My comment: “Yes. Good advice, but one needs the correct understanding of God’s Truth. Jesus did not teach 40,000 versions of His Truth.”
Your comment: “There aren’t tens of thousands of Protestant denominations”
If you reread the original posting, there was no mention of denominations, but 40,000 versions (actually more as each protestant can make their own interpretation) of God’s Truth. You should admit that God did not make 40,000 versions of His Truth, man did with the help of Satan?
Who was at the Last Supper? His faithful Apostles that would build His Church and spread the Good News of Salvation by preaching and Baptizing to all nations.
Apparently, you do not accept that Jesus gave the Apostles and His Catholic Church His Body and Blood and established the Sacrament of the Eucharist and the Mass?
You presume to teach yet you don’t even know what is / Who is ‘The one Ture Church / body of believers / Body of Christ on Earth! You presume it is an ORG, a Romanish ORG. It is not. The One True Church is not an ORG it is a spiritual Body composed of ALL who have been born again and have the Life of God abiding in their born again spirit.
So you need someone to try to get you to recognize obvious truth?
Are there any Protestants or even any Catholics here who didn’t think your talk of “40,000 versions of His truth” regarding Protestants didn’t mean denominations?
And what else could you have been referring to, especially since you didn’t feel the need to specify what it was, if not denominations, and it clearly wasn’t individual Protestants either?
You also didn’t seem to read the article I linked to, though it’s from the National Catholic Register. You wouldn’t have repeated the “40,000 versions of the truth” claim if you had.
And while the secular world takes it too far, so that post-modern academics have sometimes even claimed that language is so personal that any objectivity is impossible and words are basically meaningless, there is a personal element to our understanding.
Among faithful believers here a supernatural level of unity in and through Christ can be reached, and especially was in the original church, down to them sharing all things, but perfect unity among all believers will only come in the next world.
On differences in doctrine, many denominations are still unified on the fundamentals. And all things considered, I have to think that as the church has grown and developed and interacted with the world over many centuries now that denominations have a role to play in God’s plan. While there is still much supernatural unity among Christians, having faithful denominations with slightly different beliefs as well as apostate denominations allows those who refuse Christ to make their excuses for doing so, as they similarly do when they say Christians are just hypocrites, or to expose themselves as apostates.
And as God has done new things throughout this world’s existence, I believe one was the Protestant Reformation which would lead to many believers reading and studying His Word, becoming like Mary, Martha’s sister, to sit at Jesus’ feet and learn from Him.
Your claim is ludicrous.
Catholicism has only definitively officially defined a handful of Scripture passages, which by default means that any which don’t have an official Vatican approved interpretation, are open to the personal interpretation of the individual Catholic, which means 1.2 billion (allegedly) different interpretations of Scripture.
And that doesn’t count the personal interpretation of the Catechism of the Catholic “church”.
Or do you seriously expect us to believe that all 1.2 billion alleged Catholics all follow Catholic teaching lockstep with no dissent nor variation?