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.
Actually, everything Catholics do is based on Scripture; those original passages you all cut out of the Bible. Our understanding of those passages continues to develop over time as the Holy Spirit continues to lead us toward all Truth.
Each of your successive posts is increasingly less “persuasive” and more incoherent. What IS being expressed very well is animosity. Rome is not ashamed; has not been ashamed for 2,000 years; and will not be ashamed 2,000 years from now. God the Father and Christ fashioned the Catholic Church and they don’t make mistakes.
Long after your roomfulls of “persuasive arguers” are gone and your words and personal interpretations of Scripture have faded from anyone’s memory, the Catholic Church will still be preaching the same Good News it has preached and will preach forever.
My personal opinion is that many Protestants who froth at the mouth with such hatred for the Pope are actually envious of his authority when it comes to his connection with Christ. Protestant “persuaders” seem to want to set themselves up as little, individual Popes who tell people what their interpretation of scripture is. This is, at the least, vanity; and, at the worst, the sin of pride. Christ has already made his selection for the leadership of His Church.