Ditto. You are under no obligation to debate or to respond to my posts. That being so, however, I do not think that you have taken me to school simply because you believe you have.
I think there is a certain degree of arrogance in presuming that you know better than the Church. Please feel free to take the Church to school with your out-of-context bible verse arguments.
I think your Protestant approach does nothing more than create more "true" denominations, as it is evidenced by the ever-growing number of such assemblies. What I see is a man-made church with self-apointed "popes," all claiming that their version of the truth is the Truth.
I simply believe what the collective wisdom of the Church has known as the Truth delivered to the Apostles since the Pentecost. If I am saying something contrary to the teaching of the Church, by all means correct me.
>>I think there is a certain degree of arrogance in presuming that you know better than the Church.<<
I think there's a certain degree of idolatry in holding up man-centered traditions over the Word of God. I'm not accountable to the Church, I'm accountable to Christ.
Men are fallible - the Word of God isn't.
>>If I am saying something contrary to the teaching of the Church, by all means correct me.<<
The very fact that you hold your beliefs to the standard of the Church, and not the Bible tells me a lot about your faith.
If I am saying something contrary to the teaching of the Bible, by all means correct me.