[Iscool]

This issue is of particular importance, as the first several decades of the Church's existence were tumultuous. Persecutions had already begun, believers were being martyred, the new Faith was struggling to grow, and some false teachings had already appeared

And that is the Catholic religion...Out of Rome...The persecutions were done by Romans...And it's conglomeration of pagan and quasi-religous zealots who worshipped the queen of heaven which is still being worshipped today...Your religion is not the religion of the Apostles...

(cf. Galatians 1:6-9). If the Bible were the Christian's only rule of faith, and since the Bible was not fully wirtten--much less settled in terms of its canon--until 65 years after Christ's Ascension, how did the early Chruch possibly deal with doctrinal questions without an authority on how to proceed?

So you claim that God was with his church always but yet He let them wander in the wilderness for 400 years til He summoned your Roman religion to come up with doctrine???

400 years of dying, ignorant Christians who had no doctrine...No Holy Spirit to lead...No scripture to rely on...

I can't imagine how intelligent people can fall for a fairy tale like that...

[bdeaner]

So you claim that God was with his church always but yet He let them wander in the wilderness for 400 years til He summoned your Roman religion to come up with doctrine???



I said the Catholic Church was founded by Christ Himself, not 400 years later. He gave the authority to St. Peter and His Disciples, who passed their authority along to their successors, and that unbroken succession of authority is the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.

Sola Scriptura is a self-refuting doctrine.