To whom am I to show respect? To the adultery of the faith, to idolatry, to exultation of Mary to being the queen of heaven?
I would rather die than admit this is anything to do with following Jesus or knowing a free heart, full of life and living in His love.
Indulgences for getting out of purgatory is just a farce.
But if you want to believe this is what Jesus meant us to know and follow, thats your choice.
I could never follow this or believe it carries any weight.
Hi FollowHim
History is boring to most. The Catholic Church has a documented history of interactions with God for 1700 years are so. As a Protestant, you do not have any of that. If you belong to a denomination then 1500 or 1700 years after Christ your denomination reads the Bible and says eureka! I have it right! If you are a non-denominational, then sometime in your life when you woke up to Christianity you stand up and say eureka! I have it right. Either way the new kid on the block.
Mostly for the Protestants, God retired after the close of the Bible and did not wake up again until they became aware of Protestantism. Cessationists have various beliefs regarding God communicating with people or miracles. The idea that the Protestants gagged God and bound Him in a corner for 2000 years is not only sacrilegious but absurd. You think God did nothing for 2000 years. The Catholics have 2000 years of communication with the Trinity and Mary, well documented and events challenged. So over the course of 2000 years of communications...new information will be revealed....new instruction....new religious processes. Now some of the Protestant denominations are 500 years old, what you should be concerned about, is why isn't any of that happening to the Protestants? Is God ignoring them. I have seen the Holy Spirit move in Pentecostal churches and have heard tongues, but some Protestants will even deny that...even condemn it, which might be a ticket to hell.
What is wrong with the oldest Christian denomination on earth, is between them and God. What is wrong with the Calvinists, is between them and God. What is wrong with the Baptists, is between them and God. The Catholic Church has had it issues in the past and still does, but that is mostly caused by the administration. The Catholics in the pews are great people, just like the Baptist in the Pews are great people even though their Pastor maybe in jail for extortion. Corruption is not limited to the Catholic Church. Human nature is such that powerful positions attract people that lust for power....The Protestants never really had that temptation of power nor existed in the cruel times of the dark and middle ages.
Either way..."my opinion" is that the best of any Church or denominations is sitting in the pews.
