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The scripture demands a unified church, free of schism and division, and insists that one such church shall persist. I pointed out how the protestant church does not meet that scriptural requirement.

I got back the same, tired old ad-hominem attack that gets posted on eevery thread.

>>gamecock responded with a general comeback in the same vien as your list.

I deny that. Gamecock's was a cheapshot that made no arguments, just a vile ad-hominem attack. It would have been legitimate if the Catholic Church actually *were* ambiguous as to whether the molestation of children were acceptable, but it obviously isn't the case.

The scripture demands a unified church, free of schism and division, and insists that one such church shall persist. I pointed out how the protestant church does not meet that scriptural requirement.

Your argument fails on every point:
Demands made in Scripture are just that - demands. God commands all sinners to repent, yet few do. Demands are made all of the time in Scripture, and rarely every fulfilled. The only demands that really do find its completion are those that God demands of Himself.

Your argument also fails in its presumption that the demand is fufilled by the church, yet Paul writes to the first church (the one that the RCC claims descendancy from) exhorting them to be free of schisms and division. Clearly that is the optimum, yet unachieved state of the Church. Little has changed in two thousand years.

There is no singular protestant church (noting your use of the definite article). Therefore whatever you tried to point out is invalid.

To say that because the protestant church has allegedly failed makes it aximatic that the Roman Catholic Cartel has succeeded is a non-sequitor.

You probably get what you feel are ad-hominems because that appears to be the only level of debate that you can comprehend and appreciate.

So now you are lowering yourself to bashing folks behind their backs? (not pinging them when you are bashing them)

I got back the same, tired old ad-hominem attack that gets posted on eevery thread

Perhaps you missed the irony of what I posted. Maybe I am tired of the ad-hominems RCs make. This was a thread about Calvinism and you have to regurgate the Catholic line about 1.5 million proddie denominations, variance in doctrine, etc. You know good and well that Calvinists are dead set against abortion, women in leadership, and severl other of your own ad-hominems.

If you or your buddies want to lower the tone of a thread too that level, I have, and will continue to pile on!

"The scripture demands a unified church, free of schism and division, and insists that one such church shall persist. I pointed out how the protestant church does not meet that scriptural requirement."

It seems to me that the Catholic Church itself is full of schisms and various groups that differ in belief and doctrine. Are the Russian Catholics different from the Roman Catholics(yes there is a Russian Catholic Church which is not the same as the Russian Orthodox!)? Then you have various orders in the church such as the Fransican order. Doesn't seem to me that the Roman Catholic church is THE ONE(borrowing from the Matrix), that its own adherents pretend that it is. (At least if we go by your discription as to how Protestants are...)