>> “I’m learning that RCC teaching veers away too much from the Gospel preached by Paul. And it has become more apparent to me why it must...for the RCC to exist as a “Christian” church.” <<
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Really there is much more than that.
In his revelation in Hebrews 3 and 4, Paul makes it clear that the gospel that he preached is the very same gospel that Moses preached, and the only defect in Moses time was the total lack of belief and faith on the part of most of those that had been born in Egypt.
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That is never going to mesh with Roman Catholicism.
Where is “Mary?”
Where is praying to the dead?
Where is purgatory?
Where is buying your family’s way out of purgatory with indulgences?
Nothing Moses ever preached contains any of this.
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