Then they are unlike RC's here that made such comments as that Protestantism is a false religion, belief in one’s self, who have no faith in Christ, no foundation for their superficial understanding of Christianity, who are by inclination vandals, evil fruit, ignorant, biblically illiterate, typically intellectually dishonest, absolutely alien to Christianity, a false religion, a bizarre and false religion, a mass of sheer rot, a heretical brand of Christianity, who completely reject Christ, belief in one’s self, with no foundation for their understanding of Christianity, and are unable to defend it.
But we do reprove Catholicism here, mostly in response to incessant provocative threads as this one promoting another of distinctive unscriptural RC beliefs. doctrine ,
AND, if you go back far enough on the history of Christianity, guess what? You will find that you came from the Catholic Church. Christ’s true Church is the Catholic Church. You can guess all you like, but the facts are the contrary to that.
For distinctive Catholic teachings are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (including how they understood the OT and gospels), which is Scripture, especially Acts thru Revelation.
Thus Catholicism, Roman or Eastern Orthodox, cannot be the one true church but much a false church which has sadly become as the gates of Hell for multitudes. In contrast, the body of Christ, (Colossians 1:18) is the one true church to which He is married, (Ephesians 5:25) the "household of faith," (Galatians 6:10) for it uniquely only and always consists 100% of true believers, and which spiritual body of Christ is what the Spirit baptizes ever believer into, (1Co. 12:13) while organic fellowships in which they express their faith inevitably become admixtures of wheat and tares, with Catholicism and liberal Protestantism being mostly the latter.
The degree that a church retains and preaches the convicting gospel of grace, of salvation by grave thru heart-purifying, justifying faith, then they are part of the church which the Lord promised would overcome the gates of Hell, that being
Okay, okay my Protestant Friends. I was warned that you guys would throw scripture verses and snide remarks at me. I was just trying to charitably defend my Catholic Faith, and I did.
Okay, okay my Protestant Friends. I was warned that you would throw out bible verses and snide remarks to me. I was just trying to defend my Catholic Faith, and I have done so.