Would the US government allow anyone to interpret the US constitution without the court system guiding them? If anybody can determine law by their own interpretation, we would have complete chaos! This is what we have in non-catholic christian religions, interpretation chaos. This is why there are 50 thousand different protestant / non-denominational churhes that believe different things.
Some Thoughts:
Some Thoughts:
- Jesus established a Church and gave the Church the keys to the kingdom of heaven, along with binding and losing authority - Matt 16
- Only the Catholic Church can claim that it was established by Jesus
- The early Church Fathers are Catholic
- Who owned back then and still owns the ancient write scripture scrolls? The Church did and still does; located at the Vatican in their massive library
- The Bible was not created until around the 4th century
- If there was no bible, who did the teaching? The Church that Jesus established did the teaching with the scripture scrolls
- Very few people could read back then
- There was no printing press; it took a year for a scholar writer to write out the Bible
- The Bible was compiled by the Catholic Church using her binding and losing authority, which you believe in indirectly
- Thousand of writings were voted on; the Church used her binding and losing during several Catholic Councils including the Council of Rome to compile the Bible
- You follow an ex catholic priest via the protestant reform of the 1500s - a human being
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