You wrote:
“The Holy Spirit never directs people to believe falsehoods”
On this we agree -— which is why He does not, never Has and never WILL support made up doctrine outside of His Word: no extra-Biblical pronouncements from on high, no dogma instructing prayers to Mary and the Saints, no sprinkling of babies, no purgatory, no salvation by works. His Word is the God-breathed and inspired Word of God (and yes, I can find passages to support this, but if I can — so can you — beginning with 2 Timothy 3:16, John 1:1, ...) and He has declared that NOTHING shall be added or removed from it. Catholicism is a case study in adding and removing things from Scripture. May the Lord reveal their deception so they can know the Truth. Amen and amen.
“On this we agree -— which is why He does not, never Has and never WILL support made up doctrine outside of His Word:”
Show me a verse that supports sola scriptura. That is a “made up doctrine outside of His Word” but Protestants believe it.
“no extra-Biblical pronouncements from on high, no dogma instructing prayers to Mary and the Saints, no sprinkling of babies, no purgatory, no salvation by works.”
Show me the verse that says ALL truths are in scripture. Purgatory is in scripture: http://scripturecatholic.com/purgatory.html
infant baptism: http://www.scripturecatholic.com/baptism.html#baptism-III
And we don’t believe in salvation by works. We believe we are saved by Christ’s grace.
“His Word is the God-breathed and inspired Word of God (and yes, I can find passages to support this, but if I can — so can you — beginning with 2 Timothy 3:16, John 1:1, ...)”
There you go again. Show me the verse which shows Matthew’s gospel was written by Matthew and is inspired. Can you or not?
“and He has declared that NOTHING shall be added or removed from it.”
Show then the verse which shows which books are inspired and which ones are not. If you can’t then you have no biblical way of knowing if something has been “added or removed from it.”
“Catholicism is a case study in adding and removing things from Scripture. May the Lord reveal their deception so they can know the Truth. Amen and amen.”
We’ve always known the truth while you’re just in a sect.