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One of the biggest fallacies existing is that protestants know scripture.

True, but they do know how to use it like sound-bites.

We're just awful.

After the same manner, Mary took the cup, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood (somewhere in Corinthians I'm sure)

<> Their ideas of scripture are but the oral traditions of those who revolted against the Divinely-Constituted authority. They are told what to believe prior to reading and "studying" the New Testament.

Were this any other endeavor, it would be palpably insane. Imagine a group of scholars gathering to oppose what a living author of a text attests his writngs mean? Most folks would say, "Look, you are CRAZY. The living auuthor of that text says the opposite of what you claim he says. Who are you to oppose what the author says?"

The Catholic Church wrote the New Testament and 16 CEBTURIES later some guys come along and go "Whoa, wait a second. Everything is a lie. The living author (The Catholic Church)didn't mean what she has said for 16 CENTURIES. Nope, she was lying but we great and humble men have discovered the REAL meaning of scripture and now you must follow us."

Totally insane. The living author of the New Testament is a liar and those opposed to the living author of the New Testament are the only ones to be trusted.

"Wait, just a second," you say, "Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit upon the Catholic Church He established to teach it all truth and yet you want me to think Jesus lied." And the revolters say, "Well, in so many words, yes."

"Wait, just a second," you say,"Jesus said He would be with His Church until the end of time and the gates of Hell would not prevail." And the revolters says, "Jesus was kidding. He REALLY meant He would be with US."

All it takes is the willingness to think of Jesus as a liar to accept sola scriptura and opposition to 16 CENTURIES of unchanging doctrine. <>