but since that never occured, the protestant deformation has resulted in hundreds of ‘bible only’ churches that DIFFER FROM ONE CORNER CHURCH TO THE OTHER, on the same piee of scripture regarding salvation issues.....
whereas the roman catholic church continues to teach the same essentials as was passed on to the apostles and their successors....
big difference.
“but since that never occured, the protestant deformation has resulted in hundreds of ‘bible only’ churches that DIFFER FROM ONE CORNER CHURCH TO THE OTHER, on the same piee of scripture regarding salvation issues.....
whereas the roman catholic church continues to teach the same essentials as was passed on to the apostles and their successors....
big difference.”
Well, I just can’t get past the fact that all of the Protestant religions were simply a splintering off from the mother ship, the Catholic religion. Everything else that came after were variations on the main theme. It appears to me that no one can claim, other than the Catholic Church, to be the original Christian Church. I believe it was on his deathbed that Martin Luther said (I’m paraphrasing here) now any milkmaid can start a religion. Even Luther foresaw what was about to come to pass.
So, as I see it, in order to create a differentiation, Protestants developed a new approach to justify their breaking off from the Catholic Church, and that approach was sola scriptura. Hence all the emphasis was put on bible reading, interpreting through the bible alone in order to justify breaking away from the heirarchacal structure of the Catholic Church. A new approach to the same old subject. I’ve seen both sides as raised a Lutheran and later becoming a Catholic, although I’ve never been a big churchgoer. However, I love studying religion and the theology behind it.