“The Catholic church is not even consistent within itself as far as doctrine and teaching.”
I find it very interesting that the insipient posters here who are waving the Vatican flag and who are telling us that the Church, keeper of the Holy Scriptures, assembler of those Holy Scriptures, is superior in an inerrant way to what is contained in those Holy Scriptures. Today we call it the Bible. 66 books, or more when the deuterocanonical books are included.
The interesting thing is that for maybe 1500 years or more that same Catholic Church keep the ‘Bible’ out of the hands of the ‘lay people’. The lay people were not allowed to read it. It was not until Martin Luther, in Germany, King James in England, and a few others in that time made the Bible available to the masses. In German, in English. And in the Catholic Church, until recent times, the Mass and the readings from the Bible were all in Latin. And to this day, a few RC churches still stick to the Latin mass. And how many of those Catholics knew Latin? Slim to none.
And why was this? I believe it was to keep the sheeple fully dependent on the ‘inerrant teachings’ from Rome. Can’t read the Bible? Guess the Church and the papacy is speaking for God. This makes it easy for the RC church to get away with all those inconsistencies.
And now, when we have discussions such as those on this thread, the ‘Protestant beaters’ have little to offer except what their dogma has taught them. They dredge up the writings of the Early Church Fathers (not read by the lay people). Then they dredge up some of the ‘protestant’s’ who are ‘bad examples’, like David Koresh, Jim Jones, Jeramiah Wright to throw at us to lump ALL dissenters with them. We could have a field day if we used their imbecilic tactics and dredged up all the immorality, evil and gross negligence that is part of RC church history. But why do they do what they do? I think it is because they would still like to see the inspired Word of God of negligible importance. That of course then makes those of us who read and understand, with the inspirational teaching help of the Holy Spirit, or no consequence.
God will not be mocked.
Thank you for the back-to-back inspired posts number 125 and 126. Hope some undecideds can see what you both wrote and realize it is not an immaterial choice such as choosing Wisconsin or choosing Duke. Billions of immortal souls are at stake.
Amen.....