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to be a Catholic you cannot pick and choose what you want to believe...the reason that protestants are called that is because they couldn’t handle the truth when it became inconvenient for them.....so much easier to be a protestant than a Catholic...you get to make your own rules!!!WOW pathetic

You have a very narrow idea of things. All that Protestants reject is the continuation of the "Church Mission" model ~ it played a role in the early Christianization of the brutal Roman Empire and later on in the less developed parts of the world (Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, South Africa, etc.)

At some point the parish matures, the people mature in their faith, knowledge increases, and it's time to bring them into the fold.

You find the Protestant Reformation happening right at the time when the last dregs of the Dark Ages were being overcome and Europe was entering into a modern economic model. The Protestant urge in France started at THE TOP with the King's own family ~ and spread to the Royals at large, and then into the Nobility. These were the educated people of power and wealth and they thought they were quite cable of doing their Pater Nosters on their own, and not necessarily in a nearby church where they'd be led in every subtle nuance of analysis of Scripture by a priest who had no more education than had they.

The Counter Reformation took note of a great deal of this although I'd suggest they may have overdone some things because today they've not only lost attendance at church sponsored services, they've lost "interest" in the whole body of belief.

It's not too late to come over to the Protestant model and use diversity of form to bring the people to a unity of belief.

The word is Protestant, not protestant.

We couldn't handle the corruption of the Word and the Roman Catholic Church.

Christianity is a state of the heart, inspired by the Word of God. Catholicism, like all other churches, is a creation of man.

Christ inspired the original church, but it became perverted to trappings and the wealth it could acquire on the backs of the superstitions of the poor faithful. When I visited Mexico, I saw the travesty that the Roman Catholic Church became!

Substitute Protestant for the term “Bereans” and study who they were...they were Sola Scripturists in PRACTISE who subjected every teaching and doctrine to the WORD to see if they be true!...Well guess what the early Protestants did?

Yeah, and it’s true that a few made some grievous mistakes as some of their views didn’t hold up to scripture either...like Luther’s later stated antipathy towards Jews. Church history is full of great leaders who at times fell prone to error. Even Moses struck the rock out of anger when God told Moses to speak to the rock, causing him to lose out on crossing over into Israel.

The fact that both Catholic and Protestant pursuasions are still around after 600 years or so of bashing each other, suggests to me that perhaps the Church of Christ is a little bigger and much more beyond the imagination than adherents of either persuasion(and lets not forget the Orthodox) can fathom. The answer to that riddle can be found at the foot of the cross and at the open mouth of an empty tomb!