus’ example, then why don’t you cite those examples too? Why be selective and hypocritical about this? If you have read the Bible at all, you have chosen to rebel against God and filtered out much of the Word of God to protect your bias. You do not worship God, but a “God” that you made up. You do not believe in the Jesus of history and revelation, but the Jesus that you invented out of your own temperament, philosophy, and desire.

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!” (Matthew 23:13)

“You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?” (Matthew 23:33)

“Herod wants to kill you.” He replied, “Go tell that fox.” (Luke 13:31-32)

“For Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica.” (2 Timothy 4:10)

“Even one of their own poets has said, ‘Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.’ This testimony is true. Therefore, rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith.” (Titus 1:12-13)

“I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will have nothing to do with us. So if I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, gossiping maliciously about us” (3 John 9-10)

“But you have this in your favor: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.” (Revelation 2:6)

There are hundreds of these verses, too many to include. You want to “preach the Word of God as written”? Then why not preach these verses? You talk about “sinning against another, which is hypocrisy”? You are the hypocrite.

As it is, you are the one who has slandered your church, slandered Christ, and the writers of the Bible. Repent and join them in fighting false doctrine while there is still time for you.

I congratulate you for finding a church that would speak out against the heresies of Catholicism. I urge you to stop being the agent of Satan in opposing the truth, repent, and join the cause of Christ.