Those are your words.
How would you describe the Moonies; followers of Jehovah’s Witnesses; Mormons, mainline denominations like Lutherans and Episcopalians who now ordain gay married lesbians and homosexual bishops, the vapid nonsense of the Billy Grahams; Jeremiah Wrights; or Joel Osteens; Tammy Faye Bakers; Jimmy Swaggarts; Benny Hinns; Jim Jones and the David Koresh’s?
Are we to take “your” and someone else’s interpretation by folks who crack open the pages of the Bible and offer us their interpretations? From a Bible whose books did not fall from the skies and self-assemble themselves but were infallibly assembled by the Catholic Church after sorting through hundreds of writings and cross-checking their veracity with the received tradition and firmly acknowledging these books to be the written “Word of God” and have interpreted this written word infallibly 2000 years as the ONE Church speaking the ONE truth?
Having been a student of theology myself, I’d rather follow the faith of the early Church fathers, and the the irrefutable doctrine of Petrine authority and the ONE Church Christ founded for all time.
What you’d call folks like us, or Augustine, Aquinas, Newman, or Benedict or for that matter the pre-eminent list of Protestant theologians who have decamped and converted to the Catholic faith I would not know? Or for that matter such laypeople as Justice Thomas, Judge Robert Bork, Laura Ingraham?
Catholics do like the name dropping group think safety don’t they? They fear comparing their beliefs to scripture and what it teaches however. Sad that.
The same way I describe the Izlamaniac religion and the Catholic religion...You're all in the same camp...
mainline denominations like Lutherans and Episcopalians who now ordain gay married lesbians and homosexual bishops,
I'm going to make a wild guess and guess that the Catholic religion has far, far, more homosexual bishops than the mainline Protestant churches...It's like they say, don't worry about what they tell you, watch the hands...
the vapid nonsense of the Billy Grahams;
Billy Graham has led scores of thousands to Jesus Christ...And you call it vapid nonsense...You'll have a chance to tell that to Jesus...
Are we to take “your” and someone else’s interpretation by folks who crack open the pages of the Bible and offer us their interpretations?
We don't crack open the bible to offer interpretations...We crack open the bible because the bible tells us to...To present those words to the people who will see...We crack it open to see if the Billy Graham's and the Moonies and the Catholics and the Izlamnuts are telling us the truth...
Act 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
From a Bible whose books did not fall from the skies and self-assemble themselves but were infallibly assembled by the Catholic Church after sorting through hundreds of writings and cross-checking their veracity with the received tradition and firmly acknowledging these books to be the written “Word of God” and have interpreted this written word infallibly 2000 years as the ONE Church speaking the ONE truth?
What a crock...The bible condemns every one of your Catholic traditions...
The books of the bible DID fall from the sky, in a sense, in the 1st Century...Although God didn't fall, he came from the skies (heaven) and picked out certain men to write his words in books to be copied and preached to the entire world, hundreds of years before your religion even had a pope and before the muzlims had a prophet...
Having been a student of theology myself, I’d rather follow the faith of the early Church fathers, and the the irrefutable doctrine of Petrine authority and the ONE Church Christ founded for all time.
Not me...I'll follow Jesus...
Student of theology??? Irrefutable Petrine doctrine??? That false doctrine gets refuted (with the scriptures) every time it's brought to FR...
So it's nice that you apparently spent years studying your religion's version of its history and human philosophy but the important question is: DID YOU STUDY THE BIBLE???