Protestantism has the fallible teaching of men.
It's difficult for Catholics to see what Protestantism offers that Christ's Church doesn't already offer.
The Protestant "Reformation" was really the "Protestant Revolution," that took Christendom backwards into a Dark Age of Error.
....”It’s difficult for Catholics to see what Protestantism offers that Christ’s Church doesn’t already offer”....
Well your mistake is thinking that ‘Protestantism’ is the alternative...it’s not the answer you need. Your own writings reflect that you’re arguing between the two “organizations” as if each has their own specific set of rules and beliefs one must adhere to and each laying claim to Christ.
What is central , rather than as you wrote, is.... Catholics have a Church they rely on...Christians have Christ as the only authority by which any man can rely on for truth and or salvation.
And the COUNTER Reformation.
What was that?
**Catholics have the infallible Teaching of Christ’s Church.**
So if the eating of the mass gives eternal life, why the repetition? Does it wear off? If it doesn’t wear off, why the need to repeat the ritual? For those RCs that choose to partake of the mass once a month or less, are they in some sort of danger?
**The Protestant “Reformation” was really the “Protestant Revolution,” that took Christendom backwards into a Dark Age of Error.**
The original church didn’t teach the ‘mass’ (Lord’s supper) the way your’s does. Didn’t pray to Mary. Didn’t make statues to bow before (They in fact condemned it). DIDN’T (just like Jesus Christ and the apostles) EVER use the phrase ‘God the Son’.
Your ‘church’ grabbed the mainstream attention, because it appealed to ‘lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and pride of life’, while mixing in scripture, for a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof.
The ‘few there be that find it’ (since Acts 2), have been keeping it original, whether in the shadows (because of persecution), or openly for 2,000 years.
Inquisition
How much of the Bible has the Catholic church infallibly interpreted?
How many verses and where can that be found?
And for the verses it has not infallibly interpreted, what then?
What’s the faithful Catholic to do? Ignore them? Interpret them themselves?