listen to the rocks?
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I'd rather listen to rocks than Satan's lies. I'd rather sit alone than sit in idolotry and paganism, there are others out there just like me who know and see and watch...just like we were told to watch. We aren't hurting anyone, we are just warning and watching. But that infuriates the religious just like Christ infuriated the religious.
"Sola Scriptura" is one of Satan's lies. So is schism. In the Nicene Creed, we say that we believe in "unam, sanctam, catholicam et apostolicam ecclesiam" (one, holy, catholic and apostolic church). Those who do not believe in one Church, cannot affirm the Nicene Creed. Nor can those who do not believe in the *Apostolic* Church, the one in organic continuity with the Apostles. Anybody can have a meeting and call it "church" (which the Fathers called "unauthorized gatherings"), but the Apostolic Church is the organic body with organic connections to the Apostles. Those "churches" without Apostolic orders, i.e. without duly ordained bishops or priests whose orders extend back to the Apostles themselves, cannot affirm the Nicene Creed.
Idolatory and paganism are not part of Catholic doctrine. If you actually took time to study the Catholic Catechism, you would know this. At the root of your position is "sola scriptura". That is what leads so many people astray. Sola scriptura is Satan's clever trick, because by it one can really be one's own authority (since one gets to determine how Scripture is interpreted, and what books belong to the Bible, etc.), and not have to submit to God's appointed authority. That is why there are around 30,000 Protestant denominations. If you want to know why sola scriptura is wrong, read Not by Scripture Alone: A Catholic Critique of the Protestant Doctrine of Sola Scriptura, edited by Robert A. Sungenis (who studied at Westminster Theological Seminary, a conservative Presbyterian seminary, before becoming a Catholic).
-A8