[Salvation]

Because you don’t believe in Holy Tradition. The experiences that were passed on person to person yet are not written down in the Bible.

[CynicalBear]

>>The experiences that were passed on person to person yet are not written down in the Bible.<<

There's a game people play where they tell a story from person to person and see what the last person knows the story to be. Most laugh at how different that story is at the end. Ever play it?

[Resettozero]

Because you don’t believe in Holy Tradition.

That is, for the most part, correct; not in the traditions of the RCC for certain, many of which are unholy, in the opinions of non-RCC Christians.

You say you believe the Gospel came through history ONLY via the RCC. Other accounts by non-RCC Christian believers and martyrs differ with the RCC's power-grab-from-Christ claims of supremacy as the OTC founded on Peter. HA! I can believe these other accounts WAY before I can trust RCC historians' renderings of "the truth".

[Grateful2God]

What people don't understand- they fear. What they fear, they come to hate. Many here vehemently hate Catholicism.

The people being derided followed God's teaching- to the very letter when it meant losing their lives. When our times each come, may God say the same of all of us!

Live in poverty and humility literally from the Scriptures, owning NOTHING as did St. Francis of Assisi;

Get drawn, quartered and decapitated for your conscience as did Thomas More and John Fisher;

Volunteer to die in the place of another man IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP like St. Maximilian Kolbe;

Until then, you can say "King James" chapter and verse, Greek and whatever, it is sound and fury and signifying nothing unless you back it up with your life- or death.

MEMORIZING SCRIPTURE IS NOT THE SAME AS LIVING IT, OR DYING FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE, OR SHOWING WHAT CHRIST HIMSELF SAID TO BE THE GREATEST LOVE-THAT A MAN GIVE HIS LIFE FOR ANOTHER!

Let us all get our OWN houses in order. God bless you, one and all!