the result of private interpretation claiming the guidance of the Holy Spirit has resulted in over 40,000 different protestant sects that adhere to different and even mutually contradictory doctrines, making it harder for those interested in finding the fullness of the truth, to find it. claiming the supremacy of private interpretation is the ultimate form of liberalism, denying the existence of visible divine authority, results in an independent morality and substitutes as a boundless license for heretics. Jesus established one visible universal Apostolic hierarchal Church to faithfully guard and protect the fullness of the truth.
the result of Roman interpretation claiming the guidance of the tradition has resulted in millions of people probably headed for hell!
Didn't you get the memo, JPH? The party line now says it's only 31,000 or so (posted the other day on another thread). But, it doesn't really matter how you look at it, it is God that judges us individually. Membership in a group will not get you anywhere with Him. It doesn't work like Sam's Club. The price to get in the door has been paid by Jesus's work on the cross. Your groups claim is only valid to the faithful members of the groupAnd God has no reason to honor this group since he is not a respecter of persons.
Scripture makes it clear that the Holy Spirit is our guide, not some guy in a fancy gown laden down with gold. Scripture tells us that there is only one mediator between God and man and that is Jesus Christ. All of that “tradition of men” is anathema to God. Believe it or not!
Romans 8 :1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
I have claimed no sect or denomination whatsoever. I have claimed Christ and being filled with the Holy Spirit, and that is all that is necessary for me to speak with authority.
I am not asking you to believe me, but go to the Lord and ask Him if I have spoken truth. But your blindness and arrogance and your pride and self-righteousness, like the Pharisees before you, will not allow you to do that.
Instead all you do is claim Catholic talking points. How I wish just one of you would come with an open heart and truly ask Him if what we say is true!
Rom 16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
Rom 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Well thanks for the good words and fair speech but the fact remains; the bible your religion claims for its own condemns the very religion that makes that claim; yours...
40,000 Denominations??? Last I heard it was 61,000...What will you use when that one wears out? we all wear different style shoes???