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The Pharisees all knew the scriptures too .. it is not knowledge of the scriptures that saves.. it is the one of whom they write that saves..

I was having breakfast with the local Catholic priest and a few family members one morning and we were talking about our favorite Bible passage. I said mine was Ephesians 2:8,9:

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

The priest's response was, "That sounds Protestant to me.".

I must say I was surprised seeing as the Catholic Douay-Rheims Bible says it almost identically:

For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, for it is the gift of God; Not of works, that no man may glory.

You are quite correct about the difference between knowing the word of God and knowing the Word/Jesus.

[Resettozero]

You are quite correct about the difference between knowing the word of God and knowing the Word/Jesus.

It's a matter of having a particular and special relationship that many RC posters here just cannot seem to know until just before they leave or as they are leaving their life-long memberships behind in the RCC and are coming out of her.