This kind of cut and paste stuff won’t work. This is standard Protestant tripe. Why don’t you follow the leading American Lutheran theologian, scholar, and professor, Rev. Richard Neuhaus, who after many years of studious research crossed over to Catholicism to say nothing of Augustine, Aquinas, and Benedict XVI (called, the “theological Einstein of our times by TIME magazine). Or in the resignation of the President of the highest Protestant scholarly body, Dr. Frank Beckwith of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS).
By your lights these folks were all fools and your disparate and selective snippets of Scripture trumps everybody’s else reading of Scripture- the books of which were authenticated by the early Church Fathers. What a profound grant of authority!!
This simplistic and literal reading of scripture is the great danger that lurks in Protestant thinking. No wonder the famous English essayist wrote that unlike other heresies, Protestantism spawned a “cluster of heresies.” From Jim Jones and Billy Graham to David Koresh and Robert Schuller and today pathetic Joel Osteens and TD Jakes. They all preach heresies of varying degrees. Different concepts and not the one single uniform teaching that Peter and his successors were commanded to teach in one Church through the end of time with the promise that the gates of hell shall never prevail against it.
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The convoluted and arcane reading of scripture is the great danger that lurks in Catholic teachings.
And you put Billy Grahmam in with Jim Jones and Joel Osteen?
That displays a lack of discernment that explains a LOT in you posts.
The Roman Catholic church hasn't consistently taught "one single uniform teaching" Jesus commanded His disciples to teach for a very long time - if ever. We have ample proof that many of the dogmas and doctrines the modern RCC follows were never heard of either in Scripture or by the early Christian church. You expect everyone to just take it on faith - like the Roman Catholic "faithful" are expected to - that whatever the magesterium in power at any particular time decides is "de fide" must be what all Christians have to believe? Prove the Apostles ever taught "purgatory", or "indulgences" to get people out of it. Show where any Apostle ever taught Mary was born without a sin nature or never had other children with her husband, Joseph. Demonstrate from Scripture where ANY Apostle taught there was to be ONE, singular Pope of the universal church and that ALL had to be in subjection to him. Know what? You can't. I think you know that and we certainly do.