But you are still baptized in the
One
Holy
Catholic and
Apostolic Church.
We welcome you home at any time. Sit down with a priest and get your questions answered truthfully...........not according to your own interpretation of Scripture.
You’re REALLY good at ignoring the content of people’s responses to you.
Whether you like it or not, or believe it or not, I AM a member of the church that is one, holy, catholic (universal) and apostolic — but I am NOT a member of the Roman Catholic organization, whatever your priest or “Rome” may have told you.
Nor do I want to be. If you could take off your “pope” colored glasses for a second, you might realize your theological view is in the minority, as is everyone’s, until we “cease looking through a glass darkly.”
BTW, I would not trust a Roman Catholic priest to give me any better, or even nearly as good, answers than I have/can come to in my present condition, with the aid of the Holy Spirit, and other “resources” already at my disposal.
But why should I expect you to hear/believe the Scriptures for yourself, as you admittedly state you are incapable of knowing God without a priest to interpret Scripture for you. You better hope he’s right, because he won’t be standing there with you on judgment day.
My Counselor will.
1 John 2:26 These [things] have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
1 John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
And just because the scripture isn’t of “private” interpretation, it doesn’t mean that private individuals cannot and should not interpret it...if you are able to grasp that concept.
If you want to seduce people into Roman Catholicism, be my guest...but it won’t work with me. However, let me know if you’d like to come to (or come back to) the Bible, we’ll accept you with open arms.