And he's correct. That's because Catholics are in full communion with Christ and the Church He instituted. Christ did not leave us a book and tell us to figure it out for ourselves. He loves us too much for that. He left us His Church. With the Divine guarantee to lead us into all truth and that the gates of Hell will not prevail against it. No other denomination, confession, or individual interpretation has that guarantee.
You Catholics seem dismissive of the One from Whom Christianity got its name...
Not at all. Everything we are is centered on Christ. That Catholic Church is Christ and Christ is the Catholic Church. The mystical Body of Christ which binds all of His people together. All of the angels and Saints in Heaven, our bretheren in Purgatory and those of us who remain here on Earth. All connected.
As for me and my house, we shall serve The Lord!
I always find it interesting when a protestant uses this phrase. For it assumes that the party they are addressing is not. I remember what I called this earlier in the thread: Jesus for me but not for thee. Unless I should agree with an individual's interpretation of Sacred Scripture. In actuality it's a self-serving phrase which is not of Jesus and does Him no service.
Sorry. Meant to ping you since I mentioned you.
For God so loved the world that He did not send a committee, even when it's renamed as *infallible magisterium*.
Faith in Christ is faith in Christ. The body of Christ is not Christ Himself.
The church, the body of Christ, did not die for me. Jesus did.
Peter said in Acts 4:12 that there is no other name to be named by which men must be saved. It's through Christ, not the church.
You can trust religion if you want.
I'll trust Christ, who loved me enough to die for me and in my place.