I will not join the "fray" because the truth is not determined by bumper-sticker snippets of Scripture and quotes of scholars and Early Church Fathers. It is not us or cleverness and the gotcha "traps" laid or our skills in rhetoric and logic that converts hearts, it is only the Holy Spirit. All we can do is to continue to preach the truth. I have provided evidence, but I cannot make anyone understand or accept it. Some don't even recognize it as evidence....yet.
In parting, take care how you deal with the Catholic Church and all churches. As Gamaliel warned the Sanhedrin many false prophets and movements have arisen in history. Those that are false will fade away but those that are of God will endure. (Acts 5:34-42) If the Catholic Church is wrong it will not endure.
Peace be to you
“I have provided evidence,”
You’ve provided bumper-sticker snippets, avoided the issue of whether or not you burn fish guts to ward off evil spirits as in Tobit, amongst other challenges, and then responded by giving general guidelines about how you read scripture (without reading any scripture), and then, finally, asserted I don’t take Biblical verses literally, including ones that don’t even exist (John 5:57?), and then when I respond to it, you assert I’ve made bumper-sticker responses.
“As Gamaliel warned the Sanhedrin many false prophets and movements have arisen in history.”
Gamaliel is not a Christian. The Christian takes matters of truth very seriously, and is not agnostic about them, seeing what will come.