[daniel1212]

There's a glaring truth that you don't seem to grasp...If the bible was a Catholic book, wouldn't the bible defend the Catholic religion??

Indeed. And which is an argument against the Islamic/Dan Brown charge that it was changed to support RC beliefs. Seriously, how hard would it have been to add

1. Just one prayer to an angel or OT saint to Stephen, rather than have the approx. 200 prayers only being to the Lord, leaving Caths having to resort to vainly arguing they can just ask souls in Heaven to pray for them (even if by kneeling before statues of them and beseeching them for mercies) like they do on earth.

2. Just one exhortation or command to submit to Peter as the supreme universal head in Rome, or a criticism of them for not doing so, or a commendation for doing so, rather than that being utterly absent in all the life of the church in Scripture, despite their many problems and virtues?

3. Just one example of the church meeting with leaders distinctively named "priests" turning bread and wine into the "real" body and blood of Christ as a sacrifice for sin to be consumed in order to obtain spiritual and eternal life. Rather then this being entirely absent in the life of the church (Acts and epistles) interpretive of the gospels, and only manifestly described in one epistle, in which the body to be discerned is the church ?

More here .

[Iscool]

And which is an argument against the Islamic/Dan Brown charge that it was changed to support RC beliefs. Seriously, how hard would it have been to add

Could be they tried and God smoked them on the spot...

[ealgeone]

The additional reading on rome’s historical development is eye opening. Anyone serious on understanding the papacy and if it’s legitimate should read this.