I’ll bet you did. Catholics don’t dare study the evil he started. They would recognize so much of it within the teaching, symbols and rituals of the CC.
>>BTW, I don’t think you meant to say that Noah started the Babylonian empire.<<
How in the world could you have gotten that from my post? It was Nimrod, Noah’s great grandson who did. Surely you knew that. Not?
>>We look to the Bible as our blueprint, our plan to follow but it does not have the answer to everything that arises. Oh, the answers are there, but not always explicitly.<<
I don’t suppose the following passage and others like it mean nothing to Catholics.
2 Timothy 3:15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
>>And, so again, we have the protestant saying that 2,000 years after the fact<<
Catholics using that line is so lame. Nimrod was completely contrary to God only two generations after the faithful Noah. That length of time nonsense is futile, it means only that because of that fake “tradition” ruse that the RCC uses has had that much time to drift from truth. I could compare Luther to Noah and it would make more sense.
>>That is not true, there were reasons the Bibles were protected and why the laity could not read it for themselves.<<
Yeah right. And the RCC has been an upstanding organization protecting the citizens all that time. The true history of the RCC is ugly and certainly not Christ like.
>>yet anyone reading the CC will see hundreds of references to Scripture. IOW, look at these Scriptures and see the truth for yourself, we have nothing to hide.<<
Yeah, like the woman of Revelation is Mary. No way anyone who truly understands scripture and prophecy would ever make that claim because it’s totally false. Another one would be that the Queens of the Old Testament Kings were their mother which is again false.
The RCC is closer to the whore of Revelation than the church that is the body of Christ.
Go back and read your post in which you say that within two generations Noah was the most evil of men and started the Babylonian empire. I know it was a mistake in your haste to get down the anti Catholic diatribe.
Again, again and again, Nimrod’s example is important because he was inauthentic. Not real, a fake, an imposter.
Jesus and His mother are the true King and Queen Mother and the worship of Catholics is true worship of the King and veneration of His mother.
I know well the passages you gave. They support exactly what I said, that the Bible contains what we need to know the truth, but it does not contain everything.
And, I note, as usual, the quotes given ignore that the Church is the pillar and bulwark of truth.
Protestants don’t like that passage and never, ever quote it.
The true history of the Church is ugly? We don’t agree on that obviously, though I do admit that there were ugly things done by sinful people. Please, feel free to point out to me all the perfect “churches of one”.
Again, what you write is your opinion of what Scripture means, especially since your opinion has been formed by the opinions of others. No one, not a one, comes to an understanding of Scripture on their own. What we do is read Scripture in light of what we have learned from others and either accept or reject it.
Mary as the woman in Revelation is but one of the layers of meaning within Scripture. I accept that you reject that, but I reject that you are an infallible source of Scripture interpretation, or know all there is to know about it.