“Your views about the Catholic Church and the Scriptures are quite skewed and erroneous, so I will share with you some links I’ve accumulated over the years...”
Typical. You weren’t allowed to derail the thread of the discussion away from the comparison that is uncomfortable to you, so you claim my views are skewed (although I quoted your own catechism to illustrate your church’s stance!), and then run off, posting a spam list of links that are irrelevant to the discussion. Disappointing, but not unexpected.
To Heart-RestJust like the Mormons do.“Your views about the Catholic Church and the Scriptures are quite skewed and erroneous, so I will share with you some links I’ve accumulated over the years...”
Typical. You weren’t allowed to derail the thread of the discussion away from the comparison that is uncomfortable to you, so you claim my views are skewed (although I quoted your own catechism to illustrate your church’s stance!), and then run off...
In this case, Catholic Doctrine is posted and it's called "quite skewed and erroneous."
What's skewed, erroneous and out side of Biblical truths is Catholicism. He's right there...
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Your overall point in your post #89 seems to be that people cannot possibly interpret the scriptures wrongly, which is patently false and ridiculous. They do it all the time.
Your assertions there in post #89 about scriptural interpretation, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and cults are false. You mentioned the Jehovah's witnesses (who use a truncated Bible of only 66 books, just like you do, and who built their entire new denomination based on their own personal interpretation of the Bible -- which is also what you do, and you strongly recommend that everyone do, and they are frankly much closer to your own way of doing things than to the Catholic Church's way of doing things).
You should keep track of the fact that the New Testament came from the Church, not the Church from the New Testament. Stephen became the first martyr of the Church before one single line was written in the New Testament (and Saul was there), and the Church eventually decided exactly which writings truly belonged in the New Testament. God ordained that His Church do those things that way, and that His Church provide authoritative guidance for the interpretation of His Holy Scriptures, and when you downplay and reject those things, you are not just dissing the Church, but you are also dissing God and His Holy Will.
That was why I tried to share those biblical links with you, and you are certainly free to reject them, but from this day forward, you will never be able to truly claim that you were never given the opportunity to learn these things. I urge you to take a look at those links in post 94.
I especially urge you to start with the first link, and to watch the whole video there, in order to get a good background for the rest of those biblical sources. Here is that first link again for your convenience:
"The Bible Is A Catholic Book"
In your post #93, the quotes you include are referring to "religious". As used there, the term "religious" is a noun, and means a person or group of people belonging to a monastic order and bound by monastic vows (a monk or a nun), and does not apply to me or my activities. I thought you were being facetious in your post, but apparently you were just misinterpreting that term "religious" as it was being used there.
The links in my post #94 are not spam, but links to the words of Jesus Christ, and teachings from the written Word of God, and to call them spam is both false and disrespectful of Our Lord and His Holy Written Word.
(Signing off now -- goodnight to all.)