Well, as I have said in other threads it takes one being born again and filled with the Holy Spirit to see biblical errors in catholic or protestant religion.
Contrary to opinion here, I am not trying to be self-righteous or elitist or hold myself above others with some special knowledge.....I am simply stating the truth as revealed thru the Spirit. This truth is made available to every Spirit-filled believer and is what God wants for all His people...even those in religion.
What I am trying to say is that most people want their religion, traditions, and what they have believed all their lives rather than a personal relationship with the Living God. They have a form of godliness, but deny its power.
It is a scary thing to give up all you have ever known
to follow Christ but that is exactly what He tells us we must be willing to do. Even the rich young ruler had to go away saddened since he did not want to give up the riches he had.
Wishing and hoping have nothing to do with it. Everything spiritual happens by the will of the Living God and one will not comprehend that until His Spirit moves upon them.
I don’t follow Catholic or Protestant traditions. I simply follow Christ. And all I am asking anyone here to do is go to God in sincere prayer and ask Him to reveal Himself. If anyone sincerely desires Christ and only Christ, then they must be willing and prepared to surrender themselves completely and allow Him to lead...even if where He leads is out of Catholic and Protestant traditions, rituals, churches, etc.
In Phil. 3:7-8, Paul said: “But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. But indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ.”
That guidepath is what the debate is about. AND, that is the reason why I continue to ask WHAT are you PROTESTING? Furthermore, why isn't every protestant denomination protesting the same things?
Your version is your version. It doesn't mean its the truth. You might protest what you see as errors in the Catholic faith but at the end of the day, you MUST rely on the Books of the Bible which were given to you, as well as 1500 years of teaching (prior to the reformation)to create your "truth." Yet, you don't want to acknowledge that lineage, or tradition. You simply want to dismiss it as well as other troublesome Biblical passages which refer to the true presence of Christ in the Eucharist, Peter being the Rock on which the Church was founded, etc.
Pick and choose what you want. But at least admit your version of the truth has NO lineage back to Jesus Christ nor his followers.
I think your faith, by the way, is fantastic. You should talk about it and live it just like we all should. But, on this thread, you're not doing that. You're just trying to undermine the faith of those of us who choose to be and are quite happy being the Spawns of satan...err...Roman Catholic.