padremike wrote:
But your error is in thinking that your protestant "new" interpretations of scripture are correct. You have no history except those beginning with the 16th century. And you have invented your own traditions which are at great variance with the teachings of the apostles. Remember the scripture that tells the Church to keep to the Traditions and to remember who your teachers were? Those were the apostles teaching the Christian community. We know exactly how the early church functioned and believed through the written history of the early church fathers. There is no scripture that says bible only. And if you'll check the epistle of Jude you will find that the faith was once delivered by Christ to the saints to last for ALL times. That means nothing is to be added and just as important, nothing is to be taken away. You do not believe in a valid Eucharist as being necessary for salvation. You took it away or changed the original meaning yet the 6th Chapter of John says, in the words of Jesus, that it is unconditionally necessary. It was such a hard concept that many of Jesus' Jewish disciples left Him. But Jesus didn't say, "maybe I'd better tone this down a bit." He even turned to His apostles and asked them if they were going to leave him too. The early Church celebrated it as their main worship service and that practice continues today. Where the church Catholic believes in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist exactly as He said, you believe in the total absence. St. Paul tells us that if you receive the Eucharist, the Body and Blood of Christ unworthy, you take it to your damnation and not your salvation. Obviously St. Paul recognized Christ in the Eucharist. And then there's the many variants of the theology of baptism found within Protestantism. And Christ in His High Priestly Prayer, John 17, prayed that we all be one. Well, my friend, we are horribly divided. And who does that serve? The father of lies.
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The Catholic Church and it's traditions have k**led about 75 million of those Protestant Christians. It is responsible for the dark ages and the Inquisition. If Napoleon hadn't defeated the armies of the "CHURCH" and kidnapped the Pope, they'd still be doing the same crap. What we have today is Catho-lite, because they no longer have temporal power. If they did, they would be no different than they were during the Inquisition.