Is that so?
Then why do the Prots have different beliefs on the immorality of birth control, pre-marital sex, abortion, homosexual relations, etc. Why do they have different beliefs on ordaining female or homo as ministers and bishops?
You call that unity?
I wouldn't be so quick to point the finger if I were you...Your religion is certainly not a bastion of morality...Your church rules may say one thing but you have just as many abortions, live-in mates, contraception and queers as any other religion...Plus, your religion is known for its queer priests and child molesters...
Being a non bible believer you miss out on all the things God has to say to Israel and his church...
Amo 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
Amo 8:12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
1Ti 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
1Ti 4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
1Ti 4:3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Your religion didn't always forbid the marrying of its clergy...
2Ti 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2Ti 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
2Ti 3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
2Ti 3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 2Ti 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
We are living in the last times...Has nothing to do with what denomination one lives in...
These scriptures and hundreds more just like them tell us and YOU that the REAL church is getting smaller...It's not the ecumenical behemoth that your Catholic religion is trying to build...
Sure, the numbers are growing, in China and other places but are they getting the real words of God??? Are they getting saved???
Show me examples of Catholic unity.
Show me that ALL Catholics hold exactly the same views on all moral issues and church teaching.
Show me that a top down authoritarian structure guarantees unity of belief amongst the laity and clergy and fidelity to it.
Explain to me how the EO can hold different views on significant areas, like the supremacy of the pope and doctrine about Mary and still be considered in communion with Rome.
Dude....I've already told you to get off that catholic high horse.
How many catholics get drunk on a weekly basis?
How many catholics have affairs?
How many catholics use drugs?
How many catholic priests abuse little boys?
How many have been fired?
How many catholics vote for dimocrats that support abortion, homosexual rights, etc?
How may catholics read their bible on a regular basis?
How many catholics attend church on a weekly basis?
You see....we can keep playing this game.
How many catholics don't know their own ccc?
How many catholics on this board have different beliefs on the various topics?
Remember what I said about the play ground?