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Good point, Jude Thaddeus! It is only by the workings of the Holy Sprit that one can come to the fullness of Christ's truth. We should pray for those who have been blinded by false doctrines and indoctrination. Those who are truly open to the Holy Spirit are open to conversion to Christ's...

This anti-Mary thing you have going on is a fairly recent thing in the history of Christianity. It's a man-made doctrine created solely for rebelling against Christ's Church. It stems from ignorance of Christ, Christianity, and Scripture. Even the men that led the Reformers had a great deal...

If the 5 points were taught by Jesus and the Apostles, they would be part of Catholic doctrine. There were no Protestants until the 16th century, and no 5 points. Everyone interprets everything they read, without exception. But, one can interpret it according to their personal interpretation...

So, you want me to read a treatise created by the person/organization using personal interpretation of Scripture to make up their own doctrines contrary to what was always taught by Christ, the Apostles, and His Church, that justifies their actions in their minds? Do I understand that right?

Ronald, are you claiming that Calvin's personal interpretation of Scripture is "God inspired?" Show me where, in Scripture, it says Calvin is infallible, and therefore, his doctrines based on personal interpretation of Scripture is "God inspired." I can point you to 2 Peter 1:20, however, that...

More accurately stated, "Well the five points are vastly validated by the personal interpretation by Calvin and his followers of numerous Scriptures, but him putting together the necessary verses to show why the five points are true!" Without the authority given by Christ to His Church...

So, did you take Galatians 1:8 out of your Bible? But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel other than the one that we preached to you, let that one be accursed! Gal. 1:8

So, you're going to ignore the fact that Jesus established a heirarchy in His Church, a structure, a visible Church? To do that, you have to ingore Scripture and the Early Church Fathers who tell us how the first Christians, the ones closest in time and culture to Christ, believed. You have to...

St. Paul, being a Jew, as well as all of the apostles, understood the idea that true religion is a family affair. A Jew became a Jew when he was circumcised on the eighth day after his birth. They did not have to first “accept Moses as their personal prophet” before they could be circumcised...

Rockerduck, I don't think you and I are talking about the same thing. Apples and oranges.

Yes, it is valid.

But that's not what the Bible says. Where in the Bible does it say that if the Bible doesn't say something, it's not valid. Nowhere. In fact, it says the opposite. Jesus didn't write a book to spread His truths, He founded a (one) Church to do so, giving it His authority to teach and...

Not "Catholics" individually, but the Catholic Church, instituted by Christ, and which compiled the Bible, wrote the New Testament, and was promised by Christ that the "gates of hell would never prevail" over. (Matt. 16:18) The Catholic Church, therefore, has the authority and protection of...

Bible Scripture as interpreted by whom?

So, your take is that the Church founded by Christ is an "invisible" Church, right? Wrong. Christ's Church has to be a visible, authoritative body that Christ declared, addressing its first earthly leader, “I will entrust to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 16:19). What good...

If I were you (not "was"), I would take a class or two in philosophy and history. Although, to be honest, I'm not sure in this day where you can get your money's worth. Historically, there was but one Church for the first 1000 years of Christianity. The Catholic Church. The Orthodox...

When Saul (St. Paul by his Hebrew name) was going around persecuting Christians, Jesus knocked him off his horse and asked him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?" (Acts 9:4) Note that Jesus didn't ask him, "...why do you persecute My Church?" which he was doing, but "...why do you persecute...

(Slight aside: It's "You're" not "Your." "Your" is a possessive pronoun. "You're" is a cotraction for "You are.") You cannot follow God unless you follow the Church He founded. Otherwise, you are making yourself your own god, doing what you want and what you want to believe vs. what He...

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree, then. I was eduated before the Marxists took over the educational system. I know my history, and the history of the Church. History that was written long before Protestantism reared its head in the 16th century.

You do realize that AI only uses existing information, right? It doesn't create historical information.