[pgyanke]

My point in posting about the Church of today is that Protestants should carefully consider that they have survived under the protective umbrella of the Catholic Church. The rapid apostasy we are seeing in the Protestant world (gay clergy and weddings are just the beginning) shows how precarious faith can be without a central teaching authority to hold firm.

[redleghunter]

My point in posting about the Church of today is that Protestants should carefully consider that they have survived under the protective umbrella of the Catholic Church. The rapid apostasy we are seeing in the Protestant world (gay clergy and weddings are just the beginning) shows how precarious faith can be without a central teaching authority to hold firm.

I would not lean on that twig so fast. You have gay clergy as well. Also a pedophile and pederast problem. Perhaps your parish does not suffer from these scandals...As my assembly does not either.

[daniel1212]

My point in posting about the Church of today is that Protestants should carefully consider that they have survived under the protective umbrella of the Catholic Church. The rapid apostasy we are seeing in the Protestant world (gay clergy and weddings are just the beginning) shows how precarious faith can be without a central teaching authority to hold firm.

That is a fantasy, as the reality is that the most liberal Pro denoms are those closest to Rome, and which herself is overall liberal (and what you do and effect is the evidence of what you really believe, not merely what you say: Mt. 7:20; Ja. 2:18).

Meanwhile, it is the Christians who are most opposed to Rome, and uphold the most basic distinctive of the Reformation, that of Scripture literally being the wholly inspired authoritative word of God (and which reject the Cath liberal revisionism she has been teaching for decades), that are the most conservative .

All without a central teaching authority. Which is the ideal, but which the presumption of Rome has turned Godly souls against.