That "fat murdering fornicator" was more honest about Jews than most Catholics were. Your institution doesn't exist. You talk of a "mystical body," how does that "mystical body" have any relevance to the "Israel" which Christ came to unite and guide? If Christ warned not to split into sects and factions, what then is supposed to unite people? Loyalty to the "Church Fathers" whom claim to be ordained by Apostles? Christ did not even say loyalty to Apostles is what should unite people, what happens when Apostles contradict one another? It is all completely irrelevant to the Old Testament.
If I look into it, I'm not going to blindly refuse to think for myself on the topics.
If God created a realm specifically for torturing his own creations for eternity, then he fits the Gnostic conception of the Demiurge, just like Allah does.
Read some Church Fathers, Latin or Greek, doesn't matter, then get back to me.
Look, I can lead you to water but I can't make you drink, if you're not willing to look at what the successors of the apostles taught unanimously then there isn't much more to say.
The pinnacle of understanding Christianity and the truth of the Christian faith is understanding what teachings have never changed and were handed down to the apostles from Christ. The teaching of the faith doesn't change because Almighty God doesn't change. If you want to know the truth, you need to look at what the Church has always taught. Scripture wasn't even fully codified until the Council of Nicaea 397AD, so it might behoove you to read what the early Church fathers taught before that.
You can find lots of their quotes on scripturecatholic.com or go directly to the source.
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