[Melian]

I’m not sure what you’re talking about, Dutchboy88. Whenever the Pope speaks “from the chair” he provides huge documents supporting his pronouncement that provide Scriptural and historical evidence for his teaching.

Catholicism’s basic teaching, the Creed, is virtually unchanged from the time of the Apostles. It is Protestants who have drifted away. We see that in the thousands of interpretations/denominations/persuasive leaders of the Protestant movement. If you’re looking for orthodoxy these days, Catholicism is where it’s at. Many Protestants are discovering that after their persuasive leaders ask them to accept gay marriage, women priests, and gay clergy.

The mocking tone of Protestant posts is un-Christian. And, though it makes the poster feel better, I doubt it persuades many readers.

[Mr Rogers]

Catholicism HAS changed, to include Purgatory, Priests offering sacrifice (a changed Eucharist), Indulgences, Mariology, Papal Supremacy...

The role of the Magisterium in ‘interpreting’ the Bible has become critical because so much Catholic doctrine is NOT found in scripture, and the plain meaning of the text shows the new doctrine to be contradictory.

[Dutchboy88]

Thank you, Mr. Rogers, I was away and unable to respond to Melian. But, those are precisely the kind doctrines/positions to which I was referring. Meanwhile, the Catholic Church has ignored the plain teaching of the Scriptures with respect to the message of grace the Bible originally set out. The church that claims to be founded on Peter has left Peter’s message far behind.

Melian, we repudiate those utterly ridiculous “Protestant” groups holding to unbiblical doctrines as we repudiate Rome. Birds of a feather.

We aim to make it patently clear that the Catholic Church has departed the Scriptural teachings of grace, substituting instead a modern day self-righteousness. Romes’s perspective is buried in nearly every position the organization takes, whether sacerdotalsim, purgatory, indulgences, mariolatry, the seven sacraments to salvation, the separate country it maintains, the swiss army that it hires, the money that it coined, or canonizing ordinary human beings. Shame on Rome.

This is not mockery...it is exposing the Mother Cult of the Vatican for what it is.

We will leave the persuasion up to God.

[Petronski]

And, though it makes the poster feel better, I doubt it persuades many readers.

I find his posts very persuasive...just not in the way that he intends.