[annalex]

Did [read the Scripture] (many, many times)

Doesn't show. Every time you try to defend Protestantism you do so by explaining how the Scripture doesn't say what it says. Every time I defend Catholicism I either show direct scripture or say plainly that the scripture does not contain a prooftext either way. Reflect on that.

[metmom]

Every time you try to defend Protestantism you do so by explaining how the Scripture doesn't say what it says. Every time I defend Catholicism I either show direct scripture or say plainly that the scripture does not contain a prooftext either way. Reflect on that.

Then why do you appeal to tradition and extra Biblical writings so much?

[boatbums]

Doesn't show. Every time you try to defend Protestantism you do so by explaining how the Scripture doesn't say what it says. Every time I defend Catholicism I either show direct scripture or say plainly that the scripture does not contain a prooftext either way. Reflect on that.

I think I have discovered why you have such a problem with my posts then. You think I am defending "Protestantism", but I am really not at all. I am showing direct Scripture from God's Holy Bible without the fluff and twisty, turny, sideways, inside and out "interpretation" of fallible men full of their own self-satisfied hubris and imagined piety. Maybe it is you who is in need of "reflection", you know, the kind that comes from seeking God's illumination of truth instead of trusting in ready-made, man-made doctrines that strip away the simplicity that is in Christ.