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Is there a point somewhere in there? Try fleshing that out a little bit.

Agreed. Saying it also doesn't make it not so. So, what's your point?

Nice try, but no cigar. The Catholic Church, unlike every Protestant denomination, is not a mere man-made organization. It is a living, Divine entity. I would venture to bet that you don't look anything like you did when you were an infant, do you? The same with the Church. Living things...

The Catholic Church is a Divine entity manned by humans. We need look no further than Judas Iscariot to see that Christ never guaranteed that everyone who was a member of the Church or the Church's heirarchy would be impeccable or sinless. As long as man lives in this life, he will be tempted...

Johann, the Catholic Church (not the "Roman" Catholic Church - that's not its official title) is not a mere institution. It is a Divine entity, the Body of Christ, as St. Paul says. It has Christ as its head and the Holy Spirit as its soul. It is not a man-made organization by any stretch...

That's a long post! :Ohz First, let's differentiate between what any particular Catholic or Catholics know and what the Church actually teaches. It is the Church's teachings that are protected by Christ from error, not the individual Catholic's knowledge thereof. Throughout history, there...

Correct. Council of Ephesus

Church of the East was part of the Catholic Church until 1054 A.D.

Show me a Church apart from the Catholic Church that existed for the first 1000 years of Christianity. There are none! The Church doesn't persecute Christ. Christ identifies as one with His Church. In Acts 9:4, Jesus addresses Saul (St. Paul by his Hebrew name) after he knocked him off his...

Ronald, all you can do is give your personal iterpretation of a translation of a book the Catholic Church gave you, and claim we are in error because we don't agree with your personal interpretation. Remember 2 Peter 1:20 says there is to be no personal interpretation of Scripture with regard...

Nobody is called to "blindly" follow Christ or those He appointed to lead us. But, we are called to follow Christ through those to whom He gave His authority to lead us. I would never recommend a do-it-yourself approach because you always end up with error (heresy). I'm not following my own...

The Catholic Church is the original Church founded by Christ. St. Ignatius of Antioch, the bishop of Antioch ordained by St. Peter, was captured by the Romans. While they were transporting him to be martyred for the faith, he wrote a letter to the Smyrnaeans (in today's Turkey, geographcally)...

If you follow Christ, then you will follow those to whom He gave His authority in the Church He founded. Anything else is really just following yourself. Jesus identifies as one with His Church. When Saul (St. Paul by his Hebrew name) was going around persecuting the Church, Jesus knocked him...

Let me clarify a little bit here (provide more detail). First, I agree that all religions have some truth in them. Natural law explains how God designed mankind to operate. One of the features of mankind is that he was created to seek the highest good, which is God. And man has been seeking...

Are you familiar with the Principle of the Integral Good? This principle says that good comes from an integral cause and evil is from any defect from any defect whatsoever. So, if a religion (Calvinism, for example) contains one false doctrine, then it is a false religion. The Catholic...

Thanks!

I've seen Dr. Bergsma before and he's great! Send me the link if you find it, please! Thanks and God bless!

Well, we'll have to agree to disagree. History is very clear on Apostolic Succession. All of your points are demonstrably false. Apostolic succession is the line of bishops stretching back to the Apostles. Catholic bishops worldwide are part of that lineage, something that is impossible in...

The Reformation ended up with those who left the Catholic Church losing Apostolic Succession, and, therefore, the heirarichal priesthood. That, in turn, resulted in losting five of the seven Sacraments instituted by Christ. Christians are priests, but Scripture indicates that there is also a...

Because Matt. 27:56 proves that the James and Joseph mentioned as Jesus' "brothers" could not have been his blood brothers due to the fact that their mother was Mary, wife of Cleophas. And Mary, wife of Cleophas, was the sister of Jesus' mother, Mary. That makes James and Joseph her cousins.