You are hopeless. Here you have a great chance to prove your church is the only way to salvation. And you choose a conversation about Caiaphas? You’re ridiculous. Defend your church on the most important belief that has ever existed. The whole world depends on the Catholic church proving through God’s written word that there is no salvation outside the catholic church. I don’t need a doctrinal discourse, or a diary from an early church leader, or a relic from the last person to see a vision of some saint confirming this salvation theory, or even a note and recipe from the last saint who was celebrated for a month.
Put your money where God’s word is. Not on voodoo vows and visions of the this trainwreck of a religion.
I'm not hopeless. That would be a sin of despair.
I don't give a hoot about your man-made "religion".
Matthew 28:18: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost
Christ does not say, write a book and hand it out; He said go and teach. What were the Apostles to teach? What they had been taught by Christ, which we now call the teachings of the Church.
The Bible is a Catholic-based book, not the other way around. The Bible is a collection of writings which propsoed to tell the story of Jesus and of the early Church, and letters from the Apostles to the individual churches, not a manual of Christian teaching.
John 14:6: Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Christ did not say that He is several ways or various truths.
There is *one* way, *one* truth. It seems clear that if there are two understandings of some part of Scripture, one at least must be incorrect.
Luke 10:16: He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
Do you think God will let those who despise Him into Heaven?