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That is because neither I nor the Catholic Church accept the modern doctrine of Scriptural exclusivity;

MODERN? God's Word always was and always will be. ONLY the proud would want more than God's Word alone - they are the 'JESUS, THE WORD, ISN'T ENOUGH' crowd.

Are you ready to similarly condemn the ministry of Jesus based upon the conduct of His Apostles, in which one doubted Him, one denied Him in his moment of need, and one openly betrayed Him?

Conduct of the apostles? What did they do - rape young children or cover up the actions of those who did? Did they bow to idols? Pray for the dead? They were HS filled and raised the dead and healed the sick. That's His ministry - they had the POWER once they were filled with the Holy Spirit.

Where is that with your leaders? None existent. They dig up the dead to honor them. For being in business for so many years - they produced nothing but more man made doctrine. After 3.5 years - His apostles were changing lives making disciples by teaching the Gospel, The Good News which is ALL about Jesus.

What's the excuse of the 'I'm ALL yours, Mary' church?

That is which is is an institution that moves exceedingly and at times painfully slow and distributes decisions, doctrines and dogma across a Magisterium comprised of over 31,000 current bishops and their successors.

That's their problem - not adhering to God's Word alone. Building up an empire with all it's pomp - instead of being simple servants of The Lord who HEAR and OBEY - is disobedience. No blessings with that 'kiss the ring' attitude as it has NOTHING to do with His Kingdom. Jesus didn't come to start an institution - that's man's idea to honor man.

"MODERN? God's Word always was and always will be. ONLY the proud would want more than God's Word alone - they are the 'JESUS, THE WORD, ISN'T ENOUGH' crowd."

Modern, as within the last 100 years. The doctrine of Scriptural exclusivity is a product of the fringe Protestant radio and TV ministries that advocate a dangerous version of bibliolatry.

Even working within your self imposed framework of Scriptural exclusivity the heresy of this position is obvious. Jesus is the Word and was the Word made flesh, not a book. Not every word, deed, and teaching example of Jesus is recorded in the Bible.

Further, your notion that Paul supersedes Jesus with respect to the Gentiles and the Word is replaced, "rightly divided", and relegated to a one dimensional shell removes the Christ from your Christianity.

Fortunately, the adherents of your heresies are dying off or converting. As the Church established by Jesus grows the fringe Protestantism crowds shrink. Your church of one is a perfect example.