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Jesus Christ IS the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by Him.

You are in denial and your heart is an adamant stone. Repent! Jesus is coming back very soon for a bride that is without spot or wrinkle. Does that describe YOU (or the RC institution)?

Who talks like you people do? Talk like a normal person.

If there is ONE thing I cannot stand above all other things about people is arrogance, and if there are TWO things I cannot stand about arrogant people, it is when they are "preachy" (meaning that they think they have a monopoly on salvation, and this applies to people of all faiths, but especially to "Bible Christians") or when they are elitist and/or extremist Leftist. I have particularly clashed with these people over the years in heated debates. While I think that is particularly sad in the case of the Leftists, many of whom have not heard about the saving power of God, I think it is ever more SAD in the case of "Bible Christians," because they HAVE heard of this saving power, but have become arrogant about it.

There are warnings from the Good Book that warn the community of the believers on "strange interpretations" of passages, instead of reading the passage in the context of the WHOLE of Scripture's teachings.

"The apostle Peter was very concerned about this problem, and addressed it in his letters. In 2 Peter 1:20-21, he gave his first rule of Bible interpretation: 'First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, because no prophecy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the HoIy Spirit spoke from God.' By prophecy, he simply means anything that Scripture teaches (prophecy does not always mean predicting the future). For this reason, we must avoid the temptation to evaluate passages by simply asking, 'What do I think this verse means?' Christ gave the Church teachers, and he did so for a very specific reason: to assist people in how to understand Scripture and its teachings. Therefore, rather than simply looking to private interpretations, we must look to the public interpretation of Scripture, which is what the Church has. We must read Scripture in the context of what the Church has historically understood it to mean, for it was the Church that Christ established as 'the pillar and foundation of the truth' (1 Tim. 3:15)." (Taken from Starting Out as an Apologist from the Catholic Answers website.)

Was the Bible intended to be sole rule of faith? Is it the only source of Truth? NO! The ultimate source of Truth itself is God, and the Bible made NO such claim that it is the sole rule of faith (check out 1 Cor. 11:2, 2 Thess. 2:15, 2 Tim. 2:2, 2 Peter 1:20-21, 3:15-16). As I have said to others, the Word of God (the Bible) is the BEGINNING of wisdom ( and the search for Truth), not the end.