Will ordination doctrine drive a “mass exodus of the faithful” from the Catholic Church?

Hotair ^ | 03/24/2014 | Ed Morrissey

[BlackElk]

ealgeone:

Whether or not Roman Catholics agree with your answers is hardly the point. You are free, of course, to disagree with Roman Catholicism. We Catholics are free to disagree with you. We are quite likely to disagree on the meaning of various Scriptural passages. You may feel free to ignore the Teaching Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church.

Nothing that you post as to your understandings of the meaning of Scripture is likely EVER to convert a well-catechized Catholic. Nothing that we Catholics post from Scripture or from the Teaching Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church is likely to convert you.

This is not an exclusively Catholic website. JimRob is, I believe an Evangelical Christian. Nor is this an exclusively Reformed Christian website. JimRob has welcomed us all to his living room.

I try to keep out of sectarian disputes here. I accept the site (a great site!) for what it is, a meeting place for people of generally conservative principles, where we discuss (hopefully with mutual respect whatever our differences). Your last sentence was quite unnecessarily and inaccurately sarcastic, especially since the proprietor is a Reformed Christian himself.

We Christians agree on so much that it seems fruitless to be nanny-nagging one another over the 5% or less that divides us.

Then there are various valued members here who are Jewish or practitioners of other faiths and some who are atheists or agnostics.

As to the initial article posted, that article was written by a garden variety dissenting "Catholic" who believes little of what we Catholics believe, devotes himself to dissent while posturing as a believer, and is sensibly ignored. There are, I imagine, analogous Reformed Christians whom you sensibly ignore for similar reasons.

We should try, here, to all get along as best we can. May God bless you and yours1

[ealgeone]

BlackElk,

I appreciate your comments. However I think there is more than 5% that divides us.

As I'm coming to understand Catholicism, the basic core belief is that the authority claimed by the Church is based on Peter or Peter's confession of who Christ was. And from there the "keys" to the kingdom were handed down from those Apostles to the next and so on....despite lack of Biblical proof for this.

Much of what I've been reading regarding Catholic beliefs appear to be man-made beliefs, especially those involving Mary, the Pope and that only a priest can forgive your sins or assure you of your salvation, or rely upon writings such as the Didache which has a substantial number of items that are contradictory to the Bible.

I believe we should always look to the Bible for our answers in these matters. It is the Word of God.

See, you view me as a Reformed Christian...a label. I view myself as a Christian period. I am a follower of Jesus Christ and owe my life to Him and Him alone. I am saved by believing Christ died on the Cross for my sins. I know I can ask Him for forgiveness, and do so on a regular basis and He will forgive me.

I agree this shouldn't be a Catholic v Protestant struggle. All I'm asking is that we support our beliefs with sound Biblical exegetical interpretation as it is the Word of God. Why would we look to anything else?

[RedHeeler]

Peter denied Jesus. The romans killed him, and then took up His Cross. Then claimed His effigy, for all time. There is a couple of facts, present. Have faith.