Posted on 12/31/2015 4:29:48 PM PST by NYer
Oh that’s just a strawman to divert from learning about the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Another example of “look over there”
Who is this Michael and how does he fit into this conversation?
You are aware there are by some counts 200+ catholic denominations??
You can’t even refute the Greek that disproves the catholic claim regarding Mary being a perpetual virgin and you challenge metmom to a theological question??
Currently reading a book on that very topic right now. Very interesting.
Sigh..... it was refuted, Some just don’t like a truth. 2 Peter 3:16 indirectly addresses protestants.
You’re trying to be serious....right? You offered nothing.
I offered scriptures, I am sorry that you consider the scriptures nothing. As I said I will pray that the Holy Spirit comes into your heart and softens it. Have a good day.
No its the actual Church founded by Jesus not Luther et al.
No I believe in the Bible as written by the Catholic Evangelists not as interpreted by Germans and Anglos who created this Sola Scriptura nonsense.
How true.
I have been in many Christian churches (buildings type) and it is like going to the same church.
Because they all are filled with members of Jesus' church, the body of Christ.
Funny; I thought Abraham, Moses, David, Matthew, Paul, Peter, et.al., were Jewish people, inspired by (wait for it... )
God.
Catholicism didn't show up until 300 AD, so your claim falls flat.
We have Scripture not because of the Roman Catholic Cult, but IN SPITE OF IT.
Hoss
Hoss
In chess terms its checkmate on this issue.
Latin was the popular tongue of the Roman Church. The Scriptures were translated into Latin in the 2rd century.Jerome was tasked by the pope to do a better version in the late 4th century. This was the Vulgate which is still the official version of the Roman Church.
The Gospel was not written by Abraham or Moses. Mathew Mark Luke and John were Catholics who were born Jewish and became Followers of Christ. What’s your point exactly? Upset that the Catholic Church was founded by Jesus but that whatever Protestant sect you belong to was not?
Okay let me ignore history and agree with you. Yokay.
“Catholicâ€is from the Latin word for “universal.†If you believe in that “DaVinci Code†nonsense, you need to do more reading.
Can you show us in the NT where the following practices of the Roman catholic church are found:
A papacy
Worship of Mary
Indulgences
the current leadership structure of the rcc
the catechism
annulments
works based salvation
teaching the roman catholic church is necessary for salvation
baptizing infants
the merit of Mary
purgatory
we need to wear a scapular to avoid hell as noted by apparitions
where it tells us to devote all of our soul to mary
where we're to pray to Mary
that she remained perpetual virgin
she was assumed into Heaven
penance for salvation
where the Word calls her the "mother of the members of Christ"
where the Word calls her Mediatrix, Helper, Benefactress, advocate
the list can go on and on
Take it to heart, verga.
And see the footsteps Catholicism is following in more and more:
Mathew 23:12-15
You Pharisees and teachers of the Law of Moses are in for trouble! You're nothing but show-offs. You lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. You won't go in yourselves, and you keep others from going in.
15 You Pharisees and teachers of the Law of Moses are in for trouble! You're nothing but show-offs. You travel over land and sea to win one follower. And when you have done so, you make that person twice as fit for hell as you are.
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