Is taking verses out of context and misapplying them the default setting for Catholics?
That's sitting on judgment on another for sure. When Jesus used those words, it was in this setting, not the contrived one presented in the last few posts.
Who gave Catholics authority to take Jesus words and speak for Him and misapply them as if they were truth
Matthew 7:21-23 21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
These were the people those words were intended for, not someone some anonymous internet poster decides to apply them to.
Anyone who says the Holy Spirit did not guide the Apostles and insure that the Scriptures are not in error is calling Jesus Christ a liar.Anyone who calls Jesus Christ a liar is denying that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, God from God, incapable of telling a lie. Obviously, when someone insists that a particular thing that Christ promised is a lie, they are calling Christ a liar whether they realize that or not.
When someone goes even further and blatantly calls Christ Himself a liar by denying that He is present in the bread and wine when we remember Him, they are deliberately denying the deity of Christ by directly calling Christ a liar.
Obviously, those who claim individual personal infallible interpretation of all Scriptures are claiming to be doing mighty works in His name every time they spin themselves a new interpretation of Scripture to suit a personal predisposition. Personal predispositions like the Watchtower garbage of calling the Christian holidays of Christmas and Easter pagan festivals. Equally obviously, then, such folks are exactly those who Matthew 7:21-23 is talking about no matter which individual who claims to be infallible pretends those verses do not apply because they don't want them to apply. That's typical of those who cannot surrender to Christ since they have dedicated themselves to the worship of, "The Most High and Holy Self" they see in the mirror.
Titus 3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law. For they are unprofitable and vain.
Titus 3:10 A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, avoid:
Titus 3:11 Knowing that he, that is such an one, is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned by his own judgment.
Those who continue to deny the deity of Christ can fool themselves however they like, but they should get used to the idea of hearing, "I never knew you" from the very Jesus Christ they deny is God.
have a nice day