The biggest win the Catholic church has made against its adherents is convincing them that they are incapable of reading and understanding the plain meaning of Scripture themselves, but that it must be interpreted for them, by the clergy of the Catholic church, of course.
If Catholics started reading and understanding on their own, they’d see that there’s very little Scriptural support for most of the doctrine of the Catholic church.
Just like liberals, an educated constituency is a threat to their grip on power.
You guys are not stupid. You are capable of reading and understanding the clear meaning of the Bible. It doesn’t need to be interpreted FOR you by other mere men. They are human just like you are and are just as likely to be prone to error as you are.
They have no special inside track on the truth, any more than any one else has.
You guys are not stupid. You are capable of reading and understanding the clear meaning of the Bible. It doesn’t need to be interpreted FOR you by other mere men. They are human just like you are and are just as likely to be prone to error as you are.
They have no special inside track on the truth, any more than any one else has.
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WELL PUT.
THX.
“Luke 1:39 / 2 Sam. 6:2 - Luke's conspicuous comparison's between Mary and the Ark described by Samuel underscores the reality of Mary as the undefiled and immaculate Ark of the New Covenant. In these verses, Mary (the Ark) arose and went / David arose and went to the Ark. There is a clear parallel between the Ark of the Old and the Ark of the New Covenant.”
Luke 1:39 says, “And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;”
2 Sam. 6:2 says, “And David arose, and went with all the people that [were] with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth [between] the cherubims.”
“Luke's conspicuous comparison's...” Luke says nothing about any ark nor does he make any comparisons of anything to another, nor does he speak of Mary as an ark in this verse. No need to treat what else is offered up as...I don't know what to call it.
Yet they refuse to READ for themselves because they’ve been indoctrinated that they aren’t CAPABLE.
Who says your not prone to error? And why is it that protestants are not united with your belief. Are you some special messenger of God that has no consistent historical interpretations of Scripture?