Hey, I proved to you that the early church fathers believed in sola fide.
I gave you 30 quotes directly from them. (Which you ignored.)
I mean, if you want to ignore the truth, that’s your prerogative, but truth doesn’t change just because you’re putting your hands over your ears and screaming.
Catholics in the world = 1.2 billion
The Protestant sources say that there are 2.4 billion Catholics in the world. See below.
Protestants = There are between 800 million and 1 billion Protestants worldwide, among approximately 2.4 billion Christians.
One Catholic church and 33,000 different Protestant denominations. Now you tell me which is more reliable: the one started by Jesus, who said that HE said that He would never abandon His Church and He never has. Or don't you believe what Jesus said?
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The 33,000 DIFFERENT Protestant denominations that excommunicated Father Martin Luther started? He changed the BIBLE. Who gave him THAT authority?
The Protestant faith has national, state, local ministers. There is no one source to teach ONE Bible. The result is the huge number of variations in interpreting the Bible. Is that what you think Jesus wanted?
Unfortunately Jesus had to rely on us mere mortals. But to TOSS the ENTIRE 1500 years of tradition because of ONE excommunicated priest's grudge match with his Church?
I truly believe that Father Martin Luther was a good and holy man and priest and would be appalled at what his dissent started: 33,000 DIFFERENT Protestant denominations. There are so many, it seems, because Protestants can interpret the Bible as they like.
Pax tibi.
Did you even read the quotes you listed? Why is #2 even in your list? Why list quotes that contrast “works of the law,” which has a very specific meaning, other than to conflate the two issues? Your quotes no more teach sola fide, in modern Protestant understanding, than they teach sola scriptura.
Why don’t you pick one to discuss in-depth instead of attempting a “blitzkrieg?”