Thanks for your reply.
>>>”Source for that?”
Same one I gave earlier, promise you’ll read the whole thing? :)
http://www.equip.org/articles/is-catholicism-a-cult/
>>>”Christ and what the Apostles taught in scripture. “
- According to you. You’re the sole authority for Christ and what the Apostles taught and what scripture means and is interpreted.
>>>”The Holy Spirit just guides me to parts of scripture to interpret other parts of scripture.”
- Holy Spirit according to you, to interpret according to you.
>>”I let God’s word tell me.”
- God’s word according to you. On your authority alone.
>>>:Certainly not some supposed “Church”
- Intolerant of all other authority.
I think I would add that a cult leader sees no distinction between himself and God’s word. If he sees X as God’s word, it *is* God’s word. Cult followers are quite logically following God’s word by following their leader. Their view is his view is God’s view.
Yep, read the whole thing. Lot’s of parsing words there. In most every point he made he had to admit that the RCC at least was guilty of that point either to a certain degree or was in the past or is in the present but not in the past. I’ll stick with my viewpoint that it’s a cult.
>>- According to you. You’re the sole authority for Christ and what the Apostles taught and what scripture means and is interpreted.<<
Nope, once again scripture interprets scripture. It’s all there if one is interested in learning truth outside the influence of some organization.
>>Cult followers are quite logically following God’s word by following their leader. Their view is his view is God’s view.<<
That would certainly describe Catholics following the RCC wouldn’t it.