In my hometown, there is a drugstore chain called Kopp's Drugs.
I never knew the owner. Apparently he was a distant relative.
But I know someone who knows someone who knew the owner personally. The owner started his enterprise and handed it down through the generations. That's how I know that original Kopp started the first Kopp Drugs drug store. I've never looked at the legal incorporations letters or the IRS returns. I only know what has been handed down to me by those generations.
The current Kopp Drugs claims a direct lineage to that first one. I know they are being truthful because I know the origins, who started that institution.
Likewise I am a member of an institution started by Jesus Christ. I know He existed because He started His institution, the Divine Physician, and passed down through the ages His Healing ministry by way of His Church. A book does not make me believe He existed. There are lots of books from lots of false prophets like Smith and Mohammed and the rest.
Those books, even our own scriptures, are not self authenticating.
I believe He exists because HIS Church tells me so. He said he would build "MY CHURCH." I believe Him. He never claimed to write a catechism, which protestants mistakenly think the Bible is.
He simply built a Church, granted it authority to loose and bind, gave it the KEYS of Heaven and Earth, the authority to FORGIVE sins, and interpret scripture, and the promise of His Holy Spirit to lead it to all Truth.
Based on the authority of that Church He built, I beliebe the scriptures are the Word of God and that He did Live.
All you have is non-self authenticating scriptures. You don't have a Church, granted authority to loose and bind, given the KEYS of Heaven and Earth, the authority to FORGIVE sins, and the promise of His Holy Spirit to lead it to all Truth.
The question really is...
You have nothing except non-self authenticating scriptures.
How do you even know a man named Jesus existed ?
This is interesting then Poly you agree that Communion may not be the body of Christ Huh?.It is nothing mopre than a rumor started in the 1200's ..no proof..just what we have been saying all along