[terycarl]

I’ll stick with what God says in the scriptures and ignore the Fairy Tales put out by your religion...

let's see now...the same religion that codified, interpreted, salvaged, catalogued, preserved, hand copied, etc etc...the scriptures just casually threw in a bunch of fairy tales to confuse the masses....Hm-m-m-m-m does that really sound logical to you....and while this was all going on, where was your "denomination"????? Oh that's right, wouldn't even be thought up for 1,600 or so years!!

[CynicalBear]

So since the Catholic Church so meticulously assembled the scripture could you show us where in scripture they put the teaching of the assumption of Mary?

[svcw]

Really? What a strange statement.

Christians have been around since the beginning of Christianity.

What is your point?

Most Christians consider themselves part of the Body of Christ not a denomination.

[Bellflower]

The Catholics, who perfected torture, murdered excruciatingly painfully countless Christians who rejected their authority, but believed in Christ. They were the ruling class, but as often with the ruling class, they were the most wicked of all. A large part of the history of the popes and the Catholic Church is extremely bloody, corrupt and evil. The Catholic Church was, politically speaking, nearly absolutely powerful, and that power, and the unquenchable thirst for it, and for the accumulation of vast amounts of wealth corrupted it mightily. Read about the history of many of the popes and you will be astounded at how wicked they were.

Though the powerful Catholic Church tried to wipe out all true Christians, God always preserved a remnant of true believers for Himself.

[Iscool]

let's see now...the same religion that codified, interpreted, salvaged, catalogued, preserved, hand copied, etc etc...the scriptures just casually threw in a bunch of fairy tales to confuse the masses....Hm-m-m-m-m does that really sound logical to you....and while this was all going on, where was your "denomination"????? Oh that's right, wouldn't even be thought up for 1,600 or so years!!

Logic??? I try to avoid logic...Logic is for people who don't know something and then have to take a shot at their best guess...I prefer to just believe what Jesus says and teaches thruout the scriptures...

But anyway, your argument fell apart when Martin Luther wrote the bible in the language of those who wanted to know what God really said...And they found out from those very scriptures that your religion was lying to them left and right...No logic at all...

[daniel1212]

et's see now...the same religion that codified, interpreted, salvaged, catalogued, preserved, hand copied, etc etc...the scriptures just casually threw in a bunch of fairy tales to confuse the masses....Hm-m-m-m-m does that really sound logical to you....and while this was all going on, where was your "denomination"????? Oh that's right, wouldn't even be thought up for 1,600 or so years!!

So according to your logic, being the instrument and steward of Holy Writ makes you the infallible interpreters of it, and who could not be perpetrators of fables, and one cannot be considered valid without their sanction?

Affirm or deny. Thank you.