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Iscool says:Please gently and with charity explain the misconceptions and outright falsehoods in this post.Seems to be a lot of things here I agree with...Any Protestant agreements, disagreements based on the bible???
I'm not aware of the misconceptions and falsehoods in the post...
Maybe you can explain them...What about the 'fish hat'...I have no idea of the origin of the fish hat...No one in the NT wore a fish hat, or gold, or robes...Certainly not Peter...
No one in the bible bowed down to Peter (and got away with it) and kissed his feet, or his ring, or whatever you guys do...It's just not biblical...
So, let me get this straight: We, gratuitously and falsely attacked,on the Lord's Day, (those Protestants calling themselves Seventh Day Adventists: excuse me, this is for the sake of argument only) with lies, should turn the other cheek and gently point out the error of those who come at us with slander and anything but gentleness? We're guilty until we demonstrate our innocence?
I'll play this game: We do not believe and never have believed that one can buy God off. Sure SOME Catholics may have believed it, but it was never official teaching. Some Protestants, after all, think sex is intrinsically evil (Some ignorant RCs too) and I have heard one say that sexual intercourse was original sin, but I have never claimed that Protestants, as a class, believe that.
Now I grasp the magic 8-ball in my hand and turn around three times (not omitting to worship some saint or other and generally bowing down to a stock, or possibly a bond, of wood) and the mantic deamon comes upon me and tells me that this clarification will be met with outright denial, in the form of,"Well, what about this or that practice? What about Tetzel, what about blah blah?"? And when, if I should have the time, I deal with that, someone else will say I am "parsing".
And when I finally lose my patience at dealing with this passle of lies, I will be told I am not gentle.
My personal opinion is that if you want to attack the RC church, the way to start would be to find out what she says of herself. Then your attacks would not be seen by her members as being SO very wide of the mark as to exhibit culpable negligence.