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“How do you know that God inspired the Bible? How do you know of the Bible at all?”
If you cannot believe in the Bible, you should not be calling yourself a Christian (catholic or otherwise).

I believe the Bible is the Word of God. I believe that God wrote it through men. from Paradise lost in Genesis to paradise regained in Revelations. It is one book, 4000 years in the making. God used kings, shepherds, fishermen, and even a Greek Physician to write the Bible. over 4000 years they all agree, they are all consistent. Try getting that level of consistent policies from democrats over the last 40 years—it won’t happen.

I believe god is powerful enough to ensure His Word stays pure through all these ages. And History agrees with me.

If your God is not that powerful, then I feel sorry for you.

You people like to quote Luther. like that means anything.
If only you could quote the Bible as well as you know the words of men, you just might have a valid argument then.

The Catholic church is not the one true church. not anymore.
When it embraced mysticism, magic bones and relics with healing powers (that never existed in the Bible), the RCC began to leave the realm of Christianity.

God does not need the one true church. He can raise a church from any source of faithful believers.

I have been told that apart from Catholicism, there is no salvation.
But I am saved by the Blood of Christ, not by the Catholic Church.

Praying to saints,
Purgatory ( means of salvation apart from Jesus)
Indulgences

These are things that are so profound that if they are not in the Bible, they should be rejected. Tradition is far to corruptible to entrust such dramatic doctrines to.

The Bible is the final authority. If a doctrine is NOT in the Bible, it is not from God. Your traditions are NOT from God.