Modern Catholic teaching regards Protestants as errant on specific points of doctrine but as Christians nonetheless and due good will from Catholics as fellow believers in Christ. As a Catholic, I have known many Protestants of admirable faith and virtue and have attended Protestant services that fully manifested the spirit of Christianity. On the whole, I think it unlikely that Christ would endorse his followers being hostile and condemnatory toward each other based on reasonably disputable points of doctrine.
In spiritual and theological terms, the Catholic Mass is a re-enactment of the Last Supper — which I trust also appears in your Protestant Bible, no matter the denomination. Similarly, the details of Catholic doctrine and teachings are grounded in specific passages of scripture. That Protestants interpret such passages differently does not make Catholics or Protestants into pagans.
Modern Catholic teaching regards Protestants as errant on specific points of doctrine but as Christians nonetheless and due good will from Catholics as fellow believers in Christ. As a Catholic, I have known many Protestants of admirable faith and virtue and have attended Protestant services that fully manifested the spirit of Christianity. On the whole, I think it unlikely that Christ would endorse his followers being hostile and condemnatory toward each other based on reasonably disputable points of doctrine.
I totally agree.
Yes it does appear there. But in context. This was a once a year Passover meal to commemorate the freeing of the Hebrews from bondage through Gods mighty miracles. To do this in remembrance of Me would correctly be practised once a year and recounting Gods miracles in releasing us from the bondage of sin through the Blood of Jesus Christ. To do this sacred testament more often conflicts with the example and makes it common and profanes it. That's just one more reason why I'm not Catholic.
Please show the apostles teaching about the assumption of Mary and the requirement to believe it like the Catholic Church requires.
>>That Protestants interpret such passages differently does not make Catholics or Protestants into pagans.<<
The Catholic Church and it's apologists readily admit they incorporate paganism.
The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields; sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, images at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison, are all of pagan origin, and sanctified by their adoption into the Church.[Cardinal Newman - Development of Christian Doctrine, pg 373]
God said do NOT do that.
Deuteronomy 12:30 beware that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, 'How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise?' 32 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God:
>>Modern Catholic teaching regards Protestants<<
So it changed over time? LOL
Sorry this is just not true.. Every Pope MUST AFFIRM the findings of the Council of Trent ...which curse/damn all protestants to hell
Canon 12 reads as follows: "If anyone says that justifying faith is nothing else than confidence in divine mercy, which remits sins for Christ's sake, or that it is this confidence alone that justifies us, let him be anathema."
http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/9-things-you-should-know-about-the-council-of-trent
Violating the commands of God found in the OT is hardly a ‘reasonably disputed point’. Have you ever read the Catholic catechism on the Mass Wafer trick/Magic?