“This? From a CATHOLIC?”
Amazing. I really don’t know how people look at one thing and see another. That’s why I distrust a person’s motives when they say things that diverge wildly from the truth.
You mean like when somebody accuses someone else of hitting abuse when they didn't?
One has to actually know the truth as it is,... not what they want it to be,.... before they can declare another “says things that diverge wildly from the truth”. ......
The problem is not in the truth but in its application, as is often the case with philosophical verbal gymnastics which catholicism’s teachings invariably do..
As Christians we are told......”See to it that no one takes you captive ‘through’ philosophy and empty deception, ‘according to the tradition of men’, according to the elementary principles of the world,... rather than according to Christ,”....... (Col. 2:8)
It doesn’t matter how much one 'sincerely' believes a wrong key will fit a door; the key still won’t go in and the lock won’t be opened......Someone who picks up a bottle of poison and sincerely 'believes' it is lemonade will still suffer the unfortunate effects of the poison.... Or a person may strongly 'desire' that their car has not run out of gas, but if the gauge says the tank is empty and the car will not run any farther, then no desire in the world will miraculously cause the car to keep going.
Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias puts it this way....., “The fact is, the truth matters – especially when you’re on the receiving end of a lie.”.... And nowhere is this more important than in the area of faith and religion. 'Eternity is an awfully long time to be wrong'.
We do know that many things can have the truth, but only one thing can actually 'be' the Truth....it must originate from somewhere.......Jesus Himself declared He is the truth....and He, with certainty, gave us His word as the standard and ultimate source of His truth....
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:” (2 Tim.3:16-17).
Now you know how Prots feel when ROME spouts all kinds of things that are UNSUPPORTED by Scripture.