Dear XZINS. I acknowledge you have free will to apprehend or reject any specific point of Biblical contention and I suspect you will understand that I can in no way concede any point made by a protestant about the Bible because the plain and simple fact is that if a protestant understood the New Testament, he would be constrained to convert to the Catholic Church Jesus established and because he does not convert but remains a protestant, by his actions that protestant is confessing he does not either understand or believe in the New Testament.
Ping for later
You have me confused with someone else, and if not, then you are very wrong. I seek to go where the truth leads via Scripture, and thus differ with others on that basis, and would become Catholic if that was best warranted.
Which, as a former weekly RC CCD teacher, and lector after becoming profoundly born again, i find far from the case, Scripturally and experientially .
In contrast to me being compelled to disallow any points of doctrine due to commitment to a particular church, faithful RCs who have no other choice but to argue for Rome. Objectively analysis in seeking to determine whether RC doctrine is true is disallowed, nor is RC doctrine dependent upon actual warrant from Scripture, only that it does not contradict it, but which is according to her autocratic interpretation.
....”The plain and simple fact is that if a protestant understood the New Testament, he would be constrained to convert to the Catholic Church”......
OF course he wouldn’t, in fact if he knows and understands ‘the entire Bible’, even that which he may not yet understand this side of heaven, he would do just the opposite.
The Bible unfolds from the beginning to the end....in a sense it interprets itself as one continues to read and study.
God loves a sincere seeker of the truth and never disappoints those who do so.....and as He does this it draws us even closer to Him.