You keep showing your splendid ignorance that even Protestant theologians would be embarrassed including Luther himself who hailed the Catholic Church for preserving and assembling the sacred script as they had assembled.
Now, we all know Bible Christians are shallow and are ignorant of Church history. But here’s something you ought know before further embracing your self.
In the year 110 A.D., not even fifteen years after the book of Revelation was written, while on his way to execution St. Ignatius of Antioch wrote: “Where the bishop is present, there let the congregation gather, just as where Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church”. The Church believes that when the bishops speak as teachers, Christ speaks; for he said to them: “He who hears you, hears me; and he who rejects you, rejects me” (Lk 10, 16).
“Now, we all know Bible Christians are shallow and are ignorant of Church history.”
You shame your self with your condescending, self-righteous, ignorance of what ‘Bible Christians’ believe or know. You could be describing a multitude of Roman Catholic Priests now and down through the ages...they may have studied these things in Cemetery school, but are many still ignorant.
Down through the ages too many of the Catholic clergy strayed into the he’n’ and he’n’ lifestyle. And the ‘Church’ has glossed it over. You have ‘condemned’ the Anglicans and other non-Rome churches for gay and lesbian excesses, but condone it in the ‘Church’? I do not consider these churches as ‘Bible Christians’...certainly they are not practicing what the Word teaches.
Communion with my Lord and Savior requires no middleman. He is my mediator between God the Father and me. If my wife and I partake of His Body and His Blood, as we do often and did this morning, it is at the highest level, and not surpassed by the Eucharist. We do not need a Priest to ‘Transubstantiate’ the bread and the wine. We believe, having blessed it, as Jesus did with His disciples, it is, as He said, ‘this is my body’, ‘this is my blood’. And we covenant with Him.
We?
Is THAT what you've been taught?
Them stupid Bereans!
They checked SCRIPTURE instead of Jewish history!
No WONDER they are so silly!