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Cyn.. let me take a stab at that.

For Catholics the Mass is first and foremost.

Impossible to speak for all Catholics, but the Sola Scriptura part is immensely foreign to them just as tradition is foreign to protestants.

It is a huge gulf between almost all Catholics and protestants, which can be crossed-over one-on-one but rarely if ever on a forum like FR.

For the Greater Glory of God

For the Greater Glory of God

You continue to post that little blurb at the end of many of your posts, yet it belies the content of what you actually say. There is little within your words that glorify God.

You should accurately state what you are saying in ALL of this BS you postulate.

You continue to bash Protestant Christians, yet you only try to advance Roman Dogma...

For the Greater Glory of ~~God~~ the Roman Catholic Cult!

"Of course we don't worship Mary. We only venerate her. We also don't make graven images which draw eyes from Christ..."- Roman Cult Apologists

I think you missed miserably on that one. What you gave is exactly what I was saying. To Catholics the very words of God come second.

You said “For Catholics the Mass is first and foremost”. That has nothing to do with this discussion. It could however be taken as an admission that scripture does indeed take a second place if not worse in the Catholic religion.

>> Impossible to speak for all Catholics, but the Sola Scriptura part is immensely foreign to them<<

You don’t say! Of course it is. They have been taught it is secondary to the voice of the “magesterium”. Why would they then believe that the very words of God should be the sole source for doctrine? For that matter, why spend time reading scripture when it’s secondary to what the “magesterium” says? It would be illogical to think that greater time would be given to scripture in the Catholic Churches then in Protestants who hold scripture as the sole authoritative source for doctrine.

>> just as tradition is foreign to protestants.<<

Tradition isn’t foreign to Protestants. They have many traditions and understand the concept fully. They simply understand that doctrine comes from scripture and tradition is simply a customary practice not relevant to salvation.

You keep saying “For the Greater Glory of God”. I sincerely doubt that. Catholics give the glory to the Catholic Church much more often as evidenced by their incessant insistence that all should give glory to the Catholic Church for the very existence of scripture. They give glory to the Catholic “magesterium” over the very words of God contained in scripture as you just admitted. With all due respect your use of that phrase rings eerily hollow.

For Catholics the Mass is first and foremost.

For Christians, CHRIST is first and foremost.

Our relationship with Christ permeates ever aspect of our lives every minute of the day.

Our spiritual life is not compartmentalized out into church and not church.

Church is nice and good but should not be the center of the Christians life. The Christian's relationship with Christ should be such that church is optional.

I realize that Catholicism teaches it's a mortal sin to miss mass, but all that does is put one into bondage. Scripture never puts that requirement with those consequences on the believer.