[GBA]

I was using his words in response, not mine.

Just out of curiosity, Catholic traditions and Orthodox traditions seem to be similar to my untrained eye.

I’m not taking sides, just wondering why you single out the Catholics?

Is it because of the Pope or Rome or something else?

[Luircin]

I can’t speak for others, but I know the reason that I tend to get defensive around Catholics on this board. It’s largely because of the continued threads on the Religion Forum that get posted that are all about bashing non-Catholic Christians. Or even if you want to not call the threads bashing, a lot of the posters tend to be very angry and hateful towards us.

A guy kind of develops a spiky exterior after months of having to deal with that, and it’s easy to introduce even the most innocent of queries to the spikes because we’re so used to the personal attacks.

[MHGinTN]

Not to go all Mormonism on you, but you might ask --more to the point-- what is the reason for opposing Catholicism, orthodox and Romanist?

In answer to that question, it is something Christ followers are instructed to do, contend for the faith once delivered. And why contend? Because early on in the Age of God's Grace in Christ for us satan sent fo0lks into the body of believers to sow tares/lies and false dogma and blasphemous rituals. It began so early that we have record of a first Ekklesia Council (chptr 15 of ACTS) dealing with the false insertions rising in the midst of the body of believers. Oddly, what the Council sent as their message (which they said seemed good to the Holy Spirit) the admonition against has been raised to central empowerment in Catholicism ... and sadly, many Protestant communities.

[daniel1212]

Just out of curiosity, Catholic traditions and Orthodox traditions seem to be similar to my untrained eye.

Actually there are substantial irreconcilable differences . .

I’m not taking sides, just wondering why you single out the Catholics?

Because they are the ones usually posting about their church, and as here, attacking Prots, and Rome is the most manifest deformation of the NT church , and more so than the Orthodox. But who also attack each other.

[Elsie]

I’m not taking sides, just wondering why you single out the Catholics?

They are the mouthy ones!!

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But; they DO have this going for them:

 

 

"One indeed is the universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved, in which the priest himself is the sacrifice, Jesus Christ, whose body and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under the species of bread and wine; the bread (changed) into His body by the divine power of transubstantiation, and the wine into the blood, so that to accomplish the mystery of unity we ourselves receive from His (nature) what He Himself received from ours."

--Pope Innocent III and Lateran Council IV (A.D. 1215)