If that is really true, why Catholics don’t live by the book?
Some do do, but I must agree that most don't. The same can be said of Protestants. Some do but most don't.
1. Priests or those who lead the Church should be married, or at least not denied to marry because:
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife…
1 Tim. 3:2
Most Protestant Bible scholars would say that this means that the pastor must not be married to more than one wife. If it meant that a pastor must have a wife, then Paul would have been disqualified, since he did not have a wife.
But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron; forbidding marriage…
1 Tim. 4:1-3
Any man has a right to marry. But no man has a right to be a priest. The priesthood is a call, a privilege. So a married man cannot claim a right to be a priest. In the same way, a woman can not say it is her right to be a priest.
Although the Bible does not forbid marriage, the Bible does see celibacy as a higher calling.
For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others--and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it
Matt 19:12
Jesus commends those who remain celibate for the kingdom of God, but only those who can accept celibacy should.
Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do. 9 But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
1 Cor 7: 8, 9
Paul only allows marriage if they cannot control themselves. Otherwise, it is better to remain celibate.
The Bible makes it clear that celibacy is better than marriage as long as the person can control his passions.
In light of these other verses that extol the virtues of celibacy, I think 1 Tim 4 is not about forbidding marriage and sex but only forbidding marriage. People can still have sex but just are forbidding to marry. So they are forced to to something that is an abomination to God - having sex outside of marriage. Other verses in the Bible say that sexual immorality will run rampant at the end times. So I do not think that non-Christians will be celibate. The will just no longer marry. This is starting to happen now. Only half of the population are getting married.
2. Priests are called fathers, all though:
…Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven….
Mat. 23:4-12
"...for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel"
1 Cor 4:15
If Jesus meant that literally then Paul while inspired by the Holy Spirit to write part of the Bible went against the teachings of Jesus. He called himself their father through the gospel.
Also, what do you call the man who impregnated your mother that eventually brought you into the world? Is he not your father?
3. Catholics believe Jesus is God and they make images of Jesus, even though it is forbidden in the Bible.
"You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Exodus 20:4-6
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But if you look at this in its context, you will see that this cannot be an absolute command with no exceptions. A few chapters later, the Lord says the following about building the ark of the covenant (what is used to store the Ten Commandments):
Make an atonement cover of pure gold—two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. 18 And make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover.
Exodus 25:17, 18
Cherubim are angels. So God commanded that to be two angels, HAMMER OUT OF GOLD! To me, this sure sounds like graven images. So how can God command them to do the very thing He forbade them to do in Exodus 20?
These two passages can be reconciled if we look at the historical context. The pagan at that time made statues that did not just represent God or gods (as they saw them), these statues were to them became the gods themselves. So Exodus 20 is a commandment to forbid making statues in order to serve them. But in Exodus 25 he is not commanding them to make graven images to serve them.
If Exodus 20 is a command against any graven images, even if we are not treating them as gods, then we are all in trouble. In Germany, there are at least seven statues of Martin Luther scattered throughout the country. Are those not graven images? And if you ever go the Washington, D.C., you can see the busts of all our Presidents. Are they not graven images? I remember a Protestant friend of mine having a statuette of Cubs player Sammy Sosa. Is that not a graven image?