You wrote, “The reality is ... that ALL ‘bible only’ people talk what THEY SAY scripture says. They live the lie that history started the moment when they interpreted a verse in scripture.”
I don’t know what you mean by “Bible only.” If you mean that I believe it to be written infallibly and “breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,” then I guess that’d be accurate. But if you mean that I look ONLY to Scripture to gain knowledge about God and life, then that’d NOT be accurate.
I take it you mean to insult those who highly esteem the Bible. That humans are incapable of understanding Scripture, and should avoid discussing it at all costs. Make that “humans other than your priests” are incapable of understanding Scripture; they have a peculiar dispensation to read and understand Scripture that’s withheld by God from His other children.
You seem to forget that Christ chose ignorant FISHERMEN as His first disciples. And over time, as they spent time with Him (and not in formal education), they grew surprisingly wise, something that stunned the religious leaders of their day.
And your contention that I “live the lie that history started the moment when they interpreted a verse in scripture” is pure Roman Catholic indoctrination. You are blind to reality if you have such a cliched, narrow, phony, inaccurate understanding of those who follow Christ apart from your religious system.
This discussion has brought out a lot of hatred and antagonism by Roman Catholics against those who follow Christ. It says a lot about the work of God within you that you’re so hateful and deaf and closed to Christian fellowship.
I maintain that if you’d come “home to Christ” rather than go “home to Rome,” you would experience the grace and love and forgiveness and relationship of God.
Your posting personality changes completely from time to time. It appears to me that Theo is really two different people (husband & wife?). This last posting is the clueless Theo. The questioning of NPF was a Theo with a deeper understanding of the finer points in Post Vatican II Catholicism. There is no way that the two are the same person.
I’ve written enough for both of you.
Yours in Jesus, Mary , and Joseph,
Leoni