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The person who’s been misrepresenting things in our conversation is you.

Since you say that don’t believe that you are, but I am, and this is a basic matter of bearing honest witness, then go ask some Protestants AND also some Catholics here about how any one of them would interpret your remark. It’s hard for me to believe that even one other Catholic here would support what you’ve claimed about your “40,000 versions of His truth” comment and our exchange about it. And given this concerns honesty, this is an important matter that should be brought before other Christians.

I’ve had to wonder, too, if many of today’s devout Catholics would have accepted Jesus for who He claimed to be in the days of His earthly ministry, or if their unquestioned faith would have been in their ancient religious system as controlled by their leadership, who wrongfully and faithlessly rejected Him and determined He should die.

On Catholicism departing from God’s Word, there’s no New Testament office of priest, for one thing.

In the fullness of time God brought about the Protestant churches. Even the faithful one’s aren’t perfect, but neither was the Roman Catholic either. Or the Orthodox, for that matter. The perfection is in the Good Shepherd, and simple Gospel message of believing on Him to save us from the eternal consequences of our sin against God.

And on Creation, do you believe that Genesis is a true and accurate and literal history of how God created man and the universe, and of our fall from grace? And you didn’t even begin to answer on what your church believes.

What’s more, so what if Scripture is read at mass. I’ve never been Catholic and I know that. But I don’t believe, IIRC, that it was in the old Latin mass, at least in the vernacular. And Scripture must really be learned, by effort, which is why evangelical Christians have emphasized reading it, studying it and memorizing it.