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Havoc, I didn't know you lived in Belfast. You breathe the same spirit of hatred as the bombers.

Hatred. Oh, right, I suppose the police hate everyone they pull over and ticket for violating the law, eh, Robby? Is there anybody in your opinion, Robby, that doesn't hate the guts of every Catholic on the face of the Planet? Anyone that is that tells them your clergy is wrong and demonstrably so. Mormons use the same tactic. Woe is me - they are bigoted lying haters because we teach polytheism and they won't let us get by with saying we gonna be gods. Woe, they hate us. The erf will end. Grow up Robby. It has never worked with me before and it isn't going to work with me now.

Roman Catholics must be persuaded to study the Bible for themselves and not to rely exclusively on what their priests and bishops teach them. To blindly trust fallible men for their eternal destiny is utterly foolish. To repplace Jesus Christ with any other mediator leaves people open to deception. The Bibe warns its readers over and over again that man cannot be trusted. "Let God be true, and every man a liar" (Rom. 3:4). Scripture must be our final court of appeal for correcting and reproving those who misinterpret, twist or distort the word of God (2 Tim. 3:15-16). The Bible is what God says. Religion is what man says God says.

Many Catholics point to the early church fathers in an attempt to give credence to unbiblical, post apostolic traditoins such as the sacrifice of the Mass, purgatory and indulgences. But some of these church fathers may be the very men Paul warned us about when he wrote, "I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock, and from among your own selves men will arise, speajing perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears" (Acts 20:29-31). The church fathers must be tested using the plumb line of Scripture just as Paul, himself, was tested in Berea.

Paul commended the Bereans for using Scripture to verify the veracity of his teaching. "They received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true" (Acts 17:11).Hhe Scriptures were written for individuals, not to a Magisterium or a group of clergymen. Many of the epistles were written to all the saints (Christians) at different churches. John wrote his gospel to all people, persuading them to believe in the person and finished work of Jesus Christ (John 20:31). His first epistle was written to all believers in Christ to give them assurance of eternal life (1 John 5:13). The Bible never directs us to another man, another book or another authority to inteprpret the Scriptures for us.