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Except Christ, the High Priest, gave us priests (the Apostles) just as He gave us His mother (John 19). He gave us His flesh to eat (John 6, Luke 22) and the Mass (1 Cor 11). I see no reason to reject gifts from God.

No, He gave us none of those things. Those corruptions of Holy Scripture were devised and added to Christianity by wicked men who either knew what they were doing or were deceived by their carnal inclinations. (I can read their minds by seeing the nature of the fruit they bore: Corrupt rotten fruit.)

“No, He gave us none of those things.”

He sure did.

“Those corruptions of Holy Scripture were devised and added to Christianity by wicked men who either knew what they were doing or were deceived by their carnal inclinations.”

Christ didn’t corrupt Christianity nor did the Apostles. The things you speak of as corruption are part and parcel of Christianity as historic Churches know.

“(I can read their minds by seeing the nature of the fruit they bore: Corrupt rotten fruit.)”

Protestant sects are rotten fruit in themselves and look at what they have produced:

“Hence Protestants are obliged to cut their ninth commandment out of their Decalogue. “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour” must go, must disappear; their position requires the sacrifice. The substance, the force, the edge of their Tradition is slander. As soon as ever they disabuse their minds of what is false, and grasp only what is true,—I do not say they at once become Catholics; I do not say they lose their dislike to our religion, or their misgivings about its working;—but I say this, either they become tolerant towards us, and cease to hate us personally,—or, at least, supposing they cannot shake off old associations, and are prejudiced and hostile as before, still they find they have not the means of communicating their own feelings to others. To Protestantism False Witness is the principle of propagation. There are indeed able men who can make a striking case out of anything or nothing, as great painters give a meaning and a unity to the commonest bush, and pond, and paling and stile: genius can do without facts, as well as create them; but few possess the gift. Taking things as they are, and judging of them by the long run, one may securely say, that the anti-Catholic Tradition could not be kept alive, would die of exhaustion, without a continual supply of fable.” (John Henry Newman, Lecture 4. True Testimony Insufficient for the Protestant View)