Your interpretation is wrong. The Church never interpreted it that way. Read the early church fathers. Stop making yourself head of the Church. Protestants have no authority to interpret scripture. The Church never believed what Protestants believe. It's amazing to me how Protestants conveniently ignore 1500 years of Christendom and somehow magically come to the conclusion everyone was wrong for the first 1500 years of Christian history, the hubris is amazing.
Literally a Sadducee/ Pharisee.
Facts don't care about your Ad Hominem feelings.
Outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation and it is the one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church. Every priest, bishop, and pope can be traced back to the apostles. History is on my side, not yours. Protestantism is fake and gay. Made up by a fornicating murderer Luther.
You don't even understand what an Ad Hominem fallacy is.
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.
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.
This nonsense is just a baseless claim of legitimacy. Constantine is your rock.
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