I don’t believe the revisionist church history the Catholic church posits as it tries to retroactively claim all sorts of things for itself, things that happened hundreds of years before the Catholic church existed.
I am well aware of what the Catholic church claims for itself. I just don’t believe it because I don’t find any support for it in Scripture.
“I don’t find any support for it in Scripture.”
Again it proves my point that you are ignorant of History since all of the item I listed happened in the time AFTER Scriptures were written,i.e. post Scriptural history.
You are representative of the vast majority of protestants who know little or nothing of the history of THEIR own faith.
ADMG
This Protestant criticism of Catholicism is ironic, since there is no support for Luther's doctrine of "the Bible ALONE" in Scripture.
Even more ironically, Luther didn't follow his own dictum, originally removing the book of James from his New Testament, and adding the word "alone" to Romans 3:28.
"Romans 3:28 states, "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law" (NKJV).Martin Luther, in his German translation of the Bible, specifically added the word "allein" (English 'alone') to Romans 3:28-a word that is not in the original Greek.
Martin Luther reportedly said, "You tell me what a great fuss the Papists are making because the word alone in not in the text of Paul…say right out to him: 'Dr. Martin Luther will have it so,'…I will have it so, and I order it to be so, and my will is reason enough. I know very well that the word 'alone' is not in the Latin or the Greek text" (Stoddard J. Rebuilding a Lost Faith. 1922, pp. 101-102; see also Luther M. Amic. Discussion, 1, 127)