[LurkingSince'98]

and what is the standard list of succession of your sect, splinter, or schismatic group???

How long is the OLDEST member of your splinter? 500 years??

Yeah I'm sure that some of the “traditions” in your “church” are all of two weeks old.

And during the Dark Ages the sola scripture you guys count on was preserved by the monks and religious working under the direction of Rome.

It must really frost your cookies that Catholic saints like Jerome and Catholic monks in Catholic monasteries preserved what did come down to your sect.

Almost any documents which passed through the Dark Ages were almost certainly preserved by the Catholic Church.
Lurking’

[Invincibly Ignorant]

It must really frost your cookies that Catholic saints like Jerome and Catholic monks in Catholic monasteries preserved what did come down to your sect.

Must really frost your cookies that Jews preserved 2/3rd's of your writings 1500 years before your tradition existed.

[muawiyah]

During the latter half of the first half of the Dark Ages the true Christian spirit was maintained by the monks working out of Ireland, not Rome (in the West); and the East continued on under the tutelage of several different Orthodox organizations.

You guys are always trying to make out that Rome was in top form when the rest of the Western Empire was prostrate ~ but it wasn't.

[muawiyah]

BTW, the best extant contemporary texts of materials that've made it into the Bible were discovered a few years back in the ancient drived out remains at the bottom of what had been a public toilet in Egypt.

You going to claim that as one of the secret libraries kept by the church?

[muawiyah]

BTW, my particular "splinter" differs from yours in only a couple of items ~ you have a Pope, and you have a church hierarchy.

Otherwise it's pretty much the same thing.

You folks should learn to "do church" without the assistance of the specialists. Time to grow up, stand up and move on.