Why would Catholics want to defeat the Bible as the only authority? The answer is: it is their way of trying to justify their
own traditions. How else would they justify them? Furthermore, the reason Catholics try to discredit the Bible as the sole
authority is because it plainly and forcefully condemns their doctrines. For example, to cite only a few:
(1) It condemns clerical dress. Matt. 23:4-5 says, "For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's
shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. But all their works they do to be seen by men.
They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments."
(2) It teaches against the adoration of Mary. Luke 11:27-28 says, "And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a
certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, 'Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which
nursed You!' But He said, 'More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!'"
(3) It shows that all Christians are priests. 1 Pet. 2:5,9 says, "...You also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual
house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ...But you are a chosen
generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called
you out of darkness into His marvelous light..."
(4) It condemns the observance of special days. Gal. 4:9-11 says, "But now after you have known God, or rather are
known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage?
You observe days and months and seasons and years. I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain."
(5) It teaches that all Christians are saints. 1 Cor. 1:2 says, "To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are
sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both
theirs and ours..."
(6) It teaches that baptism is immersion instead of pouring. Rom. 6:4 says; "Therefore we were buried with Him
through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should
walk in newness of life." Col. 2:12 says, "Buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith
in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead."
(7) It forbids us to address religious leaders as "father." Matt. 23:9 says, "Do not call anyone on earth your father; for
One is your Father, He who is in heaven."
(8) It opposes unmarried bishops. 1 Tim. 3:2-5 says, "A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife,
temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach; not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,
but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all
reverence (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?)..."
(9) It addresses only God Himself as the "Holy Father." John 17:11 says, "Now I am no longer in the world, but these
are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may
be one as We are."
(10) It shows that the great apostasy would forbid marriage. 1 Tim. 4:1-3 says, "Now the Spirit expressly says that in
latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in
hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods
which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth."
(11) It reveals that the great apostasy would have one who claimed to take the place of God. 2 Thess. 2:3-4 says, "Let
no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is
revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he
sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God."
After reading the above passages, it is abundantly clear why Catholics endeavor to destroy the Bible as the only authority in religion today.