[metmom]

People believe what they want to believe because it makes them comfortable. That's what faith is all about—a self-derived comfort from a conviction that something is true, like saying "I am saved," or "he is in a better place now," etc. You can't prove it false and you can't prove it true, even if it seems fantastic. You can either accept it or reject as a matter of faith, but never as a matter of fact.

Every argument you're using against Protestants can be used against Catholicism.

If you reject truth, if there is no truth, there's just a struggle of propaganda.

Are you saying then, that all the Catholic church has is propaganda, since what it teaches and claims responsibility for is so poorly founded, as you claim?

The Protoevangelium is one of the sappiest, most poorly written pieces of drivel I've ever seen. A fifth grader could do better. It doesn't come close to the literary quality of the accepted books of the Bible. Exactly what one would expect out of something made up by man as opposed to inspired by God.

[Quix]

Thanks for the pings.

[kosta50]

If you reject truth, if there is no truth, there's just a struggle of propaganda

The only propaganda is when people claim they know truth because God told them.

What makes you or any other so-called "elect" the possessor of truth? Remember, just because you believe something is true doesn't make it true.

Are you saying then, that all the Catholic church has is propaganda, since what it teaches and claims responsibility for is so poorly founded, as you claim?

The Church teaches that faith is hope and that God is love. I don't find that to be propaganda.

The Protoevangelium is one of the sappiest, most poorly written pieces of drivel I've ever seen. A fifth grader could do better. It doesn't come close to the literary quality of the accepted books of the Bible. Exactly what one would expect out of something made up by man as opposed to inspired by God.

It could very well be, but it reflects what at least some Christians believed in the 2nd century.

[MarkBsnr]

The Protoevangelium is one of the sappiest, most poorly written pieces of drivel I've ever seen. A fifth grader could do better. It doesn't come close to the literary quality of the accepted books of the Bible. Exactly what one would expect out of something made up by man as opposed to inspired by God.

As opposed to the intellectually superior, yet spiritually inferior Westminster Confession of Faith?