‘All I was doing was pointing out there are problems on both sides, whereas you seemed to be claiming that it was a Protestant problem, while the Catholics had ‘clean hands’.’
No, quite the opposite. I explicitly said that people who claim to be Catholic but do not follow Catholic teachings is an issue for the Church.
Opposition to contraception as an explicitly Catholic doctrine, is an issue for the protestant church.
“Neither side has clean hands on this. Both are guilty of promoting unbiblical things.”
Who’s we? The Catholic Church, or this professor that you knew that claimed to be Catholic?
“think “Churchianity” has taken too much of a hold and as an Ex-Mormon, I am not in favor of any group that puts an organization above Christ.”
Except that biblically, Christ established his Church and his organization. Organization isn’t evil, but the bold truth is that he build His church, and there’s just one. Paul even teaches this in Ephesians, just as you have one husband, so the Church has one head, that of Christ. There are not two heads, just as there are not two husbands.
Opposition to contraception as an explicitly Catholic doctrine, is an issue for the protestant church.
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It is also an issue for the Catholics. “We” are Catholic priests and heirarchy as well as professors in seminary. And why do you assume my professor was a CINO (she wasn’t btw - very devout).
And we will have to disagree on that, because nothing in the Bible says Christ established a denomination. That is your Catholic outlook.
I am in no way considered to be an anti-Catholic (I’m even allowed on Catholic caucus threads here), but I do have problems with people like you who can’t see beyond their Catholicism and blame all the worlds problems on Protestants. “Church” in Greek means ‘assembly’ or ‘called out ones’, not a denomination or organization. The bride of Christ ia the body of all Christians regardless of where they go to church.
Good day. I’m done with you.