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Now extend that to all of the mainstream and multilocation denominations. Now extend that to all the independent churches with their own peculiar beliefs.
For example, there are over 400 independent churches in our community all with varying beliefs and doctrines. There is one God and one Faith. Where did they get theirs? How? If not from their navels and whims, where?
No, the RCC just changes it's doctrines en masse at councils where the church leadership gets together, changes it's collective mind on some issue, and declares it new doctrine and the old invalid.
You mean in the declaration of the Trinity and the Nicene Creed in 325 AD?
The only difference between what you're complaining about and what the Catholic church does is that when the Catholic church does it, they give it their own stamp of approval to validate it to themselves and then go on to act as if nothing is really any different.
The difference is that the Reformation ushered in the age where individual men at their own whims create churches of their own with their own made up doctrines and beliefs.
Have you actually read some of the beliefs put forth by some of the Orthodox and others on these threads?
Do those beliefs represent Orthodox teaching, or are they the whims of made up doctrine and beliefs?
Things like soul annihilation, Christ was a myth, the Bible is full of magic, not even knowing if God exists, denying the miracles of rising from the dead and walking on water, denial of transubstantiation, etc....
These folks claim to represent Catholicism and condemn Protestantism for it's many factions, and yet, we have here people who claim to be Catholics bragging about the unity of Catholic doctrine, each believing what he wants without regard to what Rome teaches.