Very good point and one of the reasons I hesitate to engage Catholics in debate....as they do not understand scripture. They repeat, by rote.... what their organization has brainwashed them with since early childhood. Most of what they learn is false doctrine, non scriptural and designed to conceal the truth from the masses.
Protestants are similar to a point. They at least understand that they came from Catholicism, and some of the garbage they originally took on with Martin has now been analyzed and purged as silly. Thus they are not totally immune to logic and are receptive to truth when presented in scripture.
Folks like you and I worship and believe according to the tenets of The Church of the First Century. We are the Church that was founded by Our Savior.....not them. This is one of the most frustrating things Catholics learn eventually.....that they are the ones that took Our Lord's legacy and are destroying it piece by piece, line by line with their "Make it up as you go along" doctrine. The problem is......most of them have not yet learned that.
Like I said....I hesitate to engage them because it's so frustrating and embarrassing for them to actually debate anything scriptural with modicum of intelligence. They stand on shaky ground, they know this....but cannot understand it because of all the garbage they have learned from Rome about them being superior, first in line and infallible. I actually feel sorry sometimes for them when their pathetic little arguments begin to fall apart and all they can say is: "Dude, are you getting as tired of watching all these "victors" run away as I am?" or "I must say, a new invention of the protestant heresies presents itself pretty regularly, but this is a spanking new one".
They're not even aware of what constitutes a Protestant. How can you discuss intelligent things with folks who are so mixed up about what you believe they can't even understand something that obvious?
When you get a chance go back up thread and check for all their scriptures they have offered defending the word of God. It's enlightening, and like I said somewhere earlier......they may as well throw out the book as they have no need for it in their "Make it up as you go along" theology.
This is the Catholic Church.
We are the Church that was founded by Our Savior.....not them. This is one of the most frustrating things Catholics learn eventually.....that they are the ones that took Our Lord's legacy and are destroying it piece by piece, line by line with their "Make it up as you go along" doctrine. The problem is......most of them have not yet learned that.
Look in the mirror, you are describing yourself.
Intelligence as typified by your pithy post #300?
I haven’t the time to go into it at the moment....probably never will.... because you folks are evidently incapable of understanding. But I will leave you with these words....”you’re wrong!”
Bwahahahahaha!
We're wrong.... You provide the perfect example of the "Judaizer" Paul wished would castrate themselves, but we're wrong.
I never cease to be amazed at what a person can convince themselves of when the only person they answer to is themselves.