>First You get Baptized.. as an Infant..
>Then Confession and First Communion
>Then Confirmation /Pentecost!
>Sacrament of Marriage or Ordination
>Then sacrament of Extreme of Unction...You Die then
>or hell if not hell then Purgatory then Heaven... Salvation!
Wow! That is a bunch of stuff packed into a simple statement by the Lord...
But then again, like the Mormons, the Catholics look at the scripture through the lens of the current traditions, whether it is the BOM or the latest Catechism, the tradition always takes precedence over the words of Jesus and the God-breathed scripture...
I want to see you explain to Jesus Calling His Mother The terrible Names that Protestant call her and His POPES..
God the father Thought her a worthy Vessel of Grace to Carry his son to fruition and become man while many Protestants say the opposite who will I FOllow? God and His True Church... not the Protesting one founded by Men and their beliefs that aren’t in The Bible.. “SOLA SCRIPTURA ring a Bell
I never heard Jesus say in the Bible Calvin, Luther, King henry ..etc upon this Rock I build my Church... But reading The Bible will be sufficient! Ignore the Communion of Saints all the Martyrs for the Church.. and The Eucharist etc.. BTW Our Traditions Like The POPE go Back two Millenium so looking through todays Prism is wrong..
The Catholic Church never embraced ABORTION like so many Protestant Churches like the baptist! Homosexuality was Called an abomination By Christ world Reknowned Protestant leaders Like desmond Tutu...gene Robinson say otherwise..