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Are you aware that The Holy Spirit is active even today? You are? ... Then why do you posit the following: "Separated from those events by nearly two millennia, what hope have we to fruitfully learn of our Lord and who He is without disciplined teaching?"

You see, many of we who oppose catholiciism of your religion do so because of the blindness caused in catholics who are more than content to trust the magicsteerignthem, rather than develop as God's newborns being raised up in the Way that we should go by the indwelling Holy Spirit.

In 1545 your magicsteeringthem granted 'Traditions' equal authority to The Word of God. There is a long list of catholic 'traditions' which are anathema to the Word of God, yet those traditions are your truth. Sad that ...

God does not formulate plan B. He has His Will from the beginning and in Him is no shadow of turning. The God of The Bible does not issue commandments then violate them in the person of Jesus The Christ to establish a New Covenant. Perhaps you do not believe that it was indeed GOD who forbade the eating of human flesh and the drinking of the blood in which is carried Life? That would perhaps explain why you now defend the notion that God okays what He forbade, so your religion can be the more empowered.

My final reply to your blasphemy is the Letter sent from the first church council to the newborns being born from above through missionary work:

Acts 15:
22 Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, chosen men out of themselves to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas — Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren —
23 having written through their hand thus: ‘The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to those in Antioch, and Syria, and Cilicia, brethren, who [are] of the nations, greeting;
24 seeing we have heard that certain having gone forth from us did trouble you with words, subverting your souls, saying to be circumcised and to keep the law, to whom we did give no charge,
25 it seemed good to us, having come together with one accord, chosen men to send unto you, with our beloved Barnabas and Paul — 26 men who have given up their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ —
27 we have sent, therefore, Judas and Silas, and they by word are telling the same things.
28 ‘For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, no more burden to lay upon you, except these necessary things:
29 to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!’
30 They then, indeed, having been let go, went to Antioch, and having brought the multitude together, did deliver the epistle, 31 and they having read, did rejoice for the consolation; 32 Judas also and Silas, being themselves also prophets, through much discourse did exhort the brethren, and confirm, 33 and having passed some time, they were let go with peace from the brethren unto the apostles; 34 and it seemed good to Silas to remain there still. 35 And Paul and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and proclaiming good news — with many others also — the word of the Lord;

THESE men named above are the earliest 'CHURCH FATHERS'. Yet catholiciism rejects what seemed GOOD TO THE HOLY SPIRIT that believers refrain from blood! The breaking of bread and sipping from the cup communion was already being practiced among the believers as they proclaimed the death of Their Savior until He comes back for them. Do you serious want to claim those believers were drinking blood in their Remembrance of Him? ... Sadly, that contradiction is exactly what you are trying to float!

The Revelation of John, in the first three chapters, proves catholiciism has had gross error inveigling the body of believers from the earliest times in Ekklesia History. You and Mrs Don-o and FourtySeven can continue to promote contradiction to the Character of God, but the Word of God, the Bible refutes you right from the First Ekklesia Council.