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I worry that some of them are actually into bibliolatry (worship of the Bible), rather than Christ. They refuse to worship as Christ recommended, through the Church He founded and gave His authority, insisting, instead, on reinventing the theological wheel themselves through personal...

It is indeed scary if you don't agree with it, because it means you are in error. True faith, however, is never mindless. It is not credulity (believe it because I tell you). True faith must have reason to believe. Once reason has done all it can, then true faith steps in. Reason and true...

It's not dodgy at all. The key here is that Scripture says that NOT everything Christ did and taught is IN Scripture. (See John 21:25) However, Christ told the Apostles to teach "ALL" that He had taught them. (Matt. 28:20) So, if everything is to be taught, but is not in Scripture, where's...

Your perspective is skewed. Catholic doctrine is none other than the original doctrine handed to the Apostles by Christ, who then handed it on to their successors, the bishops, who have done likewise for almost 2000 years now. The only "unscriptural" thing you might find about Catholic...

How can you be so prideful to think that your personal interpretation of Scripture is infallible? That the buck stops with you? You know better than the Apostles and their successors in interpreting Scripture? The truth is, anything you interpret that is contrary to what has always been...

Rather than anti-Catholic lies, why don't you do some objective historical research? I would start with the Early Church Fathers, those closest in time to Jesus and the Apostles and see how they believed and acted. They were clearly Catholic. In fact, St. Ignatius of Antioch, ordained and...

No, not according to Scripture. No, not according to Scripture. The woman in Rev. 12 is Mary, the mother of Jesus. According to Luke 1:28, the angel addresses her as kecharitomene in the original Greek. This word, in the grammatical sense it was used, means she was born in such a manner as...

Unless you interpret Scripture like it was originally meant to be, all you have is your personal opinion, using Scripture to mean what you want it to mean, rather than what the authors meant it to be. See 2 Peter 1:20-21, where St. Peter warns about personal interpretation of Scripture. St...

All you've shown is that you don't know how to properly interpet Scripture. You aren't trained or educated to do so. It's not a do-it-yourself book.

The Catholic Church never departed from Scripture. It's interesting that this is your perspective. If I'm standing in center field on a baseball field, and you're standing in left field, facing the plate, your perspective would be that I'm standing to your left. The perspective is relational...

Because they know the Word. The Catholic Church is the original Church founded by Christ and holds the majority of Christians today (About 1.4 Billion). The Catholic Church received the deposit of faith (Divine Revelation) from Christ, Himself. Even a cursory study of the Early Church Fathers...

It's sad that we have only these two choices for President now. However, given that the Democrats have been totally taken over by atheistic Marxism, and seem hell bent on destroying our country, the choice is easy. Trump's first four years would have been far better had he had any sort of...

Good point.

Hey, Cassandra! Good question... In our day and age, everyone seems to be concerned with "power" rather than authority. The two are distinctly different. Usually, power is "taken" while authority is "given." When I was a young man, I was an officer in the military. I had a certain level of...

The vast majority of humanity was illiterate until the latest 100 years, give or take. You're caught in a meme of reading and self-interpreting the Scriptures, which St. Peter warns against in 2 Peter 1:20-21. At every Catholic Mass, however, the Scriptures are read and explained to the...

Really? Then why did Catholic churches chain a copy of the Bible in church for anyone of the tiny minority of literate people could read? The reason they chained it was because they were expensive and could be stolen and sold. The pages were made of velum, which was made from the stomachs of...

But the very doctrine of Sola Scriptura says that everything we are to believe, with regard to the teachings of God, are IN the Bible. Boston being north of Miami is not a doctrinal issue with regard to the teachings of God. Without the Catholic Church, you don't have a Bible. It was the...

For Sola Scriptura to be true, it would have to be IN the Bible. It is not, however. It is a man-made doctrine.

Jack, the writers of the Bible didn't write in English, nor did they write from a perspectve of someone in the 21st century. They wrote from the perspective of a 1st century person from the Middle East. And, again, like the others, you are taking snippets of Scripture and making them say what...

The grammar is important here, where the word used (kecharitomene) is used in such as sense as to mean that Mary was "full of grace" from the very beginning of her existence (conception) and in such a manner as to be permanent thereafter. It doesn't mean that she could not have sinned, since...