The “Hail Mary” prayer assumes that she is powerful enough to intercede on your behalf. But it’s unnecessary, you can pray to God or Jesus directly without an intermediary. I believe this is the main contention between modern Catholic doctrine and modern Protestants. At the time of the Reformation the huge rift was in how the sacraments were observed and which ones were really sacraments. Again, it was a manufactured split to divide us, and had the added benefit of allowing plunder of the abbeys and monasteries. The Reformation was an indicator that the church was wholly owned by non-Christians.
You never ask another person to pray for you?
The main rift during the reformation was the catholic church banning the people from reading the Holy Bible, (on pain of death). The church is and always was ‘the body of the believers in Christ’, it is His possession and no human is able to usurp His rule and dictate the rules.
The reformation certainly got quite a few things right, but it overshot or completely missed the mark in several other areas. The most glaring one was, they rejected the notion of indulgences, but then kept the Filioque Heresy.
The glaring error was rejecting one of the 10 commandments.
Are there actually 10 commandments in Exodus chapter 20?
Martin Luther was based as fuck. Why would the church, owned by jews, use a guy like Luther to divide the church when he noticed the hardest?
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