Again, quoting swatches of scripture out of context is what shallow Bible Christians do while blissfully ignoring the fact that they are quoting from books put together as the true Word of Christ based on Petrine authority by the early Church fathers in the Synod of Rome in AD 382, ELEVEN centuries before the curse of Protestantism. It is then and now the Church of its illustrious saints and martyrs.
We have ONE Church, and ONE truth. We don’t forum shop at every Foursquare corner street church until we find one compatible with “our” view of Scripture. Each one gets to crack open the pages of the canonical texts authenticated as God’ Word by the Catholic Church and offer us, as you are doing here, his/her authoritative interpretation from David Koresh to the rubbish of the Billy Grahams and Jimmy Swaggarts.
Can’t you see the absurdity of all this? Those mainline Protestant and Episcopalian Churches too quote scripture to defend their admission of gay and lesbian married pastors!!!
Perhaps it helps for Protestants to get there own Bible- like the “Jefferson Bible” At least Jefferson was honest.
that type of dishonest response is also beneath the thinking person
But, as one of the RCC said on here, the RCC is not a Biblical Faith, not the faith of Bible Believers
The absurdity being presented here by Catholic anti-Protestant bigots would have everyone believe that the Divinely-inspired and sacred word of God only has authority because "their" church decided it did! Assembling the books into a volume and calling it The Holy Bible may have happened in Rome's fourth century synod when they officially declared they did it but the recognition of all the inspired books were held LONG before then. Even a cursory read through the writings of eminent (I know you LIKE that word) early Christian leaders demonstrates they recognized the authority of sacred Scripture and from whom they received them - even completely enough that nearly the entire Bible could be reconstructed solely from these writings alone without the manuscript copies they relied upon. The Apostles ensured that the fledgling church received the divinely-inspired writings as the Holy Spirit revealed them and they did not shirk from delivering to them "whole council of God". Nobody waited centuries to be told they had the word of God because the Holy Spirit illuminated the truth and authority these writings contained. How many times does this truth have to be explained?
We DO have one church, one body of Christ and it is based upon the ONE truth of the gospel of the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ, who died for our sins and gifts to us eternal life. However, that ONE church is demonstrably NOT the Roman Catholic church as can be easily discerned from the simple fact that THE church, the bride of Christ, will contain ONLY the redeemed and no tares/lost/unsaved. This Spiritual House of which ALL believers, as living stones, are being built into it (see I Peter 2:5) will be gathered together and clothed with the spotless, washed-in-the-blood of Jesus Christ, wedding garments and will sit down at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. No outsiders will be there. No Christians-in-name-onlys. No pious pretenders. And certainly no one who denies that our salvation is a gift of God that we receive by faith and not by our works.
Do some RCs qualify? I sure hope so! But your church as no valid basis for the boasts of being THE one true church of Jesus Christ. That is truly absurd!