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If I were a lurker trying to decide whether this or that school of non-Catholic affiliation and teaching were better than the others or than the Catholic Church, I would conclude that the only sane thing would be to become a Buddhist, or a hermit. The Bible is used as an inkblot and then the sides form up in shifting alliances and attack one another with mockery and really atrocious reasoning.

Well perhaps you don't trust God as we do...

God says to send the word out and it will not come back void...He also says we plant and water but He'll provide the increase...

Isa 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

1Co 3:4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
1Co 3:5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
1Co 3:6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
1Co 3:7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
1Co 3:8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

I'm thinking Lurkers, even Catholics won't have too much trouble understanding these verses...

We don't use the bible as an inkblot...We spread the word as Jesus instructed his disciples...It's the Catholics who post links to reams and reams of pages written 'about' scripture, pages with written claims that the Catholic church is the only real church by relying on it's own rituals and superstitions which it calls Catholic tradition

We have no trouble at all posting God's written words and then committing the fruits of that endeavor to God...

It's the Catholics who post links to reams and reams of pages written 'about' scripture

...and non-Catholics DON'T write "reams and reams of pages" giving their own interpretations of Scripture, many of them at odds with one another on fundamental points of doctrine?

My goodness, where have you been? You can go into any Christian bookstore (we have a huge "Lighthouse" store near us) and find long rows full of books interpreting Scripture, from commentaries to concordances. I couldn't believe how many books and authors there were on the shelves devoted specifically to the Bible.

You think Catholics are the only ones who write theology or exegesis?

I’m thinking Lurkers, even Catholics won’t have too much trouble understanding these verses...

We don’t use the bible as an inkblot...We spread the word as Jesus instructed his disciples...It’s the Catholics who post links to reams and reams of pages written ‘about’ scripture, pages with written claims that the Catholic church is the only real church by relying on it’s own rituals and superstitions which it calls Catholic tradition

We have no trouble at all posting God’s written words and then committing the fruits of that endeavor to God...

AMEN INDEED.