What amazes me is how catholics can run around screaming protestants are wrong and can't read the Bible yet one of the laws of Moses is that every child write s Torah scroll and study it, thus enabling every child to have their own record of the law and establishing the practice of individual study and discussion of the Word of God. This catholic belief that only they and their chosen bobbleheads have authority to read and interpret the Bible is false from the start.
Exactly! Not to mention their habit of calling the high ranking members "holy father" when there is only one we are to call Father. Matthew 23:29.
Well, we have biological fathers we call father, and I guess "grandfather" counts too. The label is somewhat superficial, just making the insitution/ community feel more like a family, but the issue is the system/ hierarchy and the covetousness with who gets to read or interpret what. With Jehovahs Witnesses, they believe the Governing Body are guided directly by God and anyone who interprets for themselves is seen as an "apostate," essentially. Only if they took an oath (baptism) though.
The Levitical priesthood weren't exactly a "class," it's not as if any of them could join that with training, they were a physical bloodline that did all the administrative work of Israel & Judea as well as managing the ceremonial practices.
Catholics put it together, they have the authority, that's basic history 101. Your interpretation is your own, it can be wrong. Christ gave us the Church as an authority. Matthew 16:18-19. 1 Tim 3:15.
So... how about that 1500 years you conveniently ignored? Protestantism has only existed 500 years.
You can ignore Christian history all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that the Church has believed what I believe for 2000 years, your view is only 500 years old and not even consistent with what Luther himself taught.
There is no contradiction in God. He either established a Church free from doctrinal error in faith and morals or He didn't. If He didn't, then He is a liar and there's no point in being Christian.
No protestant can make the claim they're infallible because none of you agree on anything. And your novel doctrine has only existed 500 years, that alone proves to me it's false.
God established His church but Satan is in the church too. Have you read Revelation? Which of those 7 churches became the RCC? Did you read the Gospels? Do you recall the man who was demonically possessed the Jesus met in the synagogue?
No church is infallible. The important thing is that churches be accepting of criticism, constantly searching the scriptures (Bereanism), and being critical of themselves and their own understanding.
As for Catholics writing/translating the Bible, the KJV was the work of about 47 different scholars, including protestants and Catholics. They drew much of their work from William Tyndale and others, some of whom had been burned at the stake by the RCC for disagreeing with RCC doctrine.
As for Luther, any criticism of people for not adhering to all of his doctrines is silly. Luther was a man born into Catholicism who saw the rot and wrote his thesis. He could not be expected to be infallible any more than anyone else can be. He was a starting point for reform and the wider protestant movement, not some new grand authority.
Read the early Church fathers, none of them believe what you are spouting. They taught the Catholic faith.
Heresy will always exist. That doesn't mean there isn't a true church, it's absurd to say that if you claim to believe scripture. You're essentially saying truth is whatever you say it is and there is no central authority for truth. That's patently false. God didn't leave us orphans. The gates of Hell cannot prevail against the Church (truth of doctrine and morals and grace) because it is the pillar of truth. Matt 16:18-19, 1 Tim 3:15. If you say that no Church teaches the fullness and purity of salvific doctrine then it's pointless to even be Christian. Christ cannot error. He built a Church and made a promise. This is why Protestantism is retarded, you don't accept sacred tradition. Which scripture commands you explicitly to accept. The canon of scripture itself is itself Catholic tradition, which you implicitly accept.
I know this is hard for Protestants to understand because you've never considered that you might be wrong, but it's reality and the truth.
Scripturecatholic.com
The Douay Rheims is a better translation than the KJV, not sure what English translations of the Bible have to do with what we're talking about.
This nonsense is just a baseless claim of legitimacy. Constantine is your rock.
Read the early church fathers. Then read them again. Start with St. Ignatius of Antioch, who was ordained by St. John the apostle.
Then after that you can go to scripturecatholic.com and read tons of early church father quotes and their interpretation of scripture PRIOR to constantine.
I've been doing this a long time. Protestantism doesn't phase me in the slightest, it logically makes no sense, it's offensive to God and I pray for y'all to convert everyday. It takes humility to admit the Catholic Church is the true Church, regardless of how bad some clerics are.
One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism.
There is only one true faith. And the 40,000+ mcdonalds varieties of Protestantism aren't it. The truth is brutal sometimes.
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