[InterestedQuestioner]

"This is the problem with Quoting the Bible to a Catholic sometimes. You never read what it actually says, and then you add to it, and then you deny what it actually says......"

".....the plain fact that they turned to the BIBLE for their answer sure showed they weren't proto-Catholic. If they were Proto-Catholic, they would have looked somewhere else than God's word, or they would have refused to believe what it said, or they would have re-written it to make it fit what they wanted to believe instead." ;


Well Race, those are quite some statements. It seems to me that we've quoted quite a few scripture passages, but you seem to feel we're reading the exact opposite of what scriptures say.


Can you suggest how we ought to read the scripture?

[RaceBannon]

Can you suggest how we ought to read the scripture?

You can start by taking what it says on face value, using simple sentence diagraming you were taught in elementary school and high school.

No offence, but that is a serious comment. If it says something that is an anology, then read it as such. Jesus told us to eat His flesh, but He was standing there, were we to kill him? Jesus also said He was a Shepherd yet no sheep followed him around; that He was a Door, where was His handle or the hinges?

But if it clearly says something as a fact, like all your sins are paid for on the Cross, then they are, that Mary had other children, then she did; ...