[NYer]

When RCs say ...

It seems that no matter how many attempts are made to correct you, your misinterpretation persists.

The Catholic Church

The "R" represents one portion of the Catholic Church, which is comprised of 22 Churches.

Conveniently, they ignore the lists some of the early church fathers wrote (i.e., Ireneaus, Tertullian, Origen) that DO usually identify the books accepted by the early Christians and recognized as well as read and studied by them.

"Although dispersed throughout the whole world, even to the ends of the earth, the Church has received this faith from the apostles and their disciples....  The Church received this preaching and this faith.  Although she is scattered throughout the whole world, yet, she carefully preserves it, as if she occupied only one house.   She also believes these points just as if she had only one soul, and one and the same heart.  She proclaims these things, teaches them, and hands them down, with perfect harmony, as if she possessed only one mouth.  For although the languages of the world are different, yet the significance of the tradition is one and the same.   For the churches which have been planted in Germany do not believe or hand down anything different.  Neither do those in Spain, Gaul, the East, Egypt, Libya, or in the central regions of the world."  St. Irenaeus ("Against All Heresies," c. 180 A.D.)

[boatbums]

It seems that no matter how many attempts are made to correct you, your misinterpretation persists.

And why should I accept your "correction"???

I made no "misinterpretation" since what I said was correct. When threads get posted to provoke Catholic versus Protestant wars, they SHOULD be rebutted and the truth always is victorious. The biggest mistakes Catholics make today - and the authors of this thread article are no different - is to presume what the "church" believed and followed at the start is the same as what bills itself as the Catholic Church today. In truth - and any honest person would have to concede - many of the dogmas and doctrines held by the Roman church today were UNHEARD of in Irenaeus', Tertullian's and Origen's day. The same goes for Augustine and even Aquinas. Another mistake is to assume that Christians cannot exist outside of Roman Catholicism. We do and we THRIVE in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Here's a thought...why not post threads that glorify Christ instead of a "church"? Why not edify instead of causing dissension? Why not demonstrate a heart of Christian love that draws people to Christ instead of repelling those who refuse to worship at the same church?