Then tell me - WHOT are there literally tens of thousands of disjointed and perpetually-splintering Protestant sects that ALL teach different and competing doctries based on the personal iterpretations of their founders??
You are the one who repeatedly says there are LITERATELY TENS OF THOUSANDS of blah, blah, blah, Protestants Churches....
You have NAMED NONE.
You have GIVEN NO examples of ANY Protestant Church in Disagreement that Christ’s Church consists of men who believe:
Jesus is the Christ the Son of the Living God....
WHY NOT? Why make an empty claim over and over without an ounce of proof?
If every person is to learn SOLELY from the Scriptures - WHY all the confusion?
Confusion is your claim about Church positions. Not my claim.
Confusion rests with “individuals”. All individuals IN Christ have ONE core Belief....that Jesus IS the Christ the Son of the Living God.
What “rules, teachings the Church teaches”, IS and IS not followed by congregates and members who attend that particular Church.
AND THAT INCLUDES YOUR OWN CATHOLIC Church.
Jews, Chinese, Arabs, East Indians, Gentiles, Protestants are individuals just the same as Catholics....It’s the individuals choice to belong to whatever Religious Organization they CHOOSE....and It’s their own choice to AGREE or DISAGREE with all the “little rules” the Church clerics establish.
Some Protestant denominations believe in baptismal regeneration, while others do not.
Some believe in soul-sleep, while others do not.
Some believe in the total depravity of man, while others do not.
Some believe in the Holy Trinity, while others do not.
Some believe in doctrine of “once saved, always saved”, while others do not.
Some believe in a pre-tribulation “Rapture”, while others do not.
Some believe that only those who were predestined will make it to heaven, while others do not.
Some believe that some were predestined for hell, while others do not.
Some believe in a woman’s right to choose abortion, while others do not.
Some believe that practicing homosexuality is a sin, while others do not.
Most believe in contraception, while others do not – and the list goes on.
What a MESS this false doctrine of Sola Scriptura has created . . .
Catholics DO say they pray TO statues.
Catholics DO say they were BORN Catholics.
Catholics DO say they ARE BORN AGAIN, without ever confessing their SIN of unbelief TO GOD.
Catholics DO say they Never read the Bible.
Catholics DO say they Attend Church ONLY at Christmas and Easter.
Catholics DO say they do not Pray to God.
Catholics DO say they do not Believe in Jesus.
Catholics DO murder other men.
Catholics DO have abortions.
Catholics DO engage in homosexuality.
Catholics DO collude with known thugs to do their underhanded desires.
Catholics DO sit in a an Office, with the Benefit of a Priests Position, and are Drunks and Pedophiles and Womanizers and Homosexuals.
So what’s your point? You worry about a Protestants House of God, when your own Catholic House of God is above reproach? It isn’t.
false doctrine of Sola Scriptura has created
Your disdain Against Scripture, is your problem, not mine.
Your election to be BOUND by your Catholic clerics “rules”, is your choice, your problem, not mine.
If your behavior toward other men is a Reflection of you being Obedient to Catholic “rules”, I’m not impressed.